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Climate Action Summit: Local Action Against Global Warming

March 20th, 2008 by Vihar Sheth
Posted in Climate Action Summit, Climate Change

On March 8, 2008 I attended the Sierra Club / Missouri Coalition for the Environment sponsored Climate Action Summit. I was going to provide a summary of the key points and my thoughts related to them - and still might - but the Missouri Coalition for the Environment put up a summary page on their site that includes audio of each speaker’s presentation plus his or her presentation, if one was used. I’ve reproduced part of the page below so you can see who spoke. You can visit the link above to get more information but check back on this topic because I might still summarize what I learned from each speaker.

  • Henry Robertson, Sierra Club Energy Chair - “Cool Cities and Citizen Action”
  • Dennis Murphey, Kansas City Chief Environmental Officer - “Development and Implementation of the Kansas City Climate Action Plan”
  • Jay Hasheider, Columbia Water & Light - “Energy Conservation and Efficiency for Municipalities”
  • Linda Goldstein, Mayor of Clayton - “Clayton’s Action on Climate Change and U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Summit Report”
  • Tim Embree, Assistant to Mayor Francis Slay - “St. Louis’s Action on Climate Change”
  • Rick Hunter, St. Louis Chapter, US Green Building Council - “Green Building Solutions to Combat Climate Change”
  • Liz Forrestal, Missouri Votes Conservation - “Towards a Regional Sustainability Plan”
  • PJ Wilson, Renew Missouri - Optional Info Session on Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) Ballot Initiative. Visit Renew Missouri to get involved.

The Renew Missouri link will take you to a website for the effort to get renewable energy on the ballot this November. Over 20 states have separately mandated a certain percentage of the energy consumed in those states must come from X% renewable resources by certain dates. I believe MO aims to have 15% renewable energy by 2021 but don’t quote me on that. The effort needs 140,000 or so petition signatures by the end of April to get the measure on the ballot. I volunteered to help, though I’ve been admittedly useless to the campaign thus far - aside from this post of course. More on that later.



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