NYC Climate Coalition

About the NYC Climate Coalition

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The NYC Climate Coalition is engaging collaborative partnerships between NYC-based organizations working on issues surrounding climate change, impacts and solutions. Together, we are working towards a CARBON NEUTRAL NYC through sustainable energy usage, transportation, consumer choice and education practices in our neighborhoods.

We are dedicated to environmentally, socially, and fiscally responsible solutions to New York City's role in global climate change. We support this goal by highlighting and connecting already-existing programs, networks and affiliates. The NYC Climate Coalition creates a space for these organizations to collaborate, exchange resources and implementation tools, and increase their overall effectiveness.

NYC Climate Coalition Mission

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Working towards a CARBON NEUTRAL NYC by engaging NYC organizations focusing on issues surrounding climate change, impacts and solutions through:

Resource exchanges,
Networking and partnering, and
Joint advocacy

Become a Part of the NYC Climate Coalition!

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If you represent a group (not-for-profit, research institution, academic institution, government agency, business, community group, and others) in NYC doing work related to climate change and support a CARBON NEUTRAL NYC, please join the NYC Climate Coalition today!

Send the following to nycclimatecoalition@gmail.com or call (212)477-4022 for more information:

ABOUT YOU: Your Name, Organization, Position at Organization
CONTACT INFO: Email, Phone, and mailing address
URL link to your organizations website (as applicable), preferably include the direct link to your climate-related programs
DESCRIPTION: Include a one paragraph description of the climate work being done by you and your organization in NYC
FREE PUBLIC RESOURCES: Include a one paragraph description of the free resources you have available to share with others in the city working in NYC climate issues (i.e. K-12 Climate Curricula, Research Databases, Volunteers, other)
OTHER RESOURCES: what are some other components of your program that might be helpful/interesting to climate-concerned New Yorkers?

Join the NYC Climate Coalition Mailing List

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If you are interested in getting updates from the NYC Climate Coalition, please send an email with "Join NYC Climate Coalition Mailing List" in the SUBJECT LINE to:

nycclimatecoalition@gmail.com

Thanks for your interest in helping to make a CARBON NEUTRAL NYC!

Update in NYC Policy

2008-07-15T14:10:00.003-04:00

Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Municipal Buildings and Operations by 30 Percent by 2017

On July 7, Mayor Bloomberg announced a long-term action plan to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the City's municipal buildings and operations by 30 percent by 2017, as promised in PlaNYC, cutting the City's annual output of greenhouse gases by nearly 1.7 million metric tons, and reducing peak demand for electricity by 220-megawatts. City government accounts for approximately 6.5 percent of New York City's total energy usage and 10 percent of its peak electricity demand. The projects in the long-term plan will be partially funded by an annual commitment of 10 percent of the City's energy budget, which in fiscal year 2009 will be $100 million. In total, the plan will require an estimated $2.3 billion investment over the next nine years, of which roughly $900 million has been committed by the City, and another $80 million was already spent in fiscal year 2008. Additional funding is being sought from external sources, including state and federal programs, private foundations and through energy performance contracts. The City is expected to break even on its investment in 2013.

The largest single opportunity for reductions, 57 percent of the total, is through upgrades to existing buildings, like firehouses, police precincts, sanitation garages, offices, and courthouses. Planned improvements include upgrading facility lighting, refrigeration units, boiler upgrades, office equipment, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. There are other savings to be found in the way buildings are operated, including developing and implementing preventive practices in buildings that consume large amounts of energy. For example, leaking pipes, clogged steam traps, and inefficient air distribution, pumps, or fan systems will be systematically identified and repaired. The plan also includes retrocommissioning, a process that identifies the most wasteful inefficiencies that technicians can correct in a cost-effective manner. www.nyc.gov/news

Bloomberg in Bali 2007

After a trip to China and speeches in Shanghai and Beijing, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived in Bali. Speaking for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) - Local Governments for Sustainability initiative. On Thursday, December 13, while James Connoughton from the White House Council on Environmental Quality defended the US delegation's refusal to embrace aggressive emission limitation targets, claiming they were premature, Bloomberg was in a nearby hotel arguing the opposite. "People everywhere recognize the time for discussion about whether global warming exists has passed," said Bloomberg, who has called for the implementation of a carbon tax. "Now it's time for action." And Bloomberg could point to the fact that over 700 U.S. cities have signed up to meet Kyoto Protocol-style carbon cuts, while California has mandated a 25% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020. " www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1694259,00.html?imw=Y

