Sunday, April 21, 3:15 – 4 p.m., Orcas Center
— from Mark Mayer | Orcas Recycling Services/The Exchange
Our Revolution San Juan County is partnering with Orcas Recycling Services/The Exchange and Orcas Center in the first annual Earth Day Festival being held on Sunday, April 21st at Orcas Center from 3:00 to 3:45. We have prepared a presentation called “Think Globally, Act Orcasly.” This presentation centers around the Green New Deal. For the original text of the Resolution, please go to: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text
We have four speakers with a Q&A following, time permitting.
David Turnoy, “What Lessons Can We Take from FDR’s New Deal and the Mobilization for WWII to Apply to the Green New Deal?”
David will talk about the New Deal from an historical perspective and how it relates to challenges in the 21st century.
Michael Riordan, “Renewable Energy Jobs and the Green New Deal”. Michael will speak to the issues of economic growth and renewable energy.
Ryan Palmateer, “Transportation Electrification in Washington State and in the San Juan Islands”
Ryan will talk to the core pieces of why we should electrify our transit, as well as some clarification on embodied energy use vs ICE vehicles.
Sharon Abreu, “Why We Need a Green New Deal”. Sharon will talk about what a Green New Deal means for a healthier 21st century society, and how it would challenge the old paradigm of “jobs versus environment”.
Please join us on Sunday, April 21 for this informative presentation.
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This is the Earth Day after the fiftieth anniversary of our species’ first glimpse at our planet from our nearest astronomical neighbor the Moon.
That iconic image of earth, an island hanging in the void of space just over the Moon’s horizon, created a revolution in how we envision our fragile existence.
And now, in the midst of the Anthropocene era we can take a moment to consider that our actions no longer have the luxury of being an impulsive experiment, an exploration of our human potential with no history and no boundaries, but with similarly sudden iconic implications for the survival of our grandchildren.. fifty years on, with the history we are now creating for them: the air, the ocean .. and the society that perpetuates all we do today.
I remember where I was, the TV set I watched on that day in 1968.
We looked on in hope and inspiration, today we can test the sea that laps our shore for acid, and the air we breathe for microplastics, the very color of the sunset for the excreta of industry, our neighbors for .. for what?
what have we done