A new McClatchy-Ipsos poll reveals that a majority of Americans support efforts to fight climate change, providing those efforts create jobs.

U.S. officials attending international climate negotiations in Copehagen vowed to take “robust” action against climate change by pairing E.P.A. regulations of CO2 with Congressional legislation, but “categorically reject[ed]” the idea of paying poorer nations climate reparations.

Climate activists should step up their efforts to strengthen ties to the public-health community, as a growing body of research links independence from fossil fuels with better public health, argues a piece at Grist.

A new report says the market for small wind projects undertaken by individuals and small businesses will likely double by 2013.

The Christian Science Monitor discussed Copenhagen and clean energy mandates with American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode.

Local Green: Seattle’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 7 percent below 1990 levels in 2008 - a goal the city had hoped to achieve by 2012.

While the number of overall jobs in shrank by 1 percent, California’s green jobs grew by 5 percent between January 2007 and January 2008. Between 1995 and 2008, the state’s green jobs grew at three times the rate of overall jobs.

The Make It Right Foundation - an organization helping to rebuild New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward with affordable, green housing - released a new book detailing some of the project’s sustainable designs.

Four new wind and solar farms will supply nearly a quarter of Maryland’s state offices and universities with electricity.

–Christopher Greenspan

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