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Our theme for the year 2013:

Building a converging, unified and urgent voice for the Climate Movement.

Award categories are:

one - accomplishments in 2013

two - anniversary awards

three - memorial awards

four - actions during the year 2013
 

We celebrated these recipients, on Nov 16 2013, in Danville CA, by honoring one of them, Professor Mark Jacobson, Stanford Univ professor of environmental engineering, and lead author of breakthrough research, on how each state in the US, can go 100% renewable by 2030. The backstory that led to this remarkable process, can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-clark/mark-z-jacobson-renewable-energy_b_2859518.html .

See more details below, under category four.

OUR 2013 AWARDEES follow....

2013 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

James Balog and team - for the documentary,

Chasing Ice, tracking National Geographic photographer James Balog and his team who follow the collapse of glaciers on three continents.

Directed by Jeff Orlowski.

Subhankar Banerjee - who edited the anthology,

Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point. The book shares the writing of Climate Storytellers, including Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Chie Sakakibara and Christine Shearer. It answers the question, 'why should I care about the Arctic?'

Adrian Bejan and J.Peder Zane - co-authors of

Design in Nature: How the Constructual Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology and Social Organization. It shows how recurring patterns in nature can be found in all other designs in our world.

David Boyd - authored The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution. This provides a roadmap for how governments and industry can be more accountable. Canada and the US stand out among the developed nations, on lacking the Rights to a Healthy Environment in our constitutions. The author is one of Canada's leading environmental law experts.

Susan Clark and Woden Teachout - co-authors of Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home. Presents how the process of democracy itself needs to be at the heart of 21st century sustainable community building.

Club of Rome - presented its first Change-Course-Conference, in Winterthur Switzerland, to be a permanent platform to share and exchange ideas for a desired future. Designed to honor the 40th anniversary of the publishing of Limits to Growth.

Matt Damon and John Krasinski - screenplay writers and leading actors in the movie, Promised Land. A timely film on the challenges of drilling rights for nat-ural gas and how it affects rural America. Also star-ring Frances McDormand. Directed by Gus Van Sant.

David Suzuki Foundation - presented 40 years of satellite images of British Columbia, revealing rapidly growing hydrocarbon development, and how it is undermining the government goal to drastically reduce carbon emissions by 2020. 2012 also marks the release of David Suzuki's biographical film, Force of Nature, sharing his life's work as a geneticist, educator/broadcaster, with his blueprint for survival.

Ed Dreby and team - edited with his team, Keith Helmuth, Judy Lumb and Margaret Mansfield, two publications for the Quaker Institute for the Future:

It's the Economy, Friends: Understanding the Growth Dilemma and Beyond the Growth Dilemma: Toward an Ecologically Integrated Economy. This work helps determine frontline work, assisting the Friends Committee on National Legislation - FCNL. These pamphlets can be ordered from this website, www.QuakerInstitute.org.

Detox Initiative - launched by Greenpeace East Asia, has gotten commitments from 11 clothing companies, including Levi's, for credible improvement on the pollution they create. See www.Greenpeace.org

Senator Dorgan - founder of the Center for Native American Youth, launched the initiative, Champions for Change, honoring youth in Native communities taking on leadership roles. See www.cnay.org

Fallen Fruit - this team of artists created a long-term art collaboration that began mapping fruit trees on public property in Los Angeles, starting in 2004. They believe this helps the public reimagine use of urban space. This award is based on their 2012 project called Public Fruit Wallpaper, Hawaii, used borrowed and found fruit from Honolulu's Chinatown neighbor-hood. A new pilot project intended for global scale, is their Endless Orchard in MacArthur Park: an urban fruit trail. The artists are David Burns and Austin Young. Matias Viegener was a co-founder, but is no longer involved.

Paul Gilding - author of The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and The Birth of a New World. A compelling book on how we need to brace for impact from climate change.

No more worrying, he says. It is time for action.