In his Bali speech, Bloomberg outlined New York City's plan to reduce global warming emissions by 30% by the year 2030. "We'll do that by working with our partners in State government to develop a pilot congestion pricing program. We'll create incentives to replace old, polluting power plants with new ones using cleaner-burning fuels. We'll plant one million new trees across our city in the next ten years. Just this week, we took steps to ensure that by the year 2012, our city's 13,000 taxicabs will be hybrid or hybrid-equivalents. That alone will cut New York City's carbon emissions by nearly half a percentage point, and save each cabdriver almost $5,000 a year in fuel costs." See the full text at www.nyc.gov

In Beijing, Mayor Bloomberg announced an invitation to representatives from more than 20 of the world's major cities to come to New York next year for a two-day conference organized by New York City Global Partners. It will address common urban challenges, including reducing urban air pollution and curbing climate change, with input by experts from around the world in transportation, city planning, public health, and other disciplines.

Thanks to Gail Karlsson at Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet) for the policy updates above

Updates in New York State Policy

2008-07-15T14:09:00.001-04:00

New York State - From State Senator Krueger

Green buildings: The New York City inventory of greenhouse gas emissions found that 79% of CO2 emissions produced in the city came from buildings. The legislature passed 3 bills to address this issue – S5442, which requires state construction projects to comply with green building standards; S8134, which would provide grants for the construction of green homes; and S7553, which would provide a tax credit for the construction of green roofs.

Brownfields cleanup (S8717): This legislation will streamline the brownfields program and target state resources to projects that really need the tax credits for cleanup and redevelopment. This will help ensure that there is money for desperately needed cleanup in Buffalo and other old industrial cities, as well as in poorer communities here in NYC, as was originally intended by the legislature.

Smart Growth: Suburban sprawl contributes to global warming by reducing our inventory of undeveloped land and by forcing people to travel long distances in polluting autos. This session the legislature passed S8612 which establishes “smart growth” principles, and requires the state to take them into account in the environmental review process.

Net-metering – The legislature passed two bills (S7171 and S8481) to allow consumers to receive credit for solar or wind energy they produce that they send back into the energy grid. This helps the state meet its energy needs while encouraging the expansion of small-scale clean energy production.

The legislature once again failed to reach agreement on expansion of the bottle bill (S1592), and failed to move greenhouse gas limitations (S8100), which would have offered a more comprehensive approach to addressing global warming.

Thanks to Gail Karlsson at Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet) for the policy updates above

Updates in National Policy (U.S.)

2008-07-15T14:08:00.001-04:00

National

The Environmental Protection Agency released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regarding potential regulations of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, which calls for several months of public comment and consideration before any further action is taken, essentially delaying action until after the Bush administration leaves office. The administrator of the White House Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs wrote that: "the Clean Air Act is a deeply flawed and unsuitable vehicle for reducing greenhouse gas emissions." http://www.truthout.org:80/article/white-house-disavows-epa-plan-emissions The ANPR was released in belated response to the April 2007 Supreme Court ruling stating that the EPA must consider carbon dioxide a pollutant under the Clean Air Act if human health and welfare are being harmed by greenhouse gas pollution.

The EPA also released its report detailing climate change impacts on health, including increased disease-carrying insect populations, more pollen contributing to worsened allergies, and increases in smog-related respiratory illness and lung disease. Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, June 21, 2008, http://www.edf.org/documents/8084_EPA-HQ-OAR_080622.pdf

Thanks to Gail Karlsson at Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet) for the policy updates above

Updates in International Policy

2008-07-15T14:04:00.004-04:00

Group of Eight

Last week, the Group of Eight leaders met in Japan, and one of the main items of the agenda was climate change. They released a statement that reads: “We seek to share with all Parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050.” Environmental groups largely criticized the statement for its lack of specificity on the base year for the reduction goal, as well as the absence of any mid-term 2020 emission reduction targets. In addition, many groups cited the 50% reduction goal as being too small considering recent scientific developments. http://usclimatenetwork.org:80/international/2008-g8-and-mem

Bali Climate Negotiations 2007
Delegates rise to applaud the decision to adopt the "Bali roadmap" for a future international agreement on climate change. http://unfccc.int/2860.php

