The Cool Current - Climate Change News from the Northeast

Clean Air-Cool Planet is the Northeast's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming.

Edition 2: Fall 2002

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Cool Websites of the Season:

For the Leaf Peeper in you...
www.state.me.us/
doc/foliage/
www.foliage-vermont.com/
www.visitnh.gov/
foliagereports.html

Hot Fact of the Season:
There is now enough wind energy capacity installed worldwide—approximately 25,800 megawatts—to meet the peak electricity demand of New England. (Source: Endless Energy Corporation)

Quote of Note
"Nine planets round the sun
Only one does the sun embrace
Upon this watered one
So much to we take for granted..."

-- Dave Matthews, One Sweet World

Reminder!
Tuesdays, don’t forget to tune in to The Weather Notebook for a dose of climate change news from around the region. The program is a syndicated radio production of the nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory, in partnership with the New England Science Center Collaborative. It airs on public and commercial radio stations nationwide. Visit www.mountwashington.org for transcripts of daily TWN segments, archives, and links to related sites.

Birds of a Feather...Disappear Together

Although New England has historically been home to a plethora of chirping feathered friends, climate change is forcing many of them to chirp elsewhere. Read more...

Sun, Sun, Sun, Here It Comes

A $250,000-dollar grant will allow Tufts University in Massachusetts to build a dorm with large-scale solar electric and thermal systems. Read more...

CA-CP Intern Lands in CT

Adding up a city’s greenhouse gas emissions launches Clean Air-Cool Planet’s intern on his environmental career path. Read more...

Can You Hear Us Now?

A new fuel cell project at Verizon is setting bold energy and money saving examples for corporate America. Read more...

Northeast News Briefs

For Climate-Related Fall Events, check:
The Cambridge Climate Calendar—listings of events, conferences, lectures, activism, and resources for the environment and climate in New England. To subscribe to the enviro and climate calendar, send a blank email to: CambClimCal-subscribe@topica.com.

Feast on this new Fall Read:

BEATING THE HEAT: WHY AND HOW WE MUST COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING
By John J. Berger (Berkeley Hills Books, 2002)

Beating the Heat, written by one of America's leading environmental specialists, is a brief, fast-paced, easy-to-grasp guide to the truth of global warming. It outlines the causes and results of climate change, using examples from the findings of science and everyday experience. Berger's authoritative description of a warmer world — based on exhaustive research — is a powerful wake up call for readers to take action now.

This is not a ponderous work of dry data and intimidating charts. Berger writes with an accessible, practical voice, laying out the facts and offering ways for readers to take control of a brewing crisis that often seems beyond the capacity of individuals to influence.

Did You Know?

Maples in fall color. The perfect weather for vivid foliage colors is mild days and cool nights with temperatures remaining above freezing. If the temperatures are too warm, the colors may be muted and dull, which is why global warming threatens this multi-million dollar New England tourism industry. Check out our links to fall foliage guides in this issue!

Photo courtesy of Bill Clark