Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Copenhagen Summit petition online to help motivate world leaders to do the right thing
Urgent - Crisis in Copenhagen
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Dear Friends,
With three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing.
Tomorrow, the world's leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees.
Click below to sign the petition for a real deal in Copenhagen -- the campaign already has a staggering 10 million supporters - let's make it the largest petition in history in the next 72 hours! Every single name is actually being read out at the summit -- sign on at the link below and forward this email to everyone!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen
An Avaaz team is meeting daily with negotiators inside the summit who will organize a spectacular petition delivery to world leaders as they arrive, building a giant wall of boxes of names and reading out the names of every person who signs. With the largest petition in history, leaders will have no doubt that the whole world is watching.
Millions watched the Avaaz vigil inside the summit on TV yesterday, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu told hundreds of delegates and assembled children:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen
With hope,
Ricken, Alice, Ben, Paul, Luis, Iain, Veronique, Graziela, Pascal, Paula, Benjamin, Raj, Raluca, Taren, David, Josh and the whole Avaaz team.
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With three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing.
Tomorrow, the world's leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees.
Click below to sign the petition for a real deal in Copenhagen -- the campaign already has a staggering 10 million supporters - let's make it the largest petition in history in the next 72 hours! Every single name is actually being read out at the summit -- sign on at the link below and forward this email to everyone!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen
An Avaaz team is meeting daily with negotiators inside the summit who will organize a spectacular petition delivery to world leaders as they arrive, building a giant wall of boxes of names and reading out the names of every person who signs. With the largest petition in history, leaders will have no doubt that the whole world is watching.
Millions watched the Avaaz vigil inside the summit on TV yesterday, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu told hundreds of delegates and assembled children:
“We marched in Berlin, and the wall fell.Copenhagen is seeking the biggest mandate in history to stop the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. History will be made in the next few days. How will our children remember this moment? Let's tell them we did all we could.
"We marched for South Africa, and apartheid fell.
"We marched at Copenhagen -- and we WILL get a Real Deal.”
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen
With hope,
Ricken, Alice, Ben, Paul, Luis, Iain, Veronique, Graziela, Pascal, Paula, Benjamin, Raj, Raluca, Taren, David, Josh and the whole Avaaz team.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Town Branch neighbors and thousands of veterans who live in other areas pleased that apartments next to Fayetteville National Cemetery not in immediate future, and they plan to seek government and private funding to make the property a part of the cemetery
April 5, 2009, was the date of the first Town Branch Neighborhood Association meeting to hear from developers who had started "an effort to build college student apartments on the site of the former Washington County Livestock Auction."
It didn't take long for the developers to recognize that whoever told them that residents of the area would not consider more huge apartments a benefit for the neighborhood. With the help of several veterans' groups, the neighbors actually prevailed for a change. City officials had approved the Aspen Ridge Condominium project about 100 yards northwest of the National Cemetery at various levels in 2004-05. The project soon became known as Aspen Ridge Townhomes (which implied they could be rented or leased rather than sold). This displeased a few neighbors who had never spoken against the original project because Condos would be owner-occupied, at least at first.
Then Aspen Ridge developers failed and work stopped in July 2006, after all the trees and vegetation had been removed from 30 acres and the mostly rich, dark, prairie soil removed or buried under red dirt and similar material that turned the pervious land with its several groundwater-recharging wetland areas into an environmental wasteland.
In 2008. a second project was approved and the Hill Place student apartments were being built by the time the developers made the deal to acquire the sale-barn property and began to seek city approval.
The idea of building multistory apartments on land where the National Shrine would most logically grow was instantly condemned by people who attended the first meeting and all subsequent meetings.
If this dropping of the court case closes one chapter, it opens another: The search for a buyer who will keep the land available to the National Cemetery until it can be purchased or a coalition of groups who can buy and donate the bulk of the property for the cemetery.
A forward-thinking person or group may be able to find a way to use a bit of the land nearest South School Avenue profitably and for a project truly compatible with the National Cemetery.
