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• Irony in the nuclear power/climate change equation

  Severe drought in the Southeast impacts nuclear power production 38

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  A cautionary tale for all those who think nuclear is the answer to climate change. The Washington Post reported yesterday that drought conditions are affecting nuclear production capacity.

  [Plants] could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

  But wait, there's more ...

• In the green building trenches

  Developing ideas on development 4

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

  Hats off to GreenbuildingsNYC, who beat me to the punch on a couple of items that seem important to future green development.

  First, there's a piece by Professor Charles Kibert that critiques a recent report on the benefits of green schools. It is notable for a couple of reasons. First, his analysis asks some important questions about this particular report's benefit claims. Second, through this analysis he critiques the lack of critical review and high research standards in the green building field. There's a response after the post by one of the report's authors. Worth checking out.

  Second,… Read More

• The cap and trade boat just got a little fuller

  Oh what a relief it biz 8

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

  The United States Climate Action Partnership, the group of corporations calling "on the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions," just doubled in size (PDF):

  With its new members, USCAP companies now have total revenues of $1.7 trillion, a collective workforce of more than 2 million and operations in all 50 states; they also have a combine market capitalization of more than $1.9 trillion.

  The big news is that General Motors has joined the list:

• Congress gets a sustainability complex

  Shooting for a green capitol 2

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

  No, it's not a new psychological disorder, but a plan for greening the capitol complex.

  Over at Building Design and Construction they've got a piece on the acceptance of a "green the capitol initiative."

• Who are the green power leaders? NREL tells us 3

  Posted 2 years, 7 months ago

  DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) yesterday released its annual ranking of leading utility green power programs:

  Customer choice programs are proving to be a powerful stimulus for growth in renewable energy supply. In 2006, total utility green power sales exceeded 3.5 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), about a 30% increase over 2005. More than 500,000 customers are participating in utility programs nationwide, up more than 10% from 2005

  Some highlights follow.

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  Sorry to be a hater, but it's confusing, cluttered, and full of advertainment. I can't find my way to gristmill. I don't really want to take up precious screen space with pix of the writers (as nice looking as they are). I can't believe the sharp crew that has been running Grist for 10 years, didn't see the backlash on this site coming. 

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months, 1 week ago 106 Responses

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  tooting my own horn

  My firm is currently piloting a middle school climate change curriculum in the bar area that we wrote under a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

  So far the response has been great. At least some are not afraid to tackle the issue.
  On Schools should be talking about climate change solutions posted 1 year, 9 months ago 63 Responses

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  tooting my own horn

  My firm is currently piloting a middle school climate change curriculum in the Bay Area that we wrote under a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

  So far the response has been great. At least some school are not afraid to tackle this issue head on with our young ones.
  On Schools should be talking about climate change solutions posted 1 year, 9 months ago 63 Responses

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  longstanding research tradition

  I like to see that you are posting on the role of behavior change research. There's a lot of this work out there, and there are other approaches besides committment that are interesting to consider -

  Doug McKenzie Mohr's Community Based Social Marketing site has a whole database of such research.

  The University of Michigan's Environmental Psychology Lab is also a good starting place.

  For those with access to online journals Environment and Behavior and theJournal of Environmental Psychology also provide a wealth of approaches to look at.On Research on changing behavior posted 1 year, 9 months ago 2 Responses

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  Then let's make the links -

  As I think Justlou was pointing out environment is an umbrella concept in which these other issues are more salient, so we need to make these links stronger or vice versa, fight for the environment through these issues.

  Iraq -> environment = energy security, poverty and climate change...
  Economy -> environment = clean energy, green collar jobs...
  Health Care -> environment = asthma, toxics, mercury...
  Immigration -> environment = climate refugees, drought, environmental justice...
  education -> environment = citizenship, science, democracy,
  Terrorism -> environment = see immigration, iraq and economy
  frustration w/govt. -> environment = DOn't get me started!On New Kaiser poll reveals voter priorities posted 2 years ago 9 Responses