Class Research Resources and Assignments

Week 15
Lectures for Week 15

Policy Alternatives -- Civil Society Initiatives:      The Greening of Institutions and the Emergence of Grassroots Carbon Activism
Part 1	Leith Sharp, Harvard Environmental Initiative     Slides for Talk
	Sarah Hammond Creighton, Project Manager, Tufts Climate Initiative     Slides for Talk
Part 2	Rosalie Anders, Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall
	Michael Charney, Massachusetts Climate Action Network     Slides for Talk
	Forthcoming Event, Cambridge, Ma 8 June 2006   Assigned Reading: Stephen H. Schneider (Editor), John O. Niles (Editor), Armin Rosencranz (Editor) 2002 Climate Change Policy: A Survey (Washington, D. C., Island Press, 2002), Chapter, 3, pp. 89-111. News Coverage of Mass. (and New England) Local Climate Action   Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers 2001 Climate Change Action Plan - 2001, Committee on the Environment and the Northeast International Committee on Energy of the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers, (August 2001). Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) 2004 Cities for Climate Protection, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) City of Cambridge 2003 Climate Protection Plan: Local Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Cambridge, MA, City of Cambridge, 2003). City of Cambridge 2005 Cambridge Climate Protection Action Committee 2004 Annual Report City of Cambridge - Department of Cambridge Community Development 2005 Climate Protection Initiatives [current website] Governor Mitt Romney, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, and Secretary Douglas I. Foy 2004 Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan, State of Massachusetts, (May 6, 2004). Ross, Jordan 2004 "The Conscientious Commonwealth: Massachusetts' Economical and Ecologically Smart Buys," Gauge, Issue 5, (Spring 2004), [Emerson College undergraduate magazine.], pp. 44-45. Sharp, Leith 2002 "Green campuses: the road from little victories to systemic transformation," International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 3 (2), (March 2002) 128-145. Michelle Fleury 2005 "Investors go to UN for climate talks," BBC News Online, (11 May 2005). Elizabeth Kolbert 2005 "The Climate of Man," NPR - WBUR - The Connection, (12 May 2005). Eli Sanders 2005 "Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules," The New York Times, (14 May 2005). BBC News 2005 "U.S. Mayors Defy George W. Bush," BBC News Online, (17 May 2005).