Daniel Goleman and Team - with co-authors Lisa Bennett and Zenobia Barlow, Goleman created Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social and Ecological Intelligence. Inspiring and practical at the same time, this book presents a new model of education. The Center fo Ecoliteracy has worked for 20 years developing school curricula across the US and elsewhere as well. It is based in the David Brower Center in Berkeley CA

Mark Hertsgaard - author of Hot: Living Through the next Fifty Years on Earth. As a long-time reporter on climate issues and a parent as well, he labels the newest generation as Generation Hot. He presents solutions and how we will survive. He is also co-founder of Climate Parents, with Lisa Hoyos.

Wenonah Hauter - author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America. Having inherited an organic farm outside of Washington DC, the author understands the need for healthy food and water, and how to get the attention of Congress and the White House too. Her organization, Food and Water Watch is one of the most effective activist groups in the country. See www.fww.org

Chris Hedges/ Joe Sacco - author and cartoonist,

of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. This book covers their travels across the country, to settings that have been depleted by industrial activity, putting profit over human and natural needs, which they call sacrifice zones, and ending with coverage of American Labor and the Occupy Movement role in turning this scenario around. 

Jeremy Irons - the actor turned executive producer of the documentary, Trashed, which takes on the sobering subject of global waste. Directed by Candida Brady. Far flung locations and issues are covered: pollution in the Arctic, poisons in the food chain in Iceland, and in South Vietnam, suffering from the affects of Agent Orange, with continuing birth defects. Producer Irons observes, 'we are at the tipping point.'

See www.Trashedmovie.com

Danny Kennedy/Wesley Clark - Kennedy authored Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save our Economy and our Planet from Dirty Energy, with a Foreword by General Wesley Clark. This inspiring book on how solar is rapidly taking off from an insider's view has much appeal, as well as the author's own personal narrative. Learning about the appeal of leasing solar makes this a practical primer.

The author is a co-founder of www.Sungevity.com

which offers solar leasing in at least 8 states.

Gene Marshall - lead author of The Road From Empire to Eco-Democracy. His co-authors are Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger and Alan Richard. The team wants to 'fertilize the fruitful imagination and courage it will require, to walk this road.' They further explain the need for 'taking the long view' and the processes to get us there.

Chris Matthews - on his Hardball show on MSNBC, in October 2012, presented Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, and then-Congressman Markey (now Senator Markey), following Hurricane Sandy. The focus ended up being on the need to get legislation through Congress to adequately address Climate Change.

Mary Oliver - for her poetry collection, A Thousand Mornings. Her life work is defined by the imagery of her home in Provincetown MA: 'the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, the transformative power of attention.'

Yoko Ono and Team - with son Sean Lennon and 150 fellow artists, founded Artists Against Fracking, due to the threat of fracking in upstate New York. They have had billboards created, saying 'Imagine There's No Fracking...' See www.ArtistsAgainstFracking.com 

Greg Pahl - author of Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance and Launch Local Energy Projects: A Community Resilience Guide. Foreword by Van Jones. A most compelling book on how communities can locally create renewable energy, moving the mar-ket where we need it to be: away from the 90% of cen-tralized non-renewable sources. A primer for us all.

David Patterson, aka Silver Wolf - was hired 2012 by the most top rated socialwork school in the US: the Brown School at Washington University in St Louis.

He is the first Native American to be hired. He has done groundbreaking research on the pitfalls facing Native Americans. In his own troubled youth, he found a new path, from the sighting of a red-tailed hawk feather on the sidewalk, thanks to the guidance of his part Cherokee mother's brother. Due to this influence, he now works to change this negative cycle for the next generation.

Eliot Porter/Michael Brune - for the book, Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature, which honors the work of nature photographer, Eliot Porter, who was encouraged by Ansel Adams and Alfred Steiglitz. Edited by Paul Martineau. Foreword by Michael Brune. Eliot Porter's work was done in collaboration with the Sierra Club, helping to preserve wild places.

