Excerpt from Rolling Stone

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To direct the White House’s spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his top deputy. Cooney had the right experience for the job: He worked as “climate team leader” for the American Petroleum Institute. In 1998, the API took part in an industry coalition that created the “Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan.” The plan, recently entered into evidence by the House Oversight Committee, maps out an elaborate disinformation campaign to prevent “precipitous action on climate change.” The strategy was to sow doubt about global warming, disseminating industry-funded research to challenge “the science underpinning the global climate change theory.”

Now, with Cooney in the White House, the industry had its own anti-climate man running the disinformation campaign. As the “action plan” directed, Cooney set out to censor the EPA’s science on global warming and inject the industry’s denialist positions into government documents. “They decided they didn’t need to win the debate on climate,” says Piltz, the former official who exposed Cooney’s tactics. “They just had to leave an atmosphere of uncertainty about it and dissipate the will for political action.”

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Great news – Google commits to go Carbon Neutral by 2008 – a very aggressive timeframe indeed.

“This is just a start,” Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, said in The Climate Group release. “We are actively looking for more opportunities to help tackle climate change.”

Reuters and The Climate Group

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This is great, another “hat’s off” to the Climate Group, and the Greater London Authority.

DIY Planet Repairs is a public information campaign calling on Londoners to reduce their carbon emissions by making six simple changes to their lifestyles.

Amongst their campaigns, although a bit buried in the website is a green Concierge service …

“To make your home a green home, follow these three simple steps:

1. call the helpline 0800 089 0098 and we will listen to how you want to make your home greener
2. we will do a home check-up where an expert will come to you and look at how you can make your home more energy efficient
3. we will help you make your home greener by offering a project management service to help organise any improvements recommended by our expert.”

Making it easy for everyone to engage is an excellent thing.