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Join us on Wednesday, July 17 for a sneak peek of the new Sundance Cinema in
Seattle! The evening will include a catered reception (popcorn with real
butter!) and a special showing of our Solutions Stories video shorts before the
feature films. 100% of tickets sales benefit Climate Solutions. Learn more and purchase your tickets here. (attendees must be 21+)
Hot off the presses
New effort to quantify ‘social cost’ of pollution
The Obama administration is making a second attempt to systematically account for the dollar damage from greenhouse gas pollution, even with no consensus on how to forestall global warming or whether to do so.
Brazil releases Flight Path for Aviation Biofuels – some thoughts from 30,000 Feet
I can see a path to lower carbon flight, in Brazil and around the world. And Climate Solutions is proud to be playing a significant role in developing a flight path to sustainable aviation fuels.
Feds should invest in the future, not the past
The administration needs to do a lot more to accelerate clean energy adoption and pick up the ball on addressing climate change this term. But a good first step is to divest resources from a mature industry that dominates the energy market, sending taxpayer money out of the country and into its own bank accounts.
Seattle piloting innovative financing model for building efficiency
Seattle’s municipal utility and the people behind one of the world’s most-efficient commercial buildings are trying to reinvent the business model for financing so-called deep energy efficiency improvements, which could generate hundreds of billions of dollars of construction activity and energy savings, and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
22 U.S. investors, led by CalSTRS and Oregon Treasurer, join call to action on climate policy
Financial leaders join more than 150 other American businesses, including industry icons General Motors Co., Intel and Nike and more than 100 ski areas, in asserting, “Tackling climate change is one of America’s greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century … There must be a coordinated effort to combat climate change—with America taking the lead here at home.”
