New Haven/León Sister City Project

WBT Educational Resources

New Climate Change Action Brochure

      Creating Climate for Change Poster

To get copies of either these contact us. Printing supported by grant from Greater New Haven Green Fund.

Also available:

Printable WalkBikeTransit Brochure

Reduce Car Use flier.

For WBT background more information see:

Fact Sheets: Climate Change and Food Security: Understanding the Connection  and

Exploring Sustainable Transit

One World House

The One World House exhibit features a full size model of a house typical in rural communities in Nicaragua (and around the world) and nine banners that describe the impact of climate change on vulnerable rural communities, the science of climate change, and what we can do to mitigate the impacts.

The House can be set up at schools, churches, parks and is a great way to get people thinking about climate change and what it means for  vulnerable rural communities around the world.

Click for  Introduction,  Front Door, Rural Communities,  Science, and Take Actions banners.

For Resources Brochure click  here.

Click for Assembly instructions

For more information contact Chris at nh@newhavenleon.org or 203.562.1607.

New Haven Independent story on One World House at Fair Haven School here.

 Home in Goyena, Nicaragua.

Did you know...that every American is responsible, on average, for the release of 20.6 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year, and that Nicaraguans generate 0.74 metric tons? 

Organization Climate Change Resources

COIN Carbon Calculator   (paper)

Cool Climate Carbon Footprint Calculator  (online)

Organization Actions   Resource Sheet with various communications tools and specific actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Sustainable Lifestyle Campaign Small group discussions, guided.

Rules of the Game: Evidence base for the Climate Change Communications Strategy

Article: Death of a Thousand Tips

TalkingClimate resources on Communication

How to Engage Your Community and Communicate About Climate Change

Article: Why we find it so hard to act against climate change

A Practitioner's Guide to the psychology of sustainable behaviour

Climate Fact Sheets

10 Benefits of Climate Action

"We must recognize that the most trusted conveyors of new ideas are not experts or celebrities but the people we already know. Enabling ordinary people to take personal ownership of the issue and talk to each other in their own words is not just the best way to convince people, it is the best way to force climate change back into people’s “norms of attention.”  George Marshall

Why Climate Change??

For years, part of NHLSCP's work in Nicaragua has addressed environmental issues - water safety and levels; the  epidemic of kidney failure in sugar cane workers; etc.  NHLSCP is now focusing more on the environment because of the risks climate change presents to the community where we work in Nicaragua (Goyena).  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states, “The combination of low economic growth and high levels of inequality can make large parts of the region’s population very vulnerable to economic and natural stressors, which would not have to be very large to cause great social damage.”   And said Dr RK Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC.  "The impacts of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor... within all countries.” The community where NHLSCP works, Goyena, was a displaced by Hurricane Mitch in 1998....and is still working to recover from that storm.

IDB Report: Latin America and the Caribbean face massive economic damages from global warming.

Climate Change Refugees article here from Scientific American.

Updated "Connect the Dots" Climate Change background here.

Also check out our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=88114390040&ref=mf

Bike Route Maps

Branford Point

Hammonasset State Park

Wharton Brook State Park

Stony Creek, Branford

Quonnipaug Lake, Guilford

Clark Avenue Beach, Branford

Elm City Cycling -  Elm City Cycling is a nonprofit organization of more than 400 advocates who work to make New Haven a better place for bicycling and walking.

Other Bike Routes around CT here.

2012 Bike Month Calendar here.

Transportation Information

CDC Transportation Recommendations

Connecticut’s 2010-2013 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program - TriState Analysis here.

Tracking the Dollars:
A Review of Projected Transportation Spending in Connecticut, 2010-2013 here

National Bicycling Walking Study here.

Food Food Security and Climate Change   There are increasingly clear links between human behavior and changes in the climate.   And these changes are hurting small communities and farmers in Nicaragua and around the world.

The NHLSCP WalkBikeTransit Campaign (see posters below) is an effort to help people see the links between their transportation choices, global warming and food security.  

Poll: Americans support investment to increase transportation choices, favor expanding transit over building new roads

Key an Eye Out for Our Swarmings Calling for a Metamorphosis to Healthier Communities

WBT in the media:

Colin McEnroe Show 10/31/12

New Haven Register 11/30/12

Register FORUM: There are good choices for dealing with climate  11/26/12

• Check out Our WBT Blog!



Get involved in this growing effort!!  Contact Chris at nh@newhavenleon.org

Coming soon to a wall near you...  

Healthy choices at home will have global impacts.

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Posters etc

banners

postcards

GHG poster

For More information on Climate Change...

350.org   350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

Oxfam   Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in 92 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty.

Environmental Protection Agency  - EPA conducts economy-wide analyses to understand the economic impacts and effectiveness of proposed climate policies.

Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) - The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is the largest peace lobby in Washington, DC. Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), FCNL staff and volunteers work with a nationwide network of tens of thousands of people from many different races, religions, and cultures to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government. FCNL is nonpartisan.

Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change - The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its constituency is made of :

• The governments: the IPCC is open to all member countries of WMO and UNEP. Governments of participate in plenary Sessions of the IPCC where main decisions about the IPCC workprogramme are taken and reports are accepted, adopted and approved. They also participate the review of IPCC Reports.
• The scientists: hundreds of scientists all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC as authors, contributors and reviewers.
• The people: as United Nations body, the IPCC work aims at the promotion of the United Nations human development goals IPCC Report on Latin America