If you like this idea, please go to the Aviva Community Fund site and vote: http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf6364

Thanks for your input and support!

ForestEthics are looking for an experienced organizer who would act as the "Climate Outreach Coordinator" for Vancouver, working on the 2 key federal ridings listed below. Do you know anyone who would be a great organizer for this contract position (we are currently pulling the final details and job description together).

Come celebrate with members of the Vancouver Biodiesel Coop on our
official launch!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

12:00pm - 4:00pm
360 Industrial Ave, Vancouver, BC

Now that the IPCC and Al Gore have been raised to new credential hights with their being honoured with the Nobel Peace prize, it is time to consider the best mechanisms to tackle the Climate Change issue. Taxes are unpopular, but only because they have traditionally been implemented unfairly in the past.

The support we hope to receive from Change Everything will be used to increase Aurora’s visibility as a leading voice in promoting more accountable institutions.

Dirty Water to Clean Air!
Just got back from an incredibly motivating speech which reached my core. It was Van Jones speaking on the potential of "Green Collar Jobs".He ispoke of the Third Wave of Environmentalism" that we are now witnessing. The first was Conservation (Teddy Rosevelt/Muir and the development of national parks), the second was Regulation (Rachel Carson, ENGOs lobbying government to initiate changes in law for protection of human health and other species, forests) and lastly, Investment (opportunity driven). Here in Vancouver, we have tremendous potential in the clean-tech sector which is expected to reach $167.2 billion by 2015.
Instead of looking at the traditional government structure investing in large projects full of red tape, green scisors will cut through this red tape and promote green industry and no one will be left behind.This needs a partnership in community and business. It is not about finding our own small solutions in dealing with crisis (like the current water crisis which I would argue is really part of the larger climate crisis), it is about coming together and investing in the future.
You can take action. There is an event that I am organizing that is promoting this same concept and you are all invited.

What if we adopted an electoral system which represented the voting public more acurately, people and industry were taxed according to how wasteful they were (and rewarded for being resourceful), climate change/global warming was the primary concern of political and business leaders, a more accurate measure of wealth (instead of the GDP) was implimented, regulation was put in place to curb our GHG emmissions and addiction to fossil fuels with the use of more renewables, wholistic approaches to preventative health care saved lives as well as money, small, local business and innovation was encouraged instead of big, global corporations, poverty was made history, external policy focussed on peace, internal policy embraced diversity and the next generation was deemed as imoportant or more important than the present one?...Guess what? All these issues make up green politics.