Edition 1, Summer 2002: The Cool Current

Clean Air-Cool Planet is the Northeast's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming.

Edition 1: Summer 2002

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Cool Website of the Month:

www.bikesnotbombs.org

Hot Fact of the Month:
Covering just 8 percent of Nevada’s sunny landscape with photovoltaic panels could meet the entire energy demand for the United States.

Quote of the Month
“The prospect, in other words, is that an international system committed to reducing emissions below 1990 levels is going to come into legal being. And that will leave the United States, under Bush's non-leadership, an international outlaw.”

-- Thomas Oliphant, columnist, The Boston Globe, June 4, 2002, on the rest of the world's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

Dances with Wind

The windy Northern Plains give us a glimpse of our native energy...and a sustainable future. Read more...

Bananas, milk, bread... and emissions reductions

Buy your green veggies at Shaw’s and you’re helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read more...

The Company We Keep

The Timberland Company and area friends, colleagues, and business partners - including Clean Air-Cool Planet - tackled a variety of community service projects at this year's Serv-a-palooza. Read more...

Governors Revisit Global Warming

New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers come together again to build upon last summer's recommendations for emissions reductions in the Northeast. Read more...

Northeast News Briefs

For Cool Summer Events, check:
The Cambridge Climate Calendar—listings of events, conferences, lectures, activism, and resources for the environment and climate in New England. To subscribe to the enviro and climate calendar, send a blank email to: CambClimCal-subscribe@topica.com.

Hot Summer Read:

Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
by Guy Dauncey with Patrick Mazza, (New Society Publishers, 2001)

"...the wealth of solutions included in Stormy Weather eliminates forever any excuse to remain passive in the face of perhaps what is the most profound challenge ever faced by humanity. In all her anguished expressions, nature is calling on us to save the world. Stormy Weather is telling us how."
--Ross Gelbspan, 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of THE HEAT IS ON.

Did You Know?

The monarch butterfly is the state insect in Delaware, West Virginia, Minnesota, Illinois, Idaho, Texas, and Alabama. This well-known beauty is threatened by deforestation in its wintering habitat in Mexico and by changing climate zones throughout its range in the United States.