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Tell Your Senators to Save Our National Parks from Global Warming

October 7, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biogems, climatelegislation, conservation, energyandclimate2009, glacier, glaciernationalpark, globalwarming, grandtetons, joshuatree, kenburns, nationalparks, rockymountainwest, roosevelt, saguaro, wildlands, wildlife, wyoming

I still remember my first visit to a national park. I was nine years old, and my family traveled to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. For a child from Northern New Jersey, it was a revelation. I was stunned by...continued

Finding Real Optimism for Solving Global Warming

April 4, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
aspeninstitute, globalwarming, greenjobs, oilshale, rockymountainclimateorganization, rockymountainwest

Last week, I witnessed something I wouldn’t have seen two years ago: a group of leading climate scientists and environmental thinkers expressing genuine optimism about our ability to solve global warming. Why the change? The explosive innovation in green energy...continued