New Energy Hubs: Merging transit oriented development with advanced energy technologies

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Thursday January 07, 2010 · 3:37 PM PST

2010/01/07 · 15:37

Patrick Mazza, Research Director, Climate Solutions

Advanced community design models are emerging to provide some of the greatest opportunities for reducing fossil fuel use, climate-disrupting emissions and traffic congestion, while also offering affordable, high-quality lifestyles.

Envision living in a community that offers an abundance of local shopping, services and entertainment. The community is focused on a mobility center well connected to the region with transit and vanpools. The need to drive to work and other destinations is minimized. When you do drive, it is in an electric vehicle charged at your house or a fast charge station located in the mobility center park-and-ride.

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Sunday December 13, 2009 · 11:01 PM PST

2009/12/13 · 23:01

Climate Solutions' Policy Director KC Golden has been attending the Copenhagen Climate Summit. His past blog posts from the summit can be read at Climate Solutions Journal, as well as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Grist, the Tri-City Herald and 1Sky.org.

I wish every American could get lost for a few days in the Bella Conference Center and the events surrounding it in Copenhagen. I wish you could feel the desperate depth of the world’s hunger for America to step all the way up to its responsibilities here.

And since at least one more of us will be here – the one who more than any other individual embodies your hopes; the one who just earned the first prospective Nobel Peace Prize in affirmation of the world’s urgent need for American leadership – I address this request to him.

Mr. President, please come early. In fact, come incognito on Tuesday.

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 8:47 PM PST

2008/11/12 · 20:47

We should not rescue General Motors as we know it. But Congress could use the proposed bailout as an opportunity to begin building a new prosperity that can last. As part of any public assistance, GM should be required to help America reduce its oil dependence and tackle the climate challenge by producing the cars of the future.

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Tuesday June 10, 2008 · 2:12 PM PDT

2008/06/10 · 14:12

As thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the nation’s capital last week, the U.S. Senate tied itself in a procedural knot, preventing a vote on the substance of the Climate Security Act (CSA) – the first meaningful climate legislation to reach the Senate floor.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called it "the most important issue facing the world today." But the minority stalled – insisting on a full reading of the nearly 500 page bill – while the storm raged outside. Once again, the "world’s greatest deliberative body" did nothing about the world’s biggest problem.

20 years after our pre-eminent climate scientist Jim Hansen warned Congress of the need for immediate action, this dilly-dallying is enough to make you scream.

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 10:51 AM PDT

2008/05/28 · 10:51

(The Diary title above is the one we'd prefer instead of the one the Times used.)

A step in the right direction on national climate policy
By K.C. Golden
Special to The Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/...
crossposted at http://www.climatesolutions.org

Sen. Maria Cantwell will hold constituent meetings this week to talk about federal climate policy in advance of a Senate vote on the Climate Security Act in June.

The U.S. stands alone among the world's advanced economies with no national climate policy. But with congressional debate under way and all three major presidential candidates committed to climate action, our shameful abdication of responsibility for solutions appears to be coming to an end. Cantwell deserves thanks for her strong leadership on energy and climate, and for inviting this dialogue.

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