At the end of 2 weeks of contentious negotiations, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced: "We now have a roadmap, we have an agenda and we have a deadline." "But we also have a huge task ahead of us and time to reach agreement is extremely short, so we need to move quickly." http://unfccc.int/2860.php

The Bali Plan of Action will lead governments towards new treaty provisions to cover the period 2012 to 2016, after the current Kyoto Protocol expires. The full text is available at http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_13/application/pdf/cp_bali_action.pdf

Many of the thousands of delegates and activists who gathered in Bali for the UN Climate Change Conference were disappointed by the relatively modest accomplishments achieved, especially in light of the urgency of the climate-related problems detailed by scientists in the latest reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf The IPCC reports warn that climate change has already begun, and that increasing temperature increases will cause rises in sea levels, acidification of the oceans, droughts, floods, and serious ecological damage to the planet - unless global emissions of greenhouse gases peak start to decline dramatically within 10 to 15 years.

US negotiators said they recognized the seriousness of the scientific reports. Yet they were reluctant to even talk about specific commitments or actions to cut emissions in the post-Kyoto period. The EU - and other industrialized countries that made binding commitments to emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol - agreed to cut their emissions by between 25 and 40 percent by 2020. The EU, led by Germany, pressed unsuccessfully for a similar commitment by the US, which earlier backed out of the Kyoto Protocol. Instead, the US handed out invitations to its own parallel process discussing voluntary measures to be taken by the governments of "major economies" (including China and India, which will soon surpass the US in total - but not per capita - greenhouse gas emissions).

Towards the end of the conference, Al Gore arrived in Bali - after accepting the Nobel peace prize, along with the scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In a passionate speech, he said that the US was principally responsible for blocking progress on battling climate change at Bali, and urged the delegations to agree on language that could be build upon after a new US administration is in place in January 2009. (The agreement for the post-Kyoto agreement is expected to be finalized by 2009, so it can be ratified by governments and enter into force by 2012.)

The governments of developing countries are also reluctant to undertake binding emission limits, because they need economic growth to rise out of poverty, and because they perceive that the US is not taking the lead on reducing its own climate emissions. Su Wei, a member of the Chinese delegation in Bali said: "I just wonder whether it's fair to ask developing countries like China to take on binding targets," Su said Friday. "I think there is much room for the United States to think whether it's possible to change (its) lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to contribute to the protection of the global climate." www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/08/climate.conference.ap/

Though not agreeing to binding emissions limits, China was widely viewed as a positive force at the conference. Developing countries expressed their willingness to pursue more carbon-friendly development strategies. But they also sought commitments from developed countries on transfers of clean technologies to help them cut emissions, and funding from industrialised states to help them adapt to the threats of rising seas, more frequent extreme weather events, falling crop yields and increased migration.

In overnight talks lasting beyond the planned Friday deadline, India (representing the group of developing countries and China) presented draft language committing themselves to 'nationally appropriate mitigation actions' in the context of sustainable development, if they were supported by developed countries with technology and enabled by finance and capacity building 'in a measurable, reportable and verifiable manner'. This text was supported by the EU, but the US delegation would not agree - and was thereupon loudly booed by the other delegations, in an unprecedented show of undiplomatic behavior. After Japan made a noncommittal statement, and Canada and Australia remained silent, the head of the US delegation, Paula Dobriansky relented, saying, "We will join the consensus."

However, shortly afterwards, the White House began voicing reservations. A White House official told of “serious concerns” that the agreement had let developing countries off too lightly in their commitments to cut emissions, saying “Emissions reductions principally by the developed world will be insufficient to confront the global problem effectively.” European officials expressed astonishment at this, saying the US delegation was in near-continuous contact with Washington in the final hours of negotiations, even while agreeing to the wording of the text that described developing countries’ future obligations. “It’s extraordinary to try to go back on this." Later, a senior US official told the Financial Times: “I would not regard the White House statement as backing away from the consensus.” He said “it is focused on what has to happen next”. www.ft.com

Thanks to Gail Karlsson at Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet) for the policy updates above

Climate Policy

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Climate Solutions

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Climate Impacts

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Basic Climate Science

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What is Climate?
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What Pollutants Do WE LIVE WITH and Where Do They Come From?

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Get an in-depth pollution report for your county, covering air, water, chemicals, and more.

http://www.scorecard.org/

Progress in Bali?

