The Budget Ecoist - green on a budget

Web site recommendation from Marya:

http://www.thebudgetecoist.com/

Focus the Nation News

Focus News

Nike rejoins Focus for 2009. Nike brings to Focus the Nation over a decade of business commitment to global warming solutions on a global scale. Watch for future info about our partnership to green campus athletics.  

Join Climate-Ride 2008!  Focus is partnering with this four day, NYC-DC cycle event next September. Join the Focus the Nation team.

The Focus the Nation Wind Turbine! Thanks to Native Energy, Focus the Nation teams can offset their projects and help build a wind turbine on a family farm in Minnesota .

What Did You Teach at Focus the Nation? Help us collect educational material on global warming solutions; find out what others are up to at ClimateChangeEducation.org.

Donate to Focus—Stop Your Junk Mail! Sign up with 41 Pounds, and a portion of the income is donated directly to us here at Focus the Nation.

Forty Percent of Car Trips are within two miles of your home: Take Clif Bar’s Two-Mile Challenge and ride or walk instead! Check it out. 

The President’s Climate Commitment: Has your University or College President signed on?

Eban Goodstein
Project Director
Focus the Nation
info@focusthenation.org
www.focusthenation.org

 

 

 

Warner-Lieberman Gone -- What's Next?

Last week, legislation requiring cuts in global warming pollution, the Warner-Lieberman act, made it to the floor of the Senate-- only to see debate blocked when supporters fell 6 votes short of the 60 needed to end a filibuster. Also last week, Congressman Ed Markey introduced a new, much stronger climate bill in the House.

Ten years after the signing of the Kyoto treaty, and thanks to all of our hard work, the grassroots movement demanding global warming solutions has forced the battle to begin. How now do we win?

1.Work Like a Dog: Over the next five months, help change the future. To find a candidate in your region who supports your views on global warming solutions, contact the League of Conservation Voters.

2. Join The First 100 Days National Teach-in:  February 5^th,  2009 will be the second Focus the Nation Teach-in. With the failure of Warner-Lieberman, the hard fight over a clean energy future will be after the fall election, with a new President and a new Congress. Be there!

 From thousands of schools and other institutions, we will engage Congress, state and local decision-makers, and leaders from business, the faith community and the media. Can Congress cut carbon 30% by 2020?

3. Climate Ride 2008: Make the First 100 Days Teach-in possible by joining our 5-day bicycle ride from NYC to DC.  Only 50 spots left! Next September Focus the Nation will help carry the message to . Combining cycling with evening talks by climate scientists and other experts, this is a unique event—a fundraiser and climate conference on wheels. Please spread the word to cyclists who want to pedal for the planet. Proceeds benefit both Focus and Clean Air- Cool Planet.

Eban Goodstein, Project Director

Chungin Chung, Communications Director

 

ECRI Calendar

FYI. Lots of good things going on.

Also, Please note the "green jobs" section in the naturalnews link
below.

Natural News Network - http://www.naturalnews.net/wordpress/

What Grows On - http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/new_calendar.html

Why to avoid AAA

Folks -- Please read this article about the negative environmental 
impact of AAA. I've been a member of the Better World Club for several 
years and their services are comparable to AAA's, while their values 
are far better. Please spread the word. This is the way "voting with 
your pocketbook" can make a difference.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/88361/?ses=655021ecc28135f11cc28a806547e200

Rachel

Dr. Rachel May
Director, Office of Environment and Society
Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
431 Crouse-Hinds (CEPA)
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-9726
enspire@syr.edu
http://enspire.syr.edu

Here's Katie!

 

 

 

Great Site for Green Events in RI

Little Rhody's Comprehensive "Green" Events and Activities Listing Service

http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/

Thanks, Marya!