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Everybody’s Movement; Environmental Justice and Climate Change
December 5, 2009 - Angela Park, Environmental Support Center
This report (attached) was written by Angela Park and funded by the Alki Fund of the Tides Foundation, and by the Town Creek Foundation. We hope that this report sparks a series of dialogues about global warming, equitable solutions, and how to engage a broader range of Americans in these critical conversations.  Go >

Where The Green Grants Went
December 4, 2009 - Jon Cracknell
The new edition of Where The Green Grants Went is now available as a PDF on the Environmental Funders Network website, www.greenfunders.org. The report forms part of the growing body of research into environmental grant-making, following on from EGA’s Tracking the Field, volume 2, and it has benefitted from conversations between the environmental funder networks in the US, Canada, Australia, continental Europe, and the UK.  Go >

EGA Blogs and Tweets from COP-15
December 2, 2009
Starting December 13th, EGA will be blogging and tweeting from Copenhagen. Please log-in for a on the ground update.  Go >

The Embarrassing Death Of Environmentalism
February 9, 2009 - Peter Montague, Rachel's Democracy & Health News #997
The essay, "Death of Environmentalism" has now been expanded into a book called "Break Through" in which two 30-something white guys claim they can show us the way to a new "politics of possibility" including "a new and better ecological movement." It's embarrassing.  Go >

www.WiserEarth.org: Profile Your Organization and Connect with Others
August 24, 2007
WiserEarth (www.wiserearth.org) seeks to create an information commons and a networking platform to serve the hundreds of thousands of organizations and individuals working on social justice, environmental restoration, and indigenous issues. It is a searchable library of resources, jobs, events, discussions, people, and over 106,000 organizations - growing larger every day. The "backbone" of WiserEarth is its 416 areas of focus, a detailed taxonomy of the many areas in which organizations in the social justice and environmental field concentrate their efforts.  Go >

Community-Based Research Funders Form Interest Group and Invite Their Peers to Join
August 21, 2007
Representatives of 21 funders in the US and Canada that support community-based research/community-based participatory research have formed the CBR/CBPR Funders Interest Group (FIG) to strengthen the role of funders in building CBR/CBPR capacity. Meeting for the first time in April 2007 at Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 10th anniversary conference and subsequently by conference call on a quarterly basis, the group invites any funders who are interested in CBR/CBPR to become involved. The group defines "funder" broadly to include any organization that awards grants. The first quarterly call, held in August 2007, focused on criteria for assessing CBR/CBPR proposals and mechanisms for peer review. The next call (date to be announced) will focus on strategies for evaluating CBR/CBPR funding initiatives and lessons learned from these evaluations.  Go >

Climate Change and Emissions Trading: What Every Business Needs to Know
August 13, 2007
This meticulously researched book has been written by practitioners in the field Liz Bossley, CEO of CEAG and director of the London Climate Change Services trade association, and Dr Andrew Kerr, environmental scientist and Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University. The book gives a detailed summary of the legislation and the carbon price formation process, but also explores some of the other issues raised by this new industry, such as the nature of the different asset classes of allowances- AAUs, EUAs, CERs, ERUs and RMUs and the independent calculation and verification of business emissions. The book is practical not polemic and is an invaluable aid for briefing colleagues and clients about the facts underlying this highly controversial industry. For further details we invite you to visit our website at http://www.ceag.org/whatsnew.html . This will allow you to download a table of contents for the book and the Introduction to it. If you or your colleagues would like to order a copy please contact Sarena Steeds at +44 (0) 207 928 1222 or sarenasteeds@ceag.org or complete and return to us the order form which you will find at http://www.ceag.org/articles/Emissions_Book_2.pdf . They would be happy to provide a discount for multiple orders.

11th Hour Action
August 10, 2007
The 11th Hour explores how we have impacted the earth’s ecosystems and what we can do to change our course. It was created to ignite massive change, to bring awareness, and to inspire action. Leonardo DiCaprio, together with the more than 50 well-known experts, have come together to reveal this unique moment and its demand to shift culture. If we are going to survive, we have to change. This films starts to show us how. The film’s action campaign is called 11th Hour Action. www.11thhouraction.com  Go >

What's the Carbon Footprint of a Banner Ad?
July 23, 2007 - David Needle, http://www.internetnews.com/
An interview with Don Carli, Senior Research Fellow at the non-profit Institute for Sustainable Communication (ISC)about calcuating and offsetting the carbon footprint of advertising.  Go >

Vanity Fair: The unbearable whiteness of green
May 20, 2007 - Van Jones, Grist
Once again this year, the spring season brought a flood of green-themed magazines to super-market checkout stands and airport news racks all across the country. And once again, the faces of non-white and non-affluent Americans were almost entirely missing. Our new environmental movement is rapidly gaining visibility and momentum. That is very good news. Life-or-death ecological issues finally are starting to get the attention they so urgently deserve. And we can all celebrate that. But now we would be wise to start paying closer attention to the kind of coverage that we as environmentalists are getting. Because I see a disturbing pattern of exclusivity that is starting to set in. And that kind of elitism can sow the seeds for a very dangerous, populist backlash, down the line. To see what I mean, just flip through the pages of Vanity Fair's recent green issue (the one with Leo DiCaprio and that cute polar bear cub on the cover)......  Go >

CLIMATE CHANGE: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED
May 16, 2007 - Michael Le Page, New Scientist
How do you talk to skeptics about global warming? Here's a science-based response to 26 common myths.  Go >

Environmental Philanthropy in the United Kingdom
June 11, 2007
"Where The Green Grants Went 3," tracks the grants made in 2004-2005 by 176 charitable trusts and foundations in the UK that fund on environmental and conservation issues, showing where their grants go geographically, which issues receive the greatest support, what kinds of approach are most widely funded, etc. The report also has a feedback section from grantees with the things that they wish their funders understood, and a section that analyses the income streams and levels for a sample of 75 UK environmental NGOs, ranging from the largest to some of the smaller organisations. This report coincides with the launch of a new website for the Environmental Funders Network, www.greenfunders.org.

Journal of the American Planning Association Call for Papers
March 26, 2007
"Planning for Future Green Communities," Autumn 2008 issue, Spring 2008 APA Conference The Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) will publish a special Autumn 2008 issue on "Planning for Future Green Communities" and host three sessions at the Spring 2008 APA conference on the topic. Click on the link for more information.  Go >

1st Environmental Justice Awareness Day
February 7, 2007 - Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
For the Health and Safety of Our Communities and Work Places 1st Environmental Justice Awareness Day March 2 (Friday), 2007 12:00 - 2:00 State Capitol Rotunda Santa Fe, New Mexico Speakers, Food, and Music Speakers include: Elouise Brown, Dooda Desert Rock Committee Lori Goodman, Diné Care Paula Garcia, New Mexico Acequia Assocation Colonias Development Council Senator Linda Lopez House Representative Miguel Garcia Invited: Lt. Governor Diane Denish Mayor David Coss Community Legislative Advocates: Sofia Martinez, Concerned Citizens of Wagon Mound and Mora County Sylvia Ledesma, Kalpulli Izkalli Doug Meiklejohn, New Mexico Environmental Law Center Educational Tours of the New Mexico State Legislature For moreinformation contact the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (505) 242-0416 or info@sneej.org  Go >

The Brower Center in Berkeley seeks Nonprofit Tenants
October 23, 2006
Please see attached .pdf for more information.  Go >

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