tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51535202024-03-13T02:03:18.555-04:00transparencya journal of choices, opportunities, and consequences in everyday sustainabilityguayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-89705210826590510632022-01-22T21:15:00.004-04:002022-01-28T11:34:48.666-04:002022<p> 2022</p><p>What a couple of years it has been. 2020 was all about the pandemic, quarantine, and the federal bailout money that saved me - because even though I was already living a very simplified life after I lost everything in the Great Recession, I survived on the federal aid. So many people could not. Then 2021 came along, and I was able to find a minimum wage customer service job I could do from home, on my laptop and cell phone - and I was eternally grateful because this job allowed me to keep going. </p><p>I will continue my self-imposed quarantine until we reach herd immunity, because I don't think I'd survive if I caught the bad version of Covid (apparently Omnicron is not as bad as some of the other waves that have gone around, but I don't want to find out). I'm triple vaccinated and only go out to the supermarket once a week, to my sister's or a friend's house for a few hours of socializing (with like-minded Quarantiners) on Saturdays. And once a month I take some food and supplies to a friend in need, who is also quarantined. Otherwise I'm alone at home, and I'm OK with it. I have my rescued dogs and cats (and a crazy neighborhood chicken) that love me and need me, and allow me to love them back, and for now, work, animal love, a stocked fridge, and Netflix is more than enough. </p><p>I'm doing well, even though my sleep patterns are a little wonky. I'm hopeful that we all come through this, learn the many lessons nature is throwing at us, and we all find pragmatic solutions to the many existential problems that are barreling down on us. The time for shutting our collective eyes to what is really going on is over. We have survived an awful epidemic. Climate Change is here and attacking us. We have eight years to right this ship or humanity will likely disappear from the face of this earth. For me the argument is not whether I'm damaging the chances of survival of future generations. It's much more immediate. I don't want my last twenty years to be all about exhausting and ever-present survival plans from one disaster to another, without doing anything to address the real problems, I'm doing radical changes to my lifestyle, and teaching others to do the same. </p><p>How are you?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-78550683037407252702021-08-25T14:05:00.011-04:002023-05-01T11:22:10.154-04:00The 12 Steps of Fossil Fuel Addiction<p> The 13 Steps of Fossil Fuel Addiction</p><p>1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to FF —that our lives had become unmanageable without them.</p><p>2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.</p><p>3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him or Her or It.</p><p>4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.</p><p>5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs, to ourselves, other people, other living beings, and the Web of Life on this planet.</p><p>6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.</p><p>7. Humbly asked Him or Her or It to remove our shortcomings.</p><p>8. Made a list of all persons, animals, wildlife, forests, and waters we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.</p><p>9. Made direct amends to such people, animals, living beings, air, lands and waters, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.</p><p>10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.</p><p>11. Sought through prayer/meditation/introspection/support group/psychiatrist to improve our conscious contact with a Higher Power, as we understood Him or Her or It, praying only for knowledge of Its will for us and the power to carry that out.</p><p>12. Having had a spiritual awakening and a situational Come-to-Jesus moment as the result of these Steps, we will carry this message to other FF Addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.</p><p>...and one more:</p><p>13. Read up and find ways to live sustainably, justly, and in harmony with the rest of the planet, which turns out to be a lot like the way my grandparents and great-grandparents lived.</p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-84168892558186013442021-08-22T09:33:00.002-04:002022-01-22T15:52:37.320-04:00<p><br /></p><p>I was recently invited to answer the following questions regarding what I would do to if I were given the chance to lead a nonprofit for empowering latinx women: </p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-af389f32-7fff-b34e-271c-adf4b4c873fd" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. What is your vision for the future?</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-af389f32-7fff-b34e-271c-adf4b4c873fd" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My vision for the future begins with two keystones, has a unifying middle, and ends with a promise: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the first keystone is Puerto Rican women (women living on the archipelago, those from the recent diaspora, the descendants of the original 1950's diaspora, and those of Puerto Rican descent that are well-established abroad)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The second keystone is my deep belief that women (and their way of relating to the world) are essential to overcoming the multiple existential threats humanity faces (Climate Change, Social Injustice, a toxic economy).</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A middle that we will form together, male and female, tribe and nation, community by community, by discovering each other and our allies, by deploying our power to convene, to engage, to educate, to lobby, to fund, and to act - in order to create a holistic path forward which finds a new equilibrium between people, planet and profit - in a harsher, but a much more socially united, future.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The promise is creating a group of women who accept the inescapable reality that things need to change, that it's up to us to change them, and that we must accept and adapt to this reality as fast as possible. We face challenges of Gordian intractability which do not allow easy answers or solutions, but that must be fixed with compassion and understanding. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Puerto Rican women grew up with the "Machismo" culture of our forefathers, and have tempered that experience by learning empathy, strategy, gratitude, and humility. We are intimately acquainted with the 'workarounds' needed to (re)construct, feed, and maintain a healthy habitat for our children and our elders (and know how to do that at the personal, family, community, and national levels). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have survived a shattered economy while being battered by natural (hurricanes, earthquakes) and unnatural (political, financial) phenomena for over 15 years, and have come out stronger. We are smart, pragmatic, socially accepting, big-hearted, focused, and resilient women - actively interested in creating an inclusive, transparent, and fair economy - that demands that its members participate in the benefits, consequences, and responsibilities imposed by this earth's ecosystem and our societal needs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">As females, we can recognize and avoid the violence of the "Master of the Universe" mindset, which is destroying the planet in the name of "progress" and "development." Instead of ruling by force or coercion, we rule by consensus and accommodation, by what is best for all of us, using only what we need, being mindful, sharing with each other, caring for and respecting each other, grounded in our community, and standing in solidarity with each other.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">And this is our moment. The women that came before us are 'willing' us to rise and finish what they started; the women that come after us are demanding that we rise, so they have a chance to teach their children to rise as well. This is our time to act. And the Foundation is perfectly positioned to be the catalyst we need most to come into being: empowering women, choosing guiding values that embody a timeless female ethos (supporting each other, sharing knowledge, creating proactive philanthropy, creating a space for change and inclusion, and standing together through everything), which are the best antidotes to the toxic world we live in.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see my organization as an integrating force that brings together women and allies from all sectors - to work together to replace the noxious and old, and create the truly inclusive and new. To broaden humanity's horizon, from mere wealth to health and wellness; from accumulating money to accumulating happiness; from consuming excess to consuming 'just enough,' and leaving enough for other species to thrive; from exclusion to inclusion; from violence to love; from self-interest and greed to community prosperity, from limitless growth to disciplined degrowth, from being blind to seeing clearly, and acting boldly. I see the organization bringing the women of Puerto Rico together, of all colors and heritages, of all incomes and education, of all ages and self-definitions, and helping them build a workable future, one building block at a time. We can show the world the power we have, and help other women and other nations, achieve their own power. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The era of rapaciousness is over. We must "go back to nature," and start the human experiment again, this time letting the forces mother nature has designed to control and shape us as human animals guide us individually and as a society; we must make use of all we have learned in the last ten thousand years, and walk the line between respect and need without destroying the web of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. What goals will define your leadership during the next 5 years if you were to run a nonprofit?</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back of the House: Establish the in-house work team, research potential paths forward, begin fundraising outreach, recruit volunteers and interns</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Front of the House: present and educate the public on our development plan, invite communities to join, form an alliance with other NGO's that share our goals</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring a Funding Specialist, an Entrepreneurship Specialist, a Communications Specialist, and a Volunteer Coordinator onboard to solidify relationships with sponsors, partners, government agencies, and volunteers, communicate our vision, create synergies, establish budgets, and develop commitments from available sources of funds and new clients. One of these women will become the Director after me.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raise $1.5 million ($500,000/yr for salaries, benefits, travel expenses, and overhead costs, and a seed fund of $1,000,000 for projects and grants for the Launch Year - the year we reach our financial goals, expected to be at the end of year 2 of my directorship)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reach out to my amazing network of female environmental and business stars for support, suggestions, and shared project potential</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plan the first five years after launch together with allies, partners, and sponsors (as an iterative, organic process)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work with and train a visionary young successor (in her 30's or 40's) from our team, become a mentor, retire from active administration, sit on the Board of Directors of the Foundation</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the first round of Foundation grants, fundraising events, community outreach projects during our Launch Year, and begin offering consulting services for pay to supplement our fundraising (year three of my directorship)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raise $3,000,000 for the second year after launch and reach $200,000 in sales (year four of my directorship)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raise $5,000,000 for the third year after launch, and reach $500,000 in sales (year five and last of my directorship)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raise $6,000,000 for the fourth year after launch, and reach $1,000,000 in sales (first year of the new director's reign)</span></p></li></ol><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. What strategies will you use to meet those goals?</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my administrative experience to set up the organization correctly from the start (funding, team, goals)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my personality and smarts to bring onboard amazing women to work with me to make the Foundation and its vision/goals a reality</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my management experience to make my work team happy, efficient, focused, disciplined, and agile </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my contacts to build relationships with the business sector and government agencies here and in the US</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my activism contacts to consolidate relationships in the environmental, feminist, social rights, environmental rights, and LGBTQ communities</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my communication and social media skills, working with our Communications Specialist, to set out the vision and goals of the Foundation</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will take time to mentor and work with the next Director</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will bring my knowledge of history, economics, philosophy, ethics, sociology, humanities, art, and climate change to share a holistic vision of the approaching future so we can all be aware of what is coming and how to prepare for it.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my skills and experience in photography and video production to make the visual case for conscientious living</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will use my social media presence to disseminate our vision and accomplishments</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will create affordable MOOC's on Social justice, Climate Change Survival Strategies, Social and Solidarity Economy, Environmental justice, Degrowth, Transition Towns, Building an Ecovillage or an Eco-Community, Urban Agriculture, from Industrial Agriculture to Permaculture</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will create, with leading female lawyers and legislators, a transversal public policy on climate change; an appointment to government cabinet positions of people committed to climate justice; update laws to mitigate this crisis; adopt Coastal Conservations Laws; ban single-use plastics from entering the island; set up recycling and landfill management departments; set up watchdog groups to supervise contracts to avoid conflicts with environmental goals; transition to a sustainable economy; generate green jobs and green entrepreneurship that restore natural assets; create a land-use plan according to the climate crisis; generate more citizen participation; commit to renewable energy, the protection of coasts, rivers, and estuarine systems, allow only organic and permaculture agriculture, and stopping deforestation while adding tree planting programs.</span></p></li></ol>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-15788133765271008892021-03-01T14:02:00.009-04:002021-03-01T15:49:14.501-04:00Notas de eficiencia Ambiental para Legisladores¡Las EcoNotas! (yo voy a reanudar esta tarea!!)<div>Herramienta para Cabilderos Ambientalistas<br /><div><br /><div>Originalmente publicado en: <span style="font-size: large;">Lunes 3 de noviembre, 2008</span> </div><div>San Juan, Puerto Rico </div><div><br /><div>El Comité Evaluador de la Legislación Ambiental (CELA) emitió esta tarde las EcoNotas, donde como ya es tradición, se evalúa la actuación Ambiental de la legislatura.
El CELA mantiene esta gestión de escudriñar el record legislativo para informar al pueblo sobte la actuación de su legislatura. ¿Fué a favor o en detrimento de la integridad del medio ambiente.? Otorgándoles una nota (A - F) de acuerdo a su gestión legislativa, esperamos alertar al público al respecto. </div><div><br /></div><div> “La conspiración por parte de la industria del desastrollo para corromper al gobierno de Puerto Rico hasta ahora ha sido sumamente efectiva. Ha llegado a las más altas esferas. Lo demuestra claramente el caso de Castro Font y las irregularidades en torno a la decisión del Supremo en Paseo Caribe, así como la inacción de Justicia sobre todos los otros angulos de este caso. Se pretende entre otros males, privatizar los bienes de dominio público. Los bienes que no son de nadie porque son de todos. </div><div><br /></div><div>De facto existen dos poderes en la política el dinero los votos: Vox populi… Vox Dei.” Expresó <b>Ricardo "Riki" de Soto, GuardaMar de Puerto Rico</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div>A Continuación Las EcoNotas 2008: </div><div><br /></div><div>A+
Maria de Lourdes Santiago Negrón PIP SENADO </div><div>A +
Orlando Parga,Hijo PNP SENADO </div><div>A +
A
Victor García San Inocencio PIP Camara de Representantes </div><div>A
José Luis Rivera Guerra PNP Camara de representantes </div><div>A
Eudaldo Baez Galib PPD SENADO </div><div>A
A-
B+
Cirilo Tirado,Hijo PPD SENADO </div><div><br /></div><div>B +
B
B-
Carlos Vizcarrondo Irrizarry PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>B menos
Johnny Méndez Nuñez PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>B menos
Norma Burgos PNP SENADO </div><div>B menos
Antonio Silva Delgado PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>B menos
Javier A. Rivera Aquino PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>B menos
Luis Vega Ramos PDP Cámara de Representantes </div><div>B menos
C+
Luz Z. Arce Ferrer PNP Senado </div><div><br /></div><div>C +
Lornna Soto PNP SENADO </div><div>C +
C
Héctor Ferre Rios PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Liza Fernández PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Jorge Navarro Suárez PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Nelson Del Valle PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Héctor Torres PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Carlos Molina PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
José E. Concepción Hernández PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Sergio Ortiz Quiñones PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Carlos M. Hernández López PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Norman Rámirez Rivera PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Lydia Méndez Silva PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Roberto Cruz Rodríguez PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Ramón A. Reyes PPD Camara de Representante </div><div>C
José L. Jiménez Negrón PNP Camara de Representante </div><div>C
Carmen I González González PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Pedro I. Cintrón González PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Jorge L. Ramos Peña PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Sylvia Rodríguez Aponte de Corujo PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
José M. Varela Fernández PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Angel R. Peña Rosa PNP Camara de representantes </div><div>C
Cristóbal Colón Ruiz PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Joel Rosario Hernández PPD Camara de representantes </div><div>C
Pedro Rodríguez González PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Epifanio Jiménez Cruz PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
Migdalia Padilla Alvelo PNP SENADO </div><div>C
José Emilio Gonzalez PNP SENADO </div><div>C
Modesto L. Agosto Alicea PPD SENADO </div><div>C
Juan Eugenio Hernández Mayoral PPD SENADO </div><div>C
Rafael A. García Colón PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C
C-
Luis Raúl Torres Cruz PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C menos
Angel Pérez Otero PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C menos
Bernardo Márquez García PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>C menos
Roberto Rivera Ruiz de Porra PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>C menos
Carmelo Rios PNP SENADO </div><div>C menos
D+
Pedro Rosselló González PNP SENADO </div><div><br /></div><div>D +
D
Iris M. Ruiz Class PNP Camara de Representante </div><div>D
Maria de Lourdes Ramos Rivera PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Rolando Crespo Arroyo PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Francisco González Rodríguez PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Alba I. Rivera Rámirez PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Luis Pérez Ortiz PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Tomás Bonilla feliciano PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Angel Bulerín Ramos PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
Hector Martinez PNP SENADO </div><div>D
Luis Daniel Muñiz Cortez PNP SENADO </div><div>D
Carlos Pagán PNP SENADO </div><div>D
Bruno A. Ramos Olivera PNP SENADO </div><div>D
Margarita Nolasco Santiago PNP SENADO </div><div>D
Sixto Hernandez Serrano PPD SENADO </div><div>D
José J. García Cabán PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>D
D-
José Chico Vega PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div>D menos
Jorge Colberg Toro PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>D menos
José Luis Dalmau Santiago PPD SENADO </div><div>D menos
Antonio J. Faz Alzamorra PPD SENADO </div><div>D menos
F
Jennifer Gonzalez Colón PNP Camara de Representantes </div><div><br /></div><div>F
Ferdinand Pérez Román PPD Camara de Representantes </div><div>F
Roberto Arango PNP SENADO </div><div>F
Sila Mari González Calderón PPD SENADO </div><div>F
F-
José Aponte Hernández PNP Cámara de Representantes </div><div>F menos
Carlos Diaz PNP SENADO </div><div>F menos
Jorge De Castro Font PNP SENADO </div><div>F menos
José Garriga Pico PNP SENADO </div><div>F menos
Kenneth McClintock Hernández PNP SENADO </div><div><br /></div><div> Enemigos del medioambiente:: </div><div> € Jorge de Castro Font </div><div> € Carlos Diaz </div><div> € Kenneth McClintock </div><div> € José Aponte </div><div> € José Garriga Pico </div><div><br /></div><div>Paladínes del medioambiente y la eco-logía social: </div><div>* Orlando Parga* </div><div>* Maria de Lourdes Santiago Negrón *</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>A, tot 6</div><div>4 PIP</div><div>0 PNP</div><div>2 PPD</div><div><br /></div><div>B, tot 7</div><div>0 PIP</div><div>5 PNP</div><div>2 PPD</div><div><br /></div><div>C, tot 37</div><div>0 PIP</div><div>21 PNP</div><div>16 PPD</div><div><br /></div><div>D, tot 20</div><div>0 PIP</div><div>15 PNP</div><div>5 PPD</div><div><br /></div><div>F, tot 8</div><div>0 PIP</div><div>6 PNP</div><div>2 PPD</div><div><br /></div><div>Buenos (A + B) = 16% de todos los legisladores</div><div>Malos (C, D, F) = 83% de todos los legisladores</div><div><br /></div><div>Por Partido:</div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">PIP 100% VERDE </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">(votaron por 10 de cada 10 piezas de legislacion verde posible)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">PNP 10% verde (solo votaron por 1 de cada 10 piezas de legislacion verde posible)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">PPD 14% verde </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">(solo votaron por 1 de cada 7 piezas de legislacion verde posible)</span></div></div>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-1368060503692507542021-03-01T12:30:00.003-04:002021-03-01T12:30:24.033-04:00Ciudadanos, comunidades y organizaciones exigen al Gobierno de Puerto Rico que atienda la crisis climática (español e ingles)<p> Esto sigue siendo necesario. MPN</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32.4pt;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ciudadanos/as/es, comunidades y
organizaciones exigen al Gobierno de Puerto Rico que atienda la crisis
climática <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Por Sea Grant Puerto Rico</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://seagrantpr.org/blog/2020/12/13/ciudadanos-as-es-comunidades-y-organizaciones-exigen-al-gobierno-que-atienda-la-crisis-climatica/">https://seagrantpr.org/blog/2020/12/13/ciudadanos-as-es-comunidades-y-organizaciones-exigen-al-gobierno-que-atienda-la-crisis-climatica/</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 12/13/2020</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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10 puntos mínimos para una gobernanza climática<br />
<br />
En los últimos años Puerto Rico ha vivido momentos de mucha angustia, dolor y
desasosiego. Hemos sobrevivido el embate de huracanes, inundaciones,
terremotos, sequías, amenazas al aire que respiramos, altas temperaturas sin
precedentes, una pandemia, todo esto en medio de una larga depresión económica
y crisis social. Miles han perdido sus viviendas y sus empleos, nuestras costas
se convierten en vertederos de escombros, nuestra flora y vida silvestre, vital
para la agricultura, están desapareciendo. Una tercera parte de nuestra
población vive inseguridad alimentaria mientras la crisis climática amenaza los
sistemas alimentarios globales. <br />
<br />
La ciencia nos ha advertido: los gases de efecto invernadero provocan el
aumento de las temperaturas, esto a su vez provoca el alza en el nivel del mar
y el aumento en la intensidad de fenómenos atmosféricos (lluvias, sequías,
ciclones). Estos cambios drásticos tienen como resultado la pérdida masiva de
especies, migraciones masivas de gente, profundización de las desigualdades
sociales, angustia y dolor. La crisis económica también se agudiza pues estos
eventos alteran dramáticamente las condiciones de vida. Después de todo, la
economía no es algo ajeno a la vida social y también requiere transformarse. <br />
<br />
La crisis climática es resultado de todas las crisis e injusticias por las que
hemos luchado por décadas, es consecuencia del afán de lucro y la explotación
infinita en un sistema que no reconoce los límites de la Tierra. Es
consecuencia también de gobiernos negligentes, que rechazan el conocimiento
científico, que no les importan las consecuencias de sus políticas y destruyen
el futuro de las próximas generaciones. Año tras año los gobernantes prometen
mucho, pero no han hecho nada para cambiar de curso. Se dice que el crecimiento
económico es fundamental, pero ninguna política pública ha detenido el aumento
de la pobreza por décadas.<br />
<br />
Puerto Rico enfrenta directamente las consecuencias del cambio climático por lo
que es urgente una política pública asertiva, fuerte y decisiva para atender la
crisis climática. POR ESO, en esta coyuntura en que se configura un nuevo
gobierno, las personas y organizaciones firmantes AFIRMAMOS Y EXIGIMOS, tanto
de la RAMA EJECUTIVA como de la RAMA LEGISLATIVA:<br />
<br />
1. UNA <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">POLÍTICA PÚBLICA
TRANSVERSAL</span> que en todas las áreas (presupuesto, economía, energía,
transportación, agricultura, salud, educación, infraestructura, vivienda, las
artes y las ciencias, entre otras), integre las consideraciones del cambio
climático priorizando soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y la atención a los
segmentos vulnerabilizados y empobrecidos por la desigualdad social.<br />
<br />
2. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">NOMBRAMIENTOS</span> de
personas comprometidas con el servicio público y con la implantación de las
políticas dirigidas a atender la crisis <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">desde la justicia climática, la protección y restauración
de la naturaleza y la rehabilitación de toda la infraestructura del país.</span><br />
<br />
3. PAQUETE DE MEDIDAS LEGISLATIVAS que actualicen leyes y reglamentos vigentes,
dirigidas a una <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">política
pública integral, justa y decisiva para prevenir, desacelerar y mitigar la
crisis climática.</span><br />
<br />
4. La adopción de una <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">LEY
DE COSTAS Y BIENES COMUNES COSTEROS</span>.<br />
<br />
5. LA OTORGACIÓN DE TODO CONTRATO del gobierno debe asegurar que <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">el ánimo de lucro no implique un
conflicto con el interés público, nuestros bienes comunes y las metas
programáticas ante la crisis climática.</span><br />
<br />
6. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">TRANSFORMACIÓN HACIA
UNA ECONOMÍA SOSTENIBLE Y JUSTA.</span> Urge transformar la economía de una
enfocada en el crecimiento infinito y arbitrario hacia economías que garanticen
el cuidado y bienestar de las personas y los ecosistemas de los que dependemos.<br />
<br />
7. Los <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">niveles de pobreza
y desempleo</span> en Puerto Rico son insostenibles. Exigimos que haya una <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">POLÍTICA DE GENERACIÓN DE
EMPLEOS</span> de la mano de las políticas dirigidas para atender el cambio
climático y que se dé paso a empleos dignos dirigidos a proteger y restaurar
los bienes naturales. <br />
<br />
8. La <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">PLANIFICACIÓN DEL
SUELO debe responder a la crisis climática</span>. Por esto, debe <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">derogarse el Reglamento Conjunto
de Permisos</span> aprobado y comenzarse un proceso amplio para uno nuevo a
tono con lo aquí expuesto.<br />
<br />
9. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">UNA POLÍTICA DE
PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA</span> amplia que reconozca la experiencia, los saberes
y los intereses de la ciudadanía, de los y las profesionales y comunidad
científica que por décadas han alertado y luchado para evitar esta crisis.<br />
<br />
10. LAS <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">ACCIONES PARA
MITIGAR Y ENFRENTAR la inminente realidad del cambio climático</span> deben
incluir, entre otras:<br />
<br />
a. Una política sensible y comprometida con la <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">energía renovable</span> y la independencia del combustible
fósil, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">sin comprometer los
bienes naturales</span>.<br />
<br />
b. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">La protección de los
bienes comunes de los que nuestra vida depende</span>. Debe detenerse la tala
indiscriminada de árboles y la extracción en áreas naturales indispensables
como infraestructura natural para mitigar, desacelerar y adaptarnos al cambio
climático.<br />
<br />
c. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Las barreras naturales
costeras deben protegerse y restaurarse</span>, priorizando los recursos
naturales costeros, deteniendo la dilapidación y explotación irreversible de
estos. Desde la justicia climática debe atenderse el saneamiento de la zona
marítimo terrestre y detener la destrucción y el daño irreversible en la zona
costanera.<br />
<br />
d. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Los cuerpos de agua y
sistemas hídricos</span> como los humedales nos protegen de inundaciones. Es
urgente que se prohíba la desaparición de humedales y otros sistemas estuarinos,
la canalización de ríos y otras construcciones que nos hacen más vulnerables a
inundaciones y erosión.<br />
<br />
e. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">El fomento de la
economía local y a pequeña escala</span>, de modo que se genere actividad
comercial en lugares cercanos a las viviendas, trabajos y escuelas para <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">reducir la dependencia de
combustibles fósiles</span> que aportan al calentamiento global.<br />
<br />
f. La <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">protección de
terrenos agrícolas</span> que garanticen para el presente y las futuras
generaciones una agricultura sostenible y la seguridad alimentaria de quienes
habitan estas tierras.<br />
<br />
Estas exigencias forman parte de una larga trayectoria de personas y grupos que
han dedicado su vida a defender la naturaleza. Con ellas y ellos, y en saludo a
las gestas de hoy hacemos un llamado amplio y urgente a todas las personas y
grupos a proteger, restaurar y rehabilitar sin esperar por la política
partidista. Debemos actuar en favor de la sostenibilidad de la vida, el tiempo
es ahora. Lo que hagamos o dejemos de hacer va a repercutir en el futuro
-cercano y a largo plazo-. El presente y futuro de la vida en estas islas está
en nuestras manos.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt;">[ENGLISH]</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">CITIZENS, COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS DEMAND ACTION FROM
THE PUERTO RICAN GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt;">By Sea Grant Puerto Rico</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt;">12/13/2020<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10 minimum points for climate governance</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In recent years, Puerto Rico has experienced moments of great
anguish, pain, and unease. We have survived the onslaught of hurricanes,
floods, earthquakes, droughts, hazardous threats to the air we breathe,
unprecedented high temperatures, a pandemic, all in the midst of a long
economic depression and social crisis. Thousands have lost their homes and
jobs, our coasts are becoming rubble dumps, our flora and wildlife, vital to
agriculture, are disappearing. A third of our population is food insecure as the
climate crisis threatens global food systems.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Science has warned us: greenhouse gases cause temperatures to
rise, this in turn causes a rise in sea level and an increase in the intensity
of atmospheric phenomena (rains, droughts, cyclones). These drastic changes
result in the massive loss of species, massive migrations of people, deepening
of social inequalities, anguish and pain. The economic crisis is also becoming
more acute as these events dramatically alter living conditions. After all, the
economy is not separate from social life and it also requires transformation.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The climate crisis is the result of all the crises and
injustices that we have been fighting for decades, it is a consequence of the
endless pursuit of profit and infinite exploitation within a system that does
not recognize the Earth's limits. It is also a consequence of negligent
governments that reject scientific knowledge, that do not care about the
consequences of their policies and destroy the future of the next generations.
