Margery Moore's blog

 What is the best design for a national climate change engagement, education and communications campaign? How do we encourage Canadians (and Americans) to support local, regional and national policies to reduce emissions through either passive acceptance or vocal demand?

"Let’s face it: a large part of our political class, including essentially the entire G.O.P., is deeply invested in an energy sector dominated by fossil fuels, and actively hostile to alternatives. This political class will do everything it can to ensure subsidies for the extraction and use of fossil fuels, directly with taxpayers’ money and indirectly by letting the industry off the hook for environmental costs, while ridiculing technologies like solar."

 Those in government and nonprofits trying to communicate to the public about climate change say that they often lack the time and resources to digest the latest research and incorporate it into their campaigns. ClimateAccess.org is a bridge between researchers and practioners. It is timely, and already over 100 people have signed up!

 Anthony Leiserowitz with the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications announces a new report that draws from a national study they conducted last year on what Americans understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to global warming and is available here.

We have been busy at Stonehouse, and thought we had better give everyone an update.

"Time to ruggedize: We should talk more about preparing for climate change" is the title of a recent Grist article (www.grist.org) by David Roberts who found both inspiration and hope in a presentation by Cara Pike of the Social Capital Project.

Meg Bostrom, co-founder of the Topos Partnership, explains in her Washington Post editorial of November 14th why we should stop debating 'if' global warming is happening and focus on the many energy related bipartisan initiatives already on the table.

 A report entitled “Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change”  from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, just came out October 14th. It is based on a national study of what Americans understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to global warming.

From aboard the Louis S. St-Laurent, Canadian scholar Thomas Homer-Dixen writes,

"It is possible that the changes I’m seeing from the ship deck are the beginning of the climate shock that will awaken us to the danger we face."

By Cara Pike, June 11th, 2010