Ecominds-a Mailing List: ALERT & ACTIONS for TODAY!

[Joe + Madalyn (joemadalyn]

UU EcoMinds-A List for November 2, 2005
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ALERT---ITEMS FOR TODAY TUESDAY NOV 2--- ALERT

IN THIS POSTING: 

#1 TODAY: Call Senator Coleman, ask him to keep his promise to protect
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

#2 TODAY 7:00pm, Shoreview: Citizen Town Forum with legislators on the
RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD.

#3 TODAY 7:00pm, Watch or tape the PBS special on Global Warming

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#1 TODAY: Call Senator Coleman, ask him to keep his promise
to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

This from our partner C3 (Congregations Caring for Creation: 

Dear Friends,

Arctic Champion Senator Cantwell has offered an amendment
this morning to strike Arctic drilling from the Senate budget
reconciliation bill.  This amendment will be voted on TODAY at 4pm EST. 
Please call Senator Coleman now (Washington DC 202-224-5641 or MN
651-645-0323)
and ask him to vote for the Cantwell amendment to strike 
drilling from the budget reconciliation bill. 

Please forward this alert to all your members, friends and colleagues. 
We need the phones to being ringing off the hook in the Senate today. 

If this amendment fails and the Senate passes a bill with drilling, 
we will still have a chance to stop the budget reconciliation bill
from passing in the House, where reports indicate that the 
House will not accept a budget with Arctic drilling in it. But if we can
stop it in the Senate, we don't have to worry about the House - so again
please call your Senator today and ask them to vote to for the Cantwell
Amendment to remove drilling from the budget reconciliation bill!

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#2 TODAY 7:00pm, Shoreview: Citizen Town Forum with legislators on the
RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD 7:00-8:30pm, Wed, Nov 2 Shoreview Community
Center, 4600 Victoria St. N, Shoreview

Moving the Midwest toward energy independence
Community forums on renewable energy

This is the second of 3 community Town Forums planned for 
metro-suburban areas to gather citizens to talk with their legislators
about the great potential of a having 20% of our electricity generated
from clean renewable sources by the year 2020. 

PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND AND ENCOURAGE YOUR FRIENDS IN THE AREA TO ATTEND. 

The Los Angeles Times reported on 10/15 that, in Colorado,
Xcel Energy's customers who buy wind energy will pay less than those who
use power from coal- or gas-fired power plants. What can you do to
increase the development of renewable energy like wind here in
Minnesota?

Find out at a community forum with Bob Olson (American Sustainable
Energy Council), Michael Noble & Ken Bradley (ME3), & local legislators.

Presenters will outline Minnesota's current renewable energy use, the
economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy development, and
proposed 20 percent by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard legislation that,
if passed, could jumpstart the renewable energy industry in the state.

7:00-8:30pm, Wednesday, November 2
Shoreview Community Center, 4600 Victoria St. N, Shoreview 
For more information: Stephanie (651) 696-7411, SCOREMN [at] gmail.com

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#3  Nov. 2, 7:00pm:  PBS special on GLOBAL WARMING

GLOBAL PBS SPECIAL ON GLOBAL WARMING. Hosted by Alanis Morissette. 
Underwritten by  Toyota  USA  and Swiss Re, the program examines what is
certainly our most crucial environmental issue, in the context of the
United  States. 
A full press kit is also available from the program's publicist Lance
Webster at _LanceCoach [at] aol.com_  . You can also download 
the program's two PSAs and a two minute clip at
_http://www.stonehaven.ca/media_ .  We are granting NGOs the right to
post the clips on their  websites.

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