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Dear Friends,


In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly celebrated the first designated World Water Day. It is a means of “focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocacy for the sustainable management of freshwater resources”. (un.org)


In the past, West Michigan has been under-represented. To this end, a small group of grass-root organizers are organizing an event over the weekend of March 20,21, and of course on World Water Day itself. These events are spread across Muskegon and Ottawa counties.


The goals of this celebration include

• Celebrate the Great Lakes and the important part they play in the larger scope of the World’s water supply.

• Bring awareness that we, as global citizens, have an awesome responsibility as stewards of the water.


We are inviting spiritual leaders, community groups, and others to come together Sunday March 22nd between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 in Grand Haven to “Speak for the Water”. We are calling all those who are interested and willing to offer a song, poem, teaching or prayer for the water and environment, to help meet our goals.


We would like to add your voice to the list. Do you, your faith community, or organization, have a message of hope and protection of the planet and water to share? If not and it is possible, we are also asking for financial support for the event. We are taking donations through paypal by donating at lakeshorewp@gmail.com.

Contact Shannon Donley to add your voice to ours for the water.

Shannon’s contact information:616-304-2099 or e-mail lakeshorewp@gmail.com.

Good afternoon,


I grew up in Michigan. I now live in Arizona and I am a Phoenix public school teacher. I recently published a children’s book about helping the earth. My dad who still lives locally illustrated it. Do you ever work with local authors and illustrators?


Here is a link to my book:


https://smile.amazon.com/Call-Upon-Fairies-Cristin-Dougherty/dp/1710998970/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=call+upon+the+fairies&qid=1575643380&sr=8-1


Thank you for your time :)


Sincerely,

Cristin Dougherty

I and the League of Women Voters of the Lansing Area are trying to get the City of Lansing — Mayor and Council - to adopt a Climate Emergency Resolution, create a sustainability manager position, create a climate action plan, form an advisory environmental board, and appoint commissioners to the Lansing Board of Water and Light that have a utility and/or renewables/pro-sustainability background (2 will be appointed this year for a July 1 start) You put our Resolution in your “News” Can you help us promote these goals with the City of Lansing. I’ll be speaking at the Council meeting at 7 pm this coming Monday January 13 and hope to get some additional bodies to show up in support. Can you help? Elaine Fischhoff, ElaineDiFi@gmail.com, 517 449-9713

We would like to invite you to attend “9th World Climate Congress & Expo” which will be scheduled on April 06-07 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Based on your knowledge and expertise we would like to invite you as a Speaker/Delegate/Workshop/Exhibitor/Sponsors for our conference.

Please visit the website:

https://climatecongress.conferenceseries.com/

We are looking forward for your response.


Thanks & Regards

Will Smith

Program Manager | Climate Congress & Expo 2020

April 06-07 | Bangkok, Thailand

Call/Whatsapp: +44 1797 290013

I just signed up to be at Grand Rapids tomorrow Friday. This will ask for 5-6 minutes at the mike to give an update on the Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan. We submitted 271,000 voter signatures to the Secretary of State for a 2020 ballot initiative a year ago, and she returned them without canvassing or counting. Our initiative language would require state oil-gas regulators to protect climate, a task they do not even claim do under the current law, enacted in 1939. Also the initiative would ban horizontal fracking and its waste in the state. No other state statute or pending bill requires regulators to protect climate. We filed our brief in the Michigan Court of Appeals last month. Download it at http://letsbanfracking.lorg/lawsuit . I gave a similar talk at the Traverse City climate rally in September. Thank you.

Please visit www.buyrenewablesnow.com. It uses a new idea to reduce global warming/climate change.

Hello MI Climate Action,


I’m a student working on a new gamified way to make volunteers and supporters more engaged with any campaign (for free of course).


Would you have any time to talk to me on Friday?


Sincerely,

Josh

Dear Colleagues,


I work on the marketing and communications team in the University of Michigan School of Public Health. It’s good to meet you!