Year after year government leaders make many promises, but they have done nothing
to change course. Economic growth is said to be essential, but no public policy
has stopped the rise in poverty for decades.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Puerto Rico faces the impact of climate change directly,
which is why an assertive, strong and decisive public policy is urgent to
address the climate crisis. THEREFORE, at this juncture in which a new
government is being configured, the signatory individuals and organizations
AFFIRM AND DEMAND, both from the EXECUTIVE BRANCH and from the LEGISLATIVE
BRANCH:</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">1. A TRANSVERSAL PUBLIC POLICY that in all areas (budget,
economy, energy, transportation, agriculture, health, education,
infrastructure, housing, arts and sciences, among others), integrates the
considerations of climate change prioritizing solutions based on nature and attention
to the vulnerable and impoverished due to social inequality.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">2. APPOINTMENTS of people committed to public service and the
implementation of policies aimed at addressing the crisis from climate justice
perspectives, the protection and restoration of nature, and the rehabilitation
of the entire infrastructure of the country.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">3. A PACKAGE OF LEGISLATIVE MEASURES that update current laws
and regulations, aimed at a comprehensive, fair and decisive public policy to
prevent, slow down and mitigate the climate crisis.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">4. The adoption of a COASTAL AND COMMONS ACT.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">5. THE AWARDING OF ALL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS must ensure that
the profit motive does not imply a conflict with the public interest, the
commons and the programmatic goals to address the climate crisis.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">6. TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE AND FAIR ECONOMY. It
is urgent to transform the economy from one focused on infinite and arbitrary
growth towards economies that guarantee the care and well-being of people and
the ecosystems on which we depend.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">7. The levels of poverty and unemployment in Puerto Rico are
unsustainable. We demand that there be a JOB GENERATION POLICY hand in hand
with policies aimed at climate change and that decent jobs are created to
protect and restore natural systems.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">8. LAND PLANNING must respond to the climate crisis. For this
reason, the approved Joint Permit Regulation must be repealed and a broad
process for a new one should begin in line with what is stated here.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">9. A broad CITIZEN PARTICIPATION POLICY that recognizes the
experience, knowledge and interests of citizens, professionals and the
scientific community who for decades have warned and fought to avoid this
crisis.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10. ACTIONS TO MITIGATE AND ADDRESS the impending reality of
climate change should include, among others:</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">a. A sensitive policy committed to renewable energy, fossil
fuel independence, without compromising natural systems.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">b. The protection of the natural systems on which our life
depends. The indiscriminate felling of trees and extraction in natural areas
essential for natural infrastructure must be stopped to mitigate, slow down and
adapt to climate change.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">c. Coastal natural barriers must be protected and restored,
prioritizing coastal natural resources, stopping their irreversible exploitation
and their loss. Climate justice must address the rehabilitation of the
maritime-land area, and stop the destruction and irreversible damage in the
coastal area.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">d. Bodies of water and water systems such as wetlands protect
us from floods. It is urgent that the disappearance of wetlands and other
estuarine systems, the channeling of rivers and other constructions that make
us more vulnerable to floods and erosion be prohibited.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">e. The promotion of the local and small-scale economy, so
that commercial activity is generated in places close to homes, jobs, and
schools to reduce dependence on fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">f. The protection of agricultural lands that guarantee
sustainable agriculture and food security for those who inhabit these lands for
the present and future generations.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">These demands emerge from a long history of people and groups
who have dedicated their lives to defending nature. With them, and in salute to
the struggles of today, we make a broad and urgent call to all people and
groups to protect, restore, and rehabilitate without waiting for partisan
politics. We must act in favor of the sustainability of life. The time is now.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">What we do or do not do will have repercussions in the near
and long-term future. The present and future of life on these islands is in our
hands.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-64229137260584859392021-02-26T14:09:00.003-04:002021-08-22T09:41:40.994-04:00Sugerencias para un Plan de Sostenibilidad para Puerto Rico<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">No he visto ni un solo plan de gobierno que sea sostenible para Puerto Rico.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Entiendo que para
un cambio que llegue a bajar las emisiones de carbón por 10% al año los próximos
10 años, se necesita crear Equipos de Sustentabilidad a nivel sector privado, sector
público, y tercer sector (y no voluntariamente, sino por ley) creando lo siguiente:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Un
Asesor de Sostenibilidad del “C-Suite” (CEO, CFO, CIO, COO) para asesorar a los
Ejecutivos y a la Junta Directiva corporativos (mas de 50+ empleados)<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Un SVP
y dos Directores de Sostenibilidad (un Director/a supervisa la producción y el/la otro/a la
administración de la corporación (nivel gerencial), y el SVP para comunicaciones entre
el C Suite y los gerentes)<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">dos Enlaces
de Sostenibilidad (“Sustainability Liaisons”) que trabajen uno con grupos
internos (empleados, cadena de valor, suplidores) y el otro con grupos externos
(inversionistas, organizaciones comunitarias, “stakeholders”, clientes, compradores, y políticos) y
explique lo que está en juego (genocidio, ecocidio), cual es el impacto que
necesita evitarse, qué acciones son necesarias, e intercambiar ideas sobre
alternativas y soluciones con las partes; estos se comunican con los Directores
de Sostenibilidad. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Un
grupo de gerentes de datos que recopilan información pertinente en cuanto al
impacto ambiental, el BDJ social, y el impacto económico de estos cambios, los
cuales pueden ser usados en el Reporte Anual Inclusivo (que incluye data económica,
social, y ambiental) y quienes se comunican con los Directores de Sostenibilidad. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Las comunidades
deben tener Asesores de Sostenibilidad para mejorar sus proyectos y comunicarse
con los Directores de Sostenibilidad privados y públicos</span></span></li><li><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Los pequenyos negocios deben tener la ayuda de un Consultor de Sostenibilidad</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">La
ciudad o pueblo, así como el gobierno municipal y nacional, deben crear una
Oficina de Sostenibilidad que supervise todos los esfuerzos y proyectos de
Sostenibilidad corporativos, gubernamentales, y comunitarios y dirijan, con la ayuda de la Junta de Planificación, el PRCCC, y el DRNA, el desarrollo sostenible
para cada municipio, region hidrologica/economica, y la isla entera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">También
se debe crear un Carbon Tax, y tener una campaña educativa en todos los medios
sobre como la “Nueva Economía” nos lleva a dejar de gastar dinero en ciertos
lujos, y a aprender a gastar inteligentemente – o, como se vive bien con menos.
Se le tiene que pagar mas a los empleados ($15 la hora, mínimo) y se
tiene que comprar las cosas locales, y dejar de importar 85% de las cosas que
consumimos; hay que crear una economía local, social, y solidaria con mas enprendedores y menos negocios foraneos; hay que tener mejor infraestructura de transportacion publica. Hay que
incentivar y ayudar a empresarios sostenibles y dejar de hacerlo con los que no
lo son (crear parámetros de sostenibilidad, y dar un (1) año para lograrlos).
Hay que crear nuevas industrias de limpieza y embalaje de desperdicios y minería
de vertederos, y prohibir empaques plásticos y plásticos de un solo uso. Hay
que crear una industria local de hacer plásticos de aceite de algas o de cáñamo.
Hay que crear una industria de aceite de algas para hacer biodiesel (98% equivalente
a Bunker C, pero limpio y local) para usarse en las generatrices de electricidad con demanda disminuida. Hay que poner a los pescadores a dejar de
pescar (moratoria indefinida para la pesca de todo animal marino) y pagarle por
recoger desperdicios del mar; darle ayuda para hacer fincas marinas, y prohibir
los desechos marinos en un radio de 200 millas de Puerto Rico. Hay que crear áreas
protegidas intocables, en tierra y mar, que sumen un 40% de nuestro terreno y mar.
Hay que reconstruir los centros de ciudad que han colapsado de una manera sostenible,
solidaria, e innovadora (con bosques de comida urbanos!). Hay que dejar de
invertir en negocios “sucios” o tóxicos (#Divest). Y todo esto va a causar que
las cosas sean mucho más caras, y por ende, solo se pueda comprar lo necesario
para vivir durante la próxima decada. La tarea es que cada uno de ustedes empiecen a pensar en soluciones, como si ustedes fueran los politicos a cargo - para que tengan que tomar todas las posibilidades en cuenta, y pensar en soluciones holisticas. Como un ejercicio de accion y crear conciencia. Si esperas que otros lo hagan, nuestros nietos no llegaran a viejos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Entiendo que
estas sugerencias parecen ser radicales, pero es lo que la ciencia dice que se
requiere, y de antemano se puede tener una campaña publicitaria sobre los dones y
necesidades de ser sostenibles, las diferencias entre las soluciones apropiadas a una isla versus la metrópoli, y ejemplos de vida en la “Nueva Economía”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: medium;">La situación es
como si yo fuera un cirujano, que lleva a un paciente al quirófano, y antes de
operar, pido un CT scan de su cuerpo, y me percato que además de tener que
reemplazar la cadera, tiene cancer del pulmón, y si solo se opera la cadera, el paciente podrá
caminar, pero se morirá al no poder respirar. Con la sostenibilidad es lo
mismo, hay que oscultar, identificar, y remover todos los riesgos al mismo tiempo, o se muere el paciente (en este caso la Tierra, la biodiversidad, y por ende, nosotros).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-88919497697324193272021-02-18T09:02:00.214-04:002022-01-19T03:29:09.429-04:00Notes on Sustainability for PR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbZ0xhgdVT-92CJsdi-bCsUah-RC7VOxEItcYybgRzqk3Sgx4AmNQfwuRKOFtYVp3ZmTDlUatczpVRMH98gPYXkpfSaJOdk_x7iSvEC2SGhc1vekk9jT_VhEp_aJVF25J96aD-Q/s1/transparent.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1" data-original-width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbZ0xhgdVT-92CJsdi-bCsUah-RC7VOxEItcYybgRzqk3Sgx4AmNQfwuRKOFtYVp3ZmTDlUatczpVRMH98gPYXkpfSaJOdk_x7iSvEC2SGhc1vekk9jT_VhEp_aJVF25J96aD-Q/w1-h1/transparent.gif" width="1" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Literature Review of Guiding Principles (Part 1) and Strategic application of those ideas to Puerto Rico (Part 2)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Part 1</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Baseline
– Guiding principles for sustainable policies:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Three E’s in <b>urban planning</b>: <b>Environment, Equity, and Economics</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Triple Bottom Line in <b>business</b>: <b>Planet, People, and Profit</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">[note
that <b>order of priority</b>: planetary health first, society second, and
business last, which dictates that business adapt to the other two, less
forgiving systems: the planet which simply collapses and renews itself in a
couple of millennia without us, and society, which avoids action in many cases
until it is too late, causing needless suffering and tragedy.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Precautionary Principle</b>: <span style="background: white;">Intended
to affect government policy and business decision-making, the precautionary
principle is <b>a guideline</b> with four components which is to be <b>established BEFORE
any damaging action occurs</b>:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: black;">taking
<b>preventive action in the face of uncertainty</b>; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: black;">shifting the <b>burden of proof to the
proponents</b> of an activity; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: black;">exploring a wide range of <b>alternatives</b>
to possibly harmful actions; and </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: white; color: black;">increasing
public participation</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black;"> in
decision making</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><b>Five
Axioms of Sustainability<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Any society that continues to use critical
resources unsustainably will collapse</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->A society can avoid collapse by finding
replacement resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->But in a finite world, the number of
replacements is also finite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Population
growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be</b> <b>sustained</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Even small rates of growth lead to unsupportable
rates of consumption (baseline sustainable population of the Earth is about 1
billion people; we need to work towards a managed reduction, or nature will
simply, and brutally, do it for us.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>To
be sustainable, the use of renewable resources must proceed at a rate that is
less than or equal to the rate of natural replenishment</b> (setting a limit on
resource use, because renewable resources are exhaustible)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If the resource is declining, sustainability
requires that the rate of harvest be reduced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->To
be sustainable, <b>the use of nonrenewable resources must decline and stop</b>,
and the rate of decline must be greater than the rate of depletion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->No continuous use of a nonrenewable resource is
sustainable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->By using renewable sources, society’s dependence
on the nonrenewable resource will be reduced to insignificance before the
resource is exhausted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->(also, it has been established that 2/3 of all
fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground for life as we know it to survive,
leaving $27 trillion dollars in the ground, which is a great incentive to deny
Climate Change, and this opposition must be addressed in all communication <i>budgets</i>
as counter-measures are HUGE; and in a related ecological accounting, the
Earth’s atmospheric CO2 budget will be reached in 2028 unless we <b>drastically
reduce</b> <b>emissions</b> <b>right</b> <b>now</b>. Baby steps and “Transition
Fuels” like gas, are no longer a viable option for Puerto Rico or the world; NYC
Mayor DiBlasio has just phased out all natural gas infrastructure for the city,
even though most of that infrastructure was installed beginning in 2014.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Sustainability
requires that <b>substances introduced into the environment from human
activities be minimized and rendered harmless to biosphere functions</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Waste, pollution, toxic extraction liquids, electronics/robotics,
and genetically modified organisms are to be phased out <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><b>Principles
of the Deep Ecology Movement <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p> </o:p></span>1.
The well-being and <b>flourishing of human and nonhuman Life on Earth have
value in themselves</b> (synonyms: intrinsic value, inherent value). These
values are <b>independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human
purposes</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">2.
<b>Richness and diversity of life</b> forms contribute to the realizations of
these values and are also values in themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">3.
<b>Humans have no right to reduce this richness</b> and diversity except to
satisfy vital human needs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">4.
<b>The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial
decrease of human population</b>. The flourishing of nonhuman life requires such
a decrease. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">5.
Present human interference with the nonhuman world is excessive, and the
situation is rapidly worsening. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">6.
Policies must therefore be changed. These policies affect basic economic,
technological, and ideological structures. The resulting state of affairs will
be deeply different from the present. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">7.
The ideological change is mainly that of <b>appreciating life quality</b>
(dwelling in situations of inherent value) rather than adhering to an
increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound awareness of
the difference between big and great. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">8.
Those who subscribe to the foregoing points have an obligation to directly or
indirectly try to implement the necessary changes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.ecospherics.net/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">http://www.ecospherics.net</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">See also, from resilience.com, this ppt on the elements of survival and resilience: <a href="http://resiliencemaps.org/files/Dealing_in_Security.July2010.en.pdf" target="_blank">http://resiliencemaps.org/files/Dealing_in_Security.July2010.en.pdf</a><br /><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1cFCfuhN7hdSrwlMRYUhn1OuUzQRipCxOtyJGNEAM_-SkH_67lCm6JgKmdPGZ6y3Xb2s4H77mc5VhAuZOgoFzX7Cc5gPXYXqIfPyAFSspdDgf8lx5mYuRnqy4jmtWz2Yfi7Vag/s2048/Infographic_Emissions2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1448" height="775" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1cFCfuhN7hdSrwlMRYUhn1OuUzQRipCxOtyJGNEAM_-SkH_67lCm6JgKmdPGZ6y3Xb2s4H77mc5VhAuZOgoFzX7Cc5gPXYXqIfPyAFSspdDgf8lx5mYuRnqy4jmtWz2Yfi7Vag/w456-h775/Infographic_Emissions2020.jpg" width="456" /></a><a href="https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/20/infographics.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/20/infographics.htm </a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4f76ba; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Drawdown Framework is the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. This is the point when we begin the process of stopping further climate change and averting potentially catastrophic warming. It is a critical turning point for life on Earth.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4f76ba; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f76ba; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0mmnwxRl0oGqJ7mnXwOuSI-xhdpeb16AlAHVJPNFBTwAZgxjEcNlHa6RBTbT_Us_XqPObhBT_rXyynDmeyYGbkGf4zPdULR7-W9wtPHcovPFFASz8IMOS-tDD15ogCYx1QNgHA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0mmnwxRl0oGqJ7mnXwOuSI-xhdpeb16AlAHVJPNFBTwAZgxjEcNlHa6RBTbT_Us_XqPObhBT_rXyynDmeyYGbkGf4zPdULR7-W9wtPHcovPFFASz8IMOS-tDD15ogCYx1QNgHA/w605-h328/image.png" width="605" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #00477d; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Challenge</span></p><div class="field-item even" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><div about="" class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-body-text body-no-float" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: none; max-width: 580px;" typeof=""><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field-name-field-body-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #484848; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To understand and advance climate solutions, it’s important to understand the sources of emissions and nature’s means of rebalancing the climate system.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #484848; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Burning fossil fuels for electricity, mobility, and heat. Manufacturing cement and steel. Plowing soils. Clearing forests and degrading other ecosystems. All these activities emit heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air. Cattle, rice fields, landfills, and fossil fuel operations release methane—a gas that warms the planet even more. Nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases seep out of agricultural lands, industrial sites, refrigeration systems, and urban areas, adding still more heat-trapping pollutants to Earth’s atmosphere.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #484848; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Most of these greenhouse gases stay airborne, but not all. Natural biological and chemical processes—especially photosynthesis—bring some of that excess back to plants, soil, or sea. These “sinks” are nature’s reservoirs for absorbing and storing carbon. While most heat-trapping emissions stay in the atmosphere, significant portions are quickly removed by plants on land or taken up by oceans.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #484848; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0y5aoOX32E0ZvbNbQRdQPVcmTZDN233-OpJA9wxVdaLssCjTAUIYMOFtI0aRmBGJ86bppK4Ed80Qe14vZ2oI58JW-iPn7ftUYF-92TGmJZAQbe0CXZPu83BhTOP8T1FPEbh2snw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0y5aoOX32E0ZvbNbQRdQPVcmTZDN233-OpJA9wxVdaLssCjTAUIYMOFtI0aRmBGJ86bppK4Ed80Qe14vZ2oI58JW-iPn7ftUYF-92TGmJZAQbe0CXZPu83BhTOP8T1FPEbh2snw/w657-h489/image.png" width="657" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.5625rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Solutions</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To reach Drawdown, we must work on all aspects of the climate equation—stopping sources and supporting sinks, as well as helping society achieve broader transformations. That is, three connected areas call for action, which we must pursue globally, simultaneously, and with determination.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. <b>Reduce Sources — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">bringing emissions to zero</em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2.<b> Support Sinks — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">uplifting nature’s carbon cycle</em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3. <b>Improve Society — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">fostering equality for all</em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nested within each area of action, there are sectors and subgroups of diverse solutions—practices and technologies that can help the world stabilize and then begin to lower greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. Together, they comprise the Drawdown Framework for climate solutions.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://drawdown.org/drawdown-framework" target="_blank">https://drawdown.org/drawdown-framework</a><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><b>The United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>End Poverty in all its forms everywhere – homes
and jobs for everyone, universal base pay tied to cost of living<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->End
hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, promote ecologically sustainable
agriculture – all fresh food not sold on first day given to unemployed,
underemployed, or homeless; 100% of agricultural land available (50%?) to be
used for growing food for local consumption, no importation of competing goods,
no importation of processed foods with few exceptions; set a national nutritional
standard, help or pay mothers to stay home to cook food part time; make organic
and permaculture agriculture the only legal form of agriculture on the island<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Ensure
good health and well-being for all – universal health program for everyone,
rich must participate, but can add services at their cost; pay for local NGO’s
dedicated to offering exercise, yoga, sports, trail walks, swimming, etc (like
YMCA, for example, but can also be independent providers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Ensure
quality education, lifelong learning for all – redesign education system, have
more brick and mortar book libraries, fund continuing education colleges, fund
art schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Achieve
gender equality and empower all women and girls – full communication campaign,
standards for hiring women<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Ensure
access to clean water and sanitation for all – do a full hydrological survey of
the island, its potential and its challenges; create a maintenance plan for all
reservoirs and subcontract locals to keep lakes clean; research and develop a
home rainwater catchment system that can be scaled to community size <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Ensure
access to affordable, reliable, ecologically sustainable and modern energy for
all – research, design, and develop solar, wind and hydro for communal
microgrids that can be maintained and cared for by the locals themselves, so
when a hurricane comes, they can take the panels down, put them inside, and
weather the storm on battery power, and once the storm has passed, they can put
the panels back up; also, teach reduction and minimalism in energy consumption,
but include, for every home, ceiling fans, and a dehumidifier or air
conditioner to counteract the heat waves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Promote
inclusive and ecologically sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent
work for all – start using a happiness index<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Build
resilient infrastructure, promote ecologically sustainable industrialization,
and foster ecologically sustainable innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Reduce
inequality within and among countries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Make
cities inclusive, safe, resilient end ecologically sustainable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Ensure
ecologically sustainable consumption and production patterns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Take
urgent action to combat Climate Change and its impacts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Conserve,
and ecologically sustain the oceans, seas, and marine resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Sustainably
manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt
biodiversity loss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Promote
just, peaceful and inclusive societies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Revitalize the partnership for ecologically
sustainable development</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Part 2</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Problems in PR</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Areas in need of intervention: water, energy, waste management and recycling, food
sovereignty, economic security, communications, education, mass transit, strategic planning, sustainable businesses, poverty, adaptation
measures, mitigation measures (all areas with opportunities for new businesses)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What is PR’s bio-productivity (production
capacity of the island) A US university has already done the study, which costs
$2,000 to buy. Any work going forward needs to have an ecological footprint of
PR, so this information is crucial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->People need to feel empowered: individuals,
families, and communities, by prioritizing local, sustainable solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Building local economies at an appropriate scale
[historically we were always a residual economy, first under Spanish rule, then
under US rule. We were set up to cater to the needs of empire, and never have
had a chance to create a local economy for ourselves]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Realities that are seldom spoken:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The carrying capacity of the island of Puerto Rico
is about 1 million people; its current population is 3.2 million (after about 300,000
people left the island because of Maria, and another 300,000 left since The Great
Recession of 2009); so we have three times the population that the island can sustainably
keep alive, making us totally dependent on imports and the vagaries of the global economy
for our survival.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">By 2040-2050, it will be too hot to grow food in
the area 2,500 miles north or south of the equator.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->It would be wise to study the possibilities of an
outmigration plan like Tuvalu and some islands in the Pacific have with
Australia and New Zealand (for us to travel north, which, as we are already
Americans, is legal) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Roughly, in this hemisphere, the “Too Hot” area is
between the 35<sup>th</sup> parallels or the area south of Norfolk, Virginia, and north of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Most of the people in this hemisphere will need to move
