Welcome back to New Haven! We at Greenfox5 Club at Yale are looking forward to the semester ahead. After Thanksgiving Break, we had a really successful meeting with a great turn-out of students who are all interested in joining the organization and excited about going into classrooms. Our plan is to start working with New Haven students by no later than the middle of this semester. We are still ironing out our relationship with YSEC Education. Based on how that pans out, we will either be going into classrooms in New Haven public schools or working in other New Haven-based community centers, such as the YMCA, and running after-school programs.
The Environment in Current Affairs:
On January 12th, the New York Times reported that the weather monitor company behind the Weatherbug application and website is now using its technology not only to predict the weather but also to measure levels of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane in particular) in the atmosphere. This new kind of data collection will "be capable of real-time measurements at the national and even regional level, allowing regulators to more accurately pinpoint emissions sources" and therefore allow international courts to verify that individual countries are complying with international agreements aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. For the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/business/12monitor.html?ref=carbondioxide
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Go Green,
Greenfox5
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