Christa Koehler, Clean Air Cool Planet, Community Program Manager
ckoehler@cleanair-coolplanet
WEBSITE:
www.cleanair-coolplanet.org
DESCRIPTION:
Clean Air-Cool Planet creates partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions. Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is the region's leading organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming:
- We partner with companies, campuses, communities and science centers throughout the Northeast to help reduce their carbon emissions.
- We help our partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action.
-We showcase practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change.
-We advocate the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state, regional and national levels.
-We work to build support for the implementation and strengthening of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers’ regional Climate Change Action Plan.
PUBLIC RESOURCES:
- Community Toolkit: http://www.cleanair-coolplanet
.org/for_communities/toolkit _home.php - www.sciencecentercollaborative
.org , partnering with science and nature centers across the region to bring the science of climate change and renewable energy solutions to the public.
