Today, June 5th, is The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Environment Day.  World Environment Day was established to bring global attention and political action to issues surrounding the environment. This year’s slogan is “Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy.“ As Americans, this slogan should really be more relevant than ever as the Senate has scheduled a “cloture” vote to end the filibuster on the Climate Security Act tomorrow morning.

Over the last 7+ years, the United States has stood idle while the rest of the developed world has come together and fought to stop climate change. As the Bush era nears its close, there is an opportunity for the U.S. to join the fight and it is time for Americans to speak up. Environmental Defense has launched Operation Climate Vote to raise awareness and support for this historic global warming legislation. What can you do?

Here are a few ideas for starters…

1. Visit Environmental Defense to learn more

2. Email your Senators and urge them to vote YES on cloture

3. Give your Senators a call: Dial 1-800-927-6464 to be patched directly through.

4. Tell all your friends to take action.

Let’s make it happen!

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Wood Turner and the Climate Counts team have published the second annual Climate Counts Company Scorecard earlier today. In June 2007, Climate Counts released its first round of scores covering 56 consumer companies rating those companies on their commitment to fighting climate change. The 22 question scoring system assesses company actions in 4 key areas:

- Review of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

- Reduction of GHG emissions

- Policy Stance

- Reporting

This year, the average overall company score increased by 22%, to 39 out of 100 (up from 30 out of 100 last year). The biggest gainer was Google with a 38 point increase. 4 companies in the food services sector (Yum! Brands, Burger King, Darden Restaurants and Wendy’s) stand out the most for their inaction this year
and last year as well. All continue to have scores of 0 or 1 out of 100. The overall results are inspiring as 84% of companies improved their scores compared to last year.

At Greenzer, we’re working with Climate Counts on innovative solutions to make environmentally responsible shopping decisions easier for consumers. We have also included the Climate Counts scores of select electronics brands in the calculation of the Greenzer Score. (The Greenzer Scores will reflect the new Climate Counts data later today) Click here to read more

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The Greenzer team is extremely excited to bring you the Greenzblog!  While we continue building Greenzer.com, we have launched this blog to cover cool green products and ideas we are finding along the way.

For all the gas-guzzlers and Fiji water-drinkers, this is a first step to a greener you - the you that did that national park clean-up community service project in 5th grade. Let me not kid you here, the answer to the world’s environmental, economic and geopolitical issues isn’t green shopping but it’s a step in the right direction. There are things that we want to help you consider when you do make shopping decisions - things such as energy-efficiency, recyclability, sustainability and other important environmental considerations.

We want to make the content as relevant as possible so drop us a line to tell us what you’d like to read about and we’ll try to include it. greenzblog[at]greenzer[dot]com

Happy Greenzing!

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