Our Climate Resolutions - January


UPDATE: Please join us at 6:15 pm on Tuesday, February 5 at the Ho-Chunk Three Rivers House, 8th and Main, to brainstorm and share ideas to further our goals.

 On Saturday, January 26, about two dozen La Crosse area residents gathered at the South Community Library to talk about Our Climare Resolutions - how we've come to our way of thinking, where our community is liveable and where it's challenging, what we want for the future, and how we can start working to get there. Thanks to News Channel 8 for covering the event!

 We discussed how our backgrounds, experiences and communities brought us to where we are now. For many, childhoods spent playing and exploring outdoors formed a deep love and appreciation for the natural world. We are lucky to have access to the natural areas surrounding our city. We realized the importance of maintaining a healthy envirionment when we lived or worked in more crowed, more polluted areas. We understood that without protections, some of our most precious resources, including our planet itself, may suffer irreparable harm.

 Brainstorming assets and challenges here led us to appreciate the walk- and bike-ability of our neighborhoods and the beauty and accessibility of natural areas. We decided that more people need to become aware of these assets and threats and how our systems, environment, and healthy human life are interconnected. Better local and regional public transportation is needed. A reorganization of our values and priorities among elected leaders is needed. Affordable renewable systems - from rooftop solar to community facilities are needed.

 To reach our climate resolution goal, we decided we need to focus on COMMUNICATION  and EDUCATION
  • creating and maintaining systems that let people know what's happening, 
  • being better about communicating with our neighbors, groups, and electeds about our goals, 
  • supporting those who are educating about the environment and global warming,
  • making sure people know about their renewable energy options
  • learning and understanding the best words and ways to communicate effectively
Join the Sierra Club at our web page or come to a meeting and join there (but you don't need to be a member to participate in most Sierra Club events)
 
Keep up with Coulee Region Sierra Club happenings at our web page and at this blog site (and we're on Twitter, too @CRSierraClub) 

 Coming up soon:

 Saturday, February 2 from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Concordia Ballroom, 1129 La Crosse Street, La Crosse, PROGRESSTIVAL: Health People, Healthy Planet

 Tuesday, February 5 at 7 p.m. at the Ho-Chunk Three Rivers House, 724 Main Street, La Crosse - CS Sherin, Living the Green LIfe

 Saturday, March 2 at the First Congregational Church, Losey & Main Streets (details coming)

More events shown on the CP Daily Calendar.

 Other groups working on the issues we discussed on Saturday:
Resources mentioned at the Saturday conversations

 

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