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Delegates rise to applaud the decision to adopt the "Bali roadmap" for a future international agreement on climate change. http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Bloomberg in Bali. After a trip to China and speeches in Shanghai and Beijing, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived in Bali. Speaking for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) - Local Governments for Sustainability initiative. On Thursday, December 13, while James Connoughton from the White House Council on Environmental Quality defended the US delegation's refusal to embrace aggressive emission limitation targets, claiming they were premature, Bloomberg was in a nearby hotel arguing the opposite. "People everywhere recognize the time for discussion about whether global warming exists has passed," said Bloomberg, who has called for the implementation of a carbon tax. "Now it's time for action." And Bloomberg could point to the fact that over 700 U.S. cities have signed up to meet Kyoto Protocol-style carbon cuts, while California has mandated a 25% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020. " www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1694259,00.html?imw=Y

- Gail Karlsson, Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet)

NY Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Rules for Public Comment

2007-10-25T13:29:00.000-04:00

This morning Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that the rules implementing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in New York State are available for review and public comment.

These rules (there's a NYSERDA rulemaking on the auction component as well) are a critical component of New York climate change policy.

The DEC rule proposes the auctioning 100 percent of New York's allocation of CO2 emissions allowances. The proceeds of from the auction will be used to for investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.

Proposed rule text can be found here:

http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/38974.html

Comments will be received until December 24, 2007.

Public hearings are scheduled for:

December 12th in New York City

Operation Climate Vote!

2007-10-24T13:33:00.000-04:00

Dear Friend,

Help us keep the pressure on Congress to pass climate legislation this year.

Visit our Operation Climate Vote Hub to take action and get involved.

Congress has weeks, not months to pass global warming legislation in 2007.

That's why we're launching Operation Climate Vote, an all-out campaign to maintain grassroots pressure to get bills to the floor of both the House and Senate before they recess for the year.

I urge you to visit the Operation Climate Vote Online Hub where you can:

Send an email alert to your members of Congress and the House and Senate leaders.

Call House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid to urge action this year.

Add your own two cents on our Operation Climate Vote blog – featuring posts from our legislative experts.

Check out our National Climate Campaign Director Steve Cochran's global warming forecast video.

Already, more than 30,000 people have taken action online and hundreds have called Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Our goal is to triple that action count before Congress recesses for the holidays.

But we need your help. Go to Operation Climate Vote right now to join the campaign.

Throughout the month, we'll be updating the Operation Climate Vote Hub with breaking news, calls to action, and expert analysis of developments on the Hill.

So check back frequently and help us make Operation Climate Vote the resounding success it must be for the future of our planet.

Sincerely,
The Environmental Defense Action Fund Team

Climate Hot Map

2007-10-17T21:03:00.000-04:00

WEBSITE:
http://www.climatehotmap.org

DESCRIPTION:

Global temperature in 1998 was the hottest in the historical record, and the temperature increase over the 20th century is likely to be the highest of the past millennium. Global average temperatures have warmed about one degree Fahrenheit (0.6�C) since 1900. The ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1987, seven of them since 1994.

This map illustrates the local consequences of global warming.

Climate Change Information Resources NY Metropolitan Region

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WEBSITE: http://ccir.ciesin.columbia.edu/nyc/

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Metropolitan East Coast Assessment

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Climate Change and a Global City: An Assessment of the Metropolitan East Coast Region

WEBSITE:
http://metroeast_climate.ciesin.columbia.edu/

DESCRIPTION:
This study of the Metropolitan East Coast (MEC) area is one of eighteen regional components of The U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, organized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The goal of each regional assessment is to understand the impacts of climate change and variability on the physical systems and human activities of a specific area of the United States.

The MEC Regional Assessment focuses on the issues of climate change in a major urban center. Understanding climate impacts in urban areas is becoming increasingly important, since human populations are more concentrated in cities, and the number and size of cities are growing. It is estimated that over half of the world’s population lives in cities or on coasts. MEC Regional Assessment examines how three interacting elements of global cities react and respond to climate variability and change. The three elements are: people (i.e., socio-demographic conditions), place (i.e., physical and ecological systemThes), and pulse (i.e., decision-making and economic activities).

