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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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-=== [[Clean energy? Yes we can!]] ===
+=== [[Kate Burchenal]] ===
+=== [[Rachel Callender]] ===
+=== [[Bianca Dragone]] ===
+=== [[Steph Gill]] ===
+=== [[Lea Lai]] ===
+=== [[Yen Le]] ===
+=== [[Edwin Merino]] ===
 === [[Stephanie Pons]] ===
-=== [[Edwin Merino]] ===
-=== [[Nick Zhao]]===
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-=== [[Bianca Dragone]] ===
+=== [[Jerry Romero]] ===
-=== [[Yen Le]] ===
-=== [[Steph Gill]] ===
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+=== [[Nick Zhao]]===
-November 9th, 2008
+== 100 Days of Action ==
-     Jacob Udell
+In this section, the students in FYSE1239 suggest fifteen alternative actions
-     Student
-     Middlebury College
-     Middlebury, VT 05753
-Dear President-Elect Obama,
+=== [[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]]===
-Congratulations on your amazing campaign, it is inspiring and exciting to be a young person at this crucial point in history. I likely do not need to remind you of your acceptance speech, but I found this quote to be especially moving, “This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.”
+== Making Plans for 2009 ==
-Remember that quote. Please don’t be a president who creates policy with another campaign and election in sight- you promised us more than that. It would probably be most popular to focus solely on the economy. It would be easy to achieve the relatively low expectations of climate change policy that most of our country desires and leave it at that. But the world needs more than the status quo. Instead, focus on the fact that in 2012, at the end of next four years of your presidency, we will have reached the deadline for fundamental changes in global environmental policy (Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of IPCC). If we wait much longer than that, it will have been too late.
+=== The coal march ===
-In your speech, as well as your first press conference as President-Elect, that change was urgently stated in relation to the dire economic situation happening right now. You called for a stimulus package – great. It is the logical first step in giving people the security they desperately need; we know that our economy needs to bounce back. But we also know that Wall Street alone can’t protect us from the change in climate that would lead to sinking coastlines and famine in the poorest regions of the world. So how do we get Americans to commit to serious changes to save our planet if they can’t even save enough money to send their children to college? The solution is simple – use the implementation of a green economy as the stimulus package. It can be the first step towards the change we seek.
+The coal march is an idea
-Make the economic stimulus package your starting point. Enact a package that creates “green collar jobs”, as activist Van Jones calls it. Stimulus packages, by definition, need the trading of more goods and services in order to survive. What better way to ensure that than by directing the country to exploit the mostly untapped industry of environmentally sustainable energy? There is so much possibility. It ranges from development of alternative clean energy to retrofitting homes for energy efficiency. The increase in spending and trading can’t come without job security and opportunities for growth. The creation of an entirely new sector of the market will stimulate that.
-If the stimulus plan is enacted in this way, the change that has been bubbling inside us for the last twenty-one months can truly begin. Not only would the plan bolster the economy, but it would also help move our country towards the only global warming solution that can save our planet – a cap and share plan. A cap and share plan requires trust, trust that Americans will be willing to deal with higher gas and heating prices and receive compensation only at the end of each year. But because of the last eight years, we Americans are jaded. Even with a new administration, there is doubt that the government can actually make a carbon tax economically feasible for the average citizen. What a successful environmentally focused stimulus plan would do is give people more trust in the viability of environmentally friendly policy. Upon the momentum and benefits of a “green collar” stimulus package, Americans would be more willing to take the hit of a carbon tax.
+Use website ... each march have own page ... create space and opportunity similar in goals, different in specifics ...
-A working cap and share program would be an amazing change in the way our country’s economy functions. But as you saw in rallies from Kenya to Japan, the decisions of your presidency will reverberate far greater than California or New York. It is obvious, Mr. Obama, that you have the ability to inspire the global change at an unprecedented rate. During your campaign, you created a movement of motivated people, especially youth, in numbers and strength never before seen. Use your rhetoric and legislation to inspire a global movement on climate change – validate the notion that we really can save the world. Fight against energy production from the most dangerous fossil fuels, such as coal, not through blind power but through instilling a need to search for common ground. If you lead the fight against global warming solutions as well as you are capable, the same world that celebrated so ecstatically on November 5th will follow.
+We're here to bring people into the picture ... people-centric, not about institutions ...  as Gandhi points out, empowering the enemy to see ...
-But more importantly, we will follow you all the way to Copenhagen in 2009, our last chance to let the earth breathe again. We CAN achieve success there. It all starts with a green stimulus package for our economy that would set the tone for how you’ll lead, and hopefully save, the free world. Understand the urgency of this situation deeply. Though decisions may at times be unpopular, if you make them with our best interests in mind we will be behind you. Please, be that change which we all seek from you in these next four years.
+A motto ... with subtitles .... Moving, marching .... beyond coal ...?
-Sincerely,
+To a new tradition ... to replace, revive, rebuild ... u
-Jacob Udell
-== [[Kate Burchenal]] ==
+Steph -- what is the ask ..?
-== [[Hai Tat]] ==
+Think about the opposition ... the power
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