We joked about several in various meetings, such as a museum or something that would celebrate the historic rural past of south Fayetteville. But medical clinics and other service-providing operations currently missing from south Fayetteville also come to mind.
Suggestions welcome.
Sample below of the story in the Northwest Arkansas Newspapers' business section.
NWAOnline.com
Landowner Drops Zoning Lawsuit
By Skip Descant
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE — An effort to build college student apartments on the site of the former Washington County Livestock Auction is likely further away than ever.
Billy Joe Bartholomew, the barn’s owner, said the prospect of lengthy litigation to acquire city permission to build on the site prompted Campus Crest, an apartment development company, to lose interest in the project.
“If I could have gotten them down to maybe six months, then maybe they would have stayed interested,” Bartholomew said Monday.
Bartholomew filed a motion to dismiss his lawsuit against the city Monday.
The former livestock barn plodded its way through a lengthy and controversial rezoning process, as neighbors and veterans groups came out against North Carolina-based Campus Crest’s plans to build some 200 (actually MORE THAN 500) apartments on the 11-acre site.
Ron Wood contributed to this report.
Sustainable-lighting ceremony in Springdale canceled for tonight
CCTF,
I just spoke with Ben Davenport of Sierra Club who informed me that the renewable energy tree lighting service scheduled for the Episcopal church in Springdale for tonight at 5:30pm has been CANCELED. Unfortunately transportation for the renewable energy equipment fell through at the last minute. Please forward or otherwise communicate this to anyone you know who may have been planning to attend who may not be on the CCTF listserve. Thank YOU!
Joanna Pollock
CCTF Facilitator, Omni
708.828.5695
I just spoke with Ben Davenport of Sierra Club who informed me that the renewable energy tree lighting service scheduled for the Episcopal church in Springdale for tonight at 5:30pm has been CANCELED. Unfortunately transportation for the renewable energy equipment fell through at the last minute. Please forward or otherwise communicate this to anyone you know who may have been planning to attend who may not be on the CCTF listserve. Thank YOU!
Joanna Pollock
CCTF Facilitator, Omni
708.828.5695
Monday, December 14, 2009
Town Hall meeting starts at 7 tonight
Town Hall Meeting to be Held December 14, 2009
DEC
10
2009
Mayor Lioneld Jordan will be holding the final Town Hall Meeting of the year at the Yvonne Richardson Community Center on Monday, December 14, from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to come. The Yvonne Richardson Community Center is located at 240 East Rock Street.
DEC
10
2009
Mayor Lioneld Jordan will be holding the final Town Hall Meeting of the year at the Yvonne Richardson Community Center on Monday, December 14, from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to come. The Yvonne Richardson Community Center is located at 240 East Rock Street.
Everyone concerned about the watershed needs to see tomorrow's webcast on EPA changes
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upcoming Construction General Permit program renewal process for states and influence
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The erosion and sediment control (ESC) program is a fundamental water quality initiative
that has been around in many parts of the country for decades. Managing runoff from
an active construction site while construction equipment is literally moving the
ground under your feet has presented continuing challenges for the regulator and
regulated communities. This webcast will begin by highlighting the latest EPA rulemaking:
Final Effluent Guidelines for the Construction and Development Industry, and provide
a detailed overview of how the federal, state, and local permit implementation programs
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Link to official climate-conference Web site
http://en.cop15.dk
Compare this with your others sources, please.
Compare this with your others sources, please.
Fasting activists inspiring others in Copenhagen to hang tough and demand Climate Justice NOW!
"I support Climate Justice Fast!" sent you a message on Facebook...
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Sent: Sun 12/13/09 4:23 PM
To: Aubrey James Shepherd (aubreyshepherd@hotmail.com)
Anna C Keenan sent a message to the members of I support Climate Justice Fast!
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Subject: Hunger for Survival - Thursday 17 December 2009
Hello, Climate Justice Fast supporters,
http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
During the COP15 conference, the Climate Justice Fast here in Copenhagen has inspired people around the world to higher levels of activism, and has generated a huge number of media hits from Turkey to Japan to Greece to Korea and all around the world!
