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A New Climate Clearinghouse

Thu, 07/01/2021 - 09:20
A screenshot from the Climate Change Resources website

Climate Change Resources, a website that curates and aggregates news, information, and resources for climate change action, was launched yesterday.

The site, at climatechangeresources.org, is to serve as a one-stop portal for anyone seeking information and wanting to take action on climate change. It was founded by Lena Tabori, an East Hampton resident and a member of the town's energy sustainability advisory committee, and Mike Shatzkin, a media consultant.

On the energy sustainability committee's recommendation, the town board approved a climate emergency declaration in March. It commits the board, for the foreseeable future, to make climate mitigation and the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions a guiding principle and objective of municipal operations, policy and purchasing decisions, and planning and zoning decisions.

Ms. Tabori, a former chairwoman of the committee, said this month that she began working on the website "the day after Trump was elected."

"It just felt like something needed to be done rapidly, and I felt that the fossil fuel industry was so supportive of his candidacy and his administration that I was fearful for the time that we would lose," she said.

"Every day, new things happen," she said. "Every day the website can incorporate that piece of information. So the timeliness is one of its great values, but the purpose was the same" as when the site was conceived. That purpose is to serve as a resource for information about climate change "if the reason is they worry about polar bears, or coral reefs, or sea level rise." The site will evolve, Ms. Tabori said, and she hoped it will provide road maps for municipalities to transition from greenhouse gas emissions to renewable energy sources. "Having worked myself in East Hampton, one of the greatest liabilities is they don't have the road maps," she said. "It would be so helpful to them if they could see what other communities are doing in an arena they're interested in exploring themselves, without having to invent it."

"There is so much to be done," she said, "and so little time." 

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