Commission for a Greener Tomorrow Meeting
Friends,
This is clearly something that we at Citizen Wausau take seriously. Something we hope that more people are interested in. So, we are passing along this email that we got from Susie and Kelly. The work that they have initiated is impressive, and will be something that propels our city into the future.
Hope to see you there.
Commission for a Greener Tomorrow - Meeting Dec. 4, 2007
Wausau City Hall - 5:00 to 6:30pm
The Commission for Greener Tomorrow is working towards creating sustainable communities within Central Wisconsin. A sustainable community respects its own diversity and accepts responsibility for the social, economic and ecological well-being of the present and future generations through individual and collective actions.
Membership is open to all citizens in Central Wisconsin who support the ideas stated above. This is a great opportunity for citizens to become a voice in their community.
The next meeting of the “Commission for a Greener Tomorrow” will be held on December 4, 2007 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Wausau City Hall in the council chambers.
Cynthia Holt from the “Fort Atkinson Project” will be the guest speaker. Please visit www.theatkinsondiet.com to learn more information about the “Fort Atkinson Project.”
We will also give an update on what has been happening since the last meeting.
New members will also have the opportunity to sign up on the different committees. The committee options are as follows:
- Purchasing Options
- Water
- Buildings
- Communication - Education
- Energy
- Waste/Recycling
- Community Planning
- Transportation/Mobility
Join the team - help make Central Wisconsin Green!
Please forward this email to others that may be interested in attending and becoming a member.
Thanks
Susie and Kelly
mbar said:
Capitalizing On Sustainable Development - Making Gold Out Of Green
“…Little by little, the world is being re-organized using capitalism as the global engine to also change the structure of government from government to public-private partnership which is a co-management of government by business. At the heart of this philosophy is Gaia which is paganism and the elimination of the authority and dominion which God the Creator set in place in Genesis 1 and 2…”
Weather Channel founder calls global warming a scam
The founder of the Weather Channel cable network is stating that global warming is “the greatest scam in history.”
John Coleman, now meteorologist of KUSI-TV in San Diego, issued that declaration in a lengthy blog posting on www.icecap.us.
As for how Coleman explains his conclusion, he wrote that he “read dozens of the scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct when I assure you there is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.”
He added that there are “hundreds of other meteorologists … who are as certain as I am that this global warming frenzy … is not valid.”
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1544776.html
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 am #
citygirl said:
I am really excited that Wausau has started to do more with this initiative. There are so many cities around the world that are really moving forward with these ideas. I feel better about myself that I am part of a community, and a committee, that has added another name to that list of cities. There are many skeptics out there that think this whole thing is a scam. I say to them blah blah blah. If you don’t do it to help save the environment, just do it because it creates a healthier environment overall.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:00 am #
Dino Corvino said:
I think regardless of your thoughts on global warming, the idea of using less resources seems like a good thing in 2007 and for the future of our city.
It reflects a serious commitment to the resources we have, and all the rest.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm #
erik said:
Dino makes a great point. Even if global is a huge scam and man’s use of resources is not effecting us on an environmental scale (and that’s a big ‘if’), it still behooves us as a community to look at ways of reducing and re-using. The obvious benefits of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and renewable energy go far beyond the environment.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm #
Barry Liss said:
Maybe mbar could clarify. The post borrows from Joan M. Veon’s shoddy critique of global warming which muffs through a jaded link between capitalism, global warming hysteria and paganism. Ridiculous, but so what. What I don’t get mbar is this: Would the God of Genesis who created the world in six days and rested on the seventh appreciate the desecration of His sacred labors? When He said ‘It Was Good,’ the rivers didn’t have mercury in them.
Barry
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
I believe that those folks who are skeptical, just simply want to be sekptical to be skeptical. Like a college philosphy seminar exercise. Take a position, get some postion supporting data, craft your argument.
It is meaningless if global warming is real. We have more people on the planet htan we know what to do with. We as a animal need to use less resources, and as a result exist longer.
Its a silly position, and irrelevant to people who are commited to the future.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 pm #
Barry Liss said:
I think there’s something else to it Dino. I think we all want to know the truth but we get tripped up with cyclical regressive strategies that cripple us, make us ignorant and vicious. Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer - especially his writings about hatred seem relevant…
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil. (90)
Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance. (90-91)
Too many haters around these parts…not enough lovers.
Barry
December 4th, 2007 at 11:37 am #
Dino Corvino said:
Barry,
I find it to be a great thing you talk aboutthere. For me, I always want to say it is fearful to be without hope, or without faith. But intellectually, I think it is something differant.
The intellectual pretense of tearing everything apart, and not pursuing anything. The ultimate act of meaninglessness. I just wonder what generation raised us, as I find myself in that group from time to time. THe thought process of rejection.
I for one, have an idea that being wrong, being emotionally hurt, all of that…it costs nothing. My emotional life is free, my intellectual life is free.
My ideas cannot be monitized.
What does it cost the world to try recycling? Nothing.
If we are wrong, what have we done…recycled. Okay.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:43 am #
erik said:
A little Pascal’s Wager, eh Dino?
December 4th, 2007 at 4:38 pm #