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I would like to make a $100 contri-
bution in
your name to Solar Electric Light Fund (“SELF”)
to acknowledge your intention to take personal action against
climate change. The mission
of SELF is to provide solar electricity
to remote and impoverished people
around the world. Thus,
supporting
SELF allows us to take action against
both climate
change and third world
poverty at the same time. |
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Because we should know...
Of all the issues I have ever focused on,
I have never
become as concerned or as
passionate about any of them
as I am
now about global warming. To understand
my insights
or feel my passion, read the
Coda:
My Conversion to Green. If you
want
to get motivated yourself, read the
full version (second
section) of Report
1.
I suspect you'll
be stunned. You can also
get a good background on the causes
and
contributors to global warming by reading
the remaining
5 reports.
...and act!
But mostly, we hope you are ready to take
personal action.To
help, we’ve selected
three actions, which we each
can take,
that will both cut our carbon emissions
and
will save us money. For each of these
actions, we’ve
prepared a primer that has
four parts: (1) historical
myths about the
particular action, (2) personal financial
benefits from
taking the action, (3) envi-
ronmental benefits from taking
the
actions, and (4) our own personal experi-
ence with
taking that specific action. After
you read these primers,
review the Pure
Waste
Challenge. Email us that
you
intend to pursue these actions and will
contribute
$100 in your name to SELF. |
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I
urge you to take as little as a half an hour to read a series
of
six reports about Global Warming. In the winter
of 2006, after
seven months of study and review, I became
intensely concerned
about the perils of global warming. Working
with four others, I have
studied the issues surrounding global
warming and extracted to a
very high level the critical facts,
perils, and options for action. These
reports were originally
prepared as a series of emails and targeted
to intelligent
but busy friends and colleagues. I present them here in
an
updated form for all concerned readers. Reading the summary
versions
of these six briefing reports will take as little as 24 minutes
total
and might change your life. |
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| Glacier National Park, August 2006 |
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Each
report is structured into two sections: a brief summary version
built
from bullet points and graphics, and a full version with a
more
developed text, the same graphics, and embedded links.
A personal
editorial by one of the contributors is included
at the bottom of each
report. The topics of these reports are
as follows:
- Hal Hinkle
Report 1:
How Real is Global Warming? The Physical Evidence
Report 2:
How Real is Global Warming? The Scientific Viewpoint
Report 3:
How Do Greenhouse Gases Cause Global Warming?
Why Are Feedback Loops Important?
Report 4:
What is Being Done About Global Warming?
And Who is Doing It?
Report 5:
How Do We Contribute Individually to Global Warming?
Report 6:
It Seems So Big, What Can I Do?
News Update: May 2006 |
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