[GPSCC-chat] Fw: [350 SV Chat] Fwd: YOUR CHANCE to motivate Congress on climate legislation...
Caroline Yacoub
carolineyacoub at att.net
Fri Mar 21 20:04:53 PDT 2014
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Subject: [350 SV Chat] Fwd: YOUR CHANCE to motivate Congress on climate legislation...
Are you all getting this? Looks like a very good effort to
support.
Bill Cutler
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> From: pdrich350 at gmail.com
>To: pdrich350 at gmail.com
>Sent: 3/20/2014
6:01:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
>Subj: YOUR CHANCE to motivate Congress
on climate legislation...
>
> Our Monthly Congressional Initiative this month, involves….
>
>….calling into House and Senate committees or sub-committee chairs in the Majority/ranking members in the Minority,
>on CLIMATE BILLS they each are handling…
>
>BY CALLING 7 NUMBERS into Washington DC, you can ask that these bills move forward, while SHARING THIS:
>
>ONE - there is a new website created by Professor Jacobson at Stanford, on how all 50 states can go 100% renewable by 2030. Check it our yourself - www.theSolutionsProject.org .
>His team of fellow professors, 2 at Cornell and 1 at UC Davis, were challenged by actor turned activist, Mark Ruffalo, wanting to have push back on the fracking industry in rural upstate NY where he makes his home with his young family. Filmmaker Josh Fox is in this mix now, as well.
>
>TWO - that the American Association for the Advancement of Science, just issued a What We Know report, that states immediate action is necessary to avert irreversible climate chaos - the strongest statement ever made on a policy level, from scientists.
>More action will follow from this group, with membership of over 120 thousand scientists and science supporters.
>
>I have called these 7 numbers myself already: the reception has been MOST POSITIVE!
>
>CALL #1 - to Senator Boxer's office (D - CA), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW). She lets you leave a message directly to her, at 202-224-3553. Your call is concerning S332 - known as the Climate Protect Act, which puts a price on carbon, with a fee and dividend approach, endorsed by leading US climatologist James Hansen, and the Citizens Climate Lobby. She co-authored this bill with Senator Sanders (I - VT).
>
>CALL #2 - to Senator Vitter's office (R - LA), new ranking member of the EPW cmte, S332 - see above. His office number is 202-224-4623.
>
>CALL #3 - to the office of the Senate Committee on Finance, chaired by Senator Wyden (D - OR), with ranking minority member Senator Hatch (R - UT). This call is about the bill, S329 which cuts subsidies to Fossil Fuel, which President Obama has been asking for, since he ran as a presidential candidate. The number to call is 202-224-5244.
>
>CALL # 4 - to the office of Senator Hatch - see details above - at 202-224-5251.
>
>CALL #5 - is to the House Cmte on Natural Resources, Majority Office, chaired by Rep Doc Hastings (R - WA), concerning bill HR2956 - Ending Welfare to Oil. It is the House counterpart to S329. The phone number to call is 202-225-2761.
>
>CALL # 6 - is to the House Cmte on Natural Resources, Minority Office, headed by ranking member Peter DeFazio (D - OR). See details above. The number to call is 202-225-6065.
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>CALL #7 - is to the subcmte of the House Ways and Means Cmte, Energy and Mineral Resources. The subcmte office handles both the Majority and Minority staff. The bill HR 2956 -Ending Welfare to Oil - is going through this 2nd committee, chaired by Rep Lamborn (R - CO) and its minority ranking member is Rush Holt (D - NJ). The number to call is 202-225-2761.
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>SUGGESTED SCRIPT -
>
>I am calling as an effort going on with the Transition Express Campaign, based in Danville CA.
>We are making calls onto Capitol Hill, urging passage of climate bills in both the House and Senate.
>The urgency is due to new efforts by a team of professors at Stanford, Cornell and UC Davis,
>issuing blueprints for all 50 states to go 100% renewable by 2030.
>The details can be found at www.theSolutionsProject.org .
>Emphasize there is an s at the end of Solutions.
>Make reference to the bill you are calling about.
>
>Second point: that the American Assoc for Advancemt of Science issued this past week,
>the urgency for the US govt to take bolder action to avert irreversible climate chaos,
>in their What We Know report. This is the first policy-focused action they have ever taken.
>They plan more action soon, from this group that has membership of over 120 thousand scientists and science supporters.
>
>Share your name and city and state. Thank them for passing this on to (legislator's name) and staff.
>
>
>Feel free to take action anytime in the next week on this, even leaving messages over the weekend.
>We welcome learning if you took this action - if so - contact me. Thank you!
>
>
>my best - Polly Rich, aka Priscilla
>
>
>PS - see more details in links below, in my signature.
>
>Priscilla Rich, founder&Exec Dir/Transition Express Campaign/Atlas Awards - Danville CA
>www.TransitionExpress.vpweb.com - an advocacy group, promoting low carbon lifestyles by 2020, with focus on 100% Organics/Renewables movement, building Climate Teams city by city
>
>NEW - petition to Congress asking for a Federal Budget that makes us sustainable by 2030
>http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-pass-a-budget-1
>
>NEW - now published, all 50 state blueprints, showing how each can go 100% Renewable,
>by 2030 - www.theSolutionsProject.org - affiliated with Stanford University
>
>for inspiring our new BeTheExample campaign-within-a-campaign, an Einstein quote:
>'Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.'
>
>announcing 2 new websites - www.AtlasAwards.vpweb.com and www.BeTheExample.vpweb.com -
>presenting climate heroes yearly, and building climate teams locally - 2013 ATLAS AWARDEES still getting posted...
>
>www.LowCarbonPledge.vpweb.com - how all Americans can move towards clean energy - now 17 ways
>www.RethinkingEnergy.vpweb.com - affordable way to do energy retrofits on homes
>www.SolvingClimateThreat.vpweb.com - national action - see the latest!
>www.SustainableDesign.vpweb.com - resources on energy efficiency/clean energy/climate change
>www.WorkingGreen.vpweb.com - ideas for creating a unique career in the new green economy
>
>for those creating Climate Teams to speak to your mayor/city or town council...
>
>www.go100percent.org- campaign effort of Renewables 100 Policy Institute, Santa Monica CA
>www.renewables100.org- main website of institute listed immediately above
>www.theSolutionsProject.org- Stanford U. Environment Engineering Professor Mark Z Jacobson's upcoming website, based on his team's study for state by state blueprints to go 100% - sign up for updates
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-clark/mark-z-jacobson-renewable-energy_b_2859518.html - the back story on the Jacobson et al studies, state by state, to go 100% renewable
>http://www.nationofchange.org/letterman-interviews-stanford-professor-about-us-transitioning-100-renewable-energy-1382622274 - Professor Jacobson on Letterman show, Oct 2013 - making clear 2020 is when we need to have policies in place to go 100% renewable, in time
>
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