Climate Change Curriculum

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NYC Climate Change Curriculum Resources:

The Metropolitan East Coast Assessment Educator’s Pack is a package of GIS software, datasets and lesson plans designed for educators who are interested in using GIS technology to explore global climate change issues. The package includes a free GIS software program called ArcExplorer by ESRI the world’s leading GIS software developer. ArcExplorer is easy to use and comes with a user manual to help get you started. The datasets available includes much of the data used in the MEC project such as the climate change models and the US Census Bureau’s TIGER Files. The data is enough to get you started, however once you are familiar with the GIS system you will be able to add new layer to you maps by creating your own or by searching for new data layers on the Internet and downloading them into your projects. Also provided are two lesson plans that use ArcExplorer to view the data and produce a series of maps to study climate change predictions in the MEC region.

General Climate Change Curriculum Resources :

U.S. EPA Climate Change site includes links to detailed information on a wide range of climate change information

Climate Change for Kids (US EPA) includes child-friendly explanations of the terminology used in climate change reports, games, web links, plus information for teachers, including links to many web sites with lesson plans and activities

Climate Change Education on-line resource center with links to many climate change web sites for teachers, kids and families.

Union of Concerned Scientists information related to climate change in the northeast US and California

Global Warming Materials for Educators is maintained by Union of Concerned Scientists and includes lesson plans

GLOBAL WARMING: Early Warning Signs has a map that indicated local warning signs of global warming. There is also a "Global Warming Basics" section and other information on global warming. This site is a joint effort of Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund

For Educators Section contains curriculum guide with high school lesson plans and impacts of climate change in U.S.and maintained by the Global Warming: Early Warnings Signs site.

Teachers' Guide to High Quality Educational Materials on Climate Change and Global Warming provides guidance to understanding climate change materials on the web, and links to other sites

Paleontological Research Institution (affiliated with Cornell University) provides links to many other climate change sites for information, charts, photos, lesson plans

National Wildlife Federation Global Warming Site contains detailed information on many related topics

Climate Connections for information and news stories on climate change and global warming from National Public Radio

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assesses scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation

Climate Change information from National Center for Atmospheric Research & the UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Office of Programs; links for educators and for children

Understanding Climate Change: From Global Warming to Regional Climate Change from the National Center for Atmospheric Research & the UCAR Office of Programs

Birds in a Changing Climate is the theme for International Migratory Bird Day 2007 with a poster, Climate Challenge Game related to climate impacts on birds, and other resources

Global Climate Change searchable database of curriculum, by keyword or by subject, maintained by the Center for Environmental Education Online

Pew Center on Global Climate Change strives to provide credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change.

Global Warming - Kids Page developed by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change for students learning about climate change

Global Warming 101 a Will Steger Foundation with a lot of information on climate change and actions to help slow the process. Teachers can also sign in to gain access to lesson plans approved by National Geographic Xpeditions and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Green Map System

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CONTACT:

Wendy Brawer, Green Map System, Founding Director

info@greenmap.org
212.674.1631, PO Box 249, New York, NY 10002

WEBSITES:

GreenMap.org - Global site
GreenAppleMap.org - New York site
GreenAppleMap.org/page/power - Powerful Green Map of NYC
GreenAppleMap.org/page/compost - Compost Green Map of Manhattan
GreenAppleMap.org/page/modules - Energy & Environment Exploration Modules

DESCRIPTION:

More than a decade of leading the Green Map movement from our global office in NYC has resulted in a network of geographically and thematically diverse community-led sustainability mapping projects in more than 400 communities in 50 countries. All Green Maps use our award-winning iconography and adaptable resources to identify, promote and link a wide variety of green living, nature, social and cultural sites. Whether led by NGOs, grassroots or student groups, city agencies or designers, each project promotes lower impact, CO2 reducing choices, addresses injustices and encourages people to get involved in creating greener, healthier communities. Over 325 maps are already published, as seen at GreenMap.org. We also create Green Apple Maps of NYC's environment, including our most recent citywide edition charting energy impacts, conservation, and renewables. We have worked with a dozen diverse schools and youth groups that have created Green Maps as well. Climate awareness is embedded in our new field trip-oriented education modules for youth and other resources offered in different languages, too.

FREE PUBLIC RESOURCES:

- Print, digital and interactive Green Maps (including energy, compost and youth editions).
- Multilingual conservation tips and learning resources.
- Case studies.
- Energy & Environment Exploration Modules.
- Outreach services.

OTHER RESOURCES:

A growing social network based at GreenMap.org where Mapmakers around the world share their experiences, resources and outcomes. We also have printed and digital educational materials such as Green Maps, books, cd-rom and DVDs.

