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Ian Wilker's Links Tagged "climate"

Offset Your Carbon Footprint to Reduce Global Warming--BeGreen Now

tags:
cleanpower, climatechange, climate, carbon, carbonfootprint, globalwarming, greenliving, greentips

From Green Mountain Energy -- a large retailer of cleaner electricity -- BeGreen has a lot of information about reducing your carbon "footprint." There's a guide to carbon-neutral gifts, and BeGreen is doing a video contest on MySpace.

WorldChanging Austin: Whole Foods Market + Green Mountain Energy - Carbon

tags:
climatechange, climate, carbon, globalwarming, cleanpower, carbonfootprint

Jon Lebkowsky blogs for WorldChanging, among many other things, and tipped me to this Whole Foods initiative -- for Earth Day, the company is presenting its customers with a whole slate of ideas for reducing one's carbon footprint. Cool.

The New Yorker : "High Costs," on the UK Govt's Report on Economics of Global Warming

tags:
carbon, economics, environment, globalwarming, climatechange, climate, science

Authored by Sir Nicholas Stern (former World Bank chief economist; current head of the UK Gov'ts Economic Service), the landmark "Stern Review" concludes that the benefits of strong early action far outweigh the costs of ignoring it. The NYer summarizes.

Global Warming: The Topic du Jour - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com

tags:
globalwarming, science, advocacy, climatechange, climate, environment

Newsweek's take on global warming's arrival as a true hot button issue, with an Ad Council campaign and a lot of Hollywood star power shining light on it. Several other features, including multimedia, packaged with this article.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Al Gore at the TED 2006 conference

tags:
globalwarming, ted, gore, climate, climatechange, leadership, environment

Ethan Zuckerman (GlobalVoices founder and WorldChanging board chair) gives blow-by-blow of Gore's climate talk at Technology, Entertainment, Design conference; much good discussion ensues.

Ian Wilker
Ian Wilker
NRDC alumnus
Asheville, NC
I was website managing editor at NRDC for six years, through the end of 2006....
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