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  ACCCE really stands for ...

  American Corporations for a Climate Crisis EmergencyOn Americans for Balanced Energy Choices gets new name, t-shirts posted 1 year, 6 months ago 6 Responses

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  What can we do to nudge China towards renewables?

  What can an American consumer do to encourage the development of wind and solar in China, and discourage coal?

  What are the organizations doing good work on this that we could donate to, or good projects that American consumers could support (possibly as offsets)?

  I'm one US enviro who knows that China and India's coal power plants are a huge threat to the climate, but am not clear what I personally could do about it.
  On China's coal policy is breathtaking (literally) posted 2 years ago 3 Responses

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  organize a coal plant protest, and they will come

  I am totally psyched to help stop new coal plants, and to engage in civil disobedience at the sites of the local new ones, if need be. But for all the calls to this kind of activism, I haven't been able to find a particular organization that's doing this kind of direct action focused on stopping new coal plants. Can anyone post to the comments with some suggestions? I'm ready and willing, but I haven't figured out who's doing this work well right now.On The coal industry's rush to build new plants is bumping up against reality posted 2 years, 2 months ago 5 Responses

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  One more: building infrastructure

  Co-op America also takes the "no trees" approach to offsets (http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/carbon ...),
  for these reasons and one other:
  Building new wind power capacity builds infrastructure that will make a low-carbon future possible. This is a side-benefit of the CO2 reduction purchased as an offset. It's important to stop deforestation, but planting trees doesn't build the infrastructure that will make it possible for our society to live in a way that curbs the climate crisis.On Trees are good for a lot of things; carbon offsetting isn't one of them posted 2 years, 4 months ago 27 Responses

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  A great 101 on solar hot water heaters

  ... appeared in Co-op America's Real Money a few months back:
  http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/solarw ...On Umbra on solar hot-water systems posted 2 years, 4 months ago 3 Responses