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verhagen airline contraction

climate crisis

THE DELTA/NORTHWEST MERGER:

Choosing Contraction versus Consolidation

By
Frans C. Verhagen, M.Div., M.I.A., Ph.D.,
President, SAVIA Associates International

Sustainability Fellow, Green Institute
4/17/2008

Readers and the climate crisis

climate crisis

A reader shares this with the Green Institute

Dear Vice President Gore,

Watching last summer's July 4 fireworks display (and the smoke rising over Rochester, NY), I realized that we could probably do more to slow global warming by changing how we celebrate our's nation's independence than by all the other things we might do as individuals to reduce our carbon imprint.