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Archive for September, 2008

Web resources
Sightline Daily – Northwest News That Matters –
The Daily Score Blog – Special Series Climate Fairness
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/series/climate-fairness
“Climate change threatens hardships for everyone, but the people and nations least to blame for causing it are most vulnerable. In this series, Alan Durning explores the issue of climate equity and looks at the enormous opportunity to [...]

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Climate Crisis Coalition
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/index.html
“The Climate Crisis Coalition was founded in 2004 to create awareness and convey a sense of urgency about the climate crisis and broaden the constituency of the climate action movement. Our mission was also to approach climate change from the holistic perspective that links issues of environmental, social and economic equity. [...]

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Web Sites
Pacific Institute, Oakland, California
http://www.pacinst.org/topics/global_change/
An independent research and policy group addressing issues related to water, climate, and environmental policy and management. Site includes a section on climate impacts and adaptation and a bibliography of over 1,000 research papers on impacts of climate change on U.S. water resources, with a focus on California.
Articles
Water fight
Proposed Nevada [...]

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Articles
Put The Trees In The Ground: A Fix For The Global Carbon Dioxide Problem? (05/13/08)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513101652.htm
Biodiversity Loss Puts People At Risk: World Wildlife Fund (ScienceDaily 05/20/2008)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516112715.htm
SMART Papers Breaks Ground on $30M Biomass Plant (05/14/2008)
http://www.climatebiz.com/news/2008/05/14/smart-papers-breaks-ground-30m-biomass-plant
Rwanda: Gov’t Worried By Effect of Climate Change On Health (05/15/2008)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805150255.html
Humans causing major changes in Earth’s systems — study (05/14/2008)
http://www.eenews.net
U.N. campaign [...]

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Web Resources

Rocky Mountain Climate Organization’s Colorado Climate Project:
http://www.coloradoclimate.org/index.cfm
“The Colorado Climate Project was convened by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization to bring Coloradans together to reduce the state’s contribution and vulnerability to climate change. In the first phase of the project, a blue-ribbon Climate Action Panel worked for a year to develop 70 recommendations for [...]

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Web Resources

The Wilderness Society: Global Warming Webpage and Fact Sheets:
http://wilderness.org/OurIssues/GlobalWarming/index.cfm?TopLevel=Home

Forest Management Fact Sheet (February 15, 2008)
http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/FireForest%20Management%20FINAL.pdf

Carbon Cycling Fact Sheet (February 15, 2008)
http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/primer_carbon_cycling.pdf

Fire and Climate Change Fact Sheet (February 15, 2008)
http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/FireClimateChange%20FINAL.pdf

Kinds of Carbon: Wildland Fires vs. Fossil Fuels Fact Sheet (February 15, 2008) http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/WildlandFire%20vs%20FossilFuels%20FINAL.pdf

Articles
Tribes try to gauge a ‘potential culture killer’ (03/20/2008)
http://www.earthportal.org/news/?p=955
Critics blast the [...]

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