north because the tip of South America is small and it is mostly desert. In
Europe, it will be worse, because there is no place in all of Africa where food will be
able to grow, so all those people will have to move north. The countries with the largest landmass in that area are Russia and China, and China is already over-populated. Note: there is a
limit to how far north people can go due to melting permafrost, which creates
unstable living conditions, and is forcing Inuit peoples south of the polar
region. So, the limit of livable land in this hemisphere only includes roughly
the southern half of Canada, the Canadian Maritime counties, and the northern half
of the US. If Carrying capacity is 100 million people in the US now, and we are about to lose half of the livable land we have, the Carrying Capacity of the US will be lowered to 50 million people, just as 600 million people south of the US begin to need to migrate north in order to survive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->While the US still has a relatively low rural population
density and vast open spaces, it can absorb some migration, but not all the
migration that is coming (Mexico alone has 129 million people, compared to US
327 million).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Europe, on the other hand, will have a much
harder time finding enough land to accommodate the migration from Africa</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNobmbYlfWRDlgvLyirhRd7bImT8vdKxqUwLGL7eIWtplryO28N19a3j3AZdFx4yJ7NXH25u9CygoIltvw1UFxB48fegD1Twy5BHO6O0jV1IgHY3vTg8cu4GnLZqnYQtxB5bsow/s1329/35th_parallels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1329" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNobmbYlfWRDlgvLyirhRd7bImT8vdKxqUwLGL7eIWtplryO28N19a3j3AZdFx4yJ7NXH25u9CygoIltvw1UFxB48fegD1Twy5BHO6O0jV1IgHY3vTg8cu4GnLZqnYQtxB5bsow/w588-h307/35th_parallels.jpg" width="588" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/wSFAA" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://imgur.com/gallery/wSFAA</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">What changes do we
want to see?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: right 6.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We must have PR’s ecological footprint as an
economic indicator and as a human right<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Create a regional economy in each of the 5 hydrologic
regions of the island<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Build decentralized solar power and communal
microgrids, owned and run by communities and local homeowners, (and if we must have PREPA,
use it for commerce and industry, and refuse its debt), with communities assuming
maintenance and care of their systems, with communal maintenance and communal decision-making power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Water catchment systems in every home and
building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->50% of our landmass held as wilderness (we
currently have about 40% unbuilt, but we only protect 7%); make sure we
have budgets to maintain and conserve it (creating new jobs and more committed mindsets!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Better fisheries management, creation of marine
refuges on 50% of our coastal waters, incentivize new marine businesses by sea farming,
sea tours, saving coral reefs projects <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Have urban agriculture in homes and
neighborhoods, and allow new businesses in this space to rise, for example, there is a business opportunity for vertical gardens, water catchment systems, home composting systems, and home-scale biodigesters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Creation of local networks, while we still
have smartphone technologies (some precious metals used in smartphones will stop being available after being over-exploited. See Stock Check graphic below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSCrhUgYzikFgsDXi3capE73OZC_e6aJuoxpRTslsKbNLTBjzYgKSugRI20Tc5rvGJOSUHj_zqq1FH9PxoHC1Z0V6rjfqdtMifBYiO4p0rAL2_vNYlkfHNHJtM9LeN5rcIe8nl4g/s489/Limits+of+Growth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="489" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSCrhUgYzikFgsDXi3capE73OZC_e6aJuoxpRTslsKbNLTBjzYgKSugRI20Tc5rvGJOSUHj_zqq1FH9PxoHC1Z0V6rjfqdtMifBYiO4p0rAL2_vNYlkfHNHJtM9LeN5rcIe8nl4g/w487-h350/Limits+of+Growth.jpg" width="487" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://oneplanet-sustainability.org/2012/02/03/natural-resource-depletion-and-environmental-degredation/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">https://oneplanet-sustainability.org/2012/02/03/natural-resource-depletion-and-environmental-degredation/</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Create social justice from the start, create
local groups using technology as a bridge (because it will only likely last
until ~2050, when peak mineral and peak consumption are due) </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZMIQx6F2EeVaIpwjtUYUw1Yt2GTHEDnmzLaZjnBw4qw8BRzx0Qrw8Eltu9DHQAf3DYyMjGnIAp8azw8hOG7Zgqj-NlfL8Y9ia5zPLDxi9LU0WPIzVSMHQcwFLJZcgNXFJ8obPQ/s1540/Stocks+left+of+irreplaceable+resources.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1540" data-original-width="1241" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZMIQx6F2EeVaIpwjtUYUw1Yt2GTHEDnmzLaZjnBw4qw8BRzx0Qrw8Eltu9DHQAf3DYyMjGnIAp8azw8hOG7Zgqj-NlfL8Y9ia5zPLDxi9LU0WPIzVSMHQcwFLJZcgNXFJ8obPQ/w486-h630/Stocks+left+of+irreplaceable+resources.jpg" width="486" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Numbers are from
2004</span>. </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-stock-check"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-stock-check</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Teach living within planetary means and living happily
with less; the importance of family and community; physically reconnect with
nature and re-establish a balanced ecosystem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Reduce our ecological footprint to less than one planet (for leeway and biodiversity)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Reform the education system to reflect new
reality and topical relevancies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Reconnect with ancestral knowledge, local and
regional knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Work with more “<b>Horas de</b> <b>Contacto Verde</b>”
[here a National School Coordinator App would help]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Plant a million trees a year, especially in
urban centers, on sidewalks, create Urban Food Forests<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Business opportunity: banners spanning roofop to rooftop on Old San Juan streets (and other densely populated areas) like “sunbrellas” to minimize the
city’s heat island effect (like the umbrellas on Fortaleza St, but more efficient)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Restore to health the 5 hydrologic watersheds in
PR and create regional economies in each one <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Work to fix the chronic social and health
problems via localized social entrepreneurship and community empowerment programs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Have an efficient mass transit system not only
between the 5 major cities of PR, but also between the metro areas and their surrounding
towns (in a 20-mile radius?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Grow key small cities into business hubs (Isabela,
Utuado, Adjuntas, Humacao, Maunabo, Ceiba, San German, Rincon, Aguadilla,
Quebradillas, Orocovis, San Sebastian, Manati)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Moratorium in coastal construction until all 300,000
derelict housing units in PR are fixed, rehabbed, sold, or occupied (manage
housing problem and repopulate urban centers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Degrowth strategy (break paradigms to create
productive spaces)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->More green spaces in our urban landscape – tear down derelict houses and used as gardens, green spaces,
food forests (see what Detroit is doing)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Visualize new life horizons, when just enough is
enough, and use a methodology that joins our ancestral cultures (Spain/Europe, Africa,
Taino Indian) with today’s technologies and culture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Educating everybody on self-sufficiency, ecological footprint,
mass transit and light transit, clean energy, organic agriculture, Food sovereignty, to adjust
expectations to a smaller world, with less international travel, and reevaluate lifestyles to
adapt to hotter, dryer, more catastrophic conditions, which will need much more community support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We need a Political Revolution – no more crony
politics and corruption<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We need a Business Revolution – where economies
of scale and other efficiencies that cause layoffs are supplanted by creating
work for as many people as possible, with living wages and secure pensions, and
incentivize a thriving local social entrepreneurship class focused on sustainability.
This is the hardest thing to do, because established businesses hoard their wealth,
their standing, and their privileges, and will fight to keep them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Quote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">“We
all travel together, leaving no one behind, making sure that everything we have
is enough for everybody, and that no one is left needing more, to get to a just
society.” (unattributed UN DP)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Political
Suggestions</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Replace fossil fuel subsidies/tax breaks, and subsidies/tax breaks to businesses that contribute to pollution, create plastic
waste, or create toxic waste; use the Polluter Pays Principle, make toxic producers
responsible for community health; rethink the use of capital (i.e., our economic business model) so
that PR can become self-sufficient and sustainable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Legislators,
with the input of sustainability, climate, and environmental scientists, must set environmental legal
standards for PR in a “Green Bill of Rights”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Create
a “Green Index” to track the level of problems, as well as PR’s efforts to divest
from bad investments and invest in a clean, green, and local bioeconomy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Add
a green component to GDP for PR to add environmental accounting to national
accounts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Add
a Green Investment Index to invest in clean businesses and BioEconomy
administration and infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Create
a Political Green-Points Card, where anyone can see the legislator’s voting
history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Rework
the Austerity budget to include necessary adaptation and mitigation actions and a
self-sufficiency break-even under which we cannot spend any funds on debt service, and the US must pay us to achieve self-sufficiency in lieu of reparations for 123 years of (ongoing) colonialism and economic abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Political
and Economic Power Map: the actors, the businesses, the influencers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We
need serious legislative action (the best way to convince legislators is to speak
“one on one” with them and their deputies, make them able to speak knowledgeably
about the new reality of Climate Change adaptation to their constituents)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Give
workshops on how to lobby legislators to communities, organizers, and leaders<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.5pt; border: none; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We need a Sustainability Legislative Advisor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Create a legal and business ecosystem that helps
people become self-sufficient, as opposed to help (foreign) corporations become
richer and more powerful</span><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">What
themes are most important?<br />
<br />
<b>Vision</b>: a sustainable Puerto Rico, with work/entrepreneurship for everyone,
within a hotter planet a decent life for everyone, housing for all, education
for all, health, social justice, a safety net for catastrophes, and no poverty <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Themes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Commitment to a healthy, smart, equal transition for all</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ecological
Footprint / Carrying capacity; adaptation and mitigation plans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">
Living simply <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">50% of land conservation – to save biodiversity</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Education</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ethics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">
Energy (“ni permiso, ni perdón”) solar power, home wind power, small and large scale biodigesters, batteries, and communal
decentralized microgrids, micro-hydro where possible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Efficient
mass transit, using electric or clean bio-diesel transport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Food
sovereignty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Protect
local produce and products from global forces <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Radical
political change <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Grow organic, permaculture regenerative agricultural businesses, incentivize urban agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Grow
a circular economy, a steady-state economy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Every
city and town must have a produce market<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Massive
communications campaign and introduction of climate change education
curriculums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Water
catchment systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;"><b>We
need:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">How
can we help communities? Ask them. Start there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">How can we change the finance industry and the cooperative industry to address community needs? Start by working with Co-ops as the stepping stones to a circular economy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">How
can we get Community Organizers to create networks and collaborations in other sectors of the economy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">NO transgenic seeds (Bayer/Monsanto etc) in PR. Zero tolerance for corporate abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">How
can we expand financial cooperatives into </span><span style="font-size: large;">local agricultural and artisanal products</span><span style="font-size: large;"> (read: products that enable clean air and water, food sovereignty, healthy agriculture, safe habitats and hybrid urban areas, a thriving local economy)?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">How
can we incentivize local artisans and industrial designers to cooperate in designing
and making low-tech, mechanical, and sustainable home goods, and not just beautiful trinkets?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">Academia/universities – how can they help run projects and services for the communities
that embed sustainability? How can they integrate teaching students how to live in this new world and at the same time help communities adapt to the new world?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bookmark: _Hlk21163742;">How
can we engage with schools and churches for more active participation?</span><o:p></o:p></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-68092416731940904602021-02-18T08:16:00.015-04:002022-01-19T03:38:35.249-04:00Bosquejo de Puntos de Partida para un Puerto Rico Sostenible<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbI3yUKksCAW3azS58lfz4GIszH3mAkUK6yA7IlMqGx24IhHEENNpgYLv61s4mFHsyqxa4ymbx4tj-SIr70JXIx9LwxkRG9LTICtTzNoY1a5QEv6dNQ0LYtvvvaV8GXUU5gtJK3Q/s1000/camino-sostenibilidad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="1000" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbI3yUKksCAW3azS58lfz4GIszH3mAkUK6yA7IlMqGx24IhHEENNpgYLv61s4mFHsyqxa4ymbx4tj-SIr70JXIx9LwxkRG9LTICtTzNoY1a5QEv6dNQ0LYtvvvaV8GXUU5gtJK3Q/w506-h265/camino-sostenibilidad.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Topicos de conversacion</span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c6b69977-7fff-f60e-4b30-12c30d04bf95" style="font-size: medium;"><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Visión Ecológica y Sostenible para PR </b>(de donde se desprenden acciones necesarias) – </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Temas</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Primarios (cuestion de vida o muerte)</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aire Limpio</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plantar muchos arboles, algas, “moss”, urban food forests</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No quemar ni usar productos o materiales tóxicos o plásticos</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dejar de usar energia fósil</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crear conciencia sobre aire, como se contamina, como conservarlo</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agua Limpia</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recoger, filtrar, y almacenar agua de lluvia en casa, y comunidades</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manejar/Controlar/prevenir la llegada de desperdicios a los ríos y el mar</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximizar el servicio y manejo de aguas negras, grises, y potables</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crear conciencia de importancia de agua, como se contamina, como se conserva</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diseñar sistema de alcantarillado que no mezcle agua negra con agua gris, o con agua potable, y mejores sistemas de filtros o usos para el agua negra (humanure?) </span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Estudios sobre cuencas hydrologicas, su salud, su potencial energético, potencial de hábitat para crecer comida acuática, conservar 50% para hábitat natural</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incorporar zona marítimo terrestre en planes de conservacion y reglas de uso</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comida sana</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soberanía Alimenticia (orgánica, regenerartiva, y permacultura)</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agricultura Urbana y Comunal: Como crecer comida en casa y comunidad</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agricultura 100% para crecer comida consumida aquí</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Composta: Como mejorar los suelos con nuestros deshechos compostables</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parques Alimentarios (Food Forests): Como añadir arboles frutales al entorno urbano (Planificación agro-urbana) </span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talleres de Nutrición y menú como factores de planificar huertos caseros, comunales, y de negocios</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Como cocinar y almacenar comida en casa (con o sin refrigeracion)</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cooperativas y/o partnerships de restaurantes, fincas, jardines comunales</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vivienda y Ropa</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Casas eficientes (nivel Pasiv Haus), asequibles (si no baratas, “affordable”), y seguras (contra huracanes, terremotos, inundaciones, robo) para todo el mundo</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talleres de como construir una casa sostenible</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Como coser, diseñar y hacer ropa</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ropa hecha para durar, de materiales naturales</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donde y como crecer los materiales naturales que no compitan con suelos dedicados a crecer comida</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buena salud, buen sueño </span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Balance entre trabajo, ejercicio, y descanso (8 horas de sueño al día, 8 horas de trabajo, 8 horas privadas)</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talleres de buena nutrición, compra, almacenaje, y cocina de comida</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medicina básica, CPR, emergencias básicas, salud mental en la comunidad</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clases de ejercicio para la comunidad</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seguridad</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seguridad personal, digital, y familiar</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vivienda segura y eficiente</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comunidad segura, equitativa, y sostenible</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comunicaciones regulares y de emergencia</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Energia</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Usar toda energia <b>neto-cero</b> hasta llegar a reemplazar 100% la energia sucia fosil (usar solar, eólica, hydro, biomasa, etc.) en redes <b>descentralizadas</b>, <b>comunales </b>y <b>regionales </b>(propias, no alquiladas), y luego reanalizar situación</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diseñar y construir infraestructura de transporte público nacional, vehículos personales livianos hechos aqui, lentos, y pequeños (bicis, motos, golfcarts) eléctricos</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enfocar en viajes internacionales en transporte marítimo a vela y/o trasatlánticos con biofuel</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incluir en plan de 5 regiones hidrológicas y económicas (“hubs” o "mega-regiones" futuros)</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li></ol><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manejo de desperdicios solidos</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Composta casera </span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reciclaje de aceites usados</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solo permitir y usar <b>plásticos compostables</b></span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reciclaje de vidrios</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Empaquetar con materiales compostables</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centros de acopio de composta comunales</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Servicios regionales de recogido y distribución de composta y reciclables</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arqueología y rescate de materiales de los vertederos </span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reuso y “upcycling” de materiales</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>No permitir el uso de materiales tóxicos o no compostables</b></span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oportunidades de negocio verdes que se desprenden de esto</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores y emprendedores</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva </span></p></li></ol></ol></ol><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visión Ecológica y Sostenible para PR (de donde se desprenden acciones necesarias) – </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Temas</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secundarios - (cuestiones necesarias luego de asegurar nuestras vidas)</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justicia Social, Justicia Ambiental</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Economia Social y Solidaria, circular y local, autosostenible (no dependiente de la economia global)</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Participación Comunitaria</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regionalizar la economía en Cuencas Hidrográficas </span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diseñar e implementar un Plan de Desarrollo Sostenible (próximos 10 años, 2020-2030) a nivel municipal, regional, y nacional</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diseñar e implementar Planes de adaptación y mitigación al Cambio Climático (2030-2040)</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diseñar Plan de Emergencia Climática (emigración forzosa cuando haga demasiado calor, en 2040-2050) </span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Desarrollar solo Negocios Verdes</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transicion de economia vieja a economia propia, local, circular y sostenible</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Política Pública para reforzar la sustentabilidad a todos los niveles y desincentivar uso de energia fósil y materiales tóxicos</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educación para todos grados 1-18+ (elemental, high school, universidad, maestria o especializacion), y educación continua</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Analysis de situación:</span></p></li><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trabajos hechos por OSFL</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trabajos hechos por Gobierno de PR, y federal</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-roman; margin-left: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trabajos hechos por sector privado</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oportunidades de negocios verdes</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cambio individual que crece y se convierte en cambio nacional</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educar a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores de esta vision del futuro</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escribir política pública comprensiva</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://guayaba.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://guayaba.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> y </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PuertoRicoSostenible/?ref=group_header" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Puerto Rico Sostenible</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> en Facebook</span></p></li></ol></ol></span>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-28234991991711610462020-12-18T00:58:00.032-04:002020-12-22T10:08:26.619-04:00Entrega de Reconocimientos a Comerciantes de la Calle Loiza<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwiEaLb-QsPURT05d9lb6EkG5ghRlmvbNMjCo6QPVSuIoZ7hEaJKHWIZ1WXHkNiO9fWGeoF6Sdwq_ZYxqQLUo4TZxv-0QQrJwVE5f1r1CKXaxU9aYRDW4wh_tQypDdHycoLtVFwQ/s4160/IMG_20190415_180746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwiEaLb-QsPURT05d9lb6EkG5ghRlmvbNMjCo6QPVSuIoZ7hEaJKHWIZ1WXHkNiO9fWGeoF6Sdwq_ZYxqQLUo4TZxv-0QQrJwVE5f1r1CKXaxU9aYRDW4wh_tQypDdHycoLtVFwQ/s320/IMG_20190415_180746.jpg" /></a> El Ca<span style="text-align: left;">ñ</span>o Martin Pe<span style="text-align: left;">ñ</span>a, desde el puente Martin Pe<span style="text-align: left;">ñ</span>a</div><div><br /></div><div>"El proyecto "<i>Que no toque el piso ni llegue al agua",</i> una iniciativa para mejorar el manejo de los desperdicios sólidos del <b>Programa del Estuario de la Bahia de San Juan</b> (PEBSJ), en estrecha colaboración con el <b>Taller Comunidad la Goyco</b> (TCG) y el <b>Comité Machuchal Limpio</b> (CML), comenzaron el miércoles, 16 de diciembre del 2020, la entrega de reconocimientos a aquellos comercios comprometidos con el medio ambiente y el <b>sistema hidrográfico de lagunas, estuario, y caño</b><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b> </b>que adornan nuestra urbe metropolitana, desde Pi</span></span>ñ<span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">ones hasta Cata</span>ñ<span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">o.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-19bec790-7fff-6908-8592-fe247bbc893a" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 135px; overflow: hidden; width: 154px;"><img height="135" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vj2wJBmH_hq4_w8-SF9QrYtkEnlxbmTyIkLMhJ4Q0sGSxjoqVKTcx6J7L1WIOafT2ZtWIh5EUcsJMTOZS7RFeVJnpGIsrKegkvMTSMZ8EFpd8db41vavsR992wXcQ9OOEZdOok2T" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="154" /> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 135px; overflow: hidden; width: 154px;"> </span></span><img height="136" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0oHfXbolog-ZWIQmKxj1_6S0S99s_7k1gA0cH5KgMVZEvTBDcxJjI4z7u3w6YvAo1EmR5KxEV1EjBjEYQGsTODFU9--KNYPkfhnsS30Kc3awVwdRrWwoWo4XOnd5NnjrXBnNkxWs" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="134" /> <img height="134" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/BxcUhP21MmKJXBpP53NyvrdPmmooLRUf40lj_bFDNqGecy45d_llNySdCYEVJWA4_hZojjIZG2eFd1IXfLGcTmkAyYHnSYtUGnEnMBNDjVk0XuVIbFO11zQDD2rbK1k3W0h-aG-q" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="156" /></div><div><br /></div><div> El reconocimiento busca resaltar aquellas acciones a favor del medio ambiente en la gestión diaria de los comercios de la <b>calle Loíza</b>. Los reconocimientos se dividen en : <b>educación al público, agua filtrada, desvío y/o manejo de materiales, el no usar materiales desechables, utilización de vajilla y/o materiales compostables, reciclaje de aceite, utilización de productos eco-amigables y limpieza responsable.</b> La artista y vecina <b>Yolanda Velazquez</b> creo el arte y diseño de la campaña visual, incluyendo logo, arte, y premio. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMdrl5cCBeAXirdQuw6ZeooemWgzsseDORiuUwqNS5txbgQJDS-CasAbwnK9y26eIFfHaoEDcDx2wUGTKaQekefbT6GACAQVvXdKa8h00ywMRaYJDYU0GqKFNf3ki1LDb8z9h8g/s4000/20201217_131702.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMdrl5cCBeAXirdQuw6ZeooemWgzsseDORiuUwqNS5txbgQJDS-CasAbwnK9y26eIFfHaoEDcDx2wUGTKaQekefbT6GACAQVvXdKa8h00ywMRaYJDYU0GqKFNf3ki1LDb8z9h8g/s320/20201217_131702.jpg" /></a> Premio "Este negocio Reduce, Reusa y Recicla"</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Iliana García</b> vecina, gestora cultural y enlace comunitario del proyecto, en representación de la comunidad de Machuchal Limpio, y <b>Cristina Ramirez</b>, Coordinadora de Alianzas y Proyectos de Desechos Acuaticos del Programa del Estuario, presentaron los reconocimientos. Los cuatro restaurantes premiados fueron <b>Fleria Greek Restaurant, Areyto, Double Cake y Ana's Café</b>, quienes aceptaron el reto y brindaron su apoyo en acoger esta iniciativa. El Jueves 17, se le dio reconocimiento a <b>Panucho's,</b> y a <b>Erika Rodriguez </b>de el negocio de composta <b>La Jugueria Curativa</b>.</div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div>A todos los vecinos, colaboradores y visitantes, los invitamos a buscar estos reconocimientos en los establecimientos participantes. </div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div>Aprovechamos para agradecer y felicitar la colaboración de <b>Nilda y Carmen</b>, las guardias de seguridad de la Goyco; de <b>Shorty</b>, vecino y colaborador manteniendo las calles y alcantarillas limpias y libres de desperdicios sólidos; y <b>Benny Benitez</b>, vecino y colaborador en la iniciativa de desvío y manejo correcto de aceite de cocinar usado en la Ferretería Madrid. Su ayuda y apoyo es imprescindible.</div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div>Seguiremos esta semana realizando las entregas, los invitamos a seguir nuestras redes sociales y conocer a los comerciantes participantes y responsables con el medio ambiente y el recurso agua. Aquí algunas fotos de los reconocimientos.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHk9ywd5Ijs9d5NInYF7mIHIHOO732rKPD9ry3uiPujvvVD9qfqyjA1RVs3E2deXM6rNlXbmvt4pcr0AiyZrCJtu2KrvnHd1m_SmBU3bfLcTYOaMhyphenhyphenAF4iQXo0UERUuylgr1DkPw/s3749/20201217_132006%257E2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3749" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHk9ywd5Ijs9d5NInYF7mIHIHOO732rKPD9ry3uiPujvvVD9qfqyjA1RVs3E2deXM6rNlXbmvt4pcr0AiyZrCJtu2KrvnHd1m_SmBU3bfLcTYOaMhyphenhyphenAF4iQXo0UERUuylgr1DkPw/s320/20201217_132006%257E2.jpg" /></a> Panucho's</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLyG1wbWYIl-ERQp9L9g2_MJqxC9iK5_zK6JrnUssZRL6JArFLyi6OJd27OF4wzsTYjKwxf1Fx7DR8puAoV-Fypt8i0eZlM3D2xcMJ3MhC4wRNSbVPhQ0cAs4679BJ-16XLDxsg/s2164/20201217_153608.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">O Como Aprender Sostenibilidad Usando Todo lo que le Falta a la Plataforma
