Re: [350ma-announce] Fwd: Cambridge City Council Passes Renewable Energy Order -- yay! (350, mo)

[Richard Kerver]

We live in an age of many wonders.  Wonder one is how we (collective humanity) allowed ourselves to get to this juncture of man versus nature, the acceleration of this awesome and terrible climate machine with enough destructive potential to wipe us all out.  Meaning all higher animals, if not the entirety of life itself.  Wonder two is that we understand this, the advancement of science sufficient for our view.  Along with the Internet, so available to all.  Meaning no excuse for non-action.  Wonder three is that Massachusetts, its Commonwealth, cities & towns, people & businesses, largely get it.  Have enacted state & local acts as ways to address the issue (thank you Cambridge).  Wonder four is that it is sssoooooooo sssllooooowwwwww.  The glacial speeds of political action as opposed to the rapid meltdown of the Arctic.  Wonder five is why so many of us tolerate that, amidst our growing intolerance.  Wonder six - the Pope's upcoming encyclical, the moral outrage, the ethical challenge, that may, just may, we hope & pray may be a tipping point for humanity taking a radical new course.  If the tipping point for the climate has not already come & passed.  Blessed be the poor, for theirs is the Eaarth, which we wish them to inherit.    

Thanks for the positive note!  Richard Kerver

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Martha Older <act...@ureach.com> wrote:

/Martha Older

 
 

---- Mike Connolly (mi...@denniscarlone.org) wrote ----

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:07:39 +0000
From: Mike Connolly 
To: M Older 
Subject: City Council Passes Renewable Energy Order

M -

From the Office of Cambridge City Councillor Dennis Carlone, we
just want to send out a note to let folks know that the council
voted this morning to adopt policy order #18, requesting that
the City end its contract with TransCanada (the corporate entity
behind the Keystone XL pipeline) and instead look to partner
with a provider of 100% Renewable Energy for all municipal
operations.

There's lots more about this policy order — and Councillor
Carlone's meeting with Mothers Out Front that inspired it —
right here on our blog:
http://www.denniscarlone.org/dennis_carlone_mothers_out_front_renewable_energy


Thank you to everyone who wrote to the council and/or offered
public comment on this matter.

Mike Connolly
Aide to Councillor Dennis Carlone
http://www.denniscarlone.org/ 


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