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Feel free to contact Doug Plante about setting up additional presentations, resources for doing your own events in your neighborhoods, questions about the science, or for additional information on solutions.
For an in-depth presentation on the science, you can feel free to visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History: www.hmnh.harvard.edu
HMNH has free admission on certain days, and an excellent exhibit on the science of climate change which I helped develop. Many scientific studies in this field are conducted by the Harvard Center for the Environment, which is located in the same building.
The quote from E.O. Wilson about poor planning is taken from a new thirteen-part telecourse on environmental science available for free from the Annenberg Channel. The program covers ALL aspects of environmental science, not just climate change, and is intentionally designed to avoid any kind of political slant. This makes it an exceptional teaching tool for classrooms, since it avoids the problem some towns have with showing "An Inconvenient Truth" to their students. Check out www.learner.org for a free signup, then just search for "The Habitable Planet" (right now, it's on the
front page since it's newly launched).
The Trustees of Reservation give tours and will be happy to explain the green features of their Doyle Center in Leominster. This is an excellent place to take town planners and municipal building contractors to demonstrate LEED features in action: www.thetrustees.org/pages/42_doyle_conservation_center.cfm
The recycling and trash reduction program which has been so successful in Holden can be found here: www.casella.com
The Chicago Climate Exchange, the only voluntary, free-trade, legally-binding carbon reduction system in North America: www.chicagoclimatex.com This is an opportunity for individual towns, cities and universities to make the Kyoto-like commitment that our national government has so far been unwilling to make, with the potential to make a profit.
The Presidential Climate Commitment, a program by which colleges and universities can pledge to reduce their carbon footprint, and gain access to a wealth of ideas about restructuring their energy production and usage: www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org
Clean Air - Cool Planet, a great resource for green technologies for schools and municipal buildings, including solar and wind installations and energy efficiency improvements.
The Low Carbon Diet book, a great resource for individual, neighborhood, school and community change to reduce carbon footprint: www.empowermentinstitute.net There is a school-specific version of the book available.
The Bolton Energy Committee:
John Balco, Paula Berg, Martha Broad, Bill Darden, Michael Gorr,
Laura Kischitz, Chinloo Lama, Joel Lindsay, Kevin Lord, Daphne Monie
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