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Collaboration, a Necessary Ingredient in Progress Toward Sustainability
By Sue Hall on 22 Apr 2016 • openbook 6 minute read
Today, on #EarthDay2016, as world leaders gather in New York to sign the Paris Accord into force, we will be convening another #CleanEnergyU dialogue to ask what the Paris COP1 agreement commits us to deliver in practice – as companies, cities, campuses, students – …
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Empowering the Next Generation of EcoLeaders
By Sue Hall on 21 Oct 2015 • openbook 5 minute read
Portland’s Mayor Charlie Hales believes that young people are already the clean energy leaders who stand alongside the Pope and the President capable of delivering our clean energy future. During this fall’s #CleanEnergyU dialogue, we’ve met dozens of these ext …
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The Power of Microsoft’s Progressive Carbon Fee
By Sue Hall on 20 Oct 2015 • openbook 4 minute read
So how does Microsoft power its investments in renewables, efficiency, and a clean energy future? Through its innovative internal carbon fee -- a model that has every business group pay for the carbon emissions it’s responsible for -- Microsoft raises the funds nee …
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The Carbon in Our Stuff: Living Below 2.7 Tons Per Person?
By Sue Hall on 16 Oct 2015 • openbook 5 minute read
As we join Gifford Pinchot on Monday Oct 19 at 3pm ET for his #CleanEnergyU Deep Dive Dialogue, he will be asking how can we best we maximize our happiness while incurring the least damage to the planet and our clean energy future? Steve Gutmann has been creating inn …
The emissions embedded in the stuff Americans buy every year is about equal to the emissions of all of our light vehicles
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We Are All Leaders in Our Clean Energy Future
By Sue Hall on 14 Oct 2015 • openbook 5 minute read
So why does Portland Mayor Charlie Hales believe that student leaders with #CleanEnergyU can now stand alongside the Pope and President Obama in order to deliver us a clean energy future? Like these leaders, Mayor Hales believes that a clean energy future needs to be …
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#SeizetheGrid for #OurFuture
By Sue Hall on 13 Oct 2015 • openbook 4 minute read
Ever wondered what it takes to convince a campus — or a company — to commit to go 100% renewable in its energy purchases? There’s a serious group of companies now leading this pathway to RE100, lead by Mark Kenber at the Climate Group — with 38 companies now …
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EcoChallenge 2015: Small Actions Add Up to Big Change
By Sue Hall on 12 Oct 2015 • openbook 4 minute read
Where does leadership towards a clean energy future begin? Deb McNamara at the NW Earth Institute believes change begins with each and every one of us taking just one action during Campus Sustainability Month – and harnessing the impact that these actions yield when m …
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Radical #CleanEnergyU Collaboration
By Sue Hall on 09 Oct 2015 • openbook 10 minute read
So how do millennials envision leading towards a clean energy future? If you ask them what clean energy solutions should look like – and how to deliver them – what do they say? Two very different #CleanEnergyU workshops - one in Valencia College, FL, with young a …
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The HappoDammo Ratio: A New Metric to Live By?
By Sue Hall on 08 Oct 2015 • openbook 5 minute read
Pope Francis, when speaking during his visit to the United States, shared with us in his gentle manner a rather blunt truth: that, if we are to successfully address climate change here in the US, our patterns of consumption need to (quite radically) change: “Since th …
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