On January 31, 2008, Green Mountain College will host a series of events to draw attention to the urgent climate change crisis. In concert with over 1,000 colleges and universities across the country, students are organizing a day-long, campus-wide conversation with professors, elected officials, journalists, climate change scholars and citizens to raise awareness of the need for action to curb carbon emissions.

To learn more about the day's events at the college read the announcement. For information about the session  topics and other activities read the agenda, the list of Roundtable participants and to learn about the nationwide effort led by Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon go to the Focus the Nation website.

Read the Vermont Governor's Commission on Climate Change Report issued in October.

Read a review of George Monbiot's book Heat: How to stop the planet from burning.

A street in old Kyoto where the first climate change treaty was drafted ten years ago this week (December 11, 1997)