Austin City Council -- recommit to Climate Protection
(Co-sponsored by Jake Stewart, frmr manager of the Austin Climate Protection Program, and Jon Lebkowsky, WorldChanging.com)
The City of Austin makes the goal of its Climate Protection Plan clear: to "make Austin the leading city in the nation in the fight against climate change."
We have created the petition below to show our support for the Mayor, City Council, Austin Energy, Austin's city leaders, and our diverse community of multiple stakeholders, to achieve rapid implementation of affordable, world-leading, climate solutions, immediately.
We, the citizens of Austin, TX, urge members of Austin City Council to officially recommit to our City's Climate Protection Program. We feel our City can and must do more, and we stand ready to support our City's commitment to world-changing leadership.
In 2007, just two years ago, when the Austin Climate Program was adopted, more than half of today's council was not yet elected, we had a different Mayor, and a different City Manager. We urge our City's new leadership team to recommit the City to the bold, urgent and important goals laid out in 2007.
We ask that today's City leadership put climate solutions first on their agenda and make public their commitment to finding an affordable way forward.
(Co-sponsored by Jake Stewart, frmr manager of the Austin Climate Protection Program, and Jon Lebkowsky, WorldChanging.com)
The City of Austin makes the goal of its Climate Protection Plan clear: to "make Austin the leading city in the nation in the fight against climate change."
We have created the petition below to show our support for the Mayor, City Council, Austin Energy, Austin's city leaders, and our diverse community of multiple stakeholders, to achieve rapid implementation of affordable, world-leading, climate solutions, immediately.
We, the citizens of Austin, TX, urge members of Austin City Council to officially recommit to our City's Climate Protection Program. We feel our City can and must do more, and we stand ready to support our City's commitment to world-changing leadership.
In 2007, just two years ago, when the Austin Climate Program was adopted, more than half of today's council was not yet elected, we had a different Mayor, and a different City Manager. We urge our City's new leadership team to recommit the City to the bold, urgent and important goals laid out in 2007.
We ask that today's City leadership put climate solutions first on their agenda and make public their commitment to finding an affordable way forward.
I am proud that my city has the foresight to tackle such an important issue.
As a leader in Austin's faith community, I urge the City Council to renew its commitment to making Austin a leading community in the fight against climate change.
Thank you for hosting the public forum on energy alternatives.
stand for what is correct for Austin's future and current citizens. Don't fold to big business influence. Listen to your citizens.
Stay committed!
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4:43 am PST, Feb 9,
William Averbach, North Carolina
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Please make climate change your highest priority.
It is our responsibilty as Texans to protect the land that has given us so much! If we don't act, and continue to use our resources in an unsustainable fashion one must ask "Where will our children play?" The responsibilty is ours to ensure that our land is healthy and vibrant with life.
I voted for all of you who are on council and even helped some you with media exposure. Please listen to this message.
Austin, if it is ever to truly be an alternative energy leader, must first commit itself to abolishing its dependence in coal-generated power. There is so much progressive energy here, in the form of the Pecan Street Project, the Mueller Development, the admittedly frustrating but ultimately right-minded commitment to light rail, and the trend toward increasing urban density, that there is no reason we cannot solve our dirty coal dependence.
I urge the Mayor, City Council and the City Manager to continue the Austin Climate Program initiated in 2007, and to strengthen and expand the program where appropriate. If the Program does not include a feedback loop that provides information on performance, I urge the decision makers to do insert such a loop.
We are of modest income and occasionally consider moving out of town though I'm a native Austinite. Why don't we. We value our City and IT"S VALUES. Please continue to live up to this Native Austinites expectations by supporting environmentally conscious companies, jobs, products & services. The GREEN incentives are part of who we are. A CITY WITH A CONSCIENCE.
Dear Austin City Council member, While Washington wavers, make Austin's voice heard. Climate Change is the issue of our times. We must stop fouling our nest. Let us do what needs to be done to correct this grievous mistake. Thank you. - Mike Albrecht, Austin, Texas.
This is for real. Austin can and should be a leader in Texas, the south and the southwest in addressing this problem!
