Are you feeling grief, outrage, or both? Please join us and use these feelings as fuel to create something powerful and positive. How? One word: Solutions. Let’s spread clean energy solutions that create jobs, stabilize energy prices, and offer an alternative model that gives power to the people. The Center for Climate Protection has solutions that do just […]
World wide transportation accounts for only 13 percent of our carbon footprint 1. However, in the Bay Area transportation is biggest GHG contributor, 2 and here in semi-rural Sonoma County, transportation accounts for more than half of our greenhouse gas emissions 3. We drive a lot. So what can we do about it? The Sonoma County Transit Authority […]
Caltrans recently recognized the Bay Area’s Spare the Air Youth Program with an Excellence in Transportation Award in the Public Awareness Campaigns category. Only 13 projects received awards out of nearly 100 entries for this year’s program – from within Caltrans, public agencies, private contractors, and consultants across the state. Spare the Air Youth coordinates […]
This summer I was lucky enough to to chaperone a group of vibrant youth leaders as they explored Hong Kong and Guangzhou China on an environmental education trip. Seventeen students from across the Bay Area were carefully selected from over 200 applicants to explore climate, sustainability, and environment in a Chinese cultural exchange. Participants included […]
The future of our economy and the stability of the biosphere depend on addressing climate change. It is therefore important that voters find out where candidates for the highest office stand on this issue. Donald Trump In March, Trump told the Washington Post editorial board “I am not a great believer in man-made climate change.” […]
I was born a mighty consumer of energy. The year I was born, my parents bought Amana’s Radarange to microwave my food.
I was two when NASA fired up
Contributed by Dick Dowd, Chair of the Business Operations Committee, Sonoma Clean Power Authority Often I am asked why I am so passionate about working with the Center of Climate Protection (CCP). I believe that the time is now to prevent, or at the very least dramatically slow down, global warming. Although I am strongly convinced that […]
ECO2school, the Center for Climate Protection’s Youth Leadership program, is constantly growing – connecting with new communities, developing new tools and curriculum, and mentoring new groups of students. In order to continue sharing and expanding this work, the ECO2school team is excited to announce the relaunch of their website: ECO2school.org. The new website makes it smooth and easy to find […]
The Center for Climate Protection, with your increased support in 2016, will make a bigger impact on the climate crisis, sooner. We will: Help more than 80 California cities and counties provide cleaner, locally controlled energy this year. California’s leaders know it’s a good idea and are looking for help to implement this change. The […]
anx·i·e·ty/aNGˈzīədē/ a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome We all feel anxious from time to time. The lexicon of anxiousness is ingrained in our culture. We worry, we fret, we kvell. If you are considering getting an electric car, you may have been told […]
