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Sign the Home Depot
Petition
If you've watched Fox News,
you probably already know how they're working overtime to prop up the myth
of uncertainty about climate change, calling it a “hoax,” characterizing
climate scientists as "alarmists," and Al Gore as “unhinged." To expose
Fox’s skewed and inaccurate coverage, a grassroots coalition including
the Sierra Club, Brave New Films, and MoveOn.org Civic Action, has launched
a petition campaign targeting Home Depot. Publicly,
Home Depot states that it is serious about protecting the environment, yet it remains one of Fox's major
advertisers. This appears to be a clear conflict in policy and we encourage people to point this out to Home Depot by signing onto the
petition campaign.
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Kent Asked to Become a Cool City
On Wednesday, June 27,
Jessica Eagle and SKCG Chair, Dan Streiffert, met with Kent Mayor
Suzette Cooke (pictured, below right) to discuss Kent becoming a Cool City by developing and implementing a plan to combat climate
change. Also attending the meeting were two fellows from the Kent Environmental
Department, Kelly Peterson and Mike Mactutis, who had been studying up on the issue and were quite
helpful.
Right now, there are over 600 “Cool Cities”
nationwide and the number continues to grow every day! A city is
declared “cool” when the mayor signs the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. This agreement states that the city
will work to meet 7% below the city’s 1990 levels of carbon emissions by
2012. By implementing a plan, cities not only cool their carbon
emissions and other global warming pollution, they will save money
through energy efficiency and create environmental
and healthy
communities. Mayor Cooke is supportive of the program and hopes to put
a plan into action. She charged the city environmental engineers
with
developing a proposal for her to consider. If all goes well, Kent will soon
be Cool City.
Click here to send Mayor Cooke an email, thanking her for considering strong plans to combat global warming by making Kent a Cool
City.
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Fourth of July Splash Festival
This 4th of
July, the Sierra Club was the only environmental organization to set up a
booth at the Kent Fourth of July Splash festival.We were given the spot
right near the entrance where the shuttles dropped families off before
finding their way to the lake. In front of a booth with red, white, and blue banners that said, “Protect America’s
environment: for our families, for the future,” we asked those attending to sign Cool State postcards or do photo petitions using
speech bubbles with messages to Governor Gregoire or Kent Mayor Cooke. A couple of the messages in the photo read, “You go, girl! Make Kent a Cool City," and “Governor Gregoire, protect the future generations….80% Carbon
reductions by 2050.”
Most people were supportive and concerned about global warming and almost everyone who
stopped was willing to sign or take a photo. We had some conversations
about solutions to global warming, such as how to make homes more energy
efficient.
Throughout the day, we talked to several hundred people. We collected just over 200 public
comments supporting clean energy solutions! Many of these people were
especially interested in protecting the planet for future generations.
Overall, this educational event was rewarding and successful!
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