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

Rosalie Anders, Cambridge, Massachusetts - City Hall
(+ John Moore of the Community Action Iniative Team, with details about the Cambridge Cab initiatives.)

Tina K. Wooston, Office of Sustainability (formerly the Tufts Climate Initiative)

Nathan Gauthier - Harvard Green Campus Initiative

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
2004-08	Climate Protection Initiatives
	Community Initiatives
	Climate Protection Action Committee The City Manager appointed a standing advisory committee to assist in the implementation of the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan.

Cambridge Energy Alliance
2008	"Save Energy, Money and the Planet," PBS - NOW, (28 March 2008).

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).

International Herald Tribune
2008	"Schwarzenegger predicts progress on global warming after Bush leaves office" International Herald Tribune (18 April 2008).

The Yale Class of 1968
2008	Yale Conference of Governors, Yale Law School, 18 April 2008.

Dean Gus Speth
2008	"From Crisis to Sustainability," Where We Live, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network (CPBN), 12 May 2008.

Al Gore 's latest...
2008	"Al Gore's brand-new slideshow," TED, (March 2008).

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)
	"Clinton on Climate Change," The New York Times Video, (17 May 2007).

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