Greenpeace Aerial Art Photos to stop global warming

Published by lizveazey, November 7th, 2006 Direct Action , Political Participation 2 Comments

Floridians take a stand against global warming on the beach To coincide with the kickoff of the United Nation’s International Meeting on Climate Change and coming just three days before the important mid-term elections, community members in 6 congressional districts joined thousands around the world on Saturday to demand that our leaders take action now to stop global warming.

As part of our Project Hot Seat, citizens across the country have come together to call on Congressioanl candidates to make global warming a top priority in the next Congress. Aerial art images were taken in Pennsylvania – District 8 , Colorado – District 7, Florida – District 22, Michigan – District 1 , Vermont and Washington – District 8. For more, check this out.

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1 May Boeve Nov 7th, 2006 at 11:26 am

These are great images! What a wonderful way to remind us of the stakes of today’s election.
2 earthrehab Oct 13th, 2008 at 8:40 am

Local activists and GreenPeace members showed up to support this effort.
JMST ‘Treehuggers’, EarthRehab campaign, EarthFirst, Surfrider, FAU Environment Club, and concerned citizens from Stuart, PSL, Palm Beach, Jupiter, Ft. Pierce, and Cocoa Beach.
Great job Lauren Thorps.

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About Liz

While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

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