Presidential Climate Action Project - for their Oct 2012 report on how the winner of the Nov 2012 election for US president can address climate change, without Congress. The 62-page report lists 10 recom-

mendations, starting with completing the job of pricing carbon, and ending with helping the American people envision an advanced energy economy. Based in Golden CO, advisors for this project include Hunter Lovins, David Orr and Theodore Roosevelt IV.

Jorgen Randers - authored 2052: A global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. The co-author of Limits of Growth examines how we humans will adapt to planet Earth in the 21st century. The most important thing we can do, he warns, is to end use of fossil fuel as soon as possible, making the future scenario a more livable one for us all.

John Taft and Team - author of Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street.

The lead author is the CEO of RBC Wealth Manage-ment US, and a leading figure in the US securities industry. He calls for a more stable and compassionate financial system. He is direct descendant of President Taft and Senator Taft. Foreword by John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group. Afterword by Charles Ellis, fellow member of the Yale community, like the author.

ANNIVERSARY AWARDS

Hickory Edwards - the 400th anniversary of the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the European settlers got honored, by this citizen of the Onondaga Nation, which is just south of Syracuse NY and the heart of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations, or the Iroquois. He is also the nephew of Chief Jake Edwards, and makes an annual kayak journey into Mohawk country, 150 miles away, along the Onondaga Creek. From July into August 2013, he honored this anniversary with a massive canoe flotilla down the Hudson River from Albany to the New York City harbor. Chief Edwards shared this in coordination with this event: 'The Onondaga Nation honors water, and asks Gov Cuomo to maintain the moratorium on fracking.' Chief Edwards links Extreme Weather to Global Warming. "Nobody's exempt from this,' he says. "Our environment wouldn't be in the bad shape it is, if we paid attention to the original agreements.' The Syracuse Peace Council has created the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, to continue this dialogue.

See www.PeaceCouncil.net/NOON

Georgia O'Keeffe - in 1928, this renowned artist said this about her work, Oriental Poppies: 'A flower is very small. Everyone has many associations with a flower. So I said to myself, I'll paint what I see, what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.' This quote was found in the book, O'Keeffe, by Britta Benke.

President Kennedy - who we lost on November 22, 1963, who shared this at his inauguration, January 1961: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.' In 2012, historian Alan Brinkley published John F. Kennedy, and in it described how we Americans see him today (adapted): 'His legacy has only grown since his death, that politics could speak to society's moral yearnings and be harnessed to its highest aspirations. He reminds us of a time when the nation's capacities looked limitless, when Americans believed that we could solve hard problems and accomplish bold deeds.'

Martin Luther King Jr - in 1963 he shared this from his Birmingham, Alabama prison cell: 'We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.' Later, in August 1963 he shared his 'I Have a Dream' speech in Washington DC on the Washington Mall. These were both shared this past January 2013, when Dr James Hansen, our leading US climatologist, revisited these words, at a climate rally outside of the White House in DC, asking the world to quit using fossil fuels.

Eliot Porter/David Brower - the book, The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado, was published in 1993 and is seen before the demise of this canyon, through the eyes of legendary photographer, Eliot Porter. This book chronicles the beauty of a river, that Sierra Club president at the time, David Brower, made as a sacrifice, for other rivers to go free. David Brower shares in his Foreword of this book, this moral: 'Progress need not deny

to the people their inalienable right to be informed, and to choose.'

Roy Ahmaogak - in 1988, at Point Barrow, in Barrow Alaska, discovered a family of beluga whales trapped under ice. A reporter with the local radio station KBRW, started reporting the incident nationally. It became an international story, that resulted in the 2012 movie, Big Miracle, starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski.

R. Carlos Nakai - in 1993 produced Canyon Trilogy: Native American Flute Music. Of Navajo-Ute heritage, he is the world's premier performer of the Native American flute.

