Climate Solutions
Climate Initiatives
Red Carpet, Green Cars
Each year around the Academy Awards, Global Green helps bring attention to the importance of green building and clean cars as key solutions to global warming. Our annual Pre-Oscar Party kicks off the Red Carpet/Green Cars Oscar campaign, which provides fuel-efficient vehicles for celebrities attending the Oscars in lieu of gas-guzzling limousines.
Pole Expeditions
Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are showing definitive signs of global warming. Global Green USA, in conjunction with other Green Cross International affiliates and it's own board member Sebastian Copeland, is bringing attention to these areas through expeditions that hilight the imminent danger caused by these warming trends.
Global Solar Fund
Global Green and Green Cross International first presented the call for a $50 billion global solar fund in Bonn at the Intergovernmental Renewables 2004 conference. The Fund's objective is to highlight a way to drive down the cost of solar for the energy poor in the developing world, and to reduce peak demand in urban centers.
Coalition for Resource Recovery
Global Green is working with businesses to implement waste diversion programs in major urban markets to reduce climate change. By working collaboratively, solutions can be implemented that transform how we produce and consume products and packaging, while reducing our carbon footprint.
Publications
Green Building Developer Fact Sheets
As part of Global Green's Greening the Tax Credits Campaign, an effort to encourage various states around the country to adopt sustainable building practices as part of the state-administered federal low-income housing tax credit program, we recently published Green Building Developer Fact Sheets, which highlight various sustainable building practices and provide information about local product availability and cost. The first set of fact sheets is for Louisiana, the second set for NY State.
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Global Green USA’s Policy Report Series Community Development Through Climate Solutions: Los Angeles and Beyond
Funded by the Ford Foundation - This report identifies strategies that can simultaneously build community assets while promoting strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report suggests using existing financial regimes or creating new ones where necessary and by engaging community and non-environmental stakeholders.
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