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                                 Welcome to the Global Warming Solutions Wiki

This is the place where we meet to share ideas and create knowledge.

Introduction: Describing, Analyzing and Promoting Global Warming Solutions

Research Tools

Research Tools (Databases, Search Engines, & Other Starting Points for Finding Good Information)

Finding Solutions to Global Warming

Agricultural Management

Biofuels

Biomass

Carbon Storage and Sequestration

Conservation and Efficiency

Forest management

Geoengineering

Geothermal Power

Green Building

Nuclear Energy

Solar Power

Transportation

Waste

Wind Power

Leaders in the Fight against Global Warming

Al Gore

Bill McKibben

Leading organizations in the Fight against Global Warming

350.org

Focus the Nation

National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions

Letters to the next President of the United States

Noah Brautigam

Charlie Brewer

Kate Burchenal

Rachel Callender

Bianca Dragone

Steph Gill

Lea Lai

Yen Le

Edwin Merino

Stephanie Pons

Nial Rele

Jerry Romero

Jacob Udell

Nick Zhao

100 Days of Action

In this section, the students in FYSE1239 suggest fifteen alternative actions

Noah Brautigam's action

Charlie Brewer's action

Kate Burchenal's action

Rachel Callender's action

Bianca Dragone's action

Steph Gill's action

Lea Lai's action

Yen Le's action

Edwin Merino's action

Stephanie Pons's action

Nial Rele's action

Jerry Romero's action

Jacob Udell's action

Nick Zhao's action

Making Plans for 2009

The coal march

The coal march is an idea

Use website ... each march have own page ... create space and opportunity similar in goals, different in specifics ...

We're here to bring people into the picture ... people-centric, not about institutions ... as Gandhi points out, empowering the enemy to see ...

A motto ... with subtitles .... Moving, marching .... beyond coal ...?

To a new tradition ... to replace, revive, rebuild ... u

Steph -- what is the ask ..?

Think about the opposition ... the power

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-=== [[Sample letter]] ===
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 === [[Charlie Brewer]] ===
-=== [[Clean energy? Yes we can!]] ===
+=== [[Kate Burchenal]] ===
+=== [[Rachel Callender]] ===
+=== [[Bianca Dragone]] ===
+=== [[Steph Gill]] ===
+=== [[Lea Lai]] ===
+=== [[Yen Le]] ===
+=== [[Edwin Merino]] ===
 === [[Stephanie Pons]] ===
-=== [[Edwin Merino]] ===
+=== [[Nial Rele]]===
+=== [[Jerry Romero]] ===
+=== [[Jacob Udell]]===
 === [[Nick Zhao]]===
-=== [[Nial Rele]]===
-=== [[Bianca Dragone]] ===
-=== [[Yen Le]] ===
-Middlebury College
+== 100 Days of Action ==
-Middlebury, VT 05753
-November 10, 2008
+In this section, the students in FYSE1239 suggest fifteen alternative actions
-Senator Barack Obama
+=== [[Noah Brautigam's action]] ===
-Hart Senate Office Building,
+=== [[Charlie Brewer's action]] ===
-District of Columbia 20510-1305
+=== [[Kate Burchenal's action]] ===
+=== [[Rachel Callender's action]] ===
+=== [[Bianca Dragone's action]] ===
+=== [[Steph Gill's action]] ===
+=== [[Lea Lai's action]] ===
+=== [[Yen Le's action]] ===
+=== [[Edwin Merino's action]] ===
+=== [[Stephanie Pons's action]] ===
+=== [[Nial Rele's action]]===
+=== [[Jerry Romero's action]] ===
+=== [[Jacob Udell's action]]===
+=== [[Nick Zhao's action]]===
-Dear Senator Obama,
+== Making Plans for 2009 ==
-First and foremost, I must congratulate you on being elected the next president of the United States of America! My name is Yen Le and I am a student at Middlebury College.  I cannot express in words how strongly my peers and I believe that you can create the change that our country needs.
-I recognize that the financial crisis is a problem that needs to be addressed immediately.  However, with all the attention and focus on stimulating the economy, it is easy to forget about another crisis that continues to worsen everyday -- climate change.  As emphasized by prominent NASA scientists and leaders in climate change, such as Bill McKibben, to prevent irreversible changes in climate, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere should not pass 350 parts per million (ppm).  Currently, they are at 387 ppm.    To ensure the wellbeing of humans, and ultimately of planet earth, we need strong policies to lower carbon dioxide emission levels and to prevent this number from rising.  We need ''change''.
+=== The coal march ===
+The coal march is an idea
-If change does not come, an increase in natural disasters, change in precipitation patterns, a decrease in biodiversity, and more breakouts of infectious disease will hurt the United States economy and cause for serious health problems.
+Use website ... each march have own page ... create space and opportunity similar in goals, different in specifics ...
-To begin taking action and to show our country and the world that you are serious in making the United States a leader in climate change, you should attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland this December to prepare for the Copenhagen talks in 2009. In your acceptance speech you said, “I will build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century.” Climate change is one of these threats.  By attending this conference, you will not only build partnerships with other leaders around the world, but you will also transition the United States into a clean energy future.  Working collectively with other leaders and scientists will move the world forward in finding a global warming solution.
+We're here to bring people into the picture ... people-centric, not about institutions ...  as Gandhi points out, empowering the enemy to see ...
-After you are inaugurated into office in January, I hope that you will spend your presidential honeymoon and first 100 days implementing the environmental policies that are stated in your New Energy for America plan.  These plans are great in that they support green jobs, renewable sources of energy, and a national-cap-and-trade system.  To execute these plans, you must look at specific methods and details on how to do so. Different methods work better in different regions, therefore, not all policies on climate change on the national level can have strict guidelines. For example, solar power is more successful in Arizona than it is in Washington.
+A motto ... with subtitles .... Moving, marching .... beyond coal ...?
-States are the ones that need to decide which policies to implement depending on the different technologies that would suit their environment.  To encourage states to take climate change seriously and to invest in a particular method, federal mandates and other incentives should be used.
+To a new tradition ... to replace, revive, rebuild ... u
-In my Global Warming Solutions class, we are in the process of creating a Global Warming Solutions Wiki [https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/OpenSourceLearning/Main_Page].  Among the things we analyze for each method and solution are: economic costs and benefits, the scale at which the policy should be implemented (individual, local, regional, and national), and geography.  In building your own portfolio on global warming solutions, I recommend that you analyze and answer similar questions for all different types of technologies. I also recommend that your portfolio have multiple and varied methods.  This will help you decide which methods work best where and which methods would not work in the United States.
-Our actions must ultimately lower greenhouse gas emission levels by 80% by 2050.  Accomplishing this will be difficult because it requires a change in the way that we live.  But everything is possible, and yes we can accomplish this.  But to do so, we must start now.
+Steph -- what is the ask ..?
-Sincerely,
+Think about the opposition ... the power
-Yen Le
-== [[Kate Burchenal]] ==
-== [[Hai Tat]] ==
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