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New York Climate Action Group
New York Climate Action Group (nycag.org) is an alliance of urban grassroots environmental activists. While climate change is a global problem, we feel its effect locally and believe that communities can make powerful positive changes for the climate. We live in New York City and want to ...
Climate Week
climateweeknyc.org — Climate Week NYC Climate Week NYC New York City Sept 20 - Sept 26 2009 an initiative... of An Initiative of The Climate Group About Events Newsroom Partners Sponsors Get Involved (more) Climate Week
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un.org — World Economic and Social Survey 2009 Financial and Economic Crisis International Conference on Financing for Development, Doha,... Qatar, 29 November - 2 December, 2008 Millennium Development Goals Climate Change United Nations Development Agenda: ... (more) United Nations - Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Turner Construction Company
turnerconstruction.com — Turner Completes Largest Green Roof in New York City Roof atop the United States Postal Service Morgan... Mail Processing Facility is Part of the USPS's Goal to Reduce Energy Usage by 30 Percent by 2015 New York, N.Y., August 24, 2009 – Turner ... (more) Turner Construction Company
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Climate SOS and 10:10
FUTURISM NOW — ... American people about the true magnitude of climate change consequences. The costs of insufficient action will be so much greater than the costs of taking bold action now, and will include lost lives, extinctions and the threatened survival of civilization itself.  If politicians and their constituents understood this, there would be far less compromising on the basis of ‘political and economic feasibility’.”“The American people are being scammed,” added Robert Jereski, co-founder of New York Climate Action Group .  “This bill was crafted by a team that included Shell, Duke ...

Climate SOS Sets Out to Defeat US 'False' Climate Bill, Claiming 'Worse Than Nothing Is Not Good Enough'
Commondreams.org Newswire — ... people about the true magnitude of climate change consequences. The costs of insufficient action will be so much greater than the costs of taking bold action now, and will include lost lives, extinctions and the threatened survival of civilization itself.  If politicians and their constituents understood this, there would be far less compromising on the basis of ‘political and economic feasibility' ." "The American people are being scammed," added Robert Jereski, co-founder of New York Climate Action Group .  "This bill was crafted by a team that included Shell, Duke Energy, ...

Climate SOS: We Must STOP the ACESA Bill
It's Getting Hot In Here — ... Network Global Justice Ecology Project Green Delaware Indigenous Environmental Network Institute for Local Self-Reliance Institute for Social Ecology Jamaica Plain Greenhouse Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Massachusetts Forest Watch Massachussetts Coalition for HealthyCommunities/ SecureGreenFuture New York Climate Action Group One Earth Climate Action Group ...

Actions Spreading Across the U.S. Against Corporate-Driven Climate Policy
Commondreams.org Newswire — WASHINGTON - September 22 - As groups protest the Pittsburgh International Coal Conference days before the G-20 arrives in the city, additional actions against U.S. climate policy and the fossil fuels industry took place on both the east and west coasts. In New York City, Climate SOS , New York Climate Action Group   and Rising Tide North America protested what they called "a greenwashed U.S. climate agenda" at the opening of NYC Climate Week.  Activists distributed their version of the ACESA (American Clean Energy and Security Act) bill to event attendees ...

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