Tag: Climate Change
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NY State Releases Climate Action Plan, Public Comment Period Open
Early this month, outgoing Governor Paterson released the New York State Climate Action Plan. This plan moves forward on the 2009 Executive Order requiring the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050 and established a Climate Action Council to determine how to meet the goal. The Council will…
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Buildings, climate change and behavior
GreenHomeNYC board member Alison Novak reflects on behavior and green buildings. Recently I’ve been hearing too much of the same depressing argument: we can’t solve climate change through technology alone but the masses of consumers won’t alter their behavior until there is a direct economic cost to them, such as vastly higher fuel costs. Then I…
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Promote Climate Action with GreenHomeNYC – May 24, 2006
Join us for a special screening of An Inconvenient Truth.