[sustran] fwd: Get Involved in Earth Day 2001!

[Paul Barter]

Please note below the Car Free Day component of the Earth Day efforts this
year.

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Subject: Get Involved in Earth Day 2001!


Built up over its 30 year history, the Earth Day movement involves millions
and millions of people across the planet. Owned by no one and open to
everyone, Earth Day is a vehicle to create change on a massive, global
scale.

Join with us in celebrating Earth Day 2001. Together we are stronger than
any of us could ever be on our own. 

YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO EARTH DAY

Earth Day Network is committed to supporting the diverse range of groups
that celebrate Earth Day each year. That's why we encourage you to take
whatever Earth Day action is most appropriate for your organization and
community. Whatever you decide to do for Earth Day, we value your efforts. 

To make the biggest impact possible, each year's Earth Day will have a
theme. This helps to unite our voices, and provides a rallying point around
which groups can come together in truly global actions. For 2001, our theme
is energy and global warming. We've developed an exciting campaign around
this (see below), and hope you will become involved. 

In future years, we will focus on other critical environmental issues.
Regardless of the theme, and whether or not you decide to tie your Earth Day
efforts to that theme, we value your important work. 

WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN the Earth Day 2001 Clean Energy Campaign!

Working with our Network's 5,000 member groups in 184 countries, the Earth
Day 2001 campaign will focus worldwide attention on energy and global
warming - a problem that is so severe that only international cooperation
can solve it. No other issue touches a wider variety of environmental
problems than what kind of energy we employ to power society, where we get
it from, and how efficiently we use it.

For Earth Day 2001, we are running a high-profile energy campaign. Join with
others around the world in a global demand for clean energy. Every voice
counts, and every action matters!

EARTH DAY CLEAN ENERGY CAMPAIGN

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT - ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS
Across the world, individuals have been tortured, imprisoned and even killed
for speaking up in defense of their communities and their land. Join us in
protest against the human rights and environmental abuses associated with
fossil fuel extraction projects worldwide. 
With Amnesty International and Sierra Club. 

GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TO A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
Our partners are working with governments to foster substantive commitments
to renewable energy, particularly by island nations, whose very existence is
threatened by global warming and rising sea levels. Commitments by these
nations provide a strong example to leaders everywhere that combating global
warming is not only necessary, but possible. Encourage your government to
commit to clean energy.
With Climate Institute, Counterpart International, and Winrock
International. 

CLEAN ENERGY FUNDING
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are injected into unsustainable
energy projects in developing countries, destroying eco-systems and
displacing people and other species. Call for major international funders to
channel more money into renewable energy projects, especially in developing
countries. 
With Rainforest Action Network, Friends of the Earth, World Wide Fund for
Nature (WWF), Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, and Oilwatch.

SAFE POWER - LEAVING NUCLEAR BEHIND 
When the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 9) convenes in April
2001 to discuss whether nuclear power warrants its stamp of approval, we
will be there to expose the dangers of nuclear power. Join us in demanding
that only genuinely clean technologies, such as solar, wind and hydrogen, be
accepted as solutions to global warming.
With World Information Service on Energy (WISE) and Nuclear Information and
Research Service (NIRS). 

POWER SAVE - HABITS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY 
Call for corporations, governments and individuals in energy-guzzling
industrialized nations, particularly the USA, to use less energy, and to use
it more wisely. Far from what those with a vested interest would have you
believe, cutting fossil fuel use and increasing energy efficiency is good
for the climate and makes good economic sense. Take responsible corporations
and individuals such as yourself to be more energy efficient. 

CAR-FREE DAY 
Cars pollute our air, contribute to global warming and cause asthma and
other serious respiratory ailments. On April 19th 2001, people all around
the world will stay out of cars as part of a coordinated global statement to
leaders everywhere that we need viable transportation alternatives and a
transition to a clean energy future. Do your part by pledging to stay out of
cars on 19 April 2001.
With The Commons.

For more details on how you can be involved, please visit our website, at
http://www.earthday.net/goals or email us at worldwide at earthday.net

We look forward to hearing your plans for Earth Day 2001. Whatever you
choose to do for Earth Day, Earth Day Network will strengthen your efforts
by linking them to the wider environmental community, and by promoting them
to the rest of the world.

Thank you for being part of the Earth Day Network. 

Best regards,

Serryn Janson, International Director
Vickery Prongay, Deputy Director, International
Helen Couture Rodriguez
Maria Elena Rodriguez
Sierra James
Leigh-Anne Havemann

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