Ernest Hemingway - his book Across the River and Into the Trees, was republished in 1998, with a description of the beauty and majesty of Venice, mixed into a love story. One reader called it, 'radiant descriptions of Venice.' The original release was in 1950, this renowned writer's last full novel. 

Richard Heinberg and Team - founded the Post Carbon Institute in 2003, based in Santa Rosa CA, with a plan to lead the transition to a resilient world. Its mission statement envisions a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds. Its 4 goals are: building awareness, fostering collaboration, integrating knowledge and inspiring action on this mission. Its 30 Fellows include Majora Carter, Paul Gilding, Rob Hopkins, Wes Jackson, Bill McKibben and David Orr. See www.PostCarbon.org

Elon Musk - launched his Tesla company in 2003, which since has proved itself to be a most lucrative enterprise, breaking all records for the ultimate safe car, while proving to be the leading electric car of its time. A lower cost model is due out soon. See www.Tesla.com

Richard Cizik - founded the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good in 2008. Its mission: Creation Care. It has set a trend in the interfaith community for better stewardship of our shared biosphere, giving it a name.

Peter Blaze Corcoran - co-edited A Voice for Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter, published in 2008. His co-editor was James Wohlpart and his assistant, Brandon Hollingshead. It is a collection of poems, essays and stories that provide ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter, which was adopted in 2000 with the mission of 'addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual and environ-mental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.'

Hilary Farr and David Visentin - hosts of

Love It or List It, which debuted in 2008 locally in Toronto Canada, but has since aired on HGTV in the US, including its sequel production, Love It or List It too. Designer Hilary and her team shares creative ways to upgrade and retrofit homes for contemporary lifestyles with smart upgrades using insulation, low-water fixtures, and other sustainably minded choices. Realtor David showcases smart sustainably- upgraded homes, primed for move-in-ready sales.

Global Campaign for Climate Action - formed in 2008, to prepare for an ambitious and binding climate treaty at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, in 2009. While these goals have not been met, this group continues to foster the work of network of over 400 nonprofit organizations, in the race to a low carbon future. Their logo is tcktcktck, conveying the urgency of taking action. It is based in Montreal, Canada.

See www.TckTckTck.org

Melissa Nelson - edited the 2008 publication of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future. She is of mixed-blood (Chippewa and Norwegian) and professor of American Indian Studies at SF State University, dedicating her activism to Indigenous revitalization. She co-produced the award-winning documentary, The Salt Song Trail: Bringing Creation Back Together.

Marie Monique Robin - producer and host of this 2008 documentary, The World According to Monsanto. We learn how there has been much manipulated, both in our US government and the agricultural industry, to get world eaters to trust GMO food and soil affected by the use of chemicals produced by Monsanto. With much legal effort going on globally against this company, this DVD offers real evidence on why this company and many similar chemical companies are getting scrutizined more heavily, and why the rise of certified organic food is going to prevail. She has authored a book by the same name as the DVD.

David Sanborn Scott - author of the 2008 book, Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe. He is one of Canada's leading energy experts, showing in his book what he considers the only viable choice: hydrogen. A future with hydrogen in it, is supported by the lead author of Jacobson et al on the 100% Renewable front.

Vandana Shiva - author of the 2008 book, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. She is revered for her work in India that is honored worldwide, based on a passion that a healthy world and a just world, go hand in hand. She is one of our guides to get us beyond industrialized agriculture.

MEMORIALS

Rebecca Tarbotton - Dec 2012

Exec Dir of Rainforest Network. Two months before her death, after 18 months of pressure on Walt Disney Company, the company announces it would no longer buy paper from endangered forests or conflict zones. She considered this her biggest coup. See www.RainforestActionNetwork.org

Kenojuak Ashevak - Jan 2013

A once-nomadic Inuit artist from Canadian Arctic, best known for her Enchanted Owl, appearing on a Canadian stamp in 1970. Her art and life were the focus of the book, Graphic Arts of the Inuit: Kenojuak.

