Resources to Win

We have an uphill struggle ahead of us. It is absolutely critical to America and Earth’s long-term prosperity – in fact, our long-term viability, that the US take a huge step towards a strong global response to climate change.
 
Climate science is not debated by anyone who matters anymore – we can win this fight with all the foot-dragging deniers kicking and screaming the whole way, so I say let them go. The policy, the economics, and the “how to” on the clean energy revolution, on the other hand, are areas of much controversy. We all need to get a whole lot better at articulating not just why we must act, but what policies will spark a clean energy revolution, how action or inaction will affect our economy, and just how we’re going to transition to 100% clean energy.
 
Some excellent resources to these ends:
 

• The Citizens Guide to Climate Policy – an accessible, comprehensive guide to climate policy approaches from Middlebury students Ben Wessel and Lois Parshley
• Renewable Energy in America – an interactive map of all the renewable energy potential and renewable energy facilities planned and present from NRDC
• Real Climate Economics – a great compilation of scholarly economic work related to climate
• The Breakthrough Institute – rethinking and reframing the clean energy revolution
• Sub-prime Carbon – A Friends of the Earth report on the potential pitfalls of carbon trading