Governor’s Climate Task Force Holding Listening Sessions in New Hampshire

People interested in New Hampshire’s plan for addressing energy and climate change are invited to attend listening sessions around the state in August. Four roundtables begin the first week of August, and are put on by the Governor’s Climate Change Task Force. Read more...

To see specific action plans, visit The Carbon Coalition website.

Arctic Expedition for Climate Action

Three CA-CP staff just returned from an extraordinary trip to the Arctic, part of a high-level expedition of 100 leaders of government and business that included President Jimmy Carter, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Meg Whitman (CEO of e-bay), and Larry Page, founder of Google.  Participants on the 7-day trip to the Norwegian High Arctic issued a call for action on climate change: The Spirit of Endeavor Statement was the result of a nearly two-year collaboration between CA-CP, Lindblad Expeditions, National Geographic and the Aspen Institute. This partnership culminated in the Arctic Expedition for Climate Action to learn about the changes being wrought in this fragile wilderness and to discuss effective ways to craft a bi-partisan and broad-based response to the problem in the U.S. For more on the Arctic, visit www.arcticwarming.net.

To read more about the expedition, visit the Spirit of Endeavor website.

Are you thinking of joining the Brita
Climate Ride?

If so, now is the time to sign up. After 92 of the available spots were taken with just two months left, the ride organizers added 20 more cyclist spots. It's not too late to join this unique adventure on wheels. Clean Air–Cool Planet has partnered with Climate Ride to raise money and awareness for climate change.  Support Climate Ride; support CA-CP! Click the Climate Ride logo for more information.

Energizing Ideas: The Emergence of Local Energy Committees

An article by CA-CP's Roger Stephenson, executive vice president for programs, appeared in the July issue of the New Hampshire magazine, Town and City. The article chronicles the remarkable growth and activity of local energy committees since the passage of the New Hampshire Climate Change Resolution last May.
Read the article.

New Report on Corporate Carbon Neutrality released

In 2006, the Oxford English Dictionary chose “carbon neutrality” as the Word of the Year.  But what does it mean?  Clean Air - Cool Planet and Forum for the Future explore corporate carbon neutrality and what it really means, who’s getting there, and who’s missing the point, in a new report, Getting to Zero: Defining Corporate Carbon Neutrality.