the carbon commons, a learning resource to empower carbon reduction, photo of trees and sky

TOOLKITS

Community toolkits for building capacity. This page functions as a table of contents for the site.

The sources listed below follow the steps of the carbon recuction learning cycle. Sources here are listed in outline format, by the type of resource. These links can also be found on the page dedicated to that part of the cycle where there is a description of the resource.

Acquire Awareness

Websites:

Environmental Defense - Fight Global Warming Campaign
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/index.cfm

Global Climate Change and Energy Information from Schlumberger
http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/index.htm

Native Energy - What Is Global Warming?
http://www.nativeenergy.com/about_global_warming.html

Climate Connections from NPR and National Geographic
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9657621

Yahoo Green
http://green.yahoo.com/

Food Climate Research Network
http://www.fcrn.org.uk/index.htm

Articles:

CO2 Comes Out of the Closet
http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/feature/climate/09252007

How Carbon Offsets Work
http://students.law.umich.edu/els/goci_how_it_works.htm

On Your Mark, Offset, Go! A Guide to Offsetting Your Carbon Emissions
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/10/10/gies/

Books / Reports:

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Videos:

“Unstoppable”
http://www.climatecounts.org/whatis.php

“Climate: A Crisis Averted”
http://www.climatecounts.org/whatis.php

Identify Issues and Opportunities

GreenBlue
http://greenblue.org/about.html

Carbon Trust
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/default.ct

Optipolygen
http://www.optipolygen.org/index.html

Measure Footprints

GENERAL INFORMATION

Integrated Sustainability Analysis UK Research Report 07-01
http://www.isa-research.co.uk/docs/ISA-UK_Report_07-01_carbon_footprint.pdf

Global Footprint Network
http://footprintnetwork.net/

DEFINE FOOTPRINTS - ORGANIZATION, DIVISION, DEPT., JOB

websites

OpenEco
http://www.openeco.org/

Cool Air Cool Planet
http://www.cleanair‑coolplanet.org/toolkit/content/view/43/124/

articles

Sun Microsystems Launches First‑of‑its‑kind, Open Web Community to Help Organizations Reduce Environmental Footprint
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/sunmicrosystems/29814/

Target and Reduce Carbon

Energy Efficiency Opportunities
http://www.energyefficiencyopportunities.gov.au/

BESS
http://www.bess‑project.info/

International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover‑iso_meet‑iso.htm

Empowerment Institute
http://www.empowermentinstitute.net/files/Emp_Org.html

Offset Core Carbon

Offsets:

Native Energy
http://www.nativeenergy.com/

TerraPass
http://www.terrapass.com/

Exchanges / Trading:

European Climate Exchange
http://www.europeanclimateexchange.com/default_flash.asp

Nord Pool
http://www.nordpool.no/

European Energy Exchange
http://www.eex.com/en/

0

Communicate Results

Review, Reflect & Renew Efforts

carbon reduction learning cycle graphic