Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

UK Carbon-Reduction Activists in a Quiet “Riot for Austerity”

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 23, 2007 | 9 Comments

While Americans are just waking up to the idea that they might have to do something about climate change, small groups of self-styled carbon-reduction activists in the United Kingdom are taking personal accountability for their emissions to the next level, as reported in the Observer of London. Heeding the call of environmental activist George Monbiot […]

Launching the Campaign for Carbon Taxes

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff, along with Daniel Rosenblum, today announce the foundation of their new organization, the Carbon Tax Center. The Center’s mission is "to educate and inform policymakers, opinion leaders and the public, including grassroots organizations, about the benefits of and critical need for significant, rising and equitable taxes on carbon emissions from fossil […]

Battle of the Weatherpeople

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 19, 2007 | 33 Comments

It’s not just the weather that’s in an uproar these days, it’s the weatherpeople, too. After Heidi Cullen, host of the Weather Channel program "The Climate Code," wrote on her blog that she thought forecasters who deny manmade climate change were uneducated on the issue and should perhaps have their American Meteorological Society credentials revoked, […]

McKibben on Climate Change: “We Don’t Have a Movement”

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 17, 2007 | 3 Comments

If the melting of Greenland can’t make the American people pay attention to global warming, can anything? Environmentalist Bill McKibben, whose The End of Nature was one of the first books to raise the alarm on climate change for a general audience in 1989, is hoping that "Step It Up 2007," a day of rallies […]

PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability is running a series of meetings with community groups. Though the meeting times are posted publicly on the PLANYC 2030 web site, no locations are listed and word has it these borough-wide "Community Leader" meetings are going to be pretty strictly invitation-only. Presentation to New York New Visions […]

Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

Chris Smith has an outstanding story in this week’s New York Magazine pointing out that New York City has fallen behind other world cities in addressing climate change and challenging the Bloomberg Administration to do more. An excerpt: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been cruising through his second term. At this point, with a gaudy approval […]

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