Support the Climate Change Accountability Act!

Wednesday from about 10-2 we will be tabling in JDH to give out information about the Climate Change Accountability Act and asking people to send letters and e-mails to the Senate to make sure this passes!

At this moment, the campaign would be to encourage students, staff, and community members to write and or call Senators (no stamps required, and a toll free number) and encourage them to pass Bill C 311, the Climate Change Accountability Act.  Bill C-311 has passed its second reading in the Canadian Senate and is now “in Committee.”  (Following which, it will go into 3rd reading, and then face a vote.)  The House of Commons passed the bill on May 5th.  Bill C-311 legislates reductions in Canadian greenhouse gas emissions to a level that is 80% below 1990 emissions by 2050.  This includes setting interim targets for 2015-2045 (such as the specific target of 25% below 1990 levels in 2020).  Wikipedia has a great little article on “The Climate Change Accountability Act” which fills in a few more details, including its history. 

You can find the text of the Bill, and check on its status in the Senate, by visiting:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/lop/legisinfo/index.asp?Language=E&Session=23&query=6747&List=toc

Send an e-mail to Senators and fact sheets:
http://www.trunity.net/climateresponse/topics/view/53728/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change_Accountability_Act_(Bill_C-311)

The Climate Change Accountability Act was originally tabled in October 2006 in the Canadian House of Commons as Bill C-377 by Jack Layton, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. It passed 3rd reading in that House with the support of caucuses of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP (the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, voted against it). However, due to the 2008 Canadian federal election ending the parliamentary session prematurely, the bill did not achieve royal assent despite reaching the Senate. C-377 therefore died when the election was called. // On February 10, 2009 Bruce Hyer, New Democrat Deputy Environment Critic and MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, seconded by Layton, reintroduced it as a Private Member's Bill, renamed as Bill C-311. An April 1, 2009 Second Reading vote resulted in passage of C-311 to Committee Stage by a vote of 141 to 128. After months of delays,

Sample letters for Bill C3-11

Letter to the editor
Climate Change Calls for Active Citizens

Dear Editor,

In response to Harold Phalen’s letter “Debate Climate, but take action” (August 4), please consider:
This paper reported (July 29) on a Dalhousie study recording a decline of 40% in the population of phytoplankton in the oceans, due to warming and trawl fishing. As they produce half of the oxygen we breathe, and form the basis of the ocean’s food chain, phytoplankton are estimated to be as important to our survival as all land plants on Earth.

Clearly, we cannot rely on millionaires of goodwill to

An evening with Students for Sustainability

So our first meeting went well with some new faces appearing. We'll be having our second meeting of the year tonight at 5:30pm in JDH. We're still working out the best time for the most people but for now it's staying at that time. If you want to come to the meetings please send us a better time to meet to stusustainability@gmail

We're also having our first potluck of the year! Come to An Evening With Students for Sustainability Friday at 3:45pm. Meeting in the lower courtyard of STU. We'll be having a potluck from 4-5:20 then we'll head down to the Critical Mass bike ride for 5:30 meeting in Officer's Square. For those without bicycles a walk through O'Dell Park is planned. Then we'll all reconvene again at 180 St. John St at the Conserver House for Cinema Politica Showing "The Weather Underground."  Please bring yourself, your friends, your enthusiasm, and of course, delicious foods!

First meeting of the year!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the new people who signed up at the Corn Boil! Our first meeting of the year will be next Wednesday the 15th at 5:30. If it's nice weather we should try to do it outside of JDH. Otherwise we'll just do it inside the JDH cafeteria. This will just be an introductory meeting for new people and discuss what we want to do this year. We might also have a guest from the New Brunswick Environmental Network (NBEN). Hope to see you there, and remember all are welcome so bring some friends!

To get on our mailing list send a message to stusustainability@gmail.com

Our facebook group is: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=2246426812

Our website is: http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/stu_sustainability/stusus.html

Potential agenda:

-Introductions

-Discussion with NBEN representative

-Appointing secretary, PR, and other positions

-Goals/campaigns for the year

-Planning membership drive/social 

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