Congressman Bob Edgar - April 2013

He served in Congress for 12 years, representing Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district, and was CEO and president of Common Cause when he died. He was on several boards, one being the National Coalition on Health Care, another the Environment and Energy Study Institute. He authored the book Middle Church, rallying progressives of faith, to take back the moral high ground.

Toshi Seeger - July 2013

Born Toshi Ohta in Munich Germany to an American mother and a Japanese father, she came to the US as an infant. She grew up in a family of progressives, meeting Pete Seeger at the HS of Music and Art in NYC. They married before he went overseas to war in 1943, then moved to Beacon NY where they raised 3 children. She was an organizer, activist and film-maker, and an essential part of her husband's work.

See www.Sweetwater.com

August Schellenberg - Aug 2013

Born in Montreal of a Mohawk mother and a Swiss father, he played the whale trainer in Free Willy in 1993, won an Emmy nomination for the HBO movie, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee in 2007, and recently played the role of King Lear in Ottawa.

See www.IndigenousTheatre.com

2013 AWARDS that honor our theme this year

Tom Toles - Washington Post cartoonist: Jan 2 2013 cartoon, 'They're Just Practicing', with Fiscal Cliff portrayed on top of Earth, and large cavity showing Climate breaking into Earth. Jan 13 2013 cartoon, 'Local conditions may vary' with wildfire showing 2012 warmest US year on record by far, next to ice cube of US Govt Response.

Woodstock NY - The Town Board on Jan 15 2013, votes 4-0 to criminalize hydrofracking in the state of New York.

Tom Meyer - Meyertoons.com: Jan 16 2013 cartoon, 'You sure this is the only way to get to it?' showing oil companies trying to get to 'billions of barrels of CA shale oil' that is guarded by skeleton of Tyrannasaurus Rex, labeled ' Environmental Lobby' with a ladder leading into its jaw.

Allan Savory and team - his TED talk is posted on YouTube, in Feb 2013, sharing the Savory Institute approach to reversing climate change. By amending the soil of half of the world's deserts by Holistic grazing of livestock, it would draw carbon out of the atmosphere enabling a more stabilized planet Earth.

See details at www.SavoryInstitute.com. They have set a goal of 100 Savory Hubs by 2025 on 5 continents. Each hub would be the size of at least 50,000 to 75,000 acres.

Feb 17 2013 was the 22-city Forward on Climate Rally, the key rally being in Washington DC with the following speakers, putting them on the national stage for the Climate Movement.

Michael Brune - Exec Dir of the Sierra Club, author

Casey Camp - Oklahoma Ponca Nation Elder

Maria Cardon - founder of Latinovations

Van Jones - founder/Rebuilding American Dream

Crystal Lameman, First Nation Cree, Alberta Canada

Bill McKibben - co-founder, 350.org, author

Tom Steyer - founder, Next Gen Climate Action

Chief Thomas, First Nation Cree, Alberta Canada

Senator Whitehouse - D-RI, Safe Climate Caucus

Rev Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus, moderator

The next major event being put on by 350.org will be Sept 20-21 2014, in NYC. Details can be found at www.PeoplesClimateMarch.org

Mark Jacobson et al - his team had their first blueprint published in the March issue of the Energy Policy Journal, showing how the state of NY can go 100% renewable by 2030. His co-authors are Cornell Professors Ingraffea and Howarth and UC Davis Professor DeLucchi. The lead author is environment engineer professor at Stanford.

See www.theSolutionsProject.org, updated with all 50 state blueprints, in Feb 2014.

MOSAIC - over 1 million dollars had been raised by March 6 2013, by this Oakland-based company, just 2 months after introducing its crowd-funding platform, making it possible for small, non-accredited investors to earn interest financing clean energy projects.

See www.SolarMosaic.com

Sandra Steingraber and team - on March 18 2013 this Ithaca College biology professor and author, and 11 others were arrested, protesting controversial hydrofracking at the entrance of a natural gas facility in upstate NY.