Ambiental del PNP</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Por Monica Perez Nevarez, noviembre 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Aquí encontrara el link de la </span><a href="https://www.pedropierluisi.com/puerto-rico-promete"><span lang="ES">plataforma</span></a><span lang="ES"> ambiental de Pedro Pierluisi, y mi deconstrucción
de la plataforma, </span><a href="https://guayaba.blogspot.com/2020/10/aprendiendo-sostenibilidad-con-lo-que.html"><span lang="ES">aqui</span></a><span lang="ES">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Resumen Ejecutivo</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pierluisi tiene
una plataforma ambiental que, al lector que no conozca los temas de la
<b>sostenibilidad</b>, la <b>justicia social</b>, la <b>economía ecológica</b>, el <b>cambio climático</b>,
y la <b>filosofía </b>detrás del manejo holístico de una situación ambiental compleja,
pueda parecerle algo utilizable. Pero para las personas que tienen conocimiento
de todas las partes entrelazadas de estos temas, esta propuesta deja mucho que
desear. Usa algunas palabras clave, pero no las pone en contexto, ni explica un
plan concreto de como las va a lograr. Y no usa muchos de los conceptos clave
de la sostenibilidad, dando la impresión que no los conoce.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Basura Cero Puerto
Rico, al promulgar el reciente Debate Ambiental, había identificado seis áreas
de importancia escogidas por los miembros de 58 organizaciones sin fines de
lucro ambientales que se unieron a BCPR para tener el debate, pero Pierluisi no
atendió, así que no se sabe cómo hubiera contestado.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pero la lista
forma una buena base de donde crear una plataforma coherente y se puede
comparar a la plataforma de Pierluisi. Así que vamos a compararlas.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Los puntos de
interés eran: (en <b>bold</b> los temas recogidos por Pierluisi) </p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Energía - (<b>Energía Renovable</b>,
<b>Política Pública Energética</b>; y Transformación de la AEE); 2/3<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Agua - (Riesgos del Cambio Climático y
el estado de la Infraestructura; el Servicio de la Autoridad de Acueductos
y Alcantarillados, el Cumplimiento con los Estándares de <b>Calidad de
Agua</b> y Monitoreo y Protección de Cuencas Hidrográficas); 1/6<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Conservación y Planificación
Ambiental - (<b>Protección de Terrenos</b> de alto valor ecológico,
Reglamento Conjunto, Revitalización de Áreas Urbanas); 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Agricultura (Agroecología, Soberanía
Alimentaria, <b>Compañías de biotecnología</b>, Incentivos en el sector
agrícola); 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES">Residuos Sólidos</span></b><span lang="ES"> (Ley 70 de Reducción, Reciclaje, <b>Desarrollo
de Mercados</b>, Waste-to-Energy) 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Recuperación Justa (Plan para la
recuperación justa de Puerto Rico, el Caño Martín Peña, <b>Apoyo a
Entidades de Base Comunitaria</b> y Comunidad Científica). ¼<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Total: 7/25<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Pierluisi
menciona 7 de los 25 (o 28%) temas ambientales importantes para el pueblo de
Puerto Rico, pero no adentra mucho en ninguno de ellos en su plataforma ambiental. Si esto fuera un
examen, se hubiera colgado. Pero hay mucho que aprender de lo que falta.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"> </span><b>Conservacion</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">El primer punto
de la política ambiental de Pedro Pierluisi (PNP) es “proteger nuestro
entorno”, lo cual nos deja saber que ha priorizado el tema menos controversial
y quizás más fácil de mercadear de toda la gama de riesgos existenciales y necesidades
urgentes que existen dentro de los temas de la sostenibilidad y el Cambio
Climático. Y para decir más, el uso de la palabra “entorno” es tan vaga que
deja abierta la posibilidad de no proteger ningún suelo, no solo los de <b>alto
valor ecológico</b>. Tampoco discute los matices más agudos de los riesgos que nos
acechan dentro del tema de la conservación, ni explica como su plan los
resolvería.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Corrientemente en
PR tenemos legislación que conserva un 7% de nuestro suelo (y eso a duras
penas), mientras que existen otros 30% de suelos de alto valor ecológico que deberíamos
salvar y proteger. No dice que los va a proteger, ni que va a estudiar la
situación, ni a hacerle consultas al pueblo sobre ello. Y no hace alusión al
estudio del profesor de Biología de la Universidad de Harvard, <b>E. O. Wilson,</b>
que explica que un 50% de todo terreno y área marina en el planeta debe ser
separado para el uso exclusivo de la flora y la fauna salvaje si el planeta ha
de conservar un 80% de la <b>biodiversidad </b>– o sea, tener sitios <b>sin incursión
alguna de los seres humanos en esas áreas</b>. Quiere decir que los humanos
debemos de dejarle la mitad del mundo al resto de los 99.999% de vida
silvestre, si queremos conservar una semblanza de biodiversidad en el planeta,
además de los ~20% que ya son parques o reservas donde los humanos si pueden
visitar (pero no pueden explotar ni con minería ni con ganado).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El plan de Pierluisi
no explica la importancia de la biodiversidad ni las razones por lo cual se
debe proteger a toda costa, y deja entender que no conoce lo que es ser
<b>ecológicamente sostenible</b>. Esta acción de dejarle mitad del planeta a los otros
seres vivientes es parte de la <b>justicia ambiental</b>, y es algo que corta por la
mitad todo plan existente de uso de terrenos y áreas marinas, porque
inmediatamente perderíamos el “uso y disfrute” de mitad de nuestros suelos (terrestres o marinos) para
proteger las especies y la red de vida (“web of life”) que le ha tomado al
planeta millones de años en crear. Sin esas especies y sin esa red, el planeta
no podría ofrecernos todos los servicios y recursos que nos ofrece y nosotros no podriamos sobrevivir.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tampoco explica el
otro lado de la moneda, que la <b>huella humana</b> (que incluye ciudades, centros
urbanos y suburbanos, fincas, agricultura, industrias y casas rurales) ya toca
el 60% de la tierra, y solo queda 40% del planeta para el resto de los seres
vivientes, y desgraciadamente, dentro de esos 40% están la mayoría de los
hábitats que los humanos no pueden habitar de manera cómoda, como son los
desiertos, las montañas rocosas, los glaciares, o los bosques de lluvia, que NO
es lo que el Dr. Wilson quiere decir con “la mitad”). La sostenibilidad tiene
que existir en todo renglón de la jerarquía social – desde lo nacional, a lo
regional, a lo municipal, a lo comunitario, a lo familiar, a lo individual. Lo
que quiere decir que mitad de cada de esos renglones tiene que proteger y segregar mitad de
su suelo para que la vida silvestre pueda florecer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">En un mundo
urbanizado, esto quiere decir usar 10% de un terreno urbano para edificar una
casa, 40% para un <b>jardín de comida</b> ("food garden") y 50% para un bosque natural para los
animales que viven en su área geográfica. El lote más pequeño en que esto se
podría llevar a cabo es uno de 900 a 1,000 metros cuadrados, o aproximadamente
10,000 pies cuadrados (con casa de 1,000 pies cuadrados. o 10%, de huella o menos).
Históricamente las ciudades se desarrollaron con edificios apiñados unos encima
de otros por la cantidad de personas interesadas en vivir cerca del centro de
poder y de negocios, por los desarrolladistas quererse lucrar lo mas posible, y la junta planificadora, si existia, tenia su norte en el crecimiento economico y no en la salud ambiental y social. Pero en lo que lleg</span><span lang="ES">ó</span><span lang="ES"> a ser los suburbios, los lotes fueron
disminuyendo en tamaño por la mezquindad de los desarrolladores, dejando las casas con una estampilla de
grama al frente y otra atrás. Para un edificio multipiso, tendría que haber un
lote para huertos caseros comunales y un bosque para la vida silvestre rodeando
el margen de la ciudad. En un municipio tendría que haber la misma cantidad de
terreno que lo que hay construido en edificios gubernamentales, de negocio, e
infraestructura. En una región tendría que haber igual cantidad de terreno silvestre
que de terreno urbano y suburbano. Y por fin, a nivel nacional, se tendría 50%
del suelo para usos humanos y 50% del suelo para la fauna y la flora. Nuestro entorno seria mucho mas verde que al presente, y tendriamos que vivir en proximidad de muchas especies animales.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Y ni hablar de conservar
los mares porque es probable que 100% de ellos estén contaminados con desechos plásticos,
porque se han encontrado hasta en la Fosa de las Marianas (“the Marianas’s
Trench”, el sitio más profundo del océano), y hoy día hay por lo menos cinco
enormes vertederos marinos (“<b>Ocean Garbage Patches</b>” o círculos de basura oceánicos)
en las partes norte y sur de los océanos Pacifico y Atlántico y otro en el
océano Indico (y recientemente encontraron uno más pequeño en el Mar Caribe) que
han sido creados por la corriente marina llamada la <b>ciruclación termohalina
(“Thermohaline Current”)</b> que controla el termostato del planeta junto con las
corrientes de aire sobre tierra llamados “<b>Jetstream</b>” en la parte norte de este hemisferio. Millones de aves marinas, peces, y mamíferos
oceánicos han muerto de hambre con sus estómagos llenos de plástico. Y la mejor
manera de conservar el mar es no echar basura en el desde un principio. Pero la
política ambiental de Pierluisi no dice nada de esto; solo dice que quiere
conservar las bellezas naturales para “el uso y disfrute de las generaciones
futuras”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Pierluisi olvida
también mencionar que, aunque ya casi no queda terreno virgen para desarrollar
en Puerto Rico que no sea de alto valor ecológico, s</span><span lang="ES">í</span><span lang="ES"> hay muchos centros de
ciudad que están olvidados y baldíos, con mucho potencial de mejora e
inversión, y no necesariamente para desarrollo de lujo (o <b>gentrificación</b>: cuando desarrolladores
empiezan a comprar propiedades en un barrio pobre pero geográficamente bendecido
por poco dinero, y lo convierten en un sitio demasiado caro para las familias
que antes vivían allí, desplazándolas y convirtiéndolas en víctimas de
<b>injusticia social</b>). El <b>casco urbano</b> <b>abandonado </b>de Rio Piedras viene a la mente. Est</span><span lang="ES">á</span><span lang="ES"> en
una localización geográfica privilegiada, pero a los desarrolladores no le interesa derrumbar para construir. Y como Rio Piedras, hay muchos centros de
ciudad que podrían ser revitalizados alrededor de la isla, pero nadie quiere
invertir porque no son proyectos que rinden los beneficios (ROI o Return on
Investment) que buscan los desarrolladores.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pierluisi habla
de nuestras necesidades. Pero cuando dice necesidades, ¿Qué necesidades? ¿Las
económicas? ¿Las ecológicas? ¿Las sociales? No nos dice cuales, así que no sabemos
si entiende la <b>relación e interdependencia entre ellas</b>, ni que hay que hacer
decisiones tomando las tres en consideración, <b>holísticamente</b> y a largo
plazo. Esto se llama <b>Triple Resultado Final (“Triple Bottom Line”)</b> y se usa
para discutir, analizar, y decidir tomando en consideración tres
consideraciones de igual peso: la ecológica, la social, y la económica.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Pierluisi analiza
la situación perfectamente: la realidad en que vivimos requiere una
<b>transformación </b>y un <b>reenfoque</b>, hay que liderar para detener el cambio
climático, <b>debe atenderse de manera inmediata</b>, y debe tomarse como <b>oportunidad
de cambio</b>. Pero no menciona que para cambiar de verdad, hay que desmantelar la
economía vieja y crear una nueva – cosa que no solo va a tomar tiempo hacer, es
tiempo que no podemos desperdiciar dentro de la ventana de oportunidad de 10
años que nos queda para bajar la <b>cantidad de carbón atmosférico</b> a <b>350 ppm</b>
(“parts per million”, ver </span><a href="http://www.350.org/"><span lang="ES">www.350.org</span></a><span lang="ES"> para más información) como explicó el <b>Dr. James
Hansen</b>, de NASA y Columbia University. Ahora estamos en 415 ppm, y el promedio fue
280 ppm durante cientos de miles de años antes de que los humanos introdujeran
la agricultura y la industria. Pero bajar el cabon atmosferico quiere decir parar de consumir petroleo y sus derivados. Esta disrupción causar</span><span lang="ES">á</span><span lang="ES"> </span> mucho
daño a nuestra economía y dolor a la parte de la población que no se pueda acoplar a ella, y si no
podemos convencer a la casi-mitad de la población estadounidense que no cree en
el Cambio Climático, de hacer eso mismo, estaremos creando una catástrofe global. Y por los EEUU
ser la economía más grande del mundo, si los republicanos vuelven a ganar la
Casa Blanca, puede que sea la causa por la cual se extinga la especie humana. Este
punto no se refleja en el plan de desarrollo económico de Pierluisi, por no
incluir consideraciones ambientales necesarias en sus decisiones económicas que
requieren que se derogue la Ley PROMESA, se deje de usar gas natural en la
isla, se derogue el contrato con LUMA y se cierre la planta de AES, por
ejemplo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El desarrollo
económico como se ha estado practicando <b>SI</b> es excluyente de la
protección ambiental. El desarrollo económico como lo practicamos hoy día es
precisamente lo que nos ha traído a esta encrucijada. Se basa en <b>energia fósil</b>
que tenemos que dejar en la tierra, y causa mucho daño en cada etapa de su
<b>cadena de valor</b> (durante el proceso de extracción, en procesarla, en su uso, en
su distribución, al desecharse), y además, <b>se ha probado científicamente que hay
que dejar dos terceras partes de las reservas de petróleo ya confirmadas debajo
de la tierra si la humanidad ha de sobrevivir. </b>El problema es que esas reservas
están valoradas en <b>$27 trillones de dólares</b> que las compañías petroleras no
quieren perder, y nosotros los humanos estamos tan acostumbrados a todas las
cosas que la economía del petróleo nos brinda, que no queremos vivir sin ellas.
Y desafortunadamente, no existe otra fuente de energia tan barata, rápida, y
fuerte como lo es el petróleo y sus derivados.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pero la manera
más insípida que el petróleo ha influenciado a la sociedad es en nuestra manera
de pensar. Hay que cambiar la manera de pensar que nos deja creer que el hombre
puede controlar la naturaleza, o que no tiene que vivir dentro de los límites
de la naturaleza, o que hay soluciones tecnológicas que podrían sobrepasar la
necesidad de vivir dentro de esos límites y por ende no necesitamos cambiar
nuestros estilos de vida o nuestra manera de hacer negocios. Tenemos que
cambiar la <b>definición de desarrollo</b> a uno que aminora la actividad económica
extractiva y realza la calidad de vida, llegando a ser una <b>economía circular,
social, justa, y solidaria,</b> que en términos del economista Milton Friedman (y
el “Chicago School” en general) sería una economía ‘estancada’, y desde el
punto de vista del economista ecológico <b>Herman Daly</b>, seria “una economía estable”
– en inglés “a <b>Steady State Economy</b>” que aumentaría el bienestar humano, pero no
haría daño ecológico y no crecería el producto bruto. La era del millonario que cree que no le debe nada a nadie y puede acaparar riquezas mientras deja a millones de
personas en la penuria ha muerto. Hay demasiada gente en el mundo para ser tan
egoísta. Ahora el que no trabaje para el bien de todos es parte del problema.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Me alegra ver que
Pierluisi menciona la justicia ambiental y el deber de proteger la calidad de
nuestro aire y agua, dos factores cruciales a nuestra sobrevivencia, pero no
confío en que los procesos de ser <b>inclusivos </b>y <b>justos </b>se alinien con su plan
económico de <b>privatizar nuestros recursos</b>, seguir los goles de la <b>Junta Fiscal</b>
de pagar una deuda impagable antes de establecer una <b>economía local</b> saludable,
sacar “más provecho de menos recursos”, y <b>monetizar recursos</b> con <b>inversión
foránea</b> que saca de nuestra economía casi todo beneficio ancilar sin dejar
beneficios suficientes para nosotros poder llegar a ser más <b>autosuficientes</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mientras es
verdad que Puerto Rico tiene mucha riqueza geográfica, ambiental, social, y
cultural, no toda se debe “desarrollar” (si por “desarrollar” quiere decir
vender los pocos predios de áreas silvestres que nos quedan a los grandes
hoteleros para ellos convertirlos en sitios de lujo con parques de golf, y con
entrada restringida física- o económicamente). Es loable que Pierluisi piense
instruir al pueblo en como “experimentar” de “manera responsable” nuestros
recursos, pero con solo “velar” por ellos no va a conseguir nada significativo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El uso responsable
requiere un proyecto masivo de educación, <b>crear un puesto gubernamental de Director/a
de Sostenibilidad de Puerto Rico</b> con otros tantos en cada municipio que cuiden
, manejen, eduquen, y participen con sus comunidades en acciones sostenibles, y
un ejército de maestros, consultores, y voluntarios dedicados a trabajar con las
comunidades, las escuelas, las asociaciones de negocios, y con el sector
privado para empapar al pueblo con los conocimientos y acciones que debemos
tomar hacia la sostenibilidad ecológica y social, y como esas decisiones cambian
las decisiones y resultados de los negocios, y por ende, a la economía.
Convertirnos en una isla sostenible debe ser un esfuerzo a nivel del <b>Marshall Plan</b>
de la <b>Segunda Guerra Mundial</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Turismo Ecológico</b></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Es buena idea el querer promover
el <b>turismo ecológico</b> para poder desarrollar pequeños y medianos negocios. Esto
ayudaría muchísimo a la gente que vive en las ciudades o cerca de algún recurso
natural que pudieran alquilar un cuarto de su casa en Airbnb (para lo cual hay
que tener reglas claras, que todavía no las hay). Pero más importante aún, tenemos
que hablar de lo que se conoce como <b>“Carrying Capacity” o la “Capacidad de
Carga”</b> de un ambiente para incluir no solo la cantidad de habitantes que
tenemos, sino también la cantidad de visitantes foráneos que tengamos. La
Capacidad de Carga es el tamaño máximo poblacional de una especie (en este
caso, humanos) que puede mantenerse en un ambiente dados los alimentos, el
hábitat, el agua y otros recursos disponibles para su sobrevivencia. La razón
específica por la que una población empieza a decaer depende de los factores
limitantes presentes como lo pueden ser una población demasiado grande para el
área, espacio insuficiente para todos, insuficientes alimentos o agua, demasiado calor
para crecer vegetales, o la cantidad de luz solar necesaria para crecer
plantas. Si la población de una especie (en este caso la especie humana en una isla pequeña) está
por encima de la capacidad de carga de su ambiente, la población suele
disminuir vía un alza en mortandad (<b>“die-off”</b>). Aquí entra en juego la <b>huella ecológica</b>
de cada persona, o “<b>Ecological Footprint</b>” que es la cantidad de recursos que cada
uno consume al vivir, que ahora está a un máximo obsceno de <b>nivel de consumo</b> en la economía botarata en que vivimos (“<b>the Throw Away Economy</b>”).</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Los humanos llevamos 8,000 años
cambiando la ecuación de Capacidad de
Carga al inventar tecnología que nos ayuda a sobrevivir (tecnologías simples
como: el fuego, la rueda, la agricultura, el domesticar animales; luego la alta
tecnología, con inventos como: la prensa de Gutenberg, el ferrocarril, la
desmotadora de algodón o “Cotton Gin”, la electricidad, los motores de
combustión, la industrialización; y hoy día, con tecnología altamente
especializada como: las telecomunicaciones, el internet, inteligencia
artificial, la robótica, y las computadoras, que no solo han cambiado como la
sociedad piensa, actúa, y vive, sino que también nos han dado la esperanza de
que la tecnología nos “sacará” del problema de tener que vivir dentro de los
limites ecológicos del planeta; y que además esa manera de pensar nos da
permiso para seguir siendo inconscientes de nuestros actos y despilfarrando
nuestros recursos como si fueran infinitos, cuando sabemos que estamos creando
un futuro durísimo para nuestros hijos, y donde probablemente no van a poder
sobrevivir nuestros nietos. Además, son las ciudades grandes y ricas las que
tienen la mayoría de los científicos que creen que la tecnología nos salvara
del Cambio Climático; desafortunadamente, lo que es solución para esas ciudades no es solución para una isla pequeña. Las mejores soluciones son las
locales, usando los recursos locales. No hay una sola solución global para el Cambio
Climático. Todos tenemos que hacer lo que podamos dentro de nuestros recursos y
facilidades, sin tratar de emular otra sociedad que tenga diferentes recursos.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Según varios expertos del patio
y mis propios cálculos, la capacidad de carga de Puerto Rico
ronda en un millón de personas sin contar con ayuda tecnológica y sin
agricultura. Si incluimos algo de tecnología y <b>prácticas agrícolas
regenerativas</b>, la población de Puerto Rico podría subir a dos millones de
habitantes y ser sostenible. Si el tamaño de la población crece por encima de esta
capacidad de carga, la isla se convierte en un hábitat no-sostenible (nuestra condición
actual) y nos hace dependientes en importaciones para sobrevivir como lo hemos hecho en
las últimas seis décadas, y si seguimos abusándola mucho más tiempo, la isla y
sus habitantes van a perder la capacidad de darle vida a todos los seres que en
ella habitan. </span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Desde el 1950 contamos con más
de dos millones de habitantes y con 400 mil visitantes al mes en promedio (usando
las cifras de 1 millón de visitantes anuales a 10 millones de visitantes
anuales durante ese tiempo). O sea, que la última vez que Puerto Rico hubiera podido ser autosuficiente
y sostenible fue en el 1899, justo después de la <b>Guerra Hispanoamericana</b>, cuando
teníamos menos de 1 millón de habitantes y muy poco turismo. Que giro del
destino agrio, que algo que entonces vimos como una posible salvación del
colonialismo español, resultara ser una toma de poder imperial por la nacion americana, que no tenía
ningún interés en ayudar a una isla convertirse en autosuficiente y sostenible,
sino que buscaba una presencia militar en el Mar Caribe, buscaba una oportunidad de inversión y crecimiento para sus elites políticas y su
clase inversora, y que de sus acciones se desprenderian algunos beneficios para nosotros. Que ironía que sea la misma mentalidad y el mismo mandato que
tiene hoy la <b>Junta de Control Fiscal </b>(FOMB por sus siglas en ingles).</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">El plan ambiental de Pierluisi no
menciona que para tener turismo verde y poder controlar el uso correcto de
nuestros recursos, habremos de <b>tener una población acorde con nuestra capacidad
de carga</b>. Estos números se pueden cambiar un poco (de un millón a dos millones
de habitantes, por ejemplo, si usamos tecnología adecuada y una agricultura
regenerativa), pero no nos podemos quedar viviendo de la manera
en que vivimos ahora, con 3.2 millones de habitantes sobre consumidores y
833,000 visitantes más al mes, para una población promedio de 4 millones de
personas. Hay que hacer planes para rebajar la cantidad de habitantes, la
cantidad de visitantes, y retomar la industria hotelera en la isla. Los límites
de la tierra son limites verdaderos, y si queremos sobrevivir a largo plazo y ser
sostenibles, hay que atenerse a ellos. <b>Para reducir la cantidad de habitantes
hay que educar a las mujeres, empoderarlas a trabajar, pagarles el mismo sueldo
por el mismo trabajo, y darles la potestad de decidir cuantos hijos quieren tener
y cuando quieren usar contraceptivos. </b></span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Hay que encontrar una manera
justa y empática de manejar la cantidad de refugiados de islas caribeñas que
entran <b>indocumentados </b>a Puerto Rico, pues a veces se siente como si estuviéramos
viviendo en un “Twilight Zone” de la Casablanca del verano de 1940 – el sitio
donde todo el mundo europeo viene a cobijarse de una situación imposible en su nación de
origen, pero de donde nadie puede salir porque no hay como entrar legalmente a
ningún otro sitio. Y esta situación solo se va a poner peor, así que la tenemos
que manejar. Ahora mismo no tenemos defensa efectiva contra este tipo de inmigración.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">También hay que educar al pueblo
a cómo vivir de manera sostenible, como minimizar la huella ecológica de cada
persona (“Ecological Footprint”), hay que cambiar los <b>patrones de consumo</b> a los
cuales nos hemos acostumbrado, y hay que recalibrar nuestras expectativas del
futuro, porque el futuro no va a ser lo que esperábamos.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Un ejemplo de la complejidad de
la capacidad de carga: en teoría, si, queremos cambiar a una economía de turismo,
pero cumplir con los límites de capacidad de carga de nuestra isla, deberíamos
tener una población de residentes de un millón de personas, una población de no
más de 500,000 indocumentados, y una entrada mensual de no más de 500,000 turistas
mensuales, para estar dentro de la capacidad ecológica más alta posible de
nuestra isla (dos millones de personas). OJO. No estoy abogando por sacar
personas a la fuerza de Puerto Rico. Estoy abogando por hacer planes para que
la población disminuya de manera justa, y que el pueblo participe en hacer el
plan. Además, estas consideraciones tendrían que ser un factor en los permisos
de construcción o de albergue en el futuro, para tener solo las unidades
necesarias en el mercado y evitar la posibilidad de que alguien pueda “hackear
el sistema” y no respetar la capacidad de carga. </span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES"><b>Limitar los visitantes e
inmigrantes</b> debe incluir discutir como <b>transportar </b>a los turistas hacia la isla,
al no poder usar aviones hasta que podamos producir localmente un <b>biodiesel de
aceite de algas</b> que puedan usar como combustible, y también, de qué manera el
límite de visitantes afectara el precio de viajar a la isla (el cual subirá). Al mismo
tiempo deberíamos transicionar a usar veleros o barcos transatlánticos como ‘ferries’
(como en los años ’40) para viajar al continente, al Caribe, y a Sur América,
con estrictos protocolos de volumen de turistas y <b>manejo de desperdicios en
alta mar,</b> y que usen biodiesel de aceite de algas o cáñamo para correr sus
motores. También debemos pensar en los modos de transportación publica que
tenemos/no tenemos en la isla. Debemos tener transportación pública de primera y
que conecte toda la isla. Tenemos que facilitar y crear infraestructura para
uso peatonal y de bicicletas. Debemos planear como cambiar a <b>carros
eléctricos que se suplan de energia solar y no de electricidad sucia</b>. </span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Este ejemplo también ilumina de
manera gráfica por qu</span>é el sector privado o “La mano invisible del mercado” de
Adam Smith no puede proteger el ambiente ni los derechos de las comunidades por
sí solos. Los pescadores de bacalao Atlántico, de camarones de Carolina del
Sur, y de salmón del Pacifico han probado que no pueden manejar la pesca porque
no pueden decidir quién entre ellos se quedará sin pescar. Ellos hicieron
todo lo que ellos creían necesario para salvar la salud de su pesquería, pero
la cantidad silvestre ha disminuido al punto de solo quedar un 20% de la
población original en el océano y ninguna en los estuarios de Carolina del Sur.
