{"id":454,"date":"2008-04-03T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/04\/03\/links_motivating_change\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:08:56","slug":"links_motivating_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/04\/03\/links_motivating_change\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivating Change towards Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2008\/02\/sheryl_canter.jpg' height=\"80\" alt='Sheryl Canter' align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" class=\"blogAuthorPic\" \/><i>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcgunther.com\/?p=349\">Carrots and Sticks<\/a> &#8211; Marc Gunther posted a nuanced discussion of how organizations like NRDC and Environmental Defense Fund work with corporations. Rather than endorse or disparage the corporation as a whole, the focus is on the actions the corporation takes. Environmentally responsible actions are praised &#8211; even from a corporation that&#8217;s doing other things that aren&#8217;t so good. It&#8217;s an effective way to motivate change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2008\/04\/clean_energy.html\">New Jobs and Affordable Energy<\/a> &#8211; The Center for American Progress published a detailed and well-documented analysis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/10\/18\/lieberman-warner_bill\/\">Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act<\/a> and how it would affect the economy. They say, &quot;The bill would make significant reductions in the carbon dioxide pollution that causes global warming as well as turbo charge investments in clean energy technologies such as wind, solar, and geothermal. \u2026 The boost for renewable energy would create thousands of new jobs in the clean energy industry.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund. Carrots and Sticks &#8211; Marc Gunther posted a nuanced discussion of how organizations like NRDC and Environmental Defense Fund work with corporations. 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