Becoming a registered Green Mapmaker has a small fee or service exchange.

The Climate Institute

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CONTACT:
The Hon. Tom Roper, Climate Institute, Board Member, troper@nyc.rr.com

WEBSITE:
www.climate.org

DESCRIPTION:

I 'm advising a number of Australian State Governments on climate policy, including green buildings, and act as a link between US/Canadian and Austrlian States. For the Climate Institute I supervise our small islands project – www.gseii.org

RESOURCES:
Knowledge of the problems and opportunities facing small island states.

Clean Air Cool Planet

2007-10-17T10:22:00.000-04:00

CONTACT:
Christa Koehler, Clean Air Cool Planet, Community Program Manager
ckoehler@cleanair-coolplanet.org, 603-313-5182, 100 Market Street, Suite 204, Portsmouth NH 03801

WEBSITE:
www.cleanair-coolplanet.org

DESCRIPTION:
Clean Air-Cool Planet creates partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions. Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is the region's leading organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming:

- We partner with companies, campuses, communities and science centers throughout the Northeast to help reduce their carbon emissions.

- We help our partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action.

-We showcase practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change.

-We advocate the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state, regional and national levels.

-We work to build support for the implementation and strengthening of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers’ regional Climate Change Action Plan.

PUBLIC RESOURCES:

Community Toolkit: http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/for_communities/toolkit_home.php
www.sciencecentercollaborative.org, partnering with science and nature centers across the region to bring the science of climate change and renewable energy solutions to the public.

Step It Up!

2007-10-10T12:44:00.000-04:00

Step It Up is a national, voter-driven grassroots effort to urge Washington to support bold climate change solutions for the 21st Century. On April 14th of this year, over 100,000 Americans gathered in locations in all 50 States to send Congress a clear message: cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. To build on the momentum of the campaign’s initial success in galvanizing public, media and political attention, citizens across the country are organizing a second day of national action on Saturday November 3rd.

The event will be one of hundreds scheduled on the same day, many of them in places that honor great leaders of the American past – from the top of Mt. Washington to the site of the Lincoln Douglas debates. The New York City Step It Up event held in April was the largest in the country, attracting over 3,000 participants and extensive media coverage. This time around we expect no less. In addition to restating the 80% by 2050 imperative, the November campaign demands that our federal leadership impose an immediate moratorium on the construction of new coal burning power plants, as well as make extensive investments in ‘green collar’ job development across the country. Absent such commitments, we believe that the 80% by 2050 commitment would be seriously compromised.

Step It Up November 3rd

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Step It Up Climate Change Action Center
www.stepitup2007.org

Contact: Margo Bettencourt
Cell: 305.562.2944

Massive Global Warming Rally

Part of Nationwide Event

WHEN: 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Saturday, November 3, 2007

WHERE: Washington Square Park, NYC

WHY: The event at Washington Square Park will be one of hundreds scheduled as part of the nationwide Step It Up Climate Change Campaign. Many of them will be held in places that honor great leaders of the American past – from the top of Mt. Washington to the site of the Lincoln Douglas debates. In addition to restating the 80% by 2050 imperative, the November campaign demands that our federal leadership impose an immediate moratorium on the construction of new coal burning power plants, as well as make extensive investments in ‘green collar’ job development across the country. Step It Up 2007 is a national, voter-driven grassroots effort that continues to urge Washington to support bold climate change solutions for the 21^st Century. On April 14^th of this year, over 100,000 Americans gathered in locations in all 50 States to send Congress a clear message: CUT U.S. CARBON EMISSIONS 80% BY 2050.

The Step It Up rally will allow participants to become part of the solution to global warming beyond the event. Action tables will be available for writing letters and making phone calls to elected officials. Additionally, attendees will be invited to participate in hands on eco-projects to be part of the solution. One such project will be a mass planting of native seeds, resulting in a real-time step towards restoring the urban ecosystem. Participants will be given seedlings to take home and grow, and other seedlings will be planted in sites around the city thus creating a living, citywide reminder of our shared responsibility to stop global warming.

WHO: Speakers will include noted politicians, such as New York Congressman Anthony Weiner and Environmental Defense scientist, James Wang. There will also be an Electronics Recycling Event with the Lower East Side Ecology Center (www.lesecologycenter.org) and NYC Climate Coalition from 10am-3pm.