Phenomenal!!!
Thanks to every one of these sane people and to everyone encouraging
their people to sign on!
Susi
On 6/5/2017 1:41 PM, Axelrod, Mark wrote:
Dear GEP-ed colleagues,
The full statement is now posted, with many of our colleges and
universities represented: http://wearestillin.com/
There will be a press call tomorrow morning (details at the website)
for those interested.
Thank you to Ron and others for making the initial process much
easier, and to those who coordinated this process at the national level!
Best wishes to all,
Mark
Mark Axelrod
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
James Madison College and
Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife
http://markaxelrod.weebly.com
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Ronald Mitchell
*Sent:* Friday, June 2, 2017 3:22 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [gep-ed] fwiw - draft letter to a university president
Colleagues, I drafted the below. Perhaps it can serve, edited, as the
basis for others wanting to encourage action at their institution.
And, again, sorry for the Americo-centrism implicit here.
Although I cannot yet find a list of the institutions that have signed
the statement from yesterday, more than 600 universities and colleges
are already members of Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Network –
see: http://secondnature.org/climate-leadership-network-map/
I have all capped (sorry) the text that you should tailor to your
university.
Ron
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Dear Colleagues at MY UNIVERSITY,
I saw the piece in the Times (
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/american-cities-climate-stand...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/american-cities-climate-standards.html>)
about the statement by governors/mayors/university presidents
re-committing to addressing climate change. I thought I would initate
an effort to recommit the [MY UNIVERSITY] to addressing climate change
by a) getting [MY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT] to join this statement or, and
perhaps better, b) to engage in a longer term commitment to addressing
climate change in the [MY UNIVERSITY] context. Here is my first,
quick draft of an email to him. Honestly, I doubt content matters much
– [MY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT] either will or will not – but I would
appreciate suggested improvements. I want it to be NON-antagonistic
and framed as an issue of education.
If you have edits send them to me === and if you want to add your name
to the list, please also send an email saying "I support this statement"
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Dear [MY UNIVERSITY] President,
As you know, President Trump decided yesterday to have the United
States withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. As
you also know, many faculty and graduate students at the [MY
UNIVERSITY] have conducted excellent research investigating issues
related to the natural science, social science, and humanities of this
significant threat to our planet and all of its present and future
inhabitants. Our institution is a nationally recognized leader in the
area of climate change research. We write to let you know of an
opportunity arising from yesterday’s federal action to restate the [MY
UNIVERSITY] commitment to doing what institutions of higher learning
do best – educate the next generation about the problems that they are
likely to face in their lives and provide them with the tools to
understand and respond to them as effectively as possible. There is an
immediate opportunity to join 3 governors, 30 mayors, and 80
university presidents in signing a joint “Grand Coalition Statement on
Paris Agreement” the main points of which are:
* In the absence of Federal support, states, cities, colleges and
universities and businesses will pursue ambitious climate goals,
to ensure that the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing emissions.
* In the U.S., the actors that will provide the leadership necessary
to meet our Paris commitment are found in city halls, state
capitals, colleges and universities and businesses.
* We will remain actively engaged with the international community
as part of the global effort to hold warming to under 2°C and to
accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy that will
benefit our security, prosperity, and health.
* The full statement that was initiated by Second Nature is at:
http://secondnature.org/wp-content/uploads/final-withdraw-sector-stateme...
<http://secondnature.org/wp-content/uploads/final-withdraw-sector-statement.pdf>
* You may not recall that [MY UNIVERSITY] joined Second Nature’s
Climate Leadership Network in March 2007 with a commitment to
“take action on climate and prepare students through research and
education to solve the challenges of the 21st century.” Details of
our commitment are at:
http://secondnature.org/climate-leadership-network-map/
We hope that you will consider adding the [MY UNIVERSITY] name to this
list. If you decide to do so, your staff can submit your participation
via: http://secondnature.org/grand-coalition-statement-paris-agreement/
The long-term nature of both the threat of climate change and our
responses to that threat lead us to also offer to work with you and
the [MY UNIVERSITY] administration more generally to identify the best
way for us to incorporate a serious engagement with the issue of
climate change as part of the [MY UNIVERSITY] major mission of
conducting superb research and educating the next generation of
citizens of the US and the world.
Sincerely,
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