Just to avoid losing any more posts or parts of posts, I’ll keep them as separate entries.
Next speaker is Kim Lundgren - regional director of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Northeast Regional Capacity Center.
Local Governments and the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
An international association of local governments interested in global environment issues through cumulative […]
Back for the afternoon breakout sessions…
Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists
Climate Change in the Northeast
UCS has created Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA).
Collaboration between UCS and >40 experts to develop assessment of climate change impacts.
Two scenarios in analysis through 2100.
Documents are available.
History: annual temps in New England have warmed 2 degrees since 1970. Plants are […]
This is an attempt to live-blog the conference, but somehow I (or wordpress) borked the update and I lost the beginning of the document. Sorry about that.
Many towns have built climate action plans, several other towns working on them.
Big problem: government often has problems spending capital to save operating cost, even if the ROI is […]
A couple of weeks ago, I ordered three compact fluorescent spotlights from bulbs.com. These are non-dimmable fluorescents that have the same form factor as the spots in the ceiling of our office, our kitchen, our hallway, and our basement. I only bought three because I wasn’t sure how well they would work. I didn’t know […]
I just discovered the Mass Climate Action Network, which is hosting the Global Warming Action Conference at MIT on Nov 19, 2006. I’ll be there.
I also talked to my old soccer buddy Jim Snyder-Grant, who is Acton’s representative to this organization. He pointed me to a currently-dormant local climate action group, and gave me some […]
From the Santa Barbara News-Press:
Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday promised major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup as she prepares to head the U.S. Senate’s environmental committee.
‘’Time is running out, and we need to move forward on this,’’ Boxer said of global warming during a conference call with reporters. ‘’The states […]
The Colbert Report tonight had him expressing his mock outrage about the South Pole:
“Next up, Ice Core Samples. You know what I call these where I come from? Ice cubes. Oh, you contain information about millions of years of geotectonic history? Call me when you come in a paper cone with cherry flavoring. […]
Today, on the eve of the American midterm elections, President Bush invented a new justification for the war in Iraq. While speaking in Florida, he said:
“You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources, and then you can imagine them saying ‘we’re gonna pull a bunch of oil […]
I had lunch today with my new friend (a friend of old friends) Henry Olds and his friend Mark Bowen.
Mark is the author of a really good book called Thin Ice. Well I have to admit that my opinion is only half-baked, because I haven’t finished it yet. When I do, I will write […]
Wow. My wife and I got on our bikes and rode to the top of Mt. Wachusett today (round trip was 63 miles, about 4800 feet of vertical climb).
The temperature was 55-75 degrees, depending on where we were at the time. It can get pretty chilly when you ride near a lake or a […]