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Use Zoomer to zoom in on useful tips and news about the environment
in your neighborhood. Find out where to take old paint cans.
Check out the day's pollen count. Learn about local wildlife.
Get the scoop here —
it's free!
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Worldwide discoveries of amphibians
total 5,743 species. Since 1980, over 120 of these species have gone
extinct. Currently, 43% (2,469 species) are in decline and 32% are threatened.
This list doesn’t include the worldwide extinct and endangered
mammals, birds, butterflies, and just about any category of living organism.
Ohio has hundreds of endangered species, including amphibians such as
the eastern hellbender. We have 23 endangered fish, 24 endangered mussels,
and numerous mammals, birds, butterflies, moths, etc. Ohio’s endangered
plants outnumber any of these. In response to the worldwide
amphibian decline, the Amphibian Specialist Group of The
World Conservation Union (IUCN) has declared 2008 as the
Year of the Frog. The main goal is to generate public awareness
and highlight ways that people help. A consortium of more
than two dozen northeast
Ohio groups, spearheaded by Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, is
organizing 40 or more events, programs, and activities
during 2008 in a regional campaign
called “Leap into Action,” including the creation of new
habitat for amphibians in the region...Read
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Solving Global Warming One City at a Time
 “Solving
global warming one city at a time” is more than just
a slogan. Right now cities are where the action is and where
real solutions are being put to work. One of the brightest
lights of this exciting movement is
the U.S. Mayors Climate
Protection Agreement, which is the
inspiration for the Sierra Club’s Cool
Cities campaign.
Initiated by Seattle Mayor
Greg Nickels in
February 2005, the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
has been signed by 710 mayors representing millions of Americans
in all 50 states (as of November 2007). These mayors have
pledged to reduce global warming carbon dioxide pollution in
their cities to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 (the same
reductions and target date
called for under
the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Treaty).
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The following Northeast Ohio mayors have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement:
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Brooklyn, OH,
Mayor Kenneth E. Patton
"I want my grandchildren to be able to breath good clean air!"
- Mayor Kenneth E. Patton, Brooklyn, OH
- Cleveland, OH, Mayor Frank G. Jackson
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Cleveland Heights, OH,
Mayor Edward J. Kelley
- Garfield Heights, OH,
Mayor Thomas J. Longo
- North Olmsted, OH, Mayor Thomas O'Grady
"It is time for action. I am proud to join with my fellow mayors, and others, in taking action to protect our environment and our future."
- Thomas O'Grady, North Olmsted, OH
- South Euclid, OH, Mayor Georgine Welo
- Akron, OH, Mayor
Donald L. Plusquellic
- Westlake, OH, Mayor
Dennis Clough
Many of the 710 mayors are moving forward with innovative
energy solutions that cut our dependence on oil, benefit
public health, and save taxpayer dollars. Most of these cities,
however, do not yet have a real action plan to meet their
reduction targets by 2012.
That’s where you come in. The Cool Cities campaign is about getting mayors around the country to sign the US Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement and then put real policies in place that will cut heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Learn more about the Cool Cities Campaign and how you can get involved in your city...
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As
we continue into the Year
of the Frog, a worldwide effort to spread awareness of loss
of species, we would like to highlight the joy of and concerns
about our winged visitors. Beginning at the end of February, our
regional spring bird migration occurs in waves, peaking in early
May with the neotropical songbirds. But, reminiscent of the warnings
of Silent Spring, many of these birds, including common birds that
nest in our region, are threatened by human actions once again...
