Climate Change: Various Mitigation & Adaptation Options
A grab-bag of various sources that address mitigation, adaptation, or both. Many other sources on teotw.net address M & A, but they are disseminated throughout the site, e.g., at Fossil Fuels, Other Energy Resources, Possible Futures, and elsewhere.
U.S. GAO testimony about options for an emissions cap-and-trade program (PDF file)
From Kiosks to Megastores: The Evolving Carbon Market (Spring 2009)
Green Roofs: National Geographic, May 2009.
Green Builders: 55-minute PBS video, 2008(?).
WattzOn: A free online tool to quantify and track your consumption, in watts (power).
What You Can Do: U.S. EPA site that addresses actions At Home, At the Office, On the Road, and At School.
The Community Solution: Portal to discussions about food, housing, and transportation. This group also produced the book Plan C and the Cuba documentary (see Visions of the Future)
Post-Peak Mechanized Agriculture: April 2009 post and discussion on The Oil Drum about battery-powered (from solar panels) agricultural machinery.
Saul Griffith's LongNow address: Feb 2009 talk calculates personal energy consumption and optimistically discusses alternative energy resources; some discussion of developing a lower-consumption society.
Focus the Nation: Upbeat site "dedicated to “Accelerating the transition to a just and prosperous clean-energy future."
Green-Collar Economy: 45-min interview with Van Jones, the Oakland activist who outlines plan for addressing pollution (climate) and poverty.
BerkShares: One of many really-happening-now experiments in alternative local currency from across the U.S. (also Ithaca NY, Traverse City, MI, and Calgary, Alberta, among others) that promote community economic and social development.