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Policy Alternatives -- Civil Society Initiatives:
The Greening of Institutions and the Emergence of Grassroots Carbon Activism

Sarah Hammond Creighton, Project Manager, Tufts Climate Initiative

Mike Crowley, Manager, High Performance Building Service - Existing Buildings
Harvard Green Campus Initiative

Rosalie Anders, Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall

Steven Lanou - Deputy Director, Environmental Sustainability - MIT


	Forthcoming Event, Cambridge, Ma 17 May 2007 (just prior to this class session!)

Assigned Reading:

Stephen H. Schneider (Editor), John O. Niles (Editor), Armin Rosencranz (Editor)
2002	Climate Change Policy: A Survey (Washington, D. C., Island Press, 2002), Chapter, 3, pp. 89-111.

News Coverage of Mass. (and New England) Local Climate Action

Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
2001	Climate Change Action Plan - 2001, Committee on the Environment and the Northeast International Committee on Energy of the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers, (August 2001).

Cities for Climate Protection (CCP)
2004	Cities for Climate Protection, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)

City of Cambridge
2003	Climate Protection Plan: Local Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Cambridge, MA, City of Cambridge, 2003).

City of Cambridge
2005	Cambridge Climate Protection Action Committee 2004 Annual Report

City of Cambridge - Department of Cambridge Community Development
2005	Climate Protection Initiatives [current website]

Ross, Jordan
2004	"The Conscientious Commonwealth: Massachusetts' Economical and Ecologically Smart Buys," Gauge, Issue 5, (Spring 2004), [Emerson College undergraduate magazine.], pp. 44-45.

Sharp, Leith
2002	"Green campuses: the road from little victories to systemic transformation," International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 3 (2), (March 2002) 128-145.

Michelle Fleury
2005	"Investors go to UN for climate talks," BBC News Online, (11 May 2005).

Elizabeth Kolbert
2005	"The Climate of Man," NPR - WBUR - The Connection, (12 May 2005).

Eli Sanders
2005	"Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules," The New York Times, (14 May 2005).

BBC News
2005	"U.S. Mayors Defy George W. Bush," BBC News Online, (17 May 2005).

....and even as we meet...update on urban initiatives globally

NOW! Climate Summit - New York City - 14-17 May 2007
Extreme Makeover

From May 14 – May 17, 2007, leaders of municipal governments and international businesses from over thirty world cities will convene in New York City for the second C40 Large Cities Climate Summit. Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world’s energy consumption, and as such, the world’s largest cities have a critical role to play in the reduction of carbon emissions and the reversal of dangerous climate change

Who's there?

Case Studies of Cities that have launched Climate Initiatives
	CATEGORIES — Energy — Waste — Buildings	— Transportation — Lighting — Water
	The facts and figures in these case studies have been provided by the highlighted city governments to the Clinton Climate Initiative.

C40 Climate Leadership Group
	Cities and Climate Change - Rationale C40 Summit Communiqué

Greener city buildings (London)
	London - Home Page

Microsoft and Cities

Background
President Clinton Launches Clinton Climate Initiative (2006)

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