Los pescadores podían bajar la cantidad que cada uno iba a pescar, pero no lo
suficiente para dejar a tres cuartas partes de los pescadores sin trabajo, que
era lo que necesitaban hacer. Esta es la encrucijada clásica entre la economía y la ecología: no hemos sabido respetar la integridad de la naturaleza, y hemos olvidado que esa integridad la necesitamos para sobrevivir.</p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">En los condados marítimos de
Canadá, la veda de pesca de bacalao que empezó en 1992 y se creía iba a durar
diez años, a 28 años después, no ha producido el alza poblacional del pescado
que se esperaba, y ahora se cree que es posible que los peces no volverán a los
Bancos de Georges donde habían habitado por millones de años, optando por vivir
en aguas más frías al norte. <b>No podemos dejar la conservación de un bien
natural a los emprendedores porque ellos no cesaran de extraer riqueza del
hábitat hasta que no quede nada, porque su forma de pensar se basa en la
competencia y extracción.</b> El gobierno es el único ente dado a la tarea de pensar por el bien
de todos, analizar la situación independientemente y sin coerción económica o
política, y hacer las leyes necesarias para ser justo con las minorías. Y como
sabemos, la política ya ha sido corrompida por los intereses privados y la
mentalidad rapaz. Los negocios no tienen la responsabilidad de conservar
recursos ni velar por los derechos de los pobres, y las organizaciones
comunitarias, que si lo tienen, no tienen el poder adquisitivo o político de
proteger sus derechos. El gobierno es el único que puede hacer el trabajo, si
es sabio, recto, justo, y transparente. Pero no puede haber conección entre
intereses privados, dinero, y políticos.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">¿Cómo pueden sobrevivir 3.2 millones de personas en Puerto Rico, si la cosa esta tan mala? El huracán Maria y todas las
vicisitudes económicas de los últimos 15 años han probado que la población que se
ha quedado en Puerto Rico o tiene trabajo, o tiene entradas pasivas o ayudas
gubernamentales, o no tiene el dinero para irse de esta economía colapsada. La
razón que hay 3.2 millones de habitantes y que (antes del Covid) podían llegar hasta
10 millones de pasajeros anualmente (dejando aproximadamente $3.9 mil millones
de dólares en nuestra economía) es que 83% - 92% de lo que consumimos es importado. Pero
este sistema que resulta ser frágil y no es sostenible. </span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">El importar todas nuestras
necesidades es una solución tecnológica de suma complejidad, y es cierto que
nos ha resuelto muchos problemas en las últimas cinco décadas. Pero también ha
sido una decisión miope, arrogante, y perezosa, por escoger una
esclavitud cómoda en vez de una vida más acorde con la naturaleza y más justa.
Por rechazar el pagar los costos verdaderos de la industrialización, llamadas
“<b>externalidades</b>” en el lenguaje económico, y pasarle la cuenta al pueblo por los daños cometidos, y por
adormecernos con sueños de grandeza que nunca se han cumplido, hemos todos
contribuido al Cambio Climático, a nuestra dependencia, y a la injusticia
ambiental y social <b>sistemáticamente</b>. Ésta
es la razón por la cual estamos en la situación en que estamos: dependientes
completamente en productos y poderes foráneos que solo buscan sacarnos dinero y
dejarnos a nuestra suerte cuando necesitemos ayuda. Y casi todos los procesos
que se usan para hacer los productos que consumimos son basados en el uso del
petróleo y sus derivados, lo cual nos hace cómplices de muchísimos daños
ambientales. </span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES"><b>Este es el momento de cambiar</b></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Aunque no lo parezca, en Puerto
Rico nunca hemos tenido una economía local robusta y <b>resiliente</b>. Ni bajo los
españoles ni bajo los americanos. Siempre hubo leyes, impuestas por ellos, que los
beneficiaban a ellos, y menoscababan las ansias y las oportunidades nuestras de
tener una economía local y autosuficiente. Esa situación nos ha llevado a ser completamente
dependientes en productos de afuera, nos ha hecho olvidar como crecer nuestra
propia comida y como producir nuestros propios productos, y nos ha indoctrinado
a no tener control sobre nuestra economía y estar continuamente a la
disposición de otros. Es el momento de cambiar, aunque los cambios causen una disrupción
profunda en nuestras vidas.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">No somos los únicos que hemos
sufrido de este estilo de “<b>desarrollo</b>”, pues los cambios han sido globales, y
esto ha pasado en todo el mundo. Además, durante el último medio siglo ha habido muchos
cambios tecnológicos, como la integración global de la economía y el <b>“Internet
de las Cosas” (IoT o Internet of Things)</b> que han exacerbado la dependencia y la
pobreza de gran parte del llamado “Sur”, queriendo decir los países menos
desarrollados. Y es que el querer ser autosuficiente culmina por
desmantelar la economía global, porque todo el mundo se esta dando cuenta que el Cambio
Climático exige que todos: los países, las regiones, los municipios, las
ciudades, las comunidades, las familias y los individuos, seamos sostenibles en
cada renglón jerárquico de la sociedad. Ya hay familias y grupos europeos y
latinoamericanos que viven de manera sostenible (Mondragon en España, Proyecto </span><a href="http://www.comuntierra.org/site/index.php"><span lang="ES">Común Tierra</span></a><span lang="ES"> en Latino América, y muchas otras alrededor del mundo {</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_community"><span lang="ES">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_community</span></a><span lang="ES"> }). Aquí en Puerto Rico hay muchas familias que viven
vidas autosuficientes y bastante sostenibles (aunque en Puerto Rico nadie es
totalmente sostenible todavía) con casas que tienen energia solar, captación de
agua de lluvia, y jardines de comida.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Si, es muy difícil cambiar,
porque dejar de hacer las cosas con la comodidad con que las hacemos ahora
quiere decir que la economía como la conocemos va a dejar a de existir, y
tenemos que crear otra, como dijo Pierluisi, basada en energia limpia y
trabajos bien pagados. Pero además de eso, tenemos que incentivar un sector de
<b>empresarismo </b>verdaderamente <b>verde </b>y completo, porque nunca ha habido trabajo
para más de un 25% de la población adulta entre empleos en el sector
privado y el gobierno, 60% no participa en el mercado de trabajo, y 15% trabajan en la economia subterranea; y de la única manera que vamos a cubrir 100% de los
empleos que necesitamos cubrir (para emplear a 75% de la poblacion) es creando una clase emprendedora
(“entrepreneurial class”) verde, de pequeños negocios donde un dueño pueda
tener dos o tres asociados o empleados y todos ganarse un buen salario. También
debemos pagar un salario mínimo de $15.00/hr en toda la isla. Y para que no
haya inflación, habrá que temporeramente congelar los precios, hasta que se
normalice la economía nueva. Además, <b>dejar que se acaben algunos abastos nos
enseñará a vivir con menos, a comprar solo lo justo, a conservar nuestros recursos,
a apreciar lo que tenemos, y a enfocarnos en las cosas que son verdaderamente
importantes: nuestra salud, nuestra familia, nuestras amistades, y un trabajo
que no inspire y que aporte al bienestar colectivo</b>, en vez de deprimirnos.</span><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;">
</p><p style="background: white;"><span lang="ES">Además, al proteger el ambiente,
se necesitarían toda una gama de <b>trabajos ambientales</b> como guías para acompañar
a los turistas (foráneos y locales) que visitasen las áreas naturales (estos
pueden ser “freelance” usando apps de guías personales), personal de
mantenimiento asegurando el manejo de las áreas naturales (estos pueden ser
trabajadores del gobierno), y personal de seguridad implementando las
protecciones ambientales en todo lugar turístico por si se cometen
infracciones, para que haya consecuencias inmediatas si se rompen las reglas
(estas pueden ser compañías privadas, pero ojo, al contractar estos trabajos,
especialmente si se suben los salarios mínimos, le va a salir más costoso al
gobierno pagarle a una empresa privada que pagarles a los empleados
directamente). Es posible que el gobierno tenga que cobrar por entrar a
las áreas naturales. Y sí, entiendo que estos cambios pueden considerarse
onerosos y un ataque contra la “libertad” personal de algunas personas. Pero
hasta que no eduquemos a la próxima generación de niños a saber cómo actuar y
como respetar nuestro entorno, y respetarnos los unos a los otros, no vamos a
poder cambiar la manera de ser de la gente a menos que no haya alguien
diciéndoles que pueden o no pueden hacer. Ya hemos probado que el usar rótulos
no sirve de nada.</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><b>Buenas Ideas Incompletas
y Una Bien Mala</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pierluisi incluye
la idea de tener diseño y desarrollo* inteligente. Pero no explica cómo solo “revisar”
la situación tendrá impacto. Hay que hacer más que revisar. Hay que crear la
infraestructura física, económica y mental de cómo vivir en un país sostenible,
y hay que tener cuidado con la parte de “tecnología inteligente” que es solo una manera de
decir “más tecnología”. *de ahora en adelante, el único “desarrollo” del que yo
hablo es el sostenible, local, equitativo, y estable y con tecnología simple.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Encontrar</span><span lang="ES">á</span><span lang="ES">n que
las agencias o programas gubernamentales, así sean federales, nacionales, o
municipales, le pueden dar una muy precisa evaluación de la situación corriente
y lo que se necesita para optimizar las instalaciones o centros, y gran parte
de lo que van a sugerir es que le devuelvan los fondos necesarios y la cantidad
de empleados necesarios para llevar a cabo no solamente las tareas que hacen,
sino también las que dejaron de hacer y las que deben añadir para cumplir con
las necesidades de una nueva economía verde, y reconstruir o construir la
infraestructura necesaria para ello. Si todos estos gastos asustan, se puede
también incentivar a organizaciones sin fines de lucro, ya existentes o por
existir, a manejar las áreas naturales regionales como coordinadores de voluntarios
y estudiantes, y de esa manera ayudar a los empleados gubernamentales a lograr
sus metas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">¡La idea de crear
una alianza entre el Departamento de Educación y el Departamento de Recursos
Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) para desarrollar módulos educativos es buenísima
iniciativa! Yo añadiría conceptos de <b>sostenibilidad</b> y <b>responsabilidad</b>
<b>social</b>, al igual que <b>justicia social, de género, y ambiental</b>, con
talleres de <b>biodiversidad</b>, <b>cambio climático</b>, <b>economía
ecológica</b> y <b>economía social y solidaria </b>y otros temas, porque la
conservación ambiental es una pequeña parte de lo que necesitamos aprender y
hacer. Continuar el <b>Programa Contacto Verde</b> es otra buenísima idea. Se podría
expandir a incluir alianzas entre OSFL, departamentos ambientales gubernamentales,
y voluntarios/estudiantes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Concuerdo con actualizar
el <b>DRNA</b>. Sugiero que, además, que le den el poder necesario de hacer cumplir
las leyes (“enforce the law”) a el DRNA o alguna organización afiliada pues “velar”
por el reglamento no hace nada de por sí. El DRNA ha pasado por recortes de
recursos humanos, y además necesita actualización financiera, porque necesitan más
empleados y fondos. Aquí no menciona el gran trabajo que ha hecho el DRNA con
lo poco que tiene, y como ha liderado el <b>Puerto Rico Climate Change Council
(PRCCC)</b> y el magnífico trabajo que ese grupo ha hecho para estudiar, analizar,
identificar y buscar soluciones a toda una gama de problemas que trae el cambio
climático. Espero que el gobierno se deje llevar por sus recomendaciones, en
vez de mandar a otra gente a rehacer el buen trabajo que ellos han hecho bajo
la excusa de alinear el plan con su programa de desarrollo económico, o peor,
que el gobierno obvie el trabajo ya hecho unilateralmente, como lo hizo con la
<b>Reglamentación Conjunta</b> después de 20 años de trabajo y consulta en los <b>Planes
de Uso de Terrenos</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hay cosas que
simplemente no se pueden hacer para pagar la deuda (como vender recursos
naturales para sufragar un pago de una deuda impagable), y el gobierno se tiene
que dar cuenta que en verdad no podemos pagar la deuda como la Junta de Control
Fiscal quiere que la paguemos, porque después de 15 años de depresión económica
ya no nos pueden exprimir más, y antes de poder pagar, tenemos que levantarnos.
Y levantarnos va a tomar 10 años. Y cuando nos levantemos, solo deberíamos
pagar un 10% de nuestros ingresos hacia la deuda. Como en cualquier otra
bancarrota – aunque en esta situación los prestatarios deberían cargar con su
parte de la responsabilidad hacia sus clientes (muchos de los cuales son de aquí), pero no hay quien se lo imponga. Y claro,
Pierluisi fue abogado de la Junta Fiscal, así que puede coincidir con lo que
están tratando de hacer y de la manera en que lo están haciendo, en vez de defender
al pueblo puertorriqueño de los actos depredadores de la Junta.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Y esto último en
si viola el sentir del pueblo, y quebranta uno de los <b>tres pilares de la
sostenibilidad</b>. El primer pilar es la <b>salud ecológica</b>. El segundo pilar es el
<b>bienestar social</b> y la <b>justicia social</b>. El tercer pilar es una <b>economía
saludable</b>, en ese orden. Los derechos de la economía <b>no </b>se pueden poner encima
de los derechos sociales o ecológicos, y Pierluisi tiene que cambiar su
definición de una economía saludable a una que sea local, sostenible, equitativa,
y justa. Esa es la gran batalla que tenemos, como pueblo, que librar en estas
elecciones para poder ser sostenibles y autosuficientes a largo plazo. <b>Escoger
ser sostenibles, escoger tener un futuro menos malo al que estamos encaminados,
acabar de cambiar nuestra manera de vida, y votar por el candidato que mejor
plan de desarrollo sostenible tenga.</b> La buena noticia es que todavía tenemos
tiempo. La mala noticia es que tenemos solo <b>10 años</b> para bajar nuestras
emisiones de carbón atmosférico a 350 ppm si queremos evitar las peores
consecuencias del cambio climático.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Crear una
<b>plataforma digital ambiental</b> para facilitar la interacción ciudadana me parece magnifica
idea, espero que también se use como herramienta educativa y de transparencia,
y acepte comentarios y observaciones de estudiantes, académicos, voluntarios, y
observadores, y que se pueda diseminar en las redes sociales.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Crear una <b>Alianza
para la Seguridad Publica</b> con otras entidades gubernamentales para insertar al
DRNA en la interconexión de sistemas de comunicación y coordinación de
respuesta a emergencias y desastres es buena idea. Desafortunadamente se queda
corto en el impacto que podría tener si se limita a emergencias y a hacer
querellas; si va a hacer una alianza incluyan conceptos de sostenibilidad, denle plenos poderes para informar sobre
sus programas y logros, educar al pueblo de como ellos pueden participar y
protegerse, y comunicar la importancia de ser sostenible y la visión de país
que resultaría de tales cambios en las redes sociales, podcasts, ‘webinars’, y
talleres regionales. La actualización de equipos en el <b>Área de Respuesta a
Emergencias Ambientales</b> para asegurarse de mantener un inventario de equipo vigente
y relevante es muy necesario después del desastre del Huracán Maria. Espero que
esto quiera decir que van a contratar más empleados para manejar y hacer
cumplir los reglamentos, y que los empleados servirán de <b>liaison con las
comunidades</b> que sirven y mantenerlas al día. Igualmente, añadir un Reglamento
de Multas Administrativas del DRNA e implementar mejoras en su fiscalización es
necesario, pero también conlleva más empleados dedicados a hacer todo lo
necesario para hacer cumplir la ley, que aquí no se menciona.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Integrar el
<b>Programa de Geología e Hidrología </b>y el <b>Programa de Manejo de Costas</b> de la <b>Junta
de Planificación de Puerto Rico</b> al DRNA es buena idea, pero es importante
mencionar la importancia de la Junta de Planificación, y la falta que hace una
organización independiente como lo fue la Junta en su tiempo, que actuó como
punta de lanza para proteger el ambiente al igual que un disuasivo difícil de
sobreponer por aquellos intereses que buscaban subvertir los limites ecológicos
y sociales de nuestra isla.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trabajar el
manejo de las zonas inundables bajo el Programa de Geología e Hidrología, y
dando apoyo a los municipios para acceder a fondos federales para estos
propósitos y para participar plenamente del <b>Programa Nacional de Seguros de
Inundación</b> (“NFIP”, por sus siglas en inglés), es buena idea. Pero hay que
tener claro que <b>FEMA</b> ya no está asegurando terrenos en la zona
Marítimo-Terrestre que estén en peligro de inundación recurrente durante
huracanes o tormentas tropicales, prefiriendo relocalizar los dueños de
propiedad a terrenos más altos. Esto causa perdidas desiguales entre los
barrios ricos (en Ocean Park por ejemplo, que cuando suba el nivel del mar, tiene
el dinero para pagar por construir rompeolas o paredes “sea walls”), y los
barrios pobres (en el Caño Martin Peña por ejemplo, muchas de las familias que
han vivido y luchado por décadas por vivir allí perderán su hogar y su
comunidad).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Otro ejemplo: la
mayoría del área al norte del Expreso De Diego, desde Fajardo hasta Arecibo, va
a ser afectada por la subida del nivel del mar (“Sea Level Rise”), y al irse
los dueños más cercanos al mar, esas casas deberán ser demolidas y esos barrios
reconfigurados para salvar, temporeramente, las casas más alejadas del mar.
Pero si los glaciares de Groenlandia y Antártica llegan a derretirse por
completo antes de 2050, como se predice que pasar</span><span lang="ES">á</span><span lang="ES"> si siguen derritiéndose al paso acelerado
que van, entonces veremos pueblos en todas nuestras costas bajas sufrir – en
Dorado, por ejemplo, las inundaciones pueden llegar desde el mar hasta el mismo Expreso De Diego. En San Juan, los aeropuertos Luis Muñoz Marín e Isla Grande
quedarían bajo agua e inservibles, y solo el Aeropuerto de Ramey en Aguadilla
podría salvarse y aceptar vuelos internacionales (aviones grandes). La
infraestructura portuaria de la Bahía de San Juan quedaría incapacitada por la
subida del mar. De repente, no podemos huir, y no podemos abastecer nuestras
necesidades de agua y comida. La lección es que no se puede ganar contra el
mar. El mar siempre va a ganar. Y para la subida del nivel del mar, solo
aquellos dueños que tengan dinero o recursos a su disposición van a poder
resguardarse o poder encontrar otro hogar donde vivir.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">También hay que
ir instruyendo al público de las opciones que se practican en otros sitios:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Construcción
de malecones: la ciudad de Nueva York está construyendo un muro contra
inundaciones de $335 millones en Manhattan. Elevar los malecones 12 pulgadas
cuesta alrededor de $60 por pie. Los nuevos rompeolas suelen costar entre $600
y $2000 dólares por pie lineal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Elevando
carreteras: Miami Beach está elevando sus carreteras dos pies a un costo de
aproximadamente $2 millones por bloque de ciudad. Para asegurarse de que las
carreteras más altas no canalicen las aguas de la inundación hacia los hogares
y las tiendas en elevaciones más bajas, las ciudades incluyen bombas de aguas
pluviales para eliminar este exceso de agua.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Construcción
de bombas de aguas pluviales: Norfolk necesita $70 millones para bombas y
desagües. En nuestro caso, hay que arreglar las bombas que tenemos, que no
funcionan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Mejora
de los sistemas de alcantarillado: el condado de Broward de Florida ha gastado
más de $250 millones para eliminar los tanques sépticos. Las ciudades pueden
actualizar los sistemas de alcantarillado para que el agua de lluvia no se
filtre en las tuberías, actualizar los tanques sépticos o reemplazarlos con
líneas de alcantarillado por aproximadamente $15,000 por reemplazo. Esto se
tiene que hacer aqui en Ocean Park.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Uso
de playas como barreras: Norfolk recientemente gastó $ 34.5 millones para re-arenar
una playa en Ocean View para reducir las inundaciones. Las playas y las dunas actúan
como un muro natural que reduce el impacto de las marejadas ciclónicas. Cuanto
más grande es la playa, más evita que agua llegue a las casas y las carreteras.
