Harry Reid recently announced that the climate bill will not be addressed this year. The ethical implications and research beckons us to promptly take prudent action on climate change.
Embracing the issue as civil individuals and acting as a society is among humanity's greatest of challenges. Respected peers at the Sierra Club and Repower America are looking for volunteers, and you can help unite the voices of Michigan's communities to bring and keep a good bill back onto the national agenda until it has become law.
As informed citizens, we can charge our representatives to hold the national legislation accountable to its people and the well being of our global community--biotic and abiotic.
Furthermore, we can also demand that the legislation includes appropriate solutions to meet the challenges of climate change. We are the people, this is our democracy. We are all members of the UM community, we are the leaders and the best.
Sincerely,
Ian D. Tran
-
President, The Student Environmental Association at The University of Michigan-Dearborn
p.s.
I'd feel irresponsible if I urged you to action without providing some credible resources and thoughtful analysis, here's a link to a sustainability project called "The Story of Stuff" by a thoughtful and articulate activist named Annie Leonard. She nicely communicates the cap and trade system and things we can do to strengthen the bill in a video, and the transcript has citations for her sources: http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/
You can view some of my thoughts and supplements here on the blog concerning some of the organizations listed above, metrics for political efficacy, and recommendations for useful classes offered at UM-Dearborn.
Date: Tuesday, July 27
Time: 5:45-8:30pm
Location: 333 West 7th Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067
2nd Floor - Parking in the rear
Contact: Ashley Dowser (248) 494-1504
Time: 6-8pm
Location: 5820 Gratiot Road, Saginaw 48638 (entrance at back)
Contact: Aaron Brown (989) 252-1031
Time: 5-9pm (please join us for part or all of this time!)
Location: Repower Dearborn Office, 4917 Schaefer, Dearborn 48126
Parking/entrance is in the rear. Office on the second floor.
Contact: Trevor Tutro-Anderson - (716) 816-6389
Date: Wednesday July 28
Time: 5-7pm
Location: 5820 Gratiot Road, Saginaw 48638 (entrance at back)
Contact: Aaron Brown (989) 252-1031
Time: 6-8pm
Location: 161 Ottawa Ave. NW Suite. 206, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Contact: Zane Corriveau (616) 706-7904
Time: 6-7:30pm
Location: UFCW Hall, 876 Horace Brown Dr, Madison Heights 48071
Front Conference Room
Contact: August Gitschlag (586) 360-7854
Time: 6-8:30pm
Location: Michigan Land Use Institute, 148 E. Front Street, Suite 301, Traverse
City 49684
Contact: Kevin Numerick (517) 974-6580
Date: Thursday, July 29
Time: 5:45-8:30pm
Location: 333 West 7th Street, Royal Oak, 48067
2nd Floor - Parking in the rear
Contact: Ashley Dowser (248) 494-1504
Time: 6-8pm
Location: 161 Ottawa Ave. NW Suite. 206, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Contact: Zane Corriveau (616) 706-7904
Time: 5-9pm (please join us for part or all of this time!)
Location: Repower Dearborn Office, 4917 Schaefer, Dearborn 48126
Parking/entrance is in the rear. Office on the second floor.
Contact: Trevor Tutro-Anderson - (716) 816-6389
Time: 6-8:30pm
Location: Michigan Land Use Institute, 148 E. Front Street, Suite 301, Traverse
City 49684
Contact: Kevin Numerick (517) 974-6580
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: AFL-CIO 419 S. Washington Square, Lansing 48933
Contact: Aaron Quinney (517) 402-6523
Time: 6:30-8pm
Location: Whiskey In The Jar, 2741 Yemans St, Hamtramck 48212
Contact: August Gitschlag (586) 360-7854
Date: Friday, July 30
Time: 6-8pm
Location: AFL-CIO 419 S. Washington Square, Lansing 48933
Contact: Aaron Quinney (517) 402-6523
No comments:
Post a Comment