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Honking for The Planet

honk_flyer_2010-dja-rara-250x324-150x150 We were in Cambridge this past weekend having a fine time, very much including getting out for Honkfest.  The best band we saw was the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, “Atlanta’s wildest community band,” but they were all pretty anarchically blessed.

Meanwhile, 350.org was staging it’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party.  We saw some evidence of  the good folks taking part in this, but then Cambridge is pretty green all the time, with the City being quite serious about fostering climate protection initiatives, and the Boston metropolitan area being excellent for mass transit and biking and walking.  M.I.T. , Harvard and Tufts are also, not incidentally, very involved in energy, climate policy, and the entire array of sustainable practices that are going to save our sorry butts – if we embrace them.

 

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Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years. He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City. He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and a presidential campaign. He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications. He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, sustainability, and energy and the environment at The Center for Global Affairs at NYU. His book, "A Newer World - Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis," will be out from the University Press of New England in December.



Areas of Focus:
the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change

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