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11 Samantha Putt Del Pino, Ryan Levinson, and John Larsen, Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A
Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management (Washington, D.C.: World Resources
Institute, 2006), p. 9.
12 Roger A. Hinrichs and Merlin Kleinbach, Energy: Its Use and The Environment (New York:
Thompson Learning, 2002).
13 Concentrations of atmospheric CO have risen from 280 parts per million (ppm) in 1850 to
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364 ppm in the late 1990s, the highest concentration on earth in 20 million years.
14 Roger A. Hinrichs and Merlin Kleinbach, Energy: Its Use and The Environment (New York:
Thompson Learning, 2002).
15 Lester R. Brown, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (New York: W.W.
Norton and Company, 2001).
16 Data is from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 1995: The
Science of Climate Change (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
17 See www.epa.gov/climateleaders
18 Samantha Putt Del Pino, Ryan Levinson, and John Larsen, Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A
Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management (Washington, D.C.: World Resources
Institute, 2006), p. 1.
19 Ibid.
20 United States Environmental Protection Agency website.
21 United States Environmental Protection Agency website, http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/
energy-resources/egrid/index.html accessed 3/22/08.
22 Putt Del Pino, et al., p. 9.
23 Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop
Global Warming (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008); Ted Nordhaus and Michael
Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of
Possibility (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007).
24 Jacquelyn A. Ottman, Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation (New York: J. Ottman
Consulting, Inc. 1998), p. 15.