World Climate
Awareness Day
In conjunction with “350.org”
Workshops and Write-a-thon
Saturday, 24 October 2009 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
First Unitarian Church Parish House, Providence.
Want to help tackle the world climate crisis?
Join us for a morning
of workshops and a write-a-thon as part of 350.Org's World Climate Awareness
Day.
Our event's objective is to raise
awareness about the need to reduce atmospheric CO2 from the current level of
388 PPM (parts per million) to less than 350 PPM, the safe upper limit for CO2.
Join the following
workshop leaders as they describe methods to limit our own CO2 emissions, push
for large scale policy change, and affect public opinion through networking and
media OpEd pieces.
Dr. Polly Walker - Associate Director, John Hopkins Center for
a Livable Future, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Topic - How Individual Food Choices
can Impact Our Environment.
Mr. David Brown - Independent Energy Consultant –
Topic - Home Energy Conservation
Strategies
Mr. Robert Whitcomb - Providence Journal Editorial Editor,
Topic - How to Write an OpEd Piece
and Get It Published
Dr. David W. Oliver - Phd. MIT Physics, Corporate Strategy Consultant and
Environmental Policy Activist
Topic - Must Have Standards in
Energy Legislation
Mr. Ben Schreckinger and Mr. Sydney Ember- Brown University
Students
Topic - Using the New Media to Build Public Opinion
Take action on what
you learn at the workshops by participating in a write-a-thon held throughout
the morning. Use speaking
points to craft your own letters or base your thoughts on model letters urging
President Obama to establish enforceable emission standards reducing CO2 to
less than 350 PPM by the year 2050 at the December 2009 Copenhagen World
Climate Conference.
Knowledgeable letter
writers will be encouraged to include suggestions on how CO2 reduction can be
accomplished with measures such as national policies requiring replacement of
fossil fuels with renewable energy technology and energy conservation measures.
Participants will
leave the event with a better idea of both what to do individually and how to
advocate for policy change in reducing CO2 emissions.