Mayor Wes Perry - this mayor of Midland TX, also an oilman, had this to say about the 3 year old TX drought: 'As valuable as oil and gas are, we are worthless without water.' He was featured in the April 7 NY Times article, Getting Serious About a Texas-size Drought.

Renewables 100 Policy Institute - this institute put on its first conference in SF, called Pathways to 100% Renewable Energy, April 16 2013. Its co-directors were Angelina Galiteva and Diane Moss.

As founder/Board Chair and founding director of the institute, they were encouraged to set it up, by then German politician and feed-in tariff initiator, Hermann Scheer , author of the award-winning books, A Solar Manifesto and The Solar Economy and more recently, Energy Autonomy. This member of the German Parliament was also recipient of multiple awards, including the World Solar Prize. He died in 2010 at the age of 66. See www.Renewables100.org and its campaign counterpart, www.Go100percent.org

It should read: Congressman Grijalva/Gosar. Congressman Raul Grijalva, the hero - Congressman Paul Gosar, the anti-hero, who represents all the naysayers in Congress on climate change, over 130 of them.

In May, 2013, Grijalva organized a letter to President Obama with 30 signatures of members of Congress, urging him to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. Both he and Gosar have districts in Arizona with extreme heat, drought and wildfires. Gosar continues to reject scientific consensus that the earth is warming. Something has to change on this front. Our campaign supports efforts on this.

AP, Stanford and Yale polls consistently showing

that over 80% of Americans consider global warming serious, and want something done, no matter the cost.  

An interesting coincidence on the 80% percent, is that some leading economists and now Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein and the 350.org team share with their DoTheMath initiative, that 80% of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground, if we want to avoid climatic chaos. See this link for the 350.org message on this,with their 45 minute DoTheMath movie -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IsIfokifo 

Goldman Sachs - May 16 2013, was the day it was learned, this company would finance Solar City with more than 500 million dollars for rooftop solar system installations, won by the board chair of Solar City, Elon Musk.

GrowthBiasBusted.org - this new website launched in June 2013, sharing a Wall of Fame and a Wall of Shame, under the leadership of filmmakers Dave Gardner and Lynsey Jones.

Prince Charles - June 3 2013, Huffington Post reports on the Prince introducing his film, Global Sustainability.

Available on YouTube, this 8 min video focuses on the need for better management of fisheries and water use in businesses. Produced by the Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project. See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OInvmu5N0h4

Clearly, this accomplished organic farmer is working to influence the world, making it more viable for us all.

He has also authored books, titled Harmony, and produced a movie by the same name.

See www.theHarmonymovie.com

Robert Redford - as spokesperson for the NRDC, June 11 2013, challenges the President to limit power plant carbon pollution. By the fall, the EPA was getting public input across the US. The NRDC has determned that these carbon emissions could be cut 26% by 2020. Extreme Weather is forcing this: The NRDC reported taxpayer costs in 2012, were $96 BL.

Chris Williams - on June 29 2013, 4 days after the President's speech on climate change, this physics professor at Pace Univ, wrote an article titled, A Presidential Speech Won't Solve Climate Change. It's Going to Take Major Demonstrations and Activism by the Public.

Mark Bittman - his July 1 2013 column, brings his food skills front and center on our drought issue: Let's Not Braise the Planet, is the title. Aug 24, he nixes nucle-ar power. His Oct 23 NY Times column: Now This Is Natural Food, asks the question, 'Can we break away from monoculture and eat perennial plants?' He cites Wes Jackson of the Land Institute: 'soil loss is one of the biggest hidden costs of industrial ag...the no-till style reduces (this).' More wisdom for our Farm Bill.

See www.LandInstitute.org

Louis Allstadt - July 19 2013 it is reported: 'Former Mobil VP Warns of Fracking and Climate Change.' Recently elected a Cooperstown NY Trustee, he is catching up to his industry's impact on the planet's atmosphere. He is active with the group, Sustainable Otsego, named after the county that Cooperstown is in.

