NEWS, August 4, 2007

Hi Friends,
Lots of news to share and opportunities for your ideas and action!

July Library film, "Kilowatt Ours", attended by 25 people. Discussionfollowing film included remarks by selectman, Michael Harrity, reporting on excellent work in the Weston Buildings Department and DPW. We've invited them to come to speak with to the Climate Group in September.

August film, "An Inconvenient Truth", screening is August 8, 7pm. Come at 6:15pm for action planning and ice cream.

Kilowatt Hours Challenge. Ideas and action needed to widen the community campaign. Households, churches, schools, local businesses all have potential to reduce kilowatt hours. How can we sign them up using the excellent format and tips that Debbie Slotpole has created and has posted on the website? Please send along your ideas.

Weston Climate Group member, Tom Ward, sends info on an item for reducing kilowatt hours.The Power Cost Monitor is available through NStar, http://www.save-electricity.ca/ Please pass along news of your experience with this device as an energy saver.

Roy Chatalbash's Town Crier article last week reported on NStar's renewable energy option for its Massachusetts customers. The program is called NSTAR Green and it will allow customers to purchase half or all their electricity directly from wind farms in the Northeast. NStar will begin enrolling customers in the fall with service beginning in January.

Leonardo Dicaprico's new movie,"11th Hour" will be released August 19 in NYC and San Francisco. It will be at the Waltham Landmark Embassy Theater on August 31. See the trailer at http://www.leonardodicaprio.com/

Excellent daily or weekly free news feed from science journals and newspapers world wide. It all originates in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, with Tom Stokes the creator of this valuable service! www.climatecrisiscoalition.org, (upper right, under News About Climate Change). The following titles are from the Friday, August 3 news feed from the Climate Crisis Coalition. There is a summary of the article and the link to the complete article.

Missing Carbon Mystery: Case Solved? By Jane Burgermeister, Nature Magazine, August, 2007 Issue.
The Power in the Carbon Tax. Commentary by John C. Dingell, The Washington Post, August 2, 2007.
U.N. General Assembly Meeting on Climate Change Goes an Extra Day. By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press, August 3, 2007.
India Says No Quid Pro Quo over U.S. Nuclear Pact. Reuters, August 3, 2007.
APEC Finance Ministers Urge Action on Climate Change. By Neil Sands, Agence France-Presse, August 3, 2007
London's Heathrow Airport Tries to Ban Climate Protesters. By John Vidal, The Guardian Unlimited, August 3, 2007
U.K. Looking to Follow German Lead in Promoting Living Roofs. By Mari Woolfe, The London Independent, August 3, 2007
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Coming Attractiion: "Who Killed the Electric Car?", Sept.12, 7pm, Weston Library.

Dreaming of future summers without smog from coal plants and autos..clean air!

Jane Bindley