Los pueblos pueden agregar arena para agrandar las playas o para protegerlas de
la erosión, pero es un proyecto caro que se tiene que seguir haciendo luego de
cada tormenta. En los ultimos 5 a</span>ñ<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">os</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">, hemos perdido 20% de las dunas de Isabela, y no hay manera de reponerlas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Creación
de infraestructura natural: el condado de Palm Beach está gastando $ 17
millones para crear manglares, arrecifes de ostras, hábitats de marismas y
pastos marinos en 70 acres de tierra marina. Las comunidades costeras pueden
restaurar y construir infraestructura natural que pueda actuar como
amortiguador contra tormentas e inundaciones costeras. Estructuras naturales
como islas barreras, arrecifes de ostras y coral, manglares, pastos marinos y
marismas pueden funcionar al unísono con la infraestructura construida, como
los malecones, para absorber las marejadas ciclónicas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Parar
el hundimiento de la tierra: El distrito de alcantarillado de Hampton Roads ha
planeado un proyecto piloto de $55 millones para inyectar agua bajo tierra para
retrasar el hundimiento de la tierra. Desafortunadamente, esto no se puede
hacer en Puerto Rico, porque la tabla de agua está muy cerca de la superficie.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">- Retiro
gestionado de la zona marítima: la Isla de Jean Charles del estado de Louisiana tiene un proyecto de
reasentamiento que costará $ 48 millones y reubicará 36 hogares. Esta puede ser
la mejor solución para mantener seguros a los residentes, pero es la que menos se escoge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">Pierluisi aprobaría
lo siguiente [todas buenas ideas, con mis sugerencias en <i>itálicos</i>]:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Un nuevo
Reglamento de Zona Marítimo-Terrestre <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Estableceremos
un nuevo manual de operaciones y protocolo, que permita la capacitación y la
referencia a los oficiales de cada entidad gubernamental encargada del medio
ambiente.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Desarrollaremos
un programa de educación continua para todo el personal del DRNA y otras
entidades gubernamentales [<i>y deberían de ser publicas</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Crear un Comité
de Cambio Climático </span><i><span lang="ES">[el DRNA ya es
participe del Puerto Rico Climate Change Council (PRCCC) y no necesitamos otra
organización haciendo el trabajo que ellos ya han hecho. Denle potestad y apoyo
financiero al DRNA.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Utilizaremos
los fondos provenientes de la demanda del caso contra Volkswagen (Volkswagen
Settlement Fund) como estímulo verde para financiar iniciativas para la reducción
de </span>emisiones en la
isla, especialmente en la transportación.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Crearemos un
programa de reforestación urbana y rural para la creación y c</span>onservación de
espacios comunitarios eco-amigables.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Estableceremos
un sistema de medición de CO2 <i>[Muy bien que midan la contaminación del aire.
Cuando sepan cuanto es la contaminación, ¿que van a hacer para parar la
contaminación? ¿Dónde van a poner los sistemas de medición? ¿Qué grupo se
encargará de archivar, analizar, y diseminar la información retenida en el
sistema de medición? ¿Por qué no hacen lo mismo con nuestros cuerpos de agua,
en conjunto con el <b>Estaurio de San Juan</b> y <b>OPAS</b>?]</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Cumpliremos con
la meta de que el 40% de la generación de energía provenga de fuentes
renovables para el 2025. Cumpliremos con la ley que prohíbe el uso y depósito
de cenizas en Puerto Rico. </span><i><span lang="ES">[No dice nada
de cómo va a lograr un 40% de generación limpia en cuatro años. No menciona
como financiar el cambio a energia solar distribuida, ni posibles micro-redes
futuras, ni que va a hacer con PREPA si PREPA tiene una deuda enorme y no puede
generar energia limpia, pero todavía tiene la responsabilidad de distribuir
energia, aunque la infraestructura no esté en condiciones óptimas para hacerlo.
No dice nada de <b>eliminar gradualmente el uso de gas natural,</b> ni de acabar con
el contrato de AES, ni de incentivar un sector manufacturero de placas solares,
baterías, y sistemas solares. No dice nada de ayudar al pueblo a ayudarse a sí
mismo, ni de cómo el gobierno podría unirse a <b>Casa Pueblo, Juan Rosario, Barrio
Eléctrico</b>, y otros grupos de energia comunitaria para crear un movimiento de
base (“grassroots”) de energia solar y otras estrategias sostenibles, como
captación de agua de lluvia.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Crearemos un
programa agresivo de identificación y limpieza de <b>vertederos </b>ilegales en los campos
y playas, en colaboración con los gobiernos municipales y las comunidades.
Implementaremos plan a dos años para tener todos los vertederos en cumplimiento
con las regulaciones o cerrados. </span><i><span lang="ES">[Bien. Van a
necesitar fondos para estudiar si los <b>vertederos </b>en incumplimiento han
<b>contaminado acuíferos</b> cercanos o han hecho otros daños, y buscar posibles
maneras de limpiar los acuíferos contaminados (con la tecnología pasiva de
<b>Freytech Puerto Rico</b>, por ejemplo). Si cierran 19 de los 29 vertederos
existentes, como ha dicho la EPA que tiene que ser, Puerto Rico va a sufrir una
crisis de basura masiva. Como la respuesta sostenible no es abrir más
vertederos, sino buscar formas de <b>redu</b></span></i><i><span lang="ES"><b>cir </b>la cantidad y calidad de basura que
se tira, hay que pasar <b>legislación</b> para incluir al sector privado en tomar
acciones que reduzcan la cantidad de empaques que usan, en los materiales que
usan para empacar, en el uso exclusivo de materiales compostables de ahora en
adelante, en crear un programa de mercadeo para solo usar <b>materiales
compostables</b>, en incentivar pequeños negocios de artículos del hogar reusables,
y en hablar sobre dos oportunidades subvencionadas por el estado: la
oportunidad de negocio en minería de metales y otros bienes en los vertederos
antes de cerrarlos y la conversión de vertederos en sistemas de captación de
gas para usar como energia (<b>biodigestores</b>).]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Daremos
recursos a los municipios para que todos tengan un plan de reciclaje
obligatorio </span>para residencias
y comercios. <i><span lang="ES">[Con este
comentario, Pierluisi deja saber que no tiene idea que en Puerto Rico se
recicla muy poco (5% de botellas de cristal, la mayoría de las latas de
gaseosa, 10% de papel y cartulina. Que el plástico se embalaba y se mandaba afuera,
hasta que la China cerró sus puertas, y los precios en otros sitios, que antes
se les pagaba $99 por tonelada, ahora se les cobra por aceptar, lo cual quiere
decir que todo <b>plástico </b>y <b>poliestireno</b> (“<b>foam</b>”) va directamente a los vertederos,
que ya están bastante llenos. Solo dos tipos de plásticos, de los 7 que
existen, técnicamente, se pueden reciclar. El problema es que no es costo
efectivo reciclar los plásticos que se hacen. Al cerrar sus puertas la China,
ya no hay país que pueda pagar salarios para separar y limpiar el plástico para
reciclarse, aunque usen robots para algunas funciones. La mejor solución es
legislar la entrada de menos plásticos a Puerto Rico. Para esto hay que formar
un <b>Consejo de Manejo de Desperdicios</b> que escriba legislación vinculante para
disminuir la cantidad de empaques y productos de plástico que entren a Puerto
Rico, y que negocie a nombre del gobierno con toda entidad que importe,
exporte, distribuya, venda, o consuma productos no-compostables, incluyendo el
pueblo puertorriqueño, e incentivar el uso de materiales compostables con
exenciones de impuestos. Ojo, solo los materiales compostables valen la pena,
los llamados biodegradables toman cien años en descomponerse, que no resuelve
nada. Además de programas a gran escala, también se deben incentivar negocios y
servicios comunales de composta, y servicios como TAIS que recoge composta a
domicilio, y Vivo Recycling que tiene una composta a escala industrial.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Estableceremos
el Consejo para el Patrimonio Natural de Puerto Rico, el cual en estrecha
colaboración con el DRNA llevará a cabo un inventario del estado de nuestras
playas, bosques, reservas naturales, acuíferos y otros recursos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">• Crearemos un Comité
de Bio-Economía para el desarrollo de actividades económicas impulsadas por
investigación e innovación en el campo de las ciencias biológicas, cuya misión
será promover beneficios públicos en los sectores económicos, ambientales y
sociales a través del uso eficiente de los recursos naturales. <i>[OJO, la
bioeconomía es un ala de la <b>industria tecnológica</b> que busca <b>privatizar </b>la
naturaleza, así que <b>no es un programa ambiental</b>, sino lo opuesto.
Incluye negocios de “Ciencias de Vida” o “Life Sciences” que privatizan la vida
y monetizan la ciencia, y muchas de ellas hacen productos que directa e
indirectamente hacen daño al ambiente, como lo son muchos producto <b>genéticamente
modificados (GMO,</b> por el sobreuso de <b>pesticidas </b>y <b>fertilizantes tóxicos</b>) y que
apuestan por la agricultura industrial, la cual literalmente mata a los
agricultores orgánicos y regenerativos con las consecuencias de su <b>modelo de
negocio</b> industrial y sus procesos de uso. El querer desarrollar este segmento va en contra
de todos los preceptos de sostenibilidad y de equidad social y debe eliminarse
de la plataforma ambiental al igual que del programa de desarrollo para Puerto
Rico.]</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Crearemos la
Biblioteca Ambiental para mayor accesibilidad, transparencia y publicidad de
recursos de cumplimiento ambiental. [Bien. ¡Pero que sea educativa y no solo gubernamental!]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Daremos
prioridad a garantizar el abasto de agua limpia y segura, apoyando proyectos
para </span>prevenir y
remediar la contaminación, asegurar el abastecimiento de agua salubre e
invertir en la infraestructura
necesaria para ello. <i><span lang="ES">[Es importante
tener un programa nacional de <b>recaudar agua de lluvia en cada casa,</b> con sistemas
de <b>filtros </b>para poder usarlas como agua dulce. Al igual que necesitamos un
programa de ayuda para tener <b>energia solar (distribuida) en cada techo</b>,
necesitamos poder recoger agua y <b>crecer vegetales en huertos caseros</b>. Esto ayudar</span></i><i><span lang="ES">á</span></i><i><span lang="ES"> a la gente, las familias, y las comunidades de Puerto Rico a ser más resilientes,
más sostenibles, y más autosuficientes, y le restaría costos al gobierno en
términos de salud y cuido médico en el futuro.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Crear un Plan
Estratégico para el Manejo de los Desperdicios </span><i><span lang="ES">[Bien. Por
favor refiéranse a mi contestación previa sobre este tema. Lo único que tengo
que añadir es que debe de haber un servicio de compostaje en cada ciudad de
cada municipio, con ayudas autóctonas en las áreas rurales.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Estableceremos
un sistema de métricas para evaluar el progreso de la implementación a nivel
municipal o regional de un nuevo Plan Estratégico y un sistema de incentivos atados
a esas métricas. </span><i><span lang="ES">[Es bueno
medir. Es mejor usar las medidas para mejorar, y tener un plan que incluya
acción, medición, evaluación, y adaptación continua además de supervisión y manejo
gubernamental aliado a las organizaciones comunitarias locales.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Apoyaremos la
autogestión comunitaria como solución viable con impacto social positivo,
incentivando el desarrollo de proyectos comunitarios de limpieza y reciclaje.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Implementaremos
un plan de fiscalización continua del cumplimiento con las condiciones de los
permisos de operación de los vertederos e instalaciones para el manejo de desperdicios
sólidos. </span><i><span lang="ES">[De acuerdo!
Una visita y un informe mensual que recoja toda la data necesaria para entender
el estado del vertedero al corriente. Usar metodología académica y apoyo
académico para resumir los datos. Usar al supervisor de los datos como liaison
entre el gobierno, los vertederos, los municipios, y a las comunidades.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Promulgaremos
una política pública aplicable a todo Puerto Rico para el manejo de
desperdicios en los hogares, y trabajaremos con cada municipio, como entidad responsable
por el recogido de basura, para establecer un plan de implementación en
cumplimiento con esta política pública. </span><i><span lang="ES">[Perfecto. El <b>compostaje</b>
y el <b>reúso</b> son los componentes principales de la sostenibilidad, con
“Swap Meets” semanales en los centros comunales o en Facebook Marketplace y
clases o webinars de compostaje y cómo hacer artesanías con materiales
reciclados. Los plasticos "<b>biodegradables"</b> no sirven, tardan 100 anos en descomponerse.] </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Campañas
educativas sobre la disposición correcta de desperdicios, el fin de la vida
útil de los vertederos y alternativas de reducción, reciclaje y reúso, en
alianza con el secto r privado, el Tercer Sector y los municipios. </span><i><span lang="ES">[Bien! Espero
incluyan la situación corriente de los vertederos y no den esperanza de poder
reciclar plásticos en Puerto Rico. Instruir que una solución es comprar cosas
no envasadas en plástico. O, tener un concurso de la mejor adaptación de reúso
y reducción (como estaciones de productos de limpieza donde uno lleva el envase
vacío y lo llena del líquido limpiador)]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Identificaremos
programas de fondos federales de la EPA, la Administración </span>de Desarrollo
Económico federal (en adelante, “EDA”), la Administración de Pequeños Negocios federal (en
adelante, “SBA”) y el Departamento de Educación para ampliar programas
educativos a nivel isla, así
como fomentar proyectos comunitarios y sin fines de lucro que trabajen el campo
del reciclaje, la
limpieza y la disposición correcta de desperdicios sólidos. <i><span lang="ES">[Buena
iniciativa. Cabe recordarles que el identificar fuentes de fondos no es lo
mismo que conseguir fondos; que siguen apostando por reciclaje, cuando la era
del reciclaje en Puerto Rico básicamente ha acabado. Hay que dar el paso grande
y disminuir la entrada del plástico a Puerto Rico. Ver mis comentarios
anteriores. Y no solo necesitamos identificar los fondos, necesitamos un
representante del gobierno especial (no la Comisaria Residente) con su grupo de
cabilderos en Washington DC.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Formar Alianza
con los Municipios </span><i><span lang="ES">[El '<b>single-stream curb-side recycling</b>' ya no es posible ni <b>costo-efectivo</b>. Se ha
probado que hasta usando robótica no es factible separar materiales, y que los
materiales se deben separar a mano por la persona que los haya usado en su casa.
Sinceramente, la industria completa del plástico necesita un trastorno
(“disruption”), empezando por cambiar de materia prima (el petróleo y sus
derivados). <b>El plástico se puede hacer de aceite de algas, de aceite de cáñamo</b>,
y de otros recursos naturales, y se puede usar para usos críticos, como lo son
los usos médicos, y no para plástico de un solo uso (no más botellitas de agua,
por ejemplo).]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Maximizaremos
los programas de asistencia económica para distribuir zafacones y camiones de
reciclaje y recuperación de material mixto casa a casa, incentivando que municipios
establezcan ordenanzas municipales para promover el servicio de recogido del
reciclaje. </span><i><span lang="ES">[Hay que
ayudar a las empresas que ya recogen desperdicios orgánicos, y hay que <b>educar a
la población a compostar, a usar menos plástico, y a reusar más las cosas</b>. A
los municipios si hay que ayudarlos con zafacones y camiones, y con empleados
que manejen el programa y los desechos, pero hay que olvidarse de tener un
programa de recuperación de material mixto. Hay que ayudar a los municipios a
establecer <b>ordenanzas </b>que ayuden a sus comunidades a reducir y luego eliminar
sus desperdicios, empezando con un centro de acopio en cada ciudad donde los
residentes puedan venir con sus envases a llenarlos en vez de comprar envases
de un solo uso. Esto también podría ser una oportunidad de negocio para el que
quiera producir y suplir los líquidos, que de este modo incluirían líquidos
naturales y orgánicos.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Incentivaremos
la adopción por parte de municipios de medidas costo-efectivas para el acarreo
de desperdicios, incluyendo el rediseño de rutas y el uso de consorcios para combinar
recursos y lograr economías de escala.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Cero Tolerancia
con Vertederos Clandestinos <i>[Bien. Están erradicado el síntoma y no el mal,
pero bien.]<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Trabajaremos alternativas
para facilitar el manejo de escombros y materiales de difícil disposición que
típicamente terminan en vertederos clandestinos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• Continuaremos
explorando alternativas para una mejor atención al problema del manejo de
neumáticos desechados. <i>[¿Explorando?
Esta es otra industria que necesita un trastorno (“disruption”) inmediata, igual
que la industria de la transportación privada. <b>Necesitamos menos carros, menos
hoyos en la carretera, y más transportación publica que sea útil</b>. La necesidad
de tener carros privados en Puerto Rico es consecuencia del desmantelamiento
del sistema de “<b>trolleys</b>” que existía. Hay mejores soluciones a estos problemas,
y tenemos los arquitectos y planificadores urbanos que pueden diseñar los
cambios necesarios, porque hasta ahora la planificación y la permisologia ha sido
errada, por ser enfocada en modos de vida históricos no sostenibles.]<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><b>Como podrán ver, la
Plataforma de Pedro Pierluisi no es sostenible, y le falta mucho por llegar a
ser una solución que pueda incluirse en una Visión de País adecuada a las situaciónes climáticas, sociales, y economicas que
enfrentamos. Espero que, al votar, la gente tome en consideración el futuro de
sus hijos y nietos (y del planeta), en vez de escoger los beneficios a corto plazo que pueda ofrecer la
plataforma económica de Pierluisi. Si no lo hacemos ahora, nos estamos
condenando a un futuro de indescriptible dificultad y posible extincion.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Recursos</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Archivo de Planes
Ambientales <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Links a otros
planes para comparar y poder ajustar nuestra Visión de País – como debe y puede
ser: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://drawdown.org/drawdown-framework"><span lang="ES">The Drawdown Framework</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.queremossolpr.com/"><span lang="ES">Propuesta Energética Queremos Sol</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/9851/-The_United_Nations_Environment_Programme_and_the_2030_Agenda_Global_Action_for_People_and_the_Planet-2015EO_Brochure_WebV.pdf.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y"><span lang="ES">Naciones Unidas</span></a><span lang="ES"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/green-new-deal/"><span lang="ES">Bernie Sanders</span></a><span lang="ES"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/gnd/resolution"><span lang="ES">Alexandra Ocasio Cortes / Green New Deal</span></a><span lang="ES"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Latino America – </span><a href="https://tallerecologista.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Doc.-FES-2016.pdf"><span lang="ES">Transición Energética Justa</span></a><span lang="ES"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Europa – </span><a href="https://www.dwih-futureforum.org/?fbclid=IwAR2VsKCvpd8AB5ArOdBb0nd_02DS-tu06zK1fEyj_PiTrHSrAPlm67zKEmE"><span lang="ES">The Future Forum, Germany</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Puerto Rico - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfG2btoizvY"><span lang="ES">Debate Ambiental</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.pr-ccc.org/about-us/"><span lang="ES">PRCCC</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Polémica sobre Energia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1paRgy0dJBkUH4-5eev7z2SuR0diil8g9/view"><span lang="ES">Plan Fiscal de PREPA 2020</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.109/v0h.b59.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CAMBIO-statement-HR-Com-Nat-Res-8_6_2020.pdf"><span lang="ES">CAMBIO ponencia sobre PREPA</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="https://cambiopr.org/"><span lang="ES">Cambio</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="ES">.org</span></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-23223612768248530112020-10-30T09:49:00.006-04:002023-04-09T00:18:28.013-04:00Aprendiendo Sostenibilidad con lo que le Falta a la Plataforma Ambiental de Pierluisi<p><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Apuntes sobre la Política Ambiental de Pedro Pierluisi 2020 – </span></b><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">O Como Aprender Sostenibilidad Usando Todo lo que le Falta a la Plataforma
Ambiental del PNP</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Por Monica Perez Nevarez</p><p class="MsoNormal">Noviembre 2020</p><p class="MsoNormal">Toda palabra que
no conozcas, búscala en Google, o Wikipedia, o diccionario, y aprenderás sobre
la sostenibilidad. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red;">Protegiendo
</span><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0;">Nuestro Entorno</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Puerto Rico
cuenta con una diversidad de recursos y <span style="color: #0070c0;">maravillas </span>naturales,
entre estos el bosque húmedo más grande de la nación americana, el <span style="color: red;">Yunque</span>, y el sistema de cavernas más grande de este
hemisferio, las <span style="color: red;">Cavernas </span>de Camuy. Proteger todo
nuestro <span style="color: red;">patrimonio natural </span>y <span style="color: red;">cultural </span>para el <span style="color: red;">disfrute de
futuras<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: ES;">generaciones
</span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">es de <span style="color: red;">importancia vital </span>para todos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> [</o:p></span><i><span lang="ES">La política
ambiental de Pedro Pierluisi (PNP) empieza por “proteger nuestro entorno”, lo
cual nos deja saber que ha priorizado el tema menos controversial y quizás más
fácil de manejar de toda la gama de necesidades urgentes que existen dentro de los
temas tan abarcadores como lo son la sostenibilidad y el Cambio Climático. No
incursiona en los temas más agudos de los riesgos que nos acechan dentro de ese
tema, ni explica como su plan los resolvería.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">Corrientemente
en PR tenemos legislación que conserva solo un 7% de nuestro suelo (y eso a
duras penas), mientras que todavía existe un 33% como mínimo que tenemos que
salvar y proteger. No dice que lo va a proteger. Y no se refiere al estudio del
profesor de Biología de la Universidad de Harvard, E. O. Wilson, que explica
que un 50% de todo terreno y área marina debe ser separado para el uso
exclusivo de la flora y la fauna salvaje si el planeta ha de conservar su
biodiversidad – <b>sin incursión alguna por los humanos en esas áreas</b>. O
sea, que los humanos debemos de dejarle 50% del mundo al resto de los 99.999%
de vida silvestre, si queremos conservar una semblanza de biodiversidad en el
planeta.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">El plan del
Sr. Pierluisi no explica la importancia de la biodiversidad ni las razones por
lo cual se debe proteger a toda costa, y deja entender que no conoce lo que es
ser ecológicamente sostenible. Esto es algo que muy de repente podría cortar
por la mitad todo plan existente de uso de terrenos y zonas marinas, porque
inmediatamente perderíamos el “uso y disfrute” de mitad de nuestros suelos para
proteger y dejar sobrevivir la biodiversidad de la isla. Pero la política
ambiental del Sr. Pierluisi no dice nada de esto; solo dice que quiere conservar
las bellezas naturales para “el uso y disfrute de las generaciones futuras”.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Estableceremos
una visión de preservación de nuestros recursos <span style="color: red;">alineada
con las necesidades dPuerto Rico …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[¿Qué
necesidades? ¿Las económicas? ¿Las ecológicas? ¿Las sociales? No nos dice
cuales, así que no sabemos si entiende la relación e interdependencia entre
ellas, ni que hay que hacer decisiones tomando las tres en consideración, <b>holísticamente</b>.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">...Los eventos
atmosféricos y telúricos experimentados en nuestra isla <span style="color: #0070c0;">exigen una transformación y reenfoque</span>. Puerto Rico tiene la <span style="color: #0070c0;">urgencia de abordar y liderar iniciativas para detener
los efectos del cambio climático</span>, siendo esto una crisis que <span style="color: #0070c0;">debe atenderse de forma inmediata</span>, pero a la misma
vez <span style="color: #0070c0;">una oportunidad para crear y construir una
mejor economía </span>basada en <span style="color: #0070c0;">energía renovable </span>con
<span style="color: #0070c0;">trabajos verdes </span>bien <span style="color: #0070c0;">remunerados</span>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Eso es
verdad, la situación requiere una transformación y un reenfoque, si hay que
liderar para detener el cambio climático, si debe atenderse de manera
inmediata, y si debe tomarse como oportunidad, pero no menciona que para hacer
esto, hay que desmantelar la economía vieja, y crear una nueva que no solo va a
tomar décadas en llegar a madurar, sino que también causar</span></i><i><span lang="ES">á</span></i><i><span lang="ES"> mucho daño y dolor a la parte de la población que no se pueda acoplar a
ella. Pero más importante aún, este punto no se refleja en su plan de
desarrollo económico, al no incluir consideraciones financieras necesarias que
causarían que se derogara la Ley PROMESA, se negara usar gas natural en la
isla, y se derogara el contrato con LUMA y se cerrara la planta de AES, por
ejemplo.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red;">El
desarrollo económico y la protección del ambiente no son excluyentes</span><span lang="ES">. Nuestro esfuerzo ambiental <span style="color: red;">debe ser además uno práctico y sensible</span>. <span style="color: red;">Resulta errado pensar que la conservación de nuestro
patrimonio natural es incompatible con el disfrute y aprovechamiento de éste</span>.