Joel Pett - cartoonist with the Lexington Herald-Leader in KY. His July 21 2013 cartoon shows a clock at 5 minutes to midnight labeled Environmental Decline, its planet-shaped pendulum labeled, Population.

State Senator Mark DeSaulnier - Our campaign's representative in Sacramento CA, on a visit to his Walnut Creek office on Aug 23 2013, learned about our new campaign initiative, supporting the 100% Renewable plan. We have kept him informed on Community Choice Aggregation energy (CCA), for the 2 counties in the East Bay. He has promised to lend support for this effort to go 100% Renewable. See more details on CCAs on our website, www.BeThe100percentChange.vpweb.com

Rachel Maddow - on her Rachel Maddow Show, interviews Chris Hayes, host of All In, Aug 23 2013, on his climate change documentary which aired the previous week, on MSNBC. Both are hosts with MSNBC.

Michael Breen - his article Aug 25 2013, is titled, National Security - Our top threat: climate change. Terrorists exploit US need for oil. He is the Exec Dir of the Truman National Securiy Project and Center for National Policy in Washington DC.

Annie Leonard - her Aug 28 2013 article: We Should Not Buy Artifacts of Indulgence and Disposability: How About Well-Made, and Doesn't Trash the Planet?

The author of 'The Story of Stuff' (2007) has a followup.

Stepanie Spear - in Sept 2013, EcoWatch became a Certified B Corportion, joining more than 800 companies that put people and planet before profit. She is CEO and editor-in-chief of EcoWatch, which has been published for more than 23 years. See www.EcoWatch.com.

David Brandt - became a national hero, when the NY Times Sept 9 2013 article was published, One Weird Trick to Fix Farms Forever, revealing how this Ohio no-till, organic cover crop farmer, whose farm survived the 2013 drought in SE Ohio, shared his skills with surrounding neighbor farmers who lost most of their industrial-scale crops. He set up workshops for them in one of his barns. With his focus on cover crops, he has been called the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi of soil.'

National Heirloom Expo - its third annual event took place in early Sept 2013, in Santa Rosa CA, co-directed by Paul Wallace and Jere Gettle, with a big emphasis on seed farming. Its 2nd annual event attracted 10,000. This one, even more, with featured speakers including the prolific author, Vandana Shiva, traveling from her native India. See www.theHeirloomExpo.com

Michael Shank - this director of foreign policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, focuses on the need to national policy on the climate, with his Sept 19 2013 article, Fed Up With Climate Change Apathy. While the West is burning from wildfires, Capitol Hill is inactive, and '24% of Americans support non-violent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse.'

International Women's Earth/Climate Initiative - co-directed by Osprey Lake and Sally Ranney, had its first gathering Sept 20-23 2013 in Suffern NY, with its manifesto for change. It included many female leaders: Sylvia Earle, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Mary Robinson, Jane Goodall and more. Christiane Ananpour of CNN interviewed Goodall and Shiva following the event. This group now has a new name: Women's Earth and Climate Action Network, Intl. See

www.WeCanInternational.org

Gov Jerry Brown and Xie Zhenhua - sign an agreement on low-carbon development, revealed Sept 22 2013, with the article, Governments acting alone bad way to handle big issues. This landmark agreement between China and California shows a different format for taking on our climate threat.

Kate Gordon - VP and spokesperson for the Next Generation Climate Action Network, highlights what former Sec of State George Shultz demands, with her Sept 24 2013 article, Let's Upgrade Our Insurance Policy on Climate-Change Risk. See www.NextGeneration.org

Davis Institute for Transportation Studies - wins national competition Sep 25 2013, to lead 11 million dollar federal study on how to reduce impact of America's transportation system on climate change. This institue is located on the UC Davis campus. The center director, Susan Handy states, we need to 'reduce the mount of driving. That is one of the goals.'

