Visualizing City GHG Emissions Data, Part 2: Taking Stock of City GHG Inventories
This Visualizing the Data series, written by ICLEI Technical Director Mike Steinhoff, gives life to the greenhouse-gas emissions reporting numbers pulled from ICLEI USA’s flagship ClearPath tool. Hundreds of U.S. cities have used ClearPath to initiate greenhouse gas emissions inventories — allowing for a science-based approach to inform decision making and climate action planning. Read […]
Visualizing City GHG Emissions Data, Part 1: Putting the Protocols Into Perspective
This Visualizing the Data series, written by ICLEI Technical Director Mike Steinhoff, gives life to the greenhouse-gas emissions reporting numbers pulled from ICLEI USA’s flagship ClearPath tool. Hundreds of U.S. cities have used ClearPath to initiate greenhouse gas emissions inventories — allowing for a science-based approach to inform decision making and climate action planning. Read […]
Change the Pallet: Procurement Specs Reduce Emissions
The following is a guest post by Roger Ballentine, President of Green Strategies, Inc.; and Adam Pener, president and owner of a corrugated cardboard pallet manufacturer Green Ox and founder of Change the Pallet. More so than ever, cities are taking the lead in adopting sustainable innovations that reduce climate impact, save money, and better the lives of […]
U.S. Mayors Cross Party Lines to Reject White House Rollback on Climate Action
ICLEI USA mayors commit to bold climate action at the Cities and Regions Pavilion during COP21 in Paris. With the White House’s March 28, 2017, Executive Order Promoting Energy Independence, the Administration takes action to roll back critically important U.S. climate policies, including the Clean Power Plan and vehicle fuel efficiency standards, along with its […]
ICLEI Supports U.S. Local and State Governments in Turning the New Presidential Executive Order into a Call for a New Global Climate Leadership
Since President Trump took office, there has been growing concern among U.S. local leaders regarding the new administration’s stance on agendas critical to America’s future: namely environmental protection, clean energy, climate action. With his March 28 Executive Order, which adds to last week’s budget proposal, President Trump has once again taken an ideologically charged approach […]
Before it ends…women’s history month
I’d be remiss in letting WHM go by without sharing a few thoughts on my own career trajectory. I’ve been fortunate to have had strong female role models. As @ValerieJarrett notes in her WHM Spotify Playlist – it is very hard to be what you cannot see – and she challenges “trailblazing women” to share our stories […]
ICLEI USA Affiliation Now Open to U.S. Colleges and Universities
More and more universities are undertaking inventories to analyze and track their greenhouse gas emissions. Higher education institutions also often play a significant role to support their host cities in conducting GHG inventories and developing climate action plans. In recognition of these trends and the important ways university students and faculty contribute to climate action, […]
Let’s Talk Communities and Climate: Communication Guidance for City and Community Leaders
The letter to ICLEI network cities below is from ICLEI USA Executive Director Angie Fyfe, published in the newly released report Let’s Talk Communities & Climate: Communication Guidance for City and Community Leaders. The report is designed to help experienced and novice climate change communicators by synthesizing the latest academic research and message testing on climate communications. Download the full […]
Perspectives on Community-Scale GHG Accounting
Our sun; it is a chaotic system of many different types of energies interacting with one another and the surrounding environment. The same could be said of the emissions-generating processes of a city. When our scientists at NASA study the inner workings of the sun, they don’t just look at it head on. Many of […]
EnergySage Solar Marketplace
On February 23rd at 3:00pm Eastern, ICLEI USA and EnergySage will hold a webinar discussing the Solar Marketplace, an online platform to encourage solar adoption in your community. Free to ICLEI members, the SolarMarketplace makes it easy to promote the benefits of solar energy in your community. This webinar will explain how the SolarMarketplace works […]