Stockbridge Green: The place to get your climate hawk stuff

David Stockbridge Smith is a registered architect who has a green building practice.  He designs bumper stickers on the side that you can buy here.

He and I are looking for a good climate bumpersticker.  Please propose your ideas below — also, vote on and repost the ones you like the best.

Smith will turn the best couple of ideas into actual bumper stickers.

UPDATE:  A compendium to vote on can be found in Comment #69 here.  Here is a mock-up of one of the most popular suggestions:

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Prokaryotes and others can post links here to interesting news/links.   CP will be doing only the barest of news roundups this week.

Thanks to this solar panel, Sara Ruto no longer takes a three-hour taxi ride to a town with electricity to recharge her cellphone.  More photos here.

Beyond Fossil Fuels:  African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

KIPTUSURI, Kenya “” For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market.

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OILPOCALYPSE: The growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is captured in this image from NASA’s (MODIS) instrument aboard the Terra satellite. This natural-color image acquired April 29, 2010 shows a twisting patch of oil nearly 125 km (78 mi) wide. Approximately 4 million barrels (170 million gallons) were released overall. (NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen/University of Wisconsin SSEC)

The headlines of 2010 were driven by fossil fuel disasters “” involving the dangers of extraction or the biblical might of the climate they have polluted. Hundreds of thousands of people died in climate disasters, and hundreds of millions more affected by floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires. Below is a small selection of the most striking and iconic news photography of 2010, from the BP disaster to the Pakistan floods, from Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson.

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