Archive - Nov 19, 2009

Hearing that President Obama should "lead on climate now" is far from unusual within the environmental community. We at 1Sky have our petition for the President to "step up on climate" and other environmental groups have blog posts, petitions, or other campaign statements saying generally the same thing. It's a different story when one of the most-read newspapers in the country, if not the world, expresses that kind of urgency.

Evidence of the collaborative efforts between climate change and health care advocates just got stronger. Yesterday, health care organizations across the nation, including 1Sky partner Health Care Without Harm, placed a full page ad in yesterday’s issue of the New York Times (.pdf -- image below) calling on President Obama to deliver a ‘prescription for a healthy planet’ in the upcoming Copenhagen negotiations and subsequent talks. These health industry groups announced their prescriptions for effective climate change negotiations and explained how protecting the climate is imperative to maintaining public health.

Our friends at CCAN produce every month a climate podcast that should be required listening for every climate activist. The show is called World on Fire, and every month it brings you the most alarming and inspiring news stories from the front lines of the climate crisis. Check out this month's show, which takes a look ahead to Copenhagen and discusses a few little-understood tools for combating climate change:

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