Connect Savannah on Tommy Linstroth’s “Local Action: The New Paradigm in Climate Change Policy”

This post was written by John Bennett

December 15, 2007

Summer Teal Simpson writes about Tommy Linstroth’s new book, “Local Action: The New Paradigm in Climate Change Policy” in the Dec. 11 issue of Connect Savannah. Linstroth is head of sustainability Initiatives at Melaver, Inc. and president of the Savannah Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

“Linstroth’s book transcends the traditional dialogue on climate change to present approachable, community-level solutions to an international crisis. Linstroth’s tactic is manageable and empowering, asserting that the unwillingness of the federal government to take action does not equate defeat for the masses. He takes something that is so unequivocally caught at the global level and addresses it through the local lens. To be sure, he says, ‘there is pressing need to take action now to fight climate change — and if it won’t happen at the federal level, let’s do it all across the nation at the local level.’”

The story includes quotes from Sean Brandon, assistant to the city manager, and Patty McIntosh of the Georgia Conservancy. Read the full text of Simpson’s story, “Fighting climate change at home,” here.

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