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American Corporations for a Climate Crisis EmergencyOn Americans for Balanced Energy Choices gets new name, t-shirts posted 1 year, 7 months ago 6 Responses
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 Responsesorganize 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
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 ResponsesA 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, 5 months ago 3 ResponsesSee hybrid bikes in Co-op America's Real Money:
"The Case for Electric Bicycles" is a friendly and comprehensive introduction to the world of human-electric hybrid cycles:
www.coopamerica.org/go/ebikesOn Dumb and not so dumb questions answered posted 2 years, 5 months ago 51 ResponsesYes, if these mags really want to go green ...
invite them to join Co-op America's WoodWise PAPER Project for magazines -- http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/woodwise/publishers/m ...
On Grist reviews the spring crop of green glossy mags posted 2 years, 8 months ago 11 ResponsesYes, but ...
Agreed that thumbs-up for first steps, and the message that climate action is doable, will both be the most effective marketing message from climate activists.
But why declare premature defeat in the goal of changing American consumers' behavior? Fur used to be in; now it's out. Drunk driving is decidedly uncool, but it wasn't always. A growing proportion of individual American consumers choosing organic food are responsible for the current boom. Public education campaigns have changed American culture before, and can again -- let's not give up on the possibility that at least some Americans can be enticed to evaluate and change their unsustainable lifestyles.On Why are environmental activists so clueless at marketing climate change solutions? posted 2 years, 8 months ago 36 Responses