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A Day for the Earth Celebrated by Local Residents
To the Editor:
Residents in our community interested in putting the brakes on global warming and its potentially catastrophic consequences can find out how to help locally on Saturday, December 8, from 2 to 4:30pm at The Tabernacle of Christ Church, 483 Main Street in Beacon (across from the Howland Center). Organizers of this event hail from throughout the Hudson Valley region and include Philipstown residents Sue Peehl, Joyce Hanson, Ellyn Rosenthal, Imogene Drummond and Putnam Valley resident Judy Allen.
The event - called A Day for the Earth - will feature speakers and local musicians to celebrate the earth, raise awareness of global warming and its effects on our Hudson River Valley community, and encourage residents to help heal the planet with specific local activities.
This event will feature music by bluesman Guy Davis, singer/educator Linda Richards, Pete Seeger and his grandson, Tao Rodriguez Seeger
Cold Spring resident Ellyn Rosenthal, who joined with other Philipstown residents to form Local Yokels for the Earth, will speak about how each of us can reduce our carbon footprint through our daily actions. Other Local Yokels will be dispensing information and advice at one of the information tables at the event.
The program will also feature Professor Nicholas Robinson, founder of the Environmental Legal Studies program at Pace University School of Law and a renowned expert in international environmental law, who will provide an international perspective on global warming.
Attendees will see excerpts from a new film, Silent Snow, about the effects of climate change and pollution from industrialized nations, including Hudson River PCBs, on the Inuit communities of Greenland.
A Day for the Earth in Beacon is one of many actions taking place around the US and around the world on December 8, as part of the International Day of Climate Action. The impetus for these actions is the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, which is meeting December 3- 14. The purpose of the Bali meeting is to create an international accord replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012. The new accord will set strict guidelines for curbing carbon and implementing alternative energy solutions.
A Day for the Earth is sponsored by the Climate Crisis Coalition, and locally by the Hudson Valley International Day for the Earth Committee. Other local sponsors include Clearwater, Scenic Hudson, the Beacon Sloop Club, Mid- Hudson Progressive Alliance, WESPAC Foundation and Philipstown for Democracy.
Margaret Yonco-Haines
Garrison
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