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Clean Air-Cool Planet's 2010 Fellows have completed work on a spectrum of real-world, on-the-ground climate action projects. Find out more about their projects is below.
Our Fellowship Program is designed to provide the person power to get initial, catalytic projects off the ground, along with an unsurpassed opportunity for the next generation of climate leaders to get experience and training in the real world.
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CA-CP's Anne Stephenson, fellowship coordinator (second from left), received a big surprise from
the 2010 Fellows, left to right, Ben Lake, Harry Alper, Steve Erario, Julie Munro, Leah Bamberger,
and Corey Johnson.
Fellow Corey Johnson and Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce President Doug Bates
Fellows Ben Lake, left, and Steve Erario, right, with Rebecca Lambert and Steve Linnell of the Greater Portland Council of Governments
Fellow Harry Alper, center, with Seacoast Science Center President Wendy Lull and SSC Education Director Perrin Chick
Project: Communicating Carbon Management
Strategies across Sectors
Partner: Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (Watertown, MA)
Fellow: Leah Bamberger did her undergraduate studies in political science and environmental studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC and is now at UMass Amherst pursing a master's degree in regional planning, where her primary research area of interest is planning for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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"In my thesis for my master's in planning, I hope to build off the research I did in this Fellowship to demonstrate how regional planning organizations can bring sectors together around climate change action."
-Leah Bamberger
Click to See Leah's Final Poster.
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Seacoast Science Center's Carbon Challenge
Partner: The Seacoast Science Center (Rye, NH)
Fellow: Harry Alper is earning an undergraduate degree in anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is involved in environmental justice efforts and "grateful for every chance to ride bikes with friends and to serve dinner on my front porch."
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"The practice of being strategic I learned in this Fellowship will serve me well in environmental activism in sustainable community building, which is what I hope to do in the future."
-Harry Alper
Click to See Harry's Final Poster.
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Project: CHarting Emissions from Food Services (CHEFS)
Partner: Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chamber of Commerce (Tulsa, OK)
Fellow: Julie Munro who will be working with Claire Roby in Oklahoma on Charting Emissions from Food Services (CHEFS) and Greening Tulsa, is a new graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., where she was "very active in campaigning for campus sustainability and I helped to establish a community garden, farmers' market, and Clean Energy Revolving Fund on campus."
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"The field of life-cycle analysis is very up-and-coming and will explode in the next five years, and I hope to be a part of that as a result of the work I've done in this Fellowship."
-Julie Munro
Click to See Julie's Final Poster.
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Project: Greening the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
Partner: Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce (Portsmouth, NH)
Fellow: Corey Johnson is going into his senior year at UNH as a business administration major with a minor in sustainable living. He has collaborated with CA-CP in the past on the development and implementation of the Small Town Carbon Calculator (STOCC). Most recently, he has been involved with research for a business sustainability textbook, and he will be helping local businesses that are member of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce reduce their environmental impact.
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"The work I did with the Portsmouth Chamber gave me the chance to see the challenges of sustainability work in small businesses, which was very valuable."
-Corey Johnson
Click to See Corey's's Final Poster.
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Project: Maine Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Handbook
Partner: Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG), Portland, Maine
Fellow: Ben Lake, a recent graduate of Bowdoin College and a resident of Portland, Maine, who will be working on Municipal Energy Efficiency and Cooperative Purchasing Planning with municipalities in the Greater Portland region to help them identify and reduce their energy use and emissions. A biology major at Bowdoin, involved in campus energy and sustainability issues, he is interested in addressing climate change and environmental sustainability by conserving resources through waste reduction and energy efficiency improvements.
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"I'm really interested in waste as a measurement of energy use and in recycling as a solution, so I hope to use the experience I've gained working with these communities in the future."
-Ben Lake
Click to See Ben's Final Poster.
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Fellow: Steve Erario , is a senior Environmental Policy major at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Since 2007, he has worked to study and improve sustainability in local Maine governments, notably leading to the creation of the Sustain Mid-Maine Coalition. Recently he helped design and write a grant that won $170,000 for an initiative to reduce energy costs in homes and apartments in Waterville and Winslow, Maine. He will be working with Greater Portland Council of Governments and CA-CP staff and to help produce a Maine Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Handbook for communities.
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