[Climate Action Project News] CAP new meeting location and more

[Jennifer Berman]

Dear All,

Please note new meeting location, at the Arcata Library Conference Room.  We plan to make these mostly short committee reports, with time for committee work after.  We would like to build up our core group - so please come and see what we have going on!

 

Thanks, Jennifer

 

Jennifer Berman
Redwood Alliance Climate Action Project
707-822-6171 climat...@redwoodalliance.org
CAP meets 2nd and 4th Mondays, 5:30-7:00 pm
Arcata Public Library Conference Room
500 7th St. Arcata
http://redwoodalliance.org/

 

Local

 

Monday, Sept 24th, 5:30- 7:00 CAP New Meeting Location!!!    Arcata Public Library Conference Room, 500 7th St. Arcata.  We'll work on Focus the Nation, Cities for Climate Protection, and other local climate advocacy.

 

Focus The Nation        HSU FocustheNation is gearing up - check out the national efforts, and consider getting involved locally. HSU FTN meets in Nelson Hall East, 7 pm on Thursdays.  www.focusthenation.org and http://groups.google.com/group/hsufocusthenation/

 

Deadline Friday, September 28th - Comments on Highway 101 corridor project    Read GreenWheels work on this and submit comments: http://www.green-wheels.org/. 

 

Month of September - Get involved with the General Plan Update Process - Attend a Land Use Map Workshop  

http://co.humboldt.ca.us/planning/Prop50/prop%2050%20meetings/announcement%20all%20meetings%202.pdf

 

Use Local Public Transportation: try out the new Google Transit Planner created by GreenWheels member, Aaron Antrim

http://www.google.com/transit

 

Action Alerts

 

Urge Congress to Pass a Strong Energy Bill

http://ucsaction.org/campaign/09_07_07_energy_bill

 

Fight Mountaintop Removal Mining   

http://www.environmental-action.org/enviroaction.asp?id=2435&id4=ES

 

News and Events

 

Rally in D.C. to protest Bush Climate Policies  http://www.climateemergency.org/joomla/  

 

Latest Climate News        http://www.eesi.org/publications/Newsletters/CCNews/9.14.07%20CCNews.htm

 

 

Take 45 seconds to view this video from The Alliance for Climate Protection: http://www.climateprotect.org/ah12

 

Great Article:

Consider Using the N-Word Less

Voluntary actions didn't get us civil rights, and they won't fix the climate

Strange but true: Energy-efficient light bulbs and hybrid cars are hurting our nation's budding efforts to fight global warming.

More precisely, every time an activist or politician hectors the public to voluntarily reach for a new bulb or spend extra on a Prius, ExxonMobil heaves a big sigh of relief.

Scientists now scream the news about global warming: it's already here and could soon, very soon, bring tremendous chaos and pain to our world. The networks and newspapers have begun running urgent stories almost daily: The Greenland ice sheet is vanishing! Sea levels are rising! Wildfires are out of control! Hurricanes are getting bigger!

But what's the solution? Most media sidebars and web links quickly send us to that peppy and bright list we all know so well, one vaguely reminiscent of Better Homes and Gardens: "10 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet." Standard steps include: change three light bulbs. Consider a hybrid car for your next purchase. Tell the kids to turn out the lights. Even during the recent Al Gore-inspired Live Earth concerts, the phrase "planetary emergency" was followed by "wear more clothes indoors in winter" and "download your music at home to save on the shipping fuel for CDs."

Nice little gestures all, but are you kidding me? Does anyone think this is the answer?

Continue reading at http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/09/04/change_redux/index.html

Discuss this article on the CCAN Blog, www.chesapeakeclimate.org/blog

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