Conforme a esto, proponemos establecer paralelamente medidas que garanticen la
protección de nuestros recursos a la vez que <span style="color: red;">promovemos
el disfrute y aprovechamiento responsable de éstos</span>. Debemos prestar
atención particular a lograr <span style="color: #0070c0;">justicia ambiental en
las comunidades de bajo ingreso quienes están desproporcionalmente impactadas
por la contaminación atmosférica, y proteger la calidad de nuestro aire y
suplido de agua</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[El desarrollo
económico como se ha estado practicando aquí <b>si</b> es excluyente de la
protección ambiental, pues es lo que nos ha traído a esta encrucijada, porque
se basa en energia fósil que hay que dejar en la tierra, en extracción de
bienes naturales que causan mucho daño en el proceso de extracción, uso, y
desecho del producto petrolero, y hay que dejar en la tierra; hay que cambiar
la mentalidad que cobija la manera de pensar que dice que el hombre no tiene
que vivir dentro de los límites de la naturaleza, o que hay soluciones
tecnológicas que podrán sobrepasar esa necesidad y por ende no necesitamos
cambiar nuestros estilos de vida o nuestros negocios; y hay que cambiar la
definición de desarrollo a uno que aminora la actividad económica extractiva y
realza la calidad de vida, llegando a ser una economía circular, social, justa,
y solidaria, y que en términos del economista Milton Friedman estaría ‘estancada’,
y desde el punto de vista del economista ecológico Herman Daly, seria “una economía
estable” – en inglés “a Steady State Economy” que aumentaría el bienestar
humano, pero no necesariamente crecería económicamente. Me alegra ver
mencionada la justicia ambiental y el deber de proteger la calidad de nuestro
aire y agua, dos factores cruciales a nuestra sobrevivencia, pero no confío en
que los procesos de ser inclusivos y justos se alinie con su plan económico de
privatizar lo más posible, seguir los goles de la Junta Fiscal de pagar una
deuda impagable, sacar “más provecho de menos recursos”, y monetizar recursos
con inversión foránea que saca de nuestra economía casi todo beneficio
ancilar.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red;">Desarrollo
y disfrute</span><span lang="ES">: Desde el Océano
Atlántico y el Mar Caribe, estuarios, bahías, ríos y lagunas, hasta </span>nuestros bosques,
Puerto Rico es una isla diversa y rica en historia, playas, vida silvestre y
espacios abiertos. Nuestro gobierno velará porque <span style="color: red;">todos
podamos experimentar </span><span style="color: #0070c0;">de manera responsable </span><span style="color: red;">todos nuestros recursos</span>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Mientras es
verdad que Puerto Rico tiene mucha riqueza geográfica, ambiental, social, y
cultural, no toda se debe “desarrollar” si “desarrollar” quiere decir vender
los pocos predios de áreas silvestres que nos quedan a los grandes hoteleros
para ellos convertirlos en sitios de lujo con parques de golf, y con entrada
restringida física- o económicamente. Es loable que el Sr. Pierluisi piense
instruir al pueblo de como “experimentar” de “manera responsable” con nuestros
recursos, pero con solo “velar” por ellos no va a conseguir nada significativo.
El uso responsable requiere un proyecto masivo de educación, un puesto
gubernamental de Director de Sostenibilidad de Puerto Rico con otros tantos en
cada municipio, y un ejército de maestros, consultores, y voluntarios dedicados
a trabajar con las comunidades, las escuelas, las asociaciones, y con el sector
privado para empapar al pueblo con los conocimientos y acciones rectas de la
sostenibilidad.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Turismo Verde:
Promoveremos iniciativas de <span style="color: #0070c0;">turismo ecológico o
turismo verde</span>, que propicien el</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: ES;">desarrollo
</span><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: ES;">económico y
social </span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">de Puerto Rico,
incluyendo específicamente a <span style="color: #0070c0;">pequeños y medianos<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: ES;">nuevos
negocios </span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">enfocados en
satisfacer las necesidades y expectativas del sector turístico que<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">busca tener
contacto y disfrutar de la naturaleza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[Es fabuloso el querer promover el turismo ecológico para
poder desarrollar pequeños y medianos negocios. Esto ayudaría muchísimo a la
gente que vive en las ciudades o cerca de algún recurso natural si pudieran
alquilar un cuarto en Airbnb (para lo cual hay que tener reglas claras, que
todavía no hay). Pero más importante aún, tenemos que hablar de lo que se conoce
como “Carrying Capacity” o la “Capacidad de Carga” de un ambiente. Es el tamaño
máximo poblacional de una especie que puede mantenerse en ese ambiente dados
los alimentos, el hábitat, el agua y otros recursos disponibles para su
sobrevivencia. La razón específica por la que una población deja de crecer depende
los factores limitantes presentes como lo pueden ser una población demasiado
grande para el área, espacio insuficiente, insuficientes alimentos o agua,
demasiado calor para crecer vegetales, o la cantidad de luz solar necesaria
para crecer plantas. Si la población de una especie (en este caso la especia
humana) está por encima de la capacidad de carga de su ambiente, la población
suele disminuir vía un alza en mortandad (“die-off”). </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Los humanos llevamos 8,000 años cambiando la ecuación de
Capacidad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>de Carga al inventar
tecnología que nos ayuda a sobrevivir (tecnologías simples como: el fuego, la
rueda, la agricultura, el domesticar animales; luego la alta tecnología, con inventos
como: la prensa de Gutenberg, el ferrocarril, la desmotadora de algodón o
“Cotton Gin”, la electricidad, los motores de combustión, la industrialización;
y hoy día, con tecnología altamente especializada como: las telecomunicaciones,
el internet, inteligencia artificial, la robótica, y las computadoras, que no
solo han cambiado como la sociedad piensa, actúa, y vive, sino que también nos
han dado la esperanza de que la tecnología nos “sacará” del problema de tener
que vivir dentro de los limites ecológicos del planeta, y que además esa manera
de pensar nos da permiso para seguir siendo inconscientes de nuestros actos y despilfarrando
nuestros recursos como si fueran infinitos, cuando sabemos que estamos creando
un futuro durísimo para nuestros hijos, y donde probablemente no van a poder
sobrevivir nuestros nietos.</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Según varios expertos locales, la capacidad de carga del
medio ambiente de Puerto Rico ronda en un millón de personas sin contar con ayuda
tecnológica y sin agricultura. Si incluimos algo de tecnología y prácticas agrícolas
regenerativas, la población de Puerto Rico podría subir a dos millones de
habitantes y ser sostenible. Si el tamaño de la población crece por encima de esta
capacidad de carga, la isla se convierte en un hábitat no-sostenible (condición
actual) y dependiente en importaciones para sobrevivir, y si seguimos abusándola
mucho más tiempo, va a perder la capacidad de darle vida a todos los seres que
viven en ella. Desde el 1950 contamos con más de dos millones de habitantes y con
400 mil visitantes al mes en promedio durante los últimos 70 años (de 1 millón
de visitantes anuales a 10 millones de visitantes anuales). O sea, que la última
vez que Puerto Rico podría haber sido autosuficiente y sostenible fue en el 1899,
con menos de 1 millón de habitantes y muy poco turismo. </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">El plan ambiental del Sr. Pierluisi no menciona que para
tener turismo verde y poder controlar el uso correcto de nuestros recursos,
habremos de tener una población acorde con nuestra capacidad de carga. Estos
números se pueden cambiar un poco (de 1 millón a dos millones de habitantes,
por ejemplo, si usamos tecnología adecuada y una agricultura regenerativa),
pero no nos podemos quedar sin hacer nada, viviendo de la manera en que vivimos
ahora, con 3.2 millones de habitantes sobre-consumidores y 833,000 visitantes
más al mes. Hay que hacer planes para rebajar la cantidad de habitantes, la
cantidad de visitantes, y la cantidad de hoteleros foráneos en la isla. Los
límites de la tierra son limites verdaderos, y si queremos sobrevivir a largo
plazo y ser sostenibles, hay que atenerse a ellos. Para reducir la cantidad de
habitantes hay que educar a las mujeres, empoderarlas a trabajar, pagarles el
mismo sueldo por el mismo trabajo, y darles la potestad de decidir cuantos
hijos quieren tener, y cuando quieren usar contraceptivos. </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hay que encontrar una manera justa de manejar la cantidad
de refugiados de islas caribeñas que entran indocumentados a Puerto Rico, pues
a veces me siento como si viviera en la Casablanca del 1945 – el sitio donde
todo el mundo va a cobijarse de una situación dura en su nación progenitora,
pero de donde no pueden salir porque no hay como entrar legalmente a ningún otro
sitio. </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hay que educar al pueblo a cómo vivir de manera
sostenible, hay que cambiar los patrones de consumo a los cuales nos hemos
acostumbrado, hay que recalibrar nuestras expectativas del futuro, porque no va
a ser nada como lo que esperábamos.</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Otro ejemplo de la complejidad de la capacidad de carga:
si queremos cambiar a una economía de turismo, deberíamos tener una población de
residentes de un millón de personas, una población de no más de 500,000
indocumentados, y una entrada mensual de no más de 500,000 turistas, para estar
dentro de la capacidad ecológica más alta de nuestra isla (dos millones de
personas). Esto no incluye discutir como transportar a los turistas hacia la
isla, al no poder usar aviones hasta que podamos producir localmente un biodiesel
de aceite de algas que puedan usar como combustible, o de que manera el límite
de visitantes afectara el precio de viajar a la isla. Al mismo tiempo deberíamos
transicionar a usar veleros o barcos transatlánticos como ferries al
continente, al Caribe, y a Sur América, con estrictos protocolos de manejo de
desperdicios en alta mar, y que también usen biodiesel de aceite de algas para correr
sus motores. También debemos pensar en los modos de transportación publica que
tenemos/no tenemos en la isla. Debemos tener transportación pública de primera.
Tenemos que facilitar y crear infraestructura para uso peatonal y de
bicicletas. Debemos planear como cambiar a <b>carros eléctricos que se suplan
de energia solar y no de electricidad sucia</b>. </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Este ejemplo también ilumina la manera errónea de pensar
que el sector privado o “La mano invisible del mercado” de Adam Smith puede
proteger el ambiente por sí solos. Los pescadores de bacalao Atlántico, de camarones
de Carolina del Sur, y de salmón del Pacifico han probado este punto. Se hizo
todo lo que ellos creían necesario para salvar la cantidad de su pesca, pero la
cantidad silvestre ha disminuido al punto de solo quedar un 20% de la población
original en el océano y ninguna en los estuarios de Carolina del Sur. Los
pescadores podían bajar la cantidad que cada uno iba a pescar, pero no lo suficiente
para dejar a tres cuartas partes de los pescadores sin trabajo, que era lo que
necesitaban hacer. En los condados marítimos de Canadá, la veda de pesca de
bacalao que empezó en 1992 todavía no ha producido el alza en población del
pescado que se esperaba, y ahora se cree que es posible que los peces no
volverán a los Bancos de Georges donde habían habitado por millones de años,
optando por vivir en aguas más frías al norte. No podemos dejar la conservación
de un bien natural a los emprendedores porque ellos no cesaran de extraer
riqueza del hábitat hasta que no quede nada. El gobierno es el único ente dado
a la tarea de pensar por el bien de todos, analizar la situación
independientemente y sin coerción económica o política, y hacer las leyes
necesarias para ser justo con las minorías. Y ya hasta eso ha sido corrompido
por los intereses privados. El sector privado no tiene la responsabilidad de
conservar recursos, y las organizaciones comunitarias, que si lo tienen, no
tienen el poder adquisitivo o político de proteger sus derechos. El gobierno es
el único que puede hacer el trabajo, si es sabio, recto, justo, y transparente.</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">¿Por qué hay tantas personas en Puerto Rico, si la cosa
esta tan mala? El huracán Maria y todas las vicisitudes económicas de los
últimos 15 años han probado que la población que se ha quedado en Puerto Rico o
tiene trabajo, o tiene entradas pasivas o ayudas gubernamentales, o no tiene el
dinero para irse de esta economía colapsada. La razón que hay 3.2 millones de
habitantes y que (antes del Covid) podían llegar hasta 10 millones de pasajeros
anualmente (dejando aproximadamente $3.9 mil millones de dólares en nuestra economía)
es que 92% de lo que consumimos es importado. Vivimos en un sistema que resulta
ser frágil y no es sostenible. El importar todas nuestras necesidades una
solución tecnológica de suma complejidad, y es cierto que nos ha resuelto
muchos problemas en las últimas cinco décadas. Pero también ha sido una decisión
miope y perezosa, por rechazar el pagar los costos verdaderos, o
“externalidades” en el lenguaje económico, para poder pasarle la cuenta al
pueblo, y por adormecernos con sueños de grandeza que nunca se han cumplido. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esta es la razón por la cual estamos en la
situación en que estamos: dependientes completamente en productos y poderes
foráneos que solo buscan sacarnos dinero y dejarnos a nuestra suerte cuando
necesitemos ayuda. Y casi todos los procesos que se usan para hacer los
productos que consumimos son basados en el uso del petróleo y sus derivados, lo
cual nos hace cómplices de muchísimos daños ambientales. Pero nos ha llegado el
tiempo de cambiar.</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aunque no lo parezca, en Puerto Rico nunca hemos tenido
una economía local robusta y resiliente. Ni bajo los españoles ni bajo los americanos.
Siempre hubo leyes, impuestas por ellos, que los beneficiaban a ellos, y
menoscababan las ansias y las oportunidades nuestras de tener una economía
local y autosuficiente. Esa situación nos ha llevado a ser completamente
dependientes en productos de afuera, nos ha hecho olvidar como crecer nuestra
propia comida y como producir nuestros propios productos, y nos ha indoctrinado
a no tener control sobre nuestra economía y estar continuamente a la
disposición de otros. </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No somos los únicos que hemos sufrido de este estilo de
“desarrollo”, pues los cambios han sido globales, y durante el último medio
siglo ha habido muchos cambios tecnológicos, como la integración global de la
economía y el “Internet de las Cosas” (IoT o Internet of Things) que han
exacerbado nuestra dependencia y nuestra pobreza. Y esto quiere decir que querer
ser autosuficiente culmina por desmantelar la economía global, porque nos
estamos dando cuenta que el Cambio Climático exige que todos: los países, las
regiones, los municipios, las ciudades, las comunidades, las familias y los
individuos, seamos sostenibles en cada renglón jerárquico de la sostenibilidad.
Ya hay familias, y grupos europeos y latinoamericanos que viven de manera
sostenible (Mondragon en España, Proyecto </span></i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.comuntierra.org/site/index.php"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Común Tierra</span></i></a></span><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> en Latino America, y
muchas otras alrededor del mundo {</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_community"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_community</span></i></a></span><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> }). Aquí en Puerto
Rico hay muchas familias que viven vidas autosuficientes y bastante sostenibles
(aunque en Puerto Rico nadie es totalmente sostenible todavía).</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Si, es muy difícil cambiar, porque dejar de hacer las
cosas con la comodidad con que las hacemos ahora quiere decir que la economía
como la conocemos va a dejar a de existir, y tenemos que crear otra, como dijo
el Sr. Pierluisi, basada en energia limpia y trabajos bien pagados. Pero además
de eso, tenemos que incentivar un sector de empresarismo verde, porque en el
sector privado nunca ha habido trabajo para más de un 25% a un 30% de la
población adulta, y el gobierno no puede cargar con los 30% de empleos
históricos que aceptaba para pagar favores políticos o no dejar tanta gente sin
trabajo, y de la única manera que vamos a cubrir 100% de los empleos que
necesitamos cubrir es creando una clase emprendedora (“entrepreneurial class”)
verde, de pequeños negocios donde un dueño pueda tener dos o tres asociados o
empleados y todos ganarse un buen salario, y posiblemente imponiendo un salario
mínimo de $15.00/hr en la isla. Y para que no haya inflación, habrá que congelar,
temporeramente, los precios, hasta que se normalice la economía nueva. Y dejar
que se acaben los abastos nos enseñara a vivir con menos, a conservar nuestros
recursos, a apreciar lo que tenemos, y a enfocarnos en las cosas que son
verdaderamente importantes: nuestra salud, nuestra familia, nuestras amistades,
un trabajo que no inspire en vez de deprimirnos.</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white;"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Además, al proteger el ambiente, se necesitarían toda una
gama de trabajos ambientales como guías para acompañar a los turistas (foráneos
y locales) que visitasen las áreas naturales (estos pueden ser “freelance”
usando apps de guías personales), personal de mantenimiento asegurando el
manejo de las áreas naturales (estos pueden ser trabajadores del gobierno), y
personal de seguridad implementando las protecciones ambientales en todo lugar
turístico por si se cometen infracciones, para que haya consecuencias
inmediatas si se rompen las reglas (estas pueden ser compañías privadas, pero
ojo, al privatizar estos trabajos, especialmente si se suben los salarios
mínimos, le va a salir más costoso al gobierno pagarle a una empresa que
pagarles a los empleados directamente, así que es posible que el gobierno tenga
que cobrar por entrar a las áreas naturales.) Y si, entiendo que estos cambios
pueden considerarse onerosos y un ataque contra la “libertad” personal de
algunas personas. Pero hasta que no eduquemos a la próxima generación de niños
a saber cómo actuar y como respetar a nuestro entorno, y respetarnos los unos a
los otros, no vamos a poder cambiar la manera de ser de la gente a menos que no
haya alguien diciéndoles que pueden o no pueden hacer. Ya hemos probado que el
solo usar rótulos no sirve de nada.]</span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="ES" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Diseño y Desarrollo Inteligente</span>: <span style="color: red;">Revisaremos </span>la infraestructura de apoyo, como acceso
vial y servicios </span>básicos, para el
desarrollo sustentable de áreas dedicadas al turismo ecológico.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Buenísima
idea de tener diseño y desarrollo* inteligente. No dice como solo “revisarlo”
tendrá impacto. Hay que hacer más que revisar. Hay que crear la infraestructura
física, económica y mental de cómo vivir en un país sostenible, y hay que tener
cuidado con la parte de “inteligente” que es una manera de decir “mas
tecnológico”. *de ahora en adelante, el único “desarrollo” al que yo me refiero
es el desarrollo sostenible, local, equitativo, y estable y a tecnología simple.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Uso de
Instalaciones y Centros Vacacionales: Daremos prioridad a la <span style="color: red;">evaluación </span><span style="color: #0070c0;">y optimización
de los centros vacacionales </span>y otros bienes a cargo del Programa de
Parques Nacionales, incluyendo la necesidad de fondos para modernización; y <span style="color: red;">evaluaremos </span><span style="color: #0070c0;">alianzas </span>con
municipios para implementar eficientemente estos planes capitales de mejoras y
garantizar la operación de estos activos.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Encontraran
que las agencias o programas gubernamentales, así sean federales, nacionales, o
municipales, le pueden dar una muy precisa evaluación de la situación corriente
y lo que se necesita para optimizar las instalaciones o centros, y gran parte
de lo que van a sugerir es que le devuelvan los fondos necesarios y la cantidad
de empleados necesarios para llevar a cabo no solamente las tareas que hacen,
sino también las que dejaron de hacer y las que deben añadir para cumplir con
las necesidades de una nueva economía verde, y reconstruir o construir la
infraestructura necesaria para ello. Si todos estos gastos asustan, se puede también
incentivar a organizaciones sin fines de lucro, ya existentes o por existir, a
manejar las áreas naturales regionales como coordinadores de voluntarios y
estudiantes, y de esa manera ayudar a los empleados gubernamentales a lograr
sus metas.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Educación</span>: Estableceremos una alianza entre el
Departamento de Educación y el Departamento de</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Recursos
Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) para desarrollar módulos educativos para todos
los niveles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">del sistema de
educación pública que promuevan el <span style="color: #0070c0;">uso responsable </span>y
la <span style="color: #0070c0;">conservación </span>de recursos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">naturales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[¡Buenísima
iniciativa! Añadiría conceptos de <b>sostenibilidad</b> y <b>responsabilidad</b>
<b>social</b>, al igual que <b>justicia social, de género, y ambiental</b>, con
talleres de <b>biodiversidad</b>, <b>cambio climático</b>, <b>economía
ecológica</b> y <b>economía social y solidaria </b>y otros temas, porque la
conservación ambiental es una pequeña parte de lo que necesitamos aprender y hacer.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Contacto Verde</span>: Continuaremos apoyando
experiencias presenciales en áreas naturales, ofreciendo</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">programas según
requiere el Programa Contacto Verde.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[¡Buenísima
iniciativa! ¡Gracias por continuar este programa! Se podría expandir a incluir
alianzas entre OSFL, departamentos ambientales gubernamentales, y
voluntarios/estudiantes.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0;">Reglamentación
y Aspectos Administrativos</span><span lang="ES">:
Por la dinámica cambiante de los aspectos relacionados</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">al medio
ambiente, el <span style="color: #0070c0;">DRNA</span> tiene la responsabilidad
de velar continuamente que sus reglamentos estén </span>actualizados y
atemperados a la realidad ambiental de Puerto Rico. De igual forma, el DRNA
debe estar <span lang="ES" style="color: red;">administrativamente
actualizado</span><span lang="ES">, incluyendo la
capacitación de sus empleados y la actualización </span>tecnológica.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[¡Aprecio que mencionen
actualizar el DRNA! Sugiero que además, el DRNA o algúna organización afiliada
tiene que tener el poder de hacer cumplir las leyes (“enforce the law”) pues “velar”
por el reglamento no hace nada de por sí. El DRNA ha pasado por recortes de
recursos humanos, y además necesita actualización financiera, porque necesitan más
empleados y mas fondos. Aquí no menciona el gran trabajo que ha hecho el DRNA
con lo poco que tiene, y como ha liderado el Puerto Rico Climate Change Council
(PRCCC) y el magnífico trabajo que ese grupo ha hecho para estudiar, analizar,
identificar y buscar soluciones a toda una gama de problemas que trae el cambio
climático. Espero que el gobierno se deje llevar por sus recomendaciones, en
vez de mandar a otra gente a rehacer el buen trabajo que ellos han hecho bajo
la excusa de alinear el plan con su programa de desarrollo económico, o peor, que
el gobierno obvie ese trabajo unilateralmente, como lo hizo con la
Reglamentación Conjunta después de 20 años de trabajo y consulta en los Planes
de Uso de Terrenos.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">Hay cosas que
simplemente no se pueden hacer para pagar una deuda (como vender recursos
naturales para sufragar un pago de una deuda impagable), y el gobierno se tiene
que dar cuenta que en verdad no podemos pagar la deuda como la Junta de Control
Fiscal quiere que la paguemos, porque después de 15 años de depresión económica
ya no nos pueden exprimir más, y antes de poder pagar, tenemos que levantarnos.
