Part 2 of 2 Rob Bennett is the founding executive director of the Portland Sustainability Institute (PoSI). PoSI was founded in 2009 to systematically bring together business, higher education, nonprofit and municipal leaders to drive a set of next generation urban sustainability initiatives for the Portland metro region.

Rob talks about the concept of EcoDistricts and how the challenge is to blend pieces into a whole and cleaer strategy. He believes that positive change can only come from attacking challenges with enthusiasm for inspiring tangible, sustainable solutions at the local level. He ontinues to work at the intersection of the environment, community social justice, and built form.  For more videos on Portland's sustainability progress, visit Portland Sustainability Leadership channel on YouTube.

Part 1 of 2 Rob Bennett is the founding executive director of the Portland Sustainability Institute (PoSI). Rob talks about his journey starting with his early involvement as a community organizer and leadership of the Green Building program in Portland, Oregon. He continues to work at the intersection of the environment, community social justice, and built form.  For more videos on Portland's sustainability progress, visit Portland Sustainability Leadership channel on YouTube.

This is the UK Government TV Advertisement on climate change which is the subject of an investigtion after the government agency regulating advertising received hundreds of complaints that it is a form of political advertising, not a public service campaign.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) shared some of the outlines of the anticipated Kerry, Graham, Lieberman climate bill today, telling Clean Skies News that the comprehensive bill will be unveiled sometime soon. (February 2010)

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Then President-elect Barack Obama in a speech (video) to the Global Climate Summit, November 18-19, 2008 Beverly Hills, California, promising "a new chapter of American leadership on climate change."

See also, Climate Change Talks, President Obama, 2009, here.  He speaks on Climate Change, 2013, here. President on Carbon Pollution and Power Plants here, May 2014.