Links to Like-Minded Organizations

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Green Monroe:  Monroe County has just released a website to help residents, businesses and organizations easily find the resources necessary to aid in reducing energy costs and financing that may be available to do so.

Empowering a Climate Change Movement, Part Six:  Cities Step Up and Help Citizens Cut Carbon 25% (Part 6 of 6):  In this concluding piece we look at the cities of Davis, California, Rochester, New York, and nine others across the state of Massachusetts that have embarked on a remarkable three-year journey to help between 25 and 85% of the households in their communities reduce their carbon footprint 25% using the strategies and tools I have described in this series. They are pioneers for the many communities across America and around the world that will need to follow in their footsteps if they wish to substantially lower their CO2 emissions. And they are great inspirations in the art of the possible.

Empowering a Climate Change Movement, Part Five:  Taking a Cool Community to Scale (Part 5 of 6 ): This is the fifth of a six-part weekly series excerpted from chapter 11 of my book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. It shows how over 300 communities in 36 states have built a bottom-up movement, Cool Community campaigns, focused on helping Americans take direct responsibility to reduce our carbon footprints while at the same time substantially reducing our energy expenses 

Empowering a Climate Change Movement, Part Four: The Global Warming Cafe
(Part 4 of 6):  This is the fourth of a six-part weekly series excerpted from chapter 11 of my book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. It shows how over 300 communities in 36 states have built a bottom-up movement, Cool Community campaigns, focused on helping Americans take direct responsibility to reduce our carbon footprints while at the same time substantially reducing our energy expenses. It describes how tens of thousands of people are stepping up to help bring the planet back from the brink--one household, neighborhood and community at a time.

Empowering a Climate Change Movement, Part 3: Instead of Cursing the Dark, Light a Candle 
(Part 3 of 6):  This is the third of a six-part weekly series excerpted from chapter 11 of my book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. This series is an attempt to build new momentum for a climate change movement that has lost its mojo because of the failure of Copenhagen and the forces lined up against bold and timely national legislation in the U.S.

Empowering a Climate Change Movement -- Part 2: An Inconvenient Truth Finds a Convenient Solution
(Part 2 of 6):  This is the second of a six-part weekly series excerpted from chapter 11 of his book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. It describes a bottom-up climate change movement that has sprung up in over 300 communities across America.

David Gerson's Empowering a Climate Change Movement:  Low Carbon Diet and the Cool Community (Part 1 of 6):  This is the first of a six-part weekly series excerpted from chapter 11 of his book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. It describes a bottom-up climate change movement that has sprung up in over 300 communities across America.

David Gershon's thoughts - post Copenhagen:   Hope for a Climate Change Solution in the Wake of Copenhagen -- If Governments Can't, People Can

Sierra Club's Newsletter:  The Green Life recognizes some Cool Communities worth noting.

Rochester's making changes:
Rochester Homepage shares suggestions for 11 New Year's resolutions you can make to help lower you impact.

Cool Rochester On the news:
Channel 8 news showed a quip of what Green Irene's Home Makeover entails.

EPA Green Home tool:
Whether you rent or own, the EPA has set up a tool on thier website to help reduce your homes carbon footprint.

RochesterEnvironment.com
Get all the Environmental NewsLinks for the Rochester-area, including primary sources, all the media, public officials, federal and state official departments--and the most important world environment stories.  Since 1998.

Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative
TCCPI is a cross-sector collaboration seeking to leverage the climate action commitments made by Cornell University, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Tompkins County, and the City of Ithaca to mobilize a countywide energy efficiency effort focused primarily on the retrofitting of buildings. 

The Climate Project
Al Gore's organization has 2,600 dedicated volunteers (including our own Jim Tappon), all personally trained by Al Gore to educate the public about climate change. We are proud to acknowledge their support.

Recycled Energy Development
This article focuses on what some factories can do to recycle their waste into reusable energy. 

Greenbiz.com
12 Steps to sustainability within the workplace.

Toyota Prius (Camry) recalls
Due to an issue with floormats, Toyota is recalling 3.8 million vehicles.

We are finally walking the walk
The US has had a dramatic 9% drop in Carbon emissions in the past two years.