IPCC report, its fifth Assessment report, released Sept 26 2013. Chaired by Rajendra Pauchauri, this scientific report sets a more somber tone on what lies ahead. See details at http://www.ipcc.ch

Food Tank - on Sept 27 2013, this new non-profit, co-directed by Ellen Gustafson and Danielle Nierenberg, presented: 26 food films you have to watch. They are raising the bar on the importance of good food with environmentally sustainable ways to alleviate hunger, obesity and poverty. See www.FoodTank.com

Yvo de Boer - this former UN climate chief on Oct 1 2013, makes the case that the 2015 summit requires a global carbon price for it be successful. This comes following the latest assessment by the IPCC report (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which he calls a 'wake-up call' that should underpin political efforts to cut global greenhouse gas emissions.

RiskyBusiness.org - this tri-partisan team wants to spread the word to the business community, that taking climate change on to determine your bottom line, is smart. Otherwise, you run a risky business. Launched Oct 1 2013 by then Mayor Bloomberg, an Independent, Sec Paulson, a Republican, and Democrat venture capitalist turned activist, Tom Steyer.

Mark Walport - as chief scientific advisor to the UK government, Sir Walport makes his point Oct 3 2013, that 'Science is not finished until it's communicated.' He finishes that statement with this: 'The communication to wider audiences is part of the job of being a scientist, and so how you communicate is absolutely vital.'

Christine MacDonald - reporter for Natural Awakenings, her Oct 7 2013 article, EASING EARTH'S RISING FEVER: The Right Steps Now Can Avert the Worst of It, she covers the work of distinguished professor emeritus, climate scientist Richard Somerville, PhD. He is a researcher at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, and author of The Forgiving Air. His biggest statement to warn us all: " With the bases loaded, look out, because Mother Nature bats last.

The Hero Hatchery - launched Oct 8 2013 by 2 MBAs in sustainable business, Ryan Kushner and Amanda Ravenhill, offering yearly fellowships for Climate Heroes, and training sessions from climate activists, like Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken. See www.HeroHatchery.org

Franke James - Canadian climate activist and visual artist, describes herself as an artist and storyteller so visual essays are a natural way to express her ideas. The Harper Govt blacklisted her in 2011. She was shocked. She got help from Bill McKibben at 350.org, and went public. She alerted the media. She made lemonade from lemons, and published the book, Banned On The Hill, published in 2013. See www.FrankeJames.com .

Jeffrey Smith/John Robbins - put on the GMO mini- Summit, Oct 24-26 2013. This webinar effort and its followup attracted over 75,000 Americans on the threat of GMOs. Its biggest most featured speaker was lawyer/author, Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, based in DC with an SF office. He has taken on numberous lawsuits against Monsanto, and is a proven winner against this formidable opponent. See www.ResponsibleTechnology.org and

www.FoodRevolution.org

Amory Lovins - his article got posted on the internet Oct 28 2013, The End of the Conflict-Creating Oil Age Is Coming Into View - Here's What the Future Looks Like. A strong believer in energy efficiency and a future with no nuclear and little natural gas. His book, Reinventing Fire, details all this.

Naomi Klein - posted on the internet Oct 29 2013, Why Science Is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet. Most Americans don't realize this Canadian journalist, raised by American parents, and recently teamed up with Bill McKibben and his 350.org DoTheMath Tour in 2012, was trained as an economist at the London School of Economics. She goes into lengthy discourse in this article, pushing us to revolt. Sheis featured in the 350.org 45-minute DoTheMath movie -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IsIfokifo 

2014 Climate Models Calendar is on the market by Oct 2013 - a most unique way to learn more about climate scientists. Designed by Francesco Fiondella and Rebecca Fowler to 'humanize scientists and facilitate (more) understanding of current climate research. See www.ClimateModels.org

President Obama - Nov 1 2013, marks the date of his new pro-active approach to climate change. He orders all federal agencies to take a pro-active approach to Climate Change, beginning his series of promised executive orders on it.