Environmental Coalition Meeting - Wednesday at 7pm - Please RSVP

Written by: TIMOTHY O'Neill on Jan 14, 2007 5:45 PM EST

Linked to groups: Progressive Democracy South Jersey

Attention environmental activists:

The Camden County Environmental Coalition will be meeting this Wednesday, January 17 at 7pm.

One of our members, Sue Wolf has offered to host the meeting at her house. In order to keep her address private, I ask that anyone who would like to attend please RSVP. I will then email the address to you.

Background – The Camden County Environmental Coalition is dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in our townships by convincing our Mayors to sign on to the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement (For more info http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/climate/), and to take real action to reduce their emissions by energy conservation, reducing energy consumption and investing in alternative forms of energy production. We will also be involved in providing information to the community so individuals can reduce their own impact on our environment.

Agenda

At our meeting in December we formulated a plan to convince Mayor Bernie Platt of Cherry Hill to sign onto the Climate Protection Agreement.

1)      Draft a letter to Mayor Platt – David and I have written a rough draft. We still need to work out some questions to finalize our letter to send to the Mayor.

2)      Provide the Mayor with suggestions for Cherry Hill to reduce its emissions

3)      Conduct an emissions inventory in Cherry Hill to determine a target for emissions reduction and where they can be cut.

At the last meeting each of us volunteered for an assignment:

David - draft a letter to the Mayor

Sue – contact Mayor of Maple Shade (already a signatory to the climate protection agreement)

Rita – offered to contact her group at Rutgers to see if they would like to be involved in conducting the emissions inventory

Mike – Work on getting a copy of the software to conduct the emission inventory and contacting Dr. Jansson at Rowan to see if there is anyone there who would teach us how to do the inventory and use the software

We will give updates on our progress and finalize the letter.

For more info on the Climate Protection Agreement go here http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/climate/

Join our yahoo group to stay informed and for more resources.

Join our Yahoo Group at:

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GPCC_Environmental_Coalition/

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