Resources

Important Safety Instructions – If a CFL Breaks

A CFL contains a small amount of mercury, so it is important to be extremely careful if one breaks!  Step One is to ventilate the room for 10–15 minutes, then return and follow these instructions.

Must-Read Articles
[Read online or download a copy at bottom of page]

Gone: Mass Extinction and the Hazards of Earth's Vanishing Biodiversity– Global warming, combined with fragmentation and destruction of ecosystems, is resulting in massive species extinction. Will humans survive? [Download]

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 The Big Green Fuels Lie – Why ethanol—even cellulose-based ethanol—isn't the answer.... (Independent/UK, 5 March 2007) Also see: Climate Protection

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 The Thirteenth Tipping Point – how global warming can trigger sudden massive shifts—and what we can do. (Mother Jones, Nov/Dec 2006)   Also see: Climate Protection   [Download]

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 Making Other Arrangements – A wake-up call for people to get serious about dealing with an energy-depleted future. (James Kunstler, Orion, Jan/Feb 2007)   Also see: Peak Oil   [Download]

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 What Al Gore Didn't Tell You – Why we need to do much more than the painless steps Gore suggests. (David Morris, AlterNet, 9 January 2007)   Also see: Climate Protection

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Reports, presentations, and other files...

IPCC Summary Report for Policymakers (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 2 February 2007)   [Download]

Read Scientific American's Analysis of the IPCC report
Also see: Climate Protection

 

Alliance Publications

Directory of Organizations That Promote Sustainable Communities
[Online edition] • [Print edition]

Earth Days Calendar – Annual listing of sustainability-related events throughout the Valley. [Available only in April]

 

Other Resource Pages

Create The New Earth
50 Ways to Save the Earth

Books

Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free -- A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, a new book on energy policy by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. It's a joint project of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. You can purchase the paperback book or download the entire book as a pdf from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research at www.ieer.org/carbonfree You can also download a 32-slide presentation in pdf. Peter Crownfield, 2-23-2008.

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