4.21.08
Where Global Warming Begins
Watch Video Animations of U.S. Carbon Dioxide Pollution
Just where is all that global warming pollution coming from?

The precise sources of carbon dioxide emissions have now been mapped, with 100 times more detail than was previously available, by Vulcan project researchers at Purdue University. Watch the video »

4.08.08
AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Business Responds to Climate Change
This 12-minute documentary film provides new insight into why major US corporations are reducing global warming emissions. Featuring interviews with business executives including PG&E CEO Peter Darbee, Dupont CEO Chad Holliday, and Johnson & Johnson VP Brenda Davis, the short film provides a whirlwind tour or a major trend to watch in the business sector. Courtesy of Sea Studios Foundation; a powerful team of award-winning filmmakers, scientists and strategic communicators.

3.18.08
The Boundaries of Executive Authority:
Using Executive Orders to Implement Federal Climate Change Policy
The Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES) was asked to prepare a report on the legal boundaries of executive authority with emphasis on the use of executive orders (EOs) to implement appropriate provisions of the Climate Action Plan. [PDF/3MB]

2.28.08
The Economic Case for Climate Action By L. Hunter Lovins
When you meet your maker, what will you talk about? Will you proudly discuss your rate of return? Or how you enhanced shareholder value? What will your legacy be? The way most companies do business, most communities operate, and most of us live will leave a legacy of an environmentally and financially impoverished planet. We can, we must do better. [PDF/678KB]

1.28.08
What did Bali accomplish?
Click here read an article by David Sandalow of the Brookings Institution that tries to answer that question.

1.21.08
Professor Richard Somerville at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has published an excellent article on Bali in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Find it at: http://www.thebulletin.org/ richard-somerville/

1.9.08
Post Global: A Debate Blog on Foreign Policy & International Affairs features six creative proposals for how to move forward on climate change after the Bali Conference. The proposals were initailly presented by the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. Which is most promising, and why? Read them here, then cast your vote or post a comment. Courtesy of the Washington Post

12.14.07
One Hundred Days of Climate Action
By David W. Orr; Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College
"Here's the inconvenient truth: We have not even begun to be serious about the costs, the effort and the scale of change that will be required to shift our country, and eventually the world to a largely emissions-free energy infrastructure over the next 50 years." [PDF/67KB]

12.4.07
Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility
An Essay by Mary Christina Wood
In this essay, Professor Wood presents a framework for holding government at all levels responsible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. She draws upon the Target for U.S. Emissions Reductions recently released by scientists to contend that government has a duty to cap emissions by 2010, reduce emissions by 4% annually thereafter, and ultimately bring emissions down to at least 80% below 2000 levels by 2050. As she explains, there can be no "orphan shares" in meeting this planetary carbon liability. She explains that government has the tools to accomplish this, and as a sovereign trustee of our atmosphere, has the obligation to do so. [PDF/84KB]

11.26.07
A central truth is dawning on serious U.S. policy makers:
Climate Change is a National Security Issue.
Read on to find out how U.S. Senator (Ret.) Gary Hart addresses the topic of Climate Change and how it relates to National Security. [PDF/45KB]

11.19.07
Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC's 4th assessment Report
This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups of the IPCC. It provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. A complete elaboration of the topics covered in this summary can be found in this Synthesis Report and in the underlying reports of the three Working Groups. [PDF/6.4MB]

11.10.07
Sustainability in Action: New Thinking and a Better Way
By Ray C. Anderson, Founder and Chairman of Interface, Inc.
My intent in this essay is to open a door-maybe in a way you've not heard before-and to invite you to walk through that door into a world you may not have seen before. [PDF/169KB]

NASA Animation: Melting Arctic Sea Ice For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction.

Ahead of the Curve - Business Responds to Climate Change A video produced by Sea Studios Foundation, a powerful team of award-winning filmmakers, scientists and strategic communicators dedicated to raising awareness of all the ways human life is entwined with the natural environment and motivating action on urgent threats to our planet's health.

10.19.07
Global Warming: How Do Scientists Know They're Not Wrong?
From catastrophic sea level rise to jarring changes in local weather, humanity faces a potentially dangerous threat from the changes our own pollution has wrought on Earth's climate. But since nothing in science can ever be proven with 100 percent certainty, how is it that scientists can be so sure that we are the cause of global warming? More »»

9.12.07
Can the United States become a zero-carbon society without nuclear power?
The answer is yes, according to a new study by the Nuclear Policy Research Institute
and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.

7.27.07
Protect Your Efforts
Just when we thought we were making a difference...
Issued by: The 2030 Research Center (www.architecture2030.org)

7.20.07
National Climate Policy: Choosing the Right Architecture
By Robert Repetto
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

7.12.07
What is the climate problem and how big is it?
Breathing Earth
A flash presentation displaying the carbon dioxide emission levels of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates - all in real time.

6.24.07
In the Greenhouse: Confronting a Changing Climate
An article from the Washington Post containing excellent and clear graphics on the size of the carbon problem, how much has to be reduced, how the reduction should be distributed among nations, and the costs to consumers.

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