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13, 2007
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A clip from the TV Series
"The Green Mind." Actress Julia Stiles has designed
the first all-green and eco-friendly clothing line.
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Burning Leaves is Bad News
ENN
Remember the smell of burning fall leaves wafting
through the air? Good memories, indeed, but best that
they remain just memories. Burning leaves is bad news.
This practice is now illegal — or at least highly
discouraged — in most areas. Burning leaves releases
airborne particulates like dust and soot, mold, and
other allergens that were tamped down with rain and
decomposition. According to the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA): "the total health, financial, and
environmental costs of leaf-burning can be quite high.
These costs include higher incidences of health problems
and increased heath care costs; forest fires and
property loss and need for increased fire protection;
and the clean-up costs associated with soiling of
personal property.": So basically, burning leaves is an
environmental no-no...
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Cleaner, Greener U: Students Drive the Campus Climate
Movement
by Brita Belli, ENN
Climate change is our
generation’s civil rights movement,”� says Brianna Cayo
Cotter, communications director for the Energy Action
Coalition, swilling from a tall cup of coffee. Cotter
talked fast and raked her fingers through her thick,
wavy hair, staring intently, as though she’d been on a
steady diet of nothing but caffeine for the last few
days. This was PowerShift 2007, held at the University
of Maryland, the largest gathering of college students
ever assembled to fight climate change, a weekend of
non-stop workshops and speakers and rallies brought
together by Energy Action staff. The previous week, the
group’s server had crashed as college students across
the nation logged on to register. On Halloween night,
they hit 5,500 registrants, sending up a cheer in Energy
Action offices. Cotter was literally buzzing with
enthusiasm. “We’re at a crucial moment in history,”� she
said. “Climate change is an issue that’s already
impacting us, from the destruction of the Appalachian
Mountains to the wildfires in California. We get that
the resource wars and super storms are connected. And we
get that the steps taken today will end up being the
future for tomorrow.”
Shifting the Power
Surrounded by foldout tables
topped with organic T-shirts, cloth bags, environmental
magazines and activist pamphlets, the Energy Action crew
had created its own environmental how-to Mecca. Students
roamed the halls clutching containers of coffee and
complementary tote bags, migrating to one of hundreds of
workshops that happened simultaneously and around the
clock across the UM campus, on everything from radical
lobbying to art and activism to communicating a winning
message and running an energy-efficiency campaign in
your house of worship.
The workshops were followed
by the largest youth lobbying effort ever assembled in
Washington to stop global warming. In addition to more
than 300 individual meetings with Congressional leaders,
youth climate spokesperson Billy Parish, cofounder of
the Energy Action Coalition, was one of several
environmentalists who testified before the House Select
Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The
hearing had some 2,000 people in attendance. It was
followed by a boisterous rally outside on the lawn...
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Design for Adaptation: Living in a Climate-Changing
World
BuildingGreen.com
Climate scientists
have been speaking out for decades about the need to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid a
significantly warmer and less livable future. Now
that climate change is finally part of the public
discussion, the future is already here—and it’s only
getting warmer. Designing energy-efficient buildings
is an important step toward preventing more drastic
warming. We need to redouble these efforts—the 2030
Challenge goal of carbon-neutral buildings by 2030
will be a difficult yet critical standard to meet.
But by stopping there, are we turning a blind eye to
the changes that scientists say are coming even if
greenhouse gas emissions were turned off tomorrow?
More and more experts acknowledge that while we must
continue to do all we can to slow greenhouse gas
emissions, we must also begin designing buildings
that will work in a changing climate. This article
examines the science of global climate change and
looks at how we can adapt the built environment to a
world that will, by most accounts, be very different
by the end of this century from the one we know
today.
The Reality of Climate Change
Debate may continue in some circles about whether
humans are causing climate change, or even whether
it is happening at all, but the scientific consensus
is overwhelmingly clear. A report issued in June
2009 by the U.S. Global Change Research Program
(USGRP)—which coordinates climate change research of
13 federal agencies and operated as the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program from 2002 through 2008 under
the George W. Bush presidency—estimates that global
average temperatures have risen approximately 1.5ºF
(0.8ºC) since before the Industrial Revolution and
could rise another 2ºF–11ºF (1.1ºC–6.1ºC) by the end
of this century, based on modeling of a variety of
greenhouse gas emissions levels, mitigation efforts,
and economic scenarios. “The reality of climate
change is unequivocal—we see it in many aspects of
the Earth’s climate system,” said Jonathan Overpeck,
Ph.D., co-director of the Institute of the
Environment at the University of Arizona and a
co-author of the USGCRP report...
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Eco-Friendly Paint Keeps You & the Planet Healthy
Big Green Purse Blog
Conventional paint contains many volatile organic
compounds, or VOCs, that "outgas" and escape into the
air after they are applied. Indoors, these VOCs cause
headaches, nausea, achey bones, and general discomfort.
Outdoors, they contribute to smog and air pollution.
Whether for indoors or out, your best bet is to buy low-
or no-VOC paint. You'll find it offered by more than a
dozen companies in thousands of colors and in standard
eggshell, glossy, and semigloss finishes. You can also
select no-VOC water-based stains, finishes, and paint
stripper...
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