nod to mom January 17, 2007

Today is a great day, here’s why.  My mother and I have not always seen eye-to-eye on things, but today I received the below email from her which leads me to believe that while it will take a miracle to stop this crisis, miracles can and do happen.  Case in point: here I sit in agreement with everything my mother is saying - while I’m thinking, “I could not have said it better myself.”  (Incidentally it doesn’t hurt that she happens to be an accomplished environmental consultant.)

“Scientists launched a bid today to save some of the world’s rarest and most neglected creatures from extinction.

There are many international intitatives, but the U.S. is not leading the way on this except in per-capita greenhouse emissions (hmmm).  It’s time we get on with recognizing our responsibility and changing the way we do things. Largest contributors are power industry and automobiles, next some industry and agriculture and us.  It will take all working together to turn this ship called earth.

I’m going to be setting up  an email group on this. Let me know if you are interested in seeing and thinking about (and maybe even acting on) these things Vanessa has already set up a blog (Ness will you email that address to us when you can?).   Suzanne and I are going to the next Green-Lex meeting to see how we can get more involved here at home.

The April 14 “Step it Up” day (to impress  the upon national, state and local law makers the urgent need to take immediate measures to “cool” the planet) is interestingly a day when Jamisen will be in Washington DC on a school trip.  I am expecting that there will be something here in Lex as well. You may want to see what is going on with this in your community.

I encourage all to get on the Stop  Global Warming website and join the virtual march against global warming. And, see an Inconvenient Truth if you have not already.You can also check out EPAs site and reports to see some tabulations and explanations of federally tracked trends.” 
Thanks Mom!