We recently published online an article titled Climate Matters in Michigan: Pressing Realities for a State and a Region and wanted to pass it along in case you were interested in sharing it. publichealth.umich.edu/pursuit/2019posts/climate-matters-in-michigan.html

It is a discussion among five colleagues about what climate change will mean for the state of Michigan’s environment and its people.


You are more than welcome to repost this on your site, and we can provide images at different dimensions as needed


Thanks so much, and please let me know if you have any questions.

-Josh Messner

Partnership Program Contact Request


Please let us know who to contact regarding a possible member/subscriber benefit. partnership.

Thank you!


Warmly yours,

Paul M. Munsen

SUN OVENS INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Web site: www.sunoven.com

Dear people dedicated to eliminating Climate Change,


IMPORTANT!! Millions of people around the world have organized rallies to fight Climate Change. Yet, they are IGNORANT of two of the greatest technological discoveries of our era that will eliminate the threat of Climate Change and poverty. These millions of people NEED to be informed by reading Section 3.0 of http://www.nicholasginex.com/2018/04/15/everything-has-a-beginning-even-the-universe/


You need to help educate and inform people world-wide that there is a solution that has NOT been disclosed but kept secret by the military and aerospace corporations in the United States.


Also read the CONCLUSIONS of the paper.


Let me know how I may help your cause further.


Sincerely, Nicholas

Is any climate group in Michigan considering a petition drive to place a measure on the ballot? DTE is doing everything possible to deter customers from installing solar, etc., and the PSC won’t stop them. A ballot measure to establish “energy freedoms” would also help to drive pro-enviro turnout in 2020. I am a veteran of the 2014 Climate March in NYC and also an experienced leader of ballot proposal drives.

The Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition is organizing a Kalamazoo Climate Strike with a program from 3-6pm on September 20 at the Arcadia Festival Site.

I attempted to make another donation & the site would not accept.

The American Garden Party has the solutions. Embrace the liquid nitrogen economy. Ban Roundup. Shut down the nuke sites. Stopper the pipelines and abandon the grid. LN is a biocide and

Energy Storage Solution. Universally abundant and bending. We have to hurry. There is a tipping point

We’re looking for workshop presenters and panelists for a youth conference on climate change on October 26th. Please contact us if you are interested.

I am a member of an environmental justice group, and we are looking for a speaker on the science of climate change. Can you help ? Thanks,

Izzy

What is being organized in support of the 21Youth suing the federal government over climate change – Juliana v US? They have an important court date June 4th and need support! The government has been doing all it can to stop them! There will be a livestream of the oral arguments June 4th. Please spread the word, organize a support statement or press conference, join the livestream…. Please support this brave youth!

I belong to the Huron Valley Indivisible group, a progressive grass roots organization. One of our concerns is climate change and the environment. We have approximately 300 members who are willing to call, write, and visit legislators to voice our concerns on many issues. We also write letters to the editors of local papers. Please contact me about how we can help. Thanks, Jeff

Hello,

My name is Nevaeh and I am a student at Grand Blanc West Middle School. I’m in 8th grade and I am doing a research project on environmental impacts caused by humans. Part of my research requires me to connect with and talk to a person who is knowledgeable about my topic, and I thought of you! Would answering a few of my questions be something you might consider either on the phone or via email. If so, I have listed my questions below:


Do you personally believe global warming is causing the differences in our ecosystem/atmosphere?

If you don’t believe global warming is happening, what do you believe is happening?

What changes are you progressively seeing that worry you the most? Why?

If there is one thing humans could do to solve this problem, what do you suggest?

What do you think will happen if we do nothing?

Is there anything else you think I should know or use in my research project?


Thank you for your time!

Are you guys following this project? NIMBYs might cause it to fail?

http://www.summitlakewind.com/about-the-project/project-summary/

https://savethehuronmountains.org/contact/

Greetings,


The League of Women Voters – Oakland Area is hosting an event that may be of interest to your members. We would be glad to welcome all. If possible, please promote this event on your website, facebook page, newsletter or other means.


Below is some more information. Thank you for your consideration.


