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"Need to Know" on a Carbon-Neutral Island

Windturbines

(Joachim Ladefoged for "The New Yorker")

The Danes have a lot to teach us.  Samsø is a lab for the rest of the world on how to achieve carbon neutrality.  Betsy Kolbert wrote a wonderful piece a couple of years ago:  The Island in the Wind.  And I’ve written here a few times about “convergence” and how we can have health and well-being while getting our GHGs down – and out.  They’re doing it on Samsø.

Tonight on the PBS show “Need to Know” there will be a report on this groundbreaking experiment in smart living.  (If you can’t see it tonight, catch it at their website later.)

 

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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.



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