Desert Greens to participate in Earth Day celebration in Salt Lake
City
Desert Greens/Green Party of Utah
www.GPUT.org
www.desertgreens.org
April 20, 2007
CONTACT INFORMATION_: 801-201-0219, GPU@GPUT.ORG
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Desert Greens Green Party of Utah
will be participating in the 16th Annual Earth Jam www.earthjam.org,
a celebration to honor Earth Day. The event will be held at Liberty Park from 10am to 9pm on Sunday,
April 22nd. The Desert Greens Green Party of Utah will be helping to run the Kiddie
Village at Earth Jam.
"Earth Day began in 1969 to celebrate the beauty of our planet,"
states Deanna Taylor, Co-Coordinator of the DesertGreens. "The Green Key Values of Ecological Wisdom, Personal Responsibility, Future
Focus and Sustainability call for us to demand accountability from our
representatives by developing policies that promote alternative and sustainable
energy. It is becoming increasingly crucial that we step up this accountability, in line with our party
values."
Eileen McCabe, National Delegate of the Desert Greens states:
"This is such a great fit for us. Here we have an opportunity to participate in a neighborhood event, educating both about ecological
issues and how they affect us on a local level, and reaching out to
our children and engaging them in the great challenge of their lifetimes, reversing climate change."
The Desert Greens is affiliated with the Green Party of the United
States, which takes the position of its EcoAction Committee which put forth its 2006 Earth Day Report:
As representatives of the people, it is critical for public
officials at all levels of government to initiate actions that will
begin to address the damage done to the atmosphere and develop comprehensive and realistic plans that can be implemented to
construct a renewable infrastructure alternative. The Green Party calls on the
government and people of the United States to aggressively support and
implement the following measures:
We, as individuals must make profound changes in our own
lifestyles, demonstrating to elected officials our own commitment to and expectation of change in local, regional, national and global
environmental policy; -- We must phase out all subsidies and tax breaks to fossil and nuclear energy industries; /
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We must move to full cost pricing starting with carbon taxes;
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We must provide incentives, legislation, and institutional
reforms to bring renewable energy technologies on line and readily
available to the consumer;
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We must encourage the export and expansion of these
technologies into overseas markets to competitively displace fossil
and nuclear power, and large-scale hydroelectric projects;
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We must research and implement interim, as well as long term
offsets, such as reforestation, accompanied by measurable cutbacks in
emissions
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We must reject biomass incineration and inefficient biofuels
production as unnecessary, insufficient, polluting, damaging to ecosystems and a waste of
energy;
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We reject the concept of "clean coal";
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We must put an absolute limit on CO2 emissions Nationally and
work to facilitate a Worldwide CAP. This limit should be based on the
amount we need to cut fossil fuel usage in order to aid in reversing
the rise in average global temperatures.
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We must base our cutbacks in fossil fuel usage on this limit;
this means stabilization as quickly as possible and an 80% cutback to
be reached within ten years
The Desert Greens will be doing outreach to the community at Earth
Jam 2007 to educate the public on environmental issues.
More information: Eileen McCabe, 801-201-0219, gpu@gput.org,
www.desertgreens.org