Charlie Carpenter

LWV-OA Program Committee


Oil and Water Don’t Mix

Tuesday, April 2, 7:00 to 8:30 PM

Bloomfield Township Public Library

1099 Lone Pine Rd (at Telegraph Rd), Bloomfield Township


The League of Women Voters – Oakland Area will host Sean McBrearty, Coordinator, Oil and Water Don’t Mix. The event will be held at the Bloomfield Township Library Auditorium from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.


Sean will speak about environmental concerns relating to the Enbridge Oil Company Line 5, the 655-mile-long pipeline which carries synthetic crude oil through Michigan. Of special concern is the damaged pipeline which has been submerged in the Straits of Mackinac since 1953 and is still in use today.


Sean will also update the audience about the status of Governor Whitmer’s January 2, 2019 directive to Attorney General Nessel to investigate legislation passed during the lame duck session following the November election. The Governor’s directive authorizes investigation into whether the legislation, which approved construction of a Line 5 Tunnel under the Straits, complies with the state constitution.


Finally, Sean will talk with the group about newly created volunteer opportunities with Clean Water Action in Oakland County.

What volunteer opportunities are there for MiCAN or other climate change action organizations in Ann Arbor?

I am using the three-minute public comments portion of our Antrim County Commissioners monthly meetings to say various things to them about climate change. My first brief comments asked them to consider themselves — in every action they take — part of the solution rather than just bystanders in this challenge, truly an all-hands-on-deck situation. They meet twice a month, and I plan to address them at least once a month. I believe either by their rules of procedure or just tradition, they do not immediately respond. If they are motivated to act, there are things a county commission can do vis-a-vis climate change.If you think this is a good idea to do in other counties, even if you do not have an in-county organization that can do this, you can probably find in most (many?) counties (and cities?) an individual who is as concerned as I am, willing to do a little research (you could probably help there), and willing to stick his/her neck out slightly. All they (we) need to be is informative, reasonably articulate, and persistent. By the way, it looks like our local newspaper (The Antrim Review) is going to publish my comments as letters-to-the-editor. What do you think?

I really want to volunteer for this, I was think on maybe do something like get some flyers and go to a mall and explain to people about climate change, because they don’t really know how bad the climate change is being right now. Also let them know what changes, like easy and changes that they might be able to do on their daily life to help.

I am writing to encourage all Michiganders to contact Senator Stabenow (email Debbie: https://www.stabenow.senate.gov/contact) to ask her to support new amendments to the Natural Gas Act that will help landowners facing pipelines.


These simple and reasonable amendments would make the FERC process fairer for landowners by addressing things like notice, conditioned certificates and property appraisals used for eminent domain condemnation.


Please contact me to get a copy of the amendments or go to https://www.abralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Libertarian-group-eyes-eminent-domain-reform-on-Capitol-Hill-EE-News-Energywire-2-14-18.pdf for more information about the amendments written by our friends at the Libertarian Niskanen Center (who, unlike conservatives captured by the oil and gas industry, are willing to stand up for property rights). Their lobbyist is meeting with Senator Stabenow shortly so time is of the essence.


I am happy to jump on the phone to explain more and would love it if you could help spread the message or lead me to others in Michigan whom I can contact. We are based in NY and have members all over the country (OR, PA, VA, NJ, GA, SC, TX) fighting pipelines but no one in Michigan.


I would deeply appreciate any help you could give and am happy to offer the same to you and your state when needed.


In solidarity,


Rebekah


Rebekah Sale

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Executive Director

Property Rights and Pipeline Center

PropertyRightsandPipelineCenter.org

O: 212-378-4099 C: 917-940-5421

Hey I am trying to create a protest in Oakland County for the March 15th global climate strike and I need some help. I was hoping to host it at my university, but do not know how to get started.

Just for your information. Cadillac is having a Earth Day Activity on Sunday April 28th Time 1:00 – 4:00 hopefully in the new farmers market pavilion. We are trying to focus renewable energy and sustainability.

My students are creating a documentary on how humans interact with the environment. Is there a way to have a speaker come to my classroom so they could interview them for their project by chance? or do you have ideas on how I could have my students communicate with environmentalists? Thank you in advance.