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KC Golden: A Seattle climate hero with global plans

KC Golden, a Seattle environmental organizer and recent winner of a major Heinz Foundation award, has his sights set high.

With election year climate change debate reduced to six-word shout-outs in the hottest recorded year in U.S. history, it was no small surprise when a local clean energy advocate recently received a national award for his work. KC Golden, a policy analyst with Climate Solutions, was awarded $250,000 dollars from the Heinz Foundation last month. The credit, says Golden goes to what he calls ‘the whole ecosystem of people and organizations in the Northwest.’

I want to really strongly emphasize we’re not doing it to just lower the northwest carbon footprint," he says. "We’re not doing it to just hoist our own green flag. We’re doing it to catalyze a global transition in our energy economy because nothing less will do. Nothing less will save the climate."

By Martha Baskin

Full Story: http://crosscut.com/2012/10/01/environment/110748/kc-golden-climate-solutions/

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