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REFERENCES & RESOURCES <br /> The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives—ICLEI , Interfaith Power and Light www. Interfaith power. org— Resources <br /> Cities for Climate Protection , ww %v. iclel . org / us Premier resource for faith - based institutions <br /> and leader for local governments involved in climate protection . Ex- <br /> amples of some of their publications include, Best Practices for Cli- Calculator to determine your personal greenhouse gas emissions <br /> mate Protection : A Local Government Guide; Changing the Price Sig- www. americanforests . org <br /> nal. How local governments can use economic instruments to cut trdtFic <br /> and pollution; and Green Your Fleet. BOOKS, REPORTS, AND OTHER WEBSITES <br /> Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change, <br /> Climate Protection Campaign www. skymetrics . us Hub for climate Aubrey Meyer, © 2000, Schumacher Briefings <br /> protection activities in Sonoma County, <br /> The Party 's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, <br /> Sonoma County Waste Management Agency www. recyclenow. org Richard Heinberg , © 2003 , New Society Publishers <br /> Administrator for municipalities ' climate protection collaboration <br /> Power Shift, a special edition of Grist, an online magazine that <br /> Sonoma County Business Environmental Alliance www. sonoma looks at efforts to combat climate change , July 31 , 2002 , <br /> .county . orq / bea Promotes economic benefits of responsible www, gristmagazine . com / maindish / powershiftO73102 . asp <br /> environmental practices <br /> Report on the Sonoma County Ecological Footprint Project: Time <br /> U . S . Environmental Protection Agency's State and Local Govern - to Lighten Up ? May 2002 , Sustainable Sonoma County, <br /> ment's Global Warming web page : httpt //yosemite . epa . gov/ OAR/ www. sustainablesonoma . org <br /> globaIviavmIng . nsf/content/VisitorCenterPublicOfficialsRole . html <br /> State of Denial, a special supplement of The Sacramento Bee, Tom <br /> Summary for Policymakers, Climate Change 2001 - Impacts, Adap - Knutson , lead writer, April 27 , 2003 . An in -depth look at the way <br /> tation and Vulnerability Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change world resources—including oil—feed California 's growing . appetite . <br /> ( IPCC ) , Third Assessment Report (TAR) , Climate Change 2001 www. sacbee . com / denial <br /> httpo / / ipcc - ddc . cru . uea . ac . uk / <br /> Veridians www. viridiandesign . org For global warming with attitude, <br /> California Energy Commission : Climate Change and California this is the sitel <br /> httpo / / www. energy. ca . gov / global_climate_change / index . htmi <br /> Who Owns the Sky2 Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism, <br /> United Nations Environmental Programme, www. grida . no / climate by Peter Barnes, © 2001 , Island Press . See also www. skyowners .org <br /> Excellent source for information and graphics , including a <br /> CO2 meter showing the current estimated annual rate of global an . FACTS AND FIGURES <br /> thropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide , based on projections Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change www. ipcc . ch <br /> made by the International Energy Agency. <br /> Pew Center on Global Climate Change www. pewcllmate . org <br /> Alliance to Save Energy www. ase . org An organization that pro - <br /> motes energy eff iciency worldwide <br /> • . <br /> y consumption is <br /> Watergy www. watergy. org Resource for the water—energy efficiency <br /> the most significant environmental metric. <br /> connection <br /> California Climate Registry—www. climateregistry. org State insti Northwest Environmental Watch <br /> - <br /> tution for businesses to register their GHG reductions <br /> Clean Air - Cool Planet www. cleanalrftcoolplanet . org Resources for <br /> colleges and universities <br /> 20 <br />