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May is National Bike Month.

More Americans using public transit in response to high gas prices.

Frustrated owners of big cars, SUVs, and light trucks try to unload their gas-guzzlers.

MA towns take initiative to go green

Anyone who lives in the United States contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as the per capita global average.

The Scientists and Evangelicals Initiative aims to unite the two communities to help bring an environmental message into the large and powerful evangelical movement.

Barack Obama has a growing list of experts and newspaper editorial boards backing his opposition to a summer gas tax holiday.

Governor Deval Patrick envirions Massachusetts taking lead role in clean energy development.

Plans to buy renewable energy to offset 15% of power used by Massport.

Car, truck average of 31.6 miles per gallon being sought by U.S.

Lexington Town Meeting approves global warming resolution.

The cost of capping global warming pollution over the next two decades is almost too small to measure!

Earth Day Editorials in the Boston Globe urge national leadership to deal with climate crisis.

U.S. Governors Including Deval Patrick Sign Declaration on Climate Change

600 kW wind generator  will power 350 units in condominium development.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy urges the large industrial nations to abandon their defensive strategies in the face of climate change, in order to avoid "a catastrophe."

Blue H, a Dutch wind manufacturer, was denied federal approval for a test project in waters off Martha's Vineyard

An Earth Day editorial in the Norwell Mariner says we should all take action on global warming.

President George W. Bush outlined his new climate goal for the United States.

Sen. John Kerry calls on Massachusetts to take the lead in alternative energy development

18 states ask court to press EPA on car, truck gases

As Vermont implements anti-idling regulations for school buses, one Vermont Senator shows rare common sense: it's cold in Vermont and kids should dress accordingly.

A feature  on Boston-area Low Carbon Living groups.

Story by Connie Paige in Boston Globe featuring MCAN Low Carbon Living participants

South Berkshire MCAN chapter provide CFL light bulbs to seniors in subsidized housing.

California's states'-rights battle against the Bush administration over global warming was freed to move forward in federal court.

Dutch Company Proposes to Build Deep-Water Wind Farm off Massachusetts

A two-part challenge to climate activists.

In this segment of Science Friday, Ira Flatow talks with two developers of solar thermal power technologies.

The Editorial page of The Boston Globe, March 11, led with a pro-wind power opinion piece.

A story in the March 10 Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin says the task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested.

MCAN welcomes Needham-based environmental group that succeeds through collaboration.

The Bedford Global Warming Action Coalition has become an MCAN chapter

On Thursday, March 6th the Massachusetts State Senate bravely advanced a critical piece of climate legislation, S. 2531, "The Global Warming Solutions Act" which calls for co2 reductions of 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050...

Activists rallied at the Medford office of US Rep Edward J. Markey, delivering 8,000 postcards from Cape Wind supporters and urging him to take a stance.

Logan airport office building tests 20 small wind turbines

It's one of those stories that approached urban legend status. A woman in Maine, Brandy Bridges, broke a CFL on the carpet of her daughter's room. Her simple questions to the Maine DEP about how to clean up the bulb (and the $2000 clean-up cost she was quoted by a private remediation firm) have resulted in a year-long study by Maine DEP and a new set of recommendations for cleaning up broken CFLs.

The world could be dependent on "dirty, insecure and expensive" energy by 2030, an influential report warns.

Does anyone really like February? March holds promise of spring, and in January you're not yet so tired of winter.  What better way to break out of a late-winter funk than with a good event or two?

A recently published study has found that the full emissions costs of producing biofuels exceeds those of conventional fuels.

The Environmental Defense Action Fund has developed a short guide of ten of the most influential global warming movers and shakers in the House.

The Governor's FY2009 budget proposal has climate-change-related funding similar to last year's, with a few notable exceptions.

Governor Patrick's 'State of the State Speech Touched on Climate Issues.

The new South Berkshire group "Green for a Change" joins the swelling ranks of MCAN chapters.

MCAN staff are working on several activities that will support the Cape Wind project.

The long-awaited Energy Bill has been passed by both the House and Senate and now hinges upon ability of the six conferees to hammer out a compromise version.

State environmental officials have given initial approval to the nation's first grouping of offshore wind turbines, to be built off the coast of Hull.

Concord Climate Action Network: Green New Year Resolutions for Concord

The latest books and resources for climate change activists, vetted for you by MCAN. 

This is an unabashedly subjective short list of movies dealing directly and indirectly with the global climate change crisis.

Well, it's resolution time again. Now, there's the usual "lose 15 pounds" or "get organized" ones we all try (and invariably fail... well, at least I do...). So this year I'm going to make a few resolutions that I can do right away and not forget about by Easter.... And these changes will keep on giving returns in the form of lowering my climate impact.

The Energy Smackdown is looking to expand its carbon-reduction program to Arlington, Cambridge, and Medford.

Governor Deval Patrick has filed the largest environmental bond in the history of the Commonwealth.

The Advanced Biofuels Task Force initiated by the Patrick Administration has begun hearings, taking testimony on ways to promote the development of an advanced biofuels industry in Massachusetts.

The comprehensive Massachusetts energy bill, which passed the House last November, was approved by the Senate last week, albeit in a different form. The two versions of the bill will now go to a conference committee.