Due to the inspiration that the fasters have provided to - in particular - the 1000-strong youth activist contingent at the conference, the youth groups and a number of large environmental organisations have decided that they would like to invite their members to fast for one day - THIS THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER - in support of the CJF, and solidarity with the millions who have and will lose their lives due to the preventable and involuntary hunger, disease and conflict resulting from climate change.
We have created a facebook event here - sign up if you are willing to join the day of fasting and reflection: http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
Many notable climate and sustainability leaders, including Vandana Shiva, will also be joining in this fast and moral call.
“If not us then who, and if not now then when?”
One day before the Heads of State arrive to finalise the deal in Copenhagen, we are calling for all people, everywhere across the world, to join a single global day of fasting – voluntarily going without food – and personal reflection on the climate crisis, and what we as humanity need to do to solve it.
Commit to join the day of fasting by joining this facebook event - and inviting all of your friends!
http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
Now, we must be done with trying to persuade politicians with debates and intellectual argument. They have heard it all already. Now they face a decision about what is simply morally right.
On Thursday 17th December, we will therefore not yell, but instead quiet our voices and raise up our hearts in silence, not telling our leaders what they should do, but instead use the historically symbolic and powerful act of the fast to ask our leaders to reflect on the gravity of the choices they are about to make.
http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
*** UPDATE on the fasters ***
Sara Svensson, Anna Keenan and Paul Connor are all now on the 39th day of their fast, having started on the 6th of November. Matthieu Balle, a solar panel installer from Paris who joined us immediately after hearing about us on French radio, is now reaching his 22nd day. Daniel Lau and Michael Morphett have both bravely decided to end their fasts, following medical advice, after both passing 30 days without food - a heroic feat.
The fasters are all in high spirits and good health, and are under appropriate medical supervision.
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Subject: Hunger for Survival - Thursday 17 December 2009
Hello, Climate Justice Fast supporters,
http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
During the COP15 conference, the Climate Justice Fast here in Copenhagen has inspired people around the world to higher levels of activism, and has generated a huge number of media hits from Turkey to Japan to Greece to Korea and all around the world!
Due to the inspiration that the fasters have provided to - in particular - the 1000-strong youth activist contingent at the conference, the youth groups and a number of large environmental organisations have decided that they would like to invite their members to fast for one day - THIS THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER - in support of the CJF, and solidarity with the millions who have and will lose their lives due to the preventable and involuntary hunger, disease and conflict resulting from climate change.
We have created a facebook event here - sign up if you are willing to join the day of fasting and reflection: http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
Many notable climate and sustainability leaders, including Vandana Shiva, will also be joining in this fast and moral call.
“If not us then who, and if not now then when?”
One day before the Heads of State arrive to finalise the deal in Copenhagen, we are calling for all people, everywhere across the world, to join a single global day of fasting – voluntarily going without food – and personal reflection on the climate crisis, and what we as humanity need to do to solve it.
Commit to join the day of fasting by joining this facebook event - and inviting all of your friends!
http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
Now, we must be done with trying to persuade politicians with debates and intellectual argument. They have heard it all already. Now they face a decision about what is simply morally right.
On Thursday 17th December, we will therefore not yell, but instead quiet our voices and raise up our hearts in silence, not telling our leaders what they should do, but instead use the historically symbolic and powerful act of the fast to ask our leaders to reflect on the gravity of the choices they are about to make.
http://www.facebook.com/anna.c.keenan?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=227106867068&ref=mf
*** UPDATE on the fasters ***
Sara Svensson, Anna Keenan and Paul Connor are all now on the 39th day of their fast, having started on the 6th of November. Matthieu Balle, a solar panel installer from Paris who joined us immediately after hearing about us on French radio, is now reaching his 22nd day. Daniel Lau and Michael Morphett have both bravely decided to end their fasts, following medical advice, after both passing 30 days without food - a heroic feat.
The fasters are all in high spirits and good health, and are under appropriate medical supervision.
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