Levantarnos va a tomar 10 años. Y cuando nos levantemos, solo deberíamos pagar
un 10% de nuestros ingresos hacia la deuda. Como en cualquier otra bancarrota –
aunque en esta situación los prestatarios deberían cargar con su parte de la responsabilidad,
pero no lo hacen, y no hay quien se lo imponga. Y claro, el Sr. Pierluisi fue
abogado de la Junta Fiscal, así que puede coincidir con lo que están tratando
de hacer, en vez de defender al pueblo puertorriqueño de los actos depredadores
de la Junta.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">Y eso último en
si viola el sentir del pueblo, y quebranta uno de los tres pilares de la
sostenibilidad. El primer pilar es la salud ecológica. El segundo pilar es el
bienestar social y la justicia social. El tercer pilar es una economía
saludable, en ese orden. Los derechos de la economía no se pueden poner encima
de los derechos sociales o ecológicos, y el Sr. Pierluisi tiene que cambiar su
definición de una economía saludable a una que sea local, sostenible,
equitativa, y justa. Esa es la gran batalla que tenemos, como pueblo, que
librar en estas elecciones para poder ser sostenibles y autosuficientes a largo
plazo. Escoger ser sostenibles, escoger tener un futuro menos malo al que
estamos encaminados, acabar de cambiar nuestra manera de vida, y votar por el
candidato que mejor plan de desarrollo sostenible tenga.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Algunas de las
acciones a implementarse en aspectos reglamentarios y de actualización:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Nueva Plataforma Digital</span>: Crearemos una plataforma
digital para facilitar la interacción ciudadana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">donde todo el
catálogo de <span style="color: red;">formularios y solicitudes </span>pueda ser
completado en la misma plataforma.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Magnifica
idea de crear una plataforma digital, espero que también se use como
herramienta educativa y de transparencia, y acepte comentarios y observaciones
de estudiantes, académicos, voluntarios, y observadores, y que se pueda
diseminar en las redes sociales.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Alianza con Seguridad Pública</span>: Trabajaremos en
alianza con otras entidades gubernamentales</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">para insertar al
DRNA en la interconexión de sistemas de <span style="color: #0070c0;">comunicación
y coordinación de </span><span style="color: red;">respuesta<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: ES;">a
emergencias y desastres,</span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"> así
como para desarrollar un nuevo sistema para presentar <span style="color: #0070c0;">querellas</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">ágilmente.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Magnifica
idea de crear una alianza para la Seguridad Publica. Desafortunadamente se
queda corto en el impacto que podría tener si se limita a emergencias y a hacer
querellas; si va a hacer una alianza, denle plenos poderes para informar sobre
sus programas y logros, educar al pueblo de como ellos pueden participar y
protegerse, y comunicar la importancia de ser sostenible y la visión de país
que resultaría de tales cambios en las redes sociales, podcasts, webinars, y
talleres regionales.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Equipo de Respuesta</span>: Comenzaremos un programa de
actualización de equipos para el Área de</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Respuesta
a Emergencias </span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Ambientales
para asegurar que mantenemos un inventario de equipo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">vigente y
relevante. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Espero que
esto quiera decir que van a contratar más empleados para manejar y hacer
cumplir los reglamentos, y que los empleados servirán de liaison con las
comunidades que sirven y mantenerlas al día.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Reglamento de Multas</span>: <span style="color: red;">Redactaremos
</span>un Reglamento de Multas Administrativas del DRNA </span>implementaremos
mejoras procesales para maximizar su fiscalización.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Bien. Esto
también conlleva más empleados dedicados a hacer todo lo necesario para hacer
cumplir la ley, que aquí no se menciona.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Programas de Hidrología</span>: <span style="color: red;">Integraremos
</span>el Programa de <span style="color: #0070c0;">Geología </span>e <span style="color: #0070c0;">Hidrología </span>y el Programa de</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Manejo
de Costas </span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">de la Junta de
Planificación de Puerto Rico al DRNA para mejorar la coordinación y </span>la
implementación.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES">[Es importante
mencionar aquí la importancia de la Junta de Planificación, y la falta que hace
una organización independiente como lo fue la Junta en su tiempo, que actuó
como punta de lanza para proteger el ambiente al igual que un disuasivo difícil
de sobreponer por aquellos intereses que buscaban subvertir los limites
ecológicos y sociales de nuestra isla.]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Zonas Inundables</span>: <span style="color: red;">Trabajaremos
</span>el manejo de las zonas inundables bajo el Programa de Geología e</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Hidrología, dando
apoyo a los municipios para acceder a fondos federales para estos propósitos y<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">para participar
plenamente del Programa Nacional de Seguros de Inundación (“NFIP”, por sus
siglas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">en inglés),
logrando así ahorros en las primas de los seguros de inundación para comercios,
industrias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">y residencias.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">[Hay que tener
claro que FEMA ya no está asegurando terrenos en la zona Marítimo-Terrestre que
estén en peligro de inundación recurrente durante huracanes o tormentas
tropicales, prefiriendo relocalizar los dueños de propiedad a terrenos más
altos. Esto causa perdidas desiguales entre los barrios ricos (en Ocean Park
por ejemplo, aunque sube el nivel del mar, los precios de las casas siguen
astronómicos), y los barrios pobres (en el Caño Martin Peña por ejemplo, muchas
de las familias que han vivido y luchado por décadas perderán su hogar y su
comunidad). Otro ejemplo: la mayoría del área al norte del expreso De Diego,
desde Fajardo hasta Arecibo, va a ser afectada por la subida del nivel del mar
(“Sea Level Rise”), y al irse los dueños más cercanos al mar, esas casas
deberán ser demolidas y esos barrios reconfigurados para salvar, temporeramente,
las casas más alejadas del mar. Pero si los glaciares de Groenlandia y
Antártica llegan a derretirse por completo, como se predice que pasar</span><span lang="ES">á</span><span lang="ES"> si
siguen derritiéndose al paso acelerado que van, entonces veremos pueblos en
todas nuestras costas bajas sufrir – en Dorado, por ejemplo, las inundaciones
pueden llegar desde el mar hasta el mismo expreso De Diego. En San Juan, los
aeropuertos Luis Muñoz Marín e Isla Grande quedarían bajo agua e inservibles, y
solo el Aeropuerto de Ramey en Aguadilla podría aceptar vuelos internacionales.
La infraestructura Portuaria de la Bahía de San Juan quedaría incapacitada por
la subida del mar. De repente, no podemos huir, y no podemos abastecer nuestras
necesidades de agua y comida. La lección es que no se puede ganar contra el
mar. El mar siempre va a ganar. Y para la subida del nivel del mar, solo
aquellos dueños que tengan dinero o recursos a su disposición van a poder resguardarse
o poder encontrar otro hogar donde vivir.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Zona
Marítimo-Terrestre: Aprobaremos un nuevo Reglamento de Zona Marítimo-Terrestre
libre de</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">las
inconsistencias y lagunas que han dificultado la implementación del actual. En
este esfuerzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">incluiremos el
insumo de todos los sectores para asegurar la protección del medio ambiente.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">• Manejo de
Fondos Federales: Crearemos una nueva Oficina de Manejo de Fondos Federales que<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">incluya una
sección para cumplimiento federal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Bien. Pero que
también se haga cargo de separar los fondos necesarios para la transición a una
economía verde y sostenible.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Consistencia
Operacional y Gerencial: Estableceremos un nuevo manual de operaciones y
protocolo,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">detallado y
claro, que permita la capacitación y la referencia al instante a los oficiales
de cada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">entidad
gubernamental encargada del medio ambiente.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Bien.
Consistencia intra-gubernamental es algo bueno. Mejor si también educaran,
divulgaran, y invitaran al pueblo a participar.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Programa de
Educación Continua: Desarrollaremos un programa de educación continua para</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">todo el personal
del DRNA y otras entidades gubernamentales, y haremos algunos de estos cursos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">disponibles a
municipios y organizaciones no gubernamentales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[¡Muy bien! Pero,
¡háganlos disponibles a todo el mundo! ¿Por qué no?]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pasos Afirmativos
contra el Cambio Climático en Puerto Rico: El cambio climático es una realidad
que amenaza a nuestra
isla, cuyos efectos ya son evidentes en nuestros litorales costeros. Para
atender esto:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">• <span style="color: red;">Comité de Cambio Climático</span>: Enmendaremos la Ley Núm.
33 de 2019, también conocida como la Ley </span>de Mitigación,
Adaptación y Resiliencia al Cambio Climático de Puerto Rico, para aclarar los
deberes y facultades del
Comité de Cambio Climático con relación a otras entidades gubernamentales, así como integrar
este Comité como un Programa del DRNA, manteniendo la independencia en las decisiones de
su pleno. Vamos a sumarnos a la corriente más progresista a nivel mundial en la protección del
ambiente con medidas para atender el cambio climático de forma que protejamos nuestro ambiente
y atmosfera.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[el DRNA ya es
participe del Puerto Rico Climate Change Council (PRCCC) y no necesitamos otra
organización haciendo el trabajo que ellos ya han hecho, aunque Pierluisi quiera insertar el comité al DRNA. Denle potestad y apoyo financiero al DRNA a hacer
lo que haga falta.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Plan de
Estímulo: Utilizaremos los fondos provenientes de la demanda del caso contra
Volkswagen</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: ES;">(Volkswagen
Settlement Fund</span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">) como <span style="color: red;">estímulo </span>verde para <span style="color: #0070c0;">financiar
iniciativas </span>para la <span style="color: #0070c0;">reducción de<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: ES;">emisiones
en la isla</span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">, especialmente en
la transportación.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[¿Ese fondo no
era para los dueños de VW? Y si no lo son, ¿esos fondos son suficientes para
reducir las emisiones en la isla? ¿Cuántas emisiones hay en la isla, y cuanto
van a reducirse con esta iniciativa? Y cuando dice estimular, ¿quiere decir que
van a dar un monto al principio y luego se lavan las manos? ¿De qué emisiones
están hablando de reducir? ¿De las de los carros solamente, o incluyen otras
emisiones (pensando en las de AES)? ¿Por qué escoger reducir y no extinguir las
emisiones?]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Espacios Verdes</span>: Crearemos un programa de <span style="color: #0070c0;">reforestación urbana </span>y <span style="color: #0070c0;">rural
</span>para la creación y</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">conservación de
espacios comunitarios eco-amigables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Buena idea. Se
podría financiar el uso de esos sitios por OSFL que den clases de
sostenibilidad o manejen un programa de Contacto Verde.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Medición de Contaminación en el Aire</span>:
Estableceremos un sistema de medición de CO2 para lograr</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">acceso a créditos
federales (créditos de carbón por efecto invernadero), utilizando las
metodologías<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">desarrolladas por
el United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), el cual está<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">a cargo del
Acuerdo de París (2016) y del Protocolo de Kyoto.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Muy bien que
midan la contaminación del aire. Cuando sepan cuanto es la contaminación, ¿que
van a hacer para parar la contaminación? ¿Dónde van a poner los sistemas de
medición? ¿Qué grupo se encargará de archivar, analizar, y diseminar la
información retenida en el sistema de medición? ¿Por qué no hacen lo mismo con
nuestros cuerpos de agua, en conjunto con el Estaurio de San Juan y OPAS?]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Energía renovable: <span style="color: red;">cumpliremos con la meta </span>de que el 40%
de la generación de energía provenga de</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">fuentes
renovables para el 2025. Cumpliremos con la ley que prohíbe el uso y depósito
de cenizas en<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Puerto Rico.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span>[No dice nada de
cómo va a lograr un 40% de generación limpia en cuatro años. No menciona como
financiar el cambio a energia solar <b>distribuida</b>, ni posibles micro-redes
futuras, ni que va a hacer con PREPA si PREPA tiene una deuda enorme y no puede
generar energia limpia, pero todavía tiene la responsabilidad de distribuir
energia, aunque la infraestructura no esté en condiciones óptimas para hacerlo.
No dice nada de eliminar gradualmente el uso de gas natural, ni de acabar con
el contrato de AES, ni de incentivar un sector manufacturero de placas solares,
baterías, y sistemas solares. No dice nada de ayudar al pueblo a ayudarse a sí
mismo, ni de cómo el gobierno podría unirse a Casa Pueblo, Juan Rosario, Barrio
Electrico, y otros grupos de energia comunitaria para crear un movimiento de
base (“grassroots”) de energia solar y otras estrategias sostenibles, como
captación de agua de lluvia.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0;">Justicia
Ambiental Social</span><span lang="ES">: Un <span style="color: red;">ambiente limpio </span>promueve comunidades fuertes. El DRNA
jugará un rol </span>mayor en el fortalecimiento
de las comunidades, reduciendo obstáculos y trabajando mano a mano con la comunidad
para mejorar el diario vivir especialmente en las poblaciones vulnerables. Para
lograr esto:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Vertederos en Incumplimiento e Ilegales</span>: Crearemos
un programa agresivo de identificación</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">y limpieza de
vertederos ilegales en los campos y playas, en colaboración con los gobiernos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">municipales y las
comunidades. Implementaremos plan a dos años para tener todos los vertederos en<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">cumplimiento con
las regulaciones o cerrados.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Muy buena
iniciativa. Espero tengan los fondos para hacerlo, pues va a ser una tarea
ardua. Van a necesitar fondos para estudiar si los vertederos en incumplimiento
han contaminado acuíferos cercanos o han hecho otros daños, y buscar posibles maneras
de limpiar los acuíferos contaminados (con la tecnología pasiva de Freytech
Puerto Rico, por ejemplo). Si cierran 19 de los 29 vertederos existentes, como
ha dicho la EPA que tiene que ser, Puerto Rico va a sufrir una crisis de basura
masiva. Como la respuesta sostenible no es abrir más vertederos, y si buscar
formas de reducir la cantidad y calidad de basura que se tira, hay que pasar
legislación para incluir al sector privado en tomar acciones que reduzcan la
cantidad de empaques que usan, en los materiales que usan para empacar, en el
uso exclusivo de materiales compostables de ahora en adelante, en crear un
programa de mercadeo para solo usar materiales compostables, en incentivar
pequeños negocios de artículos del hogar reusables, y en hablar sobre dos
oportunidades subvencionadas por el estado: la oportunidad de negocio en
minería de metales y otros bienes en los vertederos antes de cerrarlos y la
conversión de vertederos en sistemas de captación de gas para usar como energia
(biodigestores).]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Reciclaje:
Daremos recursos a los municipios para que todos tengan un plan de reciclaje
obligatorio</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">para residencias
y comercios.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Con este
comentario, el Sr. Pierluisi deja saber que no tiene idea que en Puerto Rico se
recicla muy poco (5% de botellas de cristal, la mayoría de las latas de
gaseosa, algún papel y cartulina. El plástico se embalaba y se mandaba afuera,
hasta que la China cerro sus puertas, y los precios en otros sitios, que antes
se les pagaba $99 por tonelada, ahora se les cobra por aceptar, lo cual quiere
decir que todo lo plástico y de poliestireno (foam) va directamente a los
vertederos, que ya están bastante llenos. Solo dos tipos de plásticos, de los 7
que existen, técnicamente, se pueden reciclar. El problema es que no es costo
efectivo reciclar los plásticos que se hacen. Al cerrar sus puertas la China,
ya no hay país que pueda pagar salarios para separar y limpiar el plástico para
reciclarse, aunque usen robots para algunas funciones. La mejor solución es
legislar la entrada de menos plásticos a Puerto Rico. Para esto hay que formar
un Consejo de Manejo de Desperdicios que escriba legislación vinculante para
disminuir la cantidad de empaques y productos de plástico que entren a Puerto
Rico, y que negocie a nombre del gobierno con toda entidad que importe,
exporte, distribuya, venda, o consuma productos no-compostables, incluyendo el
pueblo puertorriqueño, e incentivar el uso de materiales compostables con
exenciones de impuestos. Ojo, solo los materiales compostables valen la pena,
los llamados biodegradables toman cien años en descomponerse, que no resuelve
nada. Además de programas a gran escala, también se deben incentivar negocios y
servicios comunales de composta, y servicios como TAIS que recoge composta a
domicilio, y Vivo Recycling que tiene una composta a escala industrial.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Consejo para el
Patrimonio Natural: Estableceremos el Consejo para el Patrimonio Natural de</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Puerto Rico, el
cual en estrecha colaboración con el DRNA llevará a cabo un inventario del
estado de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">nuestras playas,
bosques, reservas naturales, acuíferos y otros recursos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Comité de
Bio-Economía: Crearemos un <span style="color: red;">Comité de Bio-Economía </span>para
el desarrollo de actividades</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">económicas
impulsadas por investigación e innovación en el campo de las ciencias
biológicas, cuya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">misión será
promover beneficios públicos en los sectores económicos, ambientales y sociales
a través<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">del uso eficiente
de los recursos naturales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Desafortunadamente,
la bioeconomía es un ala de la industria tecnológica que busca privatizar la
naturaleza, así que no se considera ambiental, se considera más bien
tecnológica. Incluye negocios de “Ciencias de Vida” o “Life Sciences” que
privatizan la vida y monetizan la ciencia, y muchas de ellas hacen productos
que directa e indirectamente hacen daño al ambiente, como lo son todo producto
genéticamente modificado (GMO, por el sobreuso de pesticidas y fertilizantes
tóxicos) y que apuestan por la agricultura industrial, la cual literalmente
mata a los agricultores orgánicos y regenerativos con sus productos y las
consecuencias de su modelo de negocio y sus procesos de uso. El querer
desarrollar este segmento va en contra de los preceptos de sostenibilidad y de
equidad social y debe eliminarse de la plataforma ambiental al igual que del
programa de desarrollo para Puerto Rico.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Biblioteca Ambiental</span>: Crearemos la Biblioteca
Ambiental para mayor accesibilidad, transparencia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">y publicidad de
recursos de cumplimiento ambiental, incluyendo un repositorio digital con toda<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">legislación,
reglamentación, orden administrativa, orden ejecutiva, reglamentos y ordenanzas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">municipales
aplicables al proceso de planificación y emisión de permisos ambientales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Magnifica idea.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Agua Limpia:
Daremos prioridad a garantizar el abasto de agua limpia y segura para la salud,
la</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">economía y la
calidad de vida en todas las comunidades de Puerto Rico, apoyando proyectos
para<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">prevenir y
remediar la contaminación, asegurar el abastecimiento de agua salubre e
invertir en la<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">infraestructura
necesaria para ello.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Es importante
tener un programa nacional de recaudar agua de lluvia en cada casa, con
sistemas de filtros para poder usarlas como agua dulce. Al igual que
necesitamos un programa de ayuda para tener energia solar (distribuida) en cada
techo, necesitamos poder recoger agua y crecer vegetales en huertos caseros.
Esto ira lejos para ayudar a la gente, las familias, y las comunidades de
Puerto Rico a ser resilientes, sostenibles, y mas autosuficientes, y le
restaría costos al gobierno en términos de salud y cuido medico.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0;">Manejo
de Desperdicios Sólidos y Reciclaje</span><span lang="ES">: Puerto Rico continúa estancado en un <span style="color: red;">modelo
obsoleto </span>de </span>manejo de
desperdicios sólidos. Continuamos disponiendo de la gran mayoría de los
desperdicios en vertederos, lo
cual es alarmante tomando en consideración nuestra limitación de terreno como
isla. El problema es cada
vez más apremiante ya que varios de nuestros vertederos han agotado su
capacidad o están cerca de su
límite de vida útil. Además, la falta de educación, conciencia o alternativas
prácticas causa la
proliferación de vertederos clandestinos. Para lograr un sistema eficiente de
manejo de desperdicios:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Plan
Estratégico para el Manejo de los Desperdicios: Daremos la mayor prioridad a
atender la crisis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">en el manejo de
desperdicios en toda la isla de manera informada, científica y práctica,
comenzando<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">por establecer un
verdadero Plan Estratégico para el Manejo de los Desperdicios Sólidos en Puerto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Rico elaborado
con la participación de diversos sectores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Muy bien. Por
favor refiéranse a mi contestación previa sobre este tema. Lo único que tengo
que añadir es que debe de haber un servicio de compostaje en cada ciudad de
cada municipio, con ayudas autóctonas en las áreas rurales.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: red;">Medición de Progreso</span>: Estableceremos un sistema de
métricas para evaluar el progreso de la</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">implementación a
nivel municipal o regional del nuevo Plan Estratégico y un sistema de
incentivos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">atados a esas
métricas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Es bueno medir las cosas.
Es mejor usar las medidas para mejorar, y tener un plan que incluya acción,
medición, evaluación, y adaptación
continua.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Autogestión Comunitaria</span>: Apoyaremos la autogestión
comunitaria como solución viable con impacto</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">social positivo,
incentivando el desarrollo de proyectos comunitarios de limpieza y reciclaje,
similares<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">a los que han
sido premiados por la Agencia de Protección Ambiental federal (“EPA”, por sus
siglas en </span>inglés),
organizados por residentes y organizaciones sin fines de lucro.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Buena idea!]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Fiscalización
de Vertederos: Implementaremos un plan de fiscalización continua del
cumplimiento</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">con las
condiciones de los permisos de operación de los vertederos e instalaciones para
el manejo de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">desperdicios
sólidos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[De acuerdo! Una
visita y un informe mensual que recoja toda la data necesaria para entender el
estado del vertedero al corriente. Usar metodología académica y apoyo académico
para resumir los datos. Usar al supervisor de los datos como liaison entre el
gobierno, los vertederos, los municipios, y a las comunidades.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Desperdicios en el Hogar</span>: Promulgaremos una
política pública aplicable a todo Puerto Rico para</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">el manejo de
desperdicios en los hogares, y trabajaremos con cada municipio, como entidad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">responsable por
el recogido de basura, para establecer un plan de implementación en
cumplimiento<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">con esta política
pública.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Perfecto. A
falta de mención, sugiero el <b>compostaje</b> y el <b>reúso</b> como los
componentes principales de este programa, con “Swap Meets” semanales en los centros
comunales o en Facebook Marketplace y clases o webinars de cómo hacer
artesanías con materiales reciclados.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Educación</span>: Retomaremos campañas educativas sobre
la disposición correcta de desperdicios, el fin</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">de la vida útil
de los vertederos y alternativas de reducción, reciclaje y reúso, en alianza
con el sector<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">privado, el
Tercer Sector y los municipios.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Bien! Espero
incluyan la situación corriente de los vertederos y no den esperanza de poder
reciclar plásticos en Puerto Rico. Instruir que una solución es comprar cosas
no envasadas en plástico. Quizás tener un concurso de la mejor adaptación de
reúso y reducción (¿Cómo estaciones de limpiadores donde uno lleva el envase
que va a llena del líquido limpiador?)]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Identificación de Fondos</span>: Identificaremos
programas de fondos federales de la EPA, la Administración</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">de Desarrollo
Económico federal (en adelante, “EDA”), la Administración de Pequeños Negocios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">federal (en
adelante, “SBA”) y el Departamento de Educación para ampliar programas
educativos a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">nivel isla, así
como fomentar proyectos comunitarios y sin fines de lucro que trabajen el campo
del<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">reciclaje, la
limpieza y la disposición correcta de desperdicios sólidos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Muy buena
iniciativa. Cabe recordarles que siguen apostando por reciclaje, cuando la era
del reciclaje básicamente ha acabado. Hay que dar el paso mas grande y
disminuir el uso del plástico que entra a Puerto Rico. Ver mis comentarios
anteriores. No solo identificar los fondos, tener un representante del gobierno
llenando las solicitudes con las organizaciones sin fines de lucro para darle
mas oportunidad de conseguirlos.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Alianza con los Municipios</span>: Promoveremos como
parte de esta nueva política pública alternativas</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">viables para cada
municipio; por ejemplo, reciclar en los hogares mediante la recuperación de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">material mixto casa a casa (single stream curb-side
recycling).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[El single-stream
curb-side recycling ya no es costo-efectivo. Se ha probado que hasta usando
robótica no es factible separar materiales, y que los materiales se deben
separar a mano por la persona que los haya usado. Sinceramente, la industria
completa del plástico necesita un trastorno (“disruption”), empezando por
cambiar de materia prima (el petróleo y sus derivados). El plástico se puede
hacer de aceite de algas, de aceite de cáñamo, y de otros recursos naturales, y
se puede usar para usos críticos, como lo son los usos médicos, y no usar plástico
de un solo uso para comer o beber (no más botellitas de agua, por ejemplo).]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Apoyo a los
Municipios: Maximizaremos los <span style="color: #0070c0;">programas de
asistencia económica </span>para distribuir</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: ES;">zafacones
y camiones de reciclaje </span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">y <span style="color: red;">recuperación de material mixto casa a casa</span>,
incentivando que<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">municipios
establezcan ordenanzas municipales para promover el servicio de recogido del
reciclaje.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Hay que ayudar a
las empresas que ya recogen desperdicios orgánicos, y hay que educar a la
población a compostar, a usar menos plástico, y a reusar más las cosas. A los
municipios hay que ayudarlos con zafacones y camiones, y con empleados que
manejen el programa y los desechos. Hay que olvidarse de tener un programa de
recuperación de material mixto. Hay que ayudar a los municipios a establecer
ordenanzas que ayuden a sus comunidades a reducir sus desperdicios, quizás
empezando un centro de acopio donde los residentes pueden venir con sus envases
a llenarlos en vez de comprar envases de un solo uso. Esto también podría ser
una oportunidad de negocio para el que quiera producir y suplir los líquidos de
limpieza, que de este modo incluirían líquidos naturales y orgánicos.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Incentivos a la Eficiencia</span>: Incentivaremos la
adopción por parte de municipios de medidas costo-efectivas para el acarreo de
desperdicios, incluyendo el rediseño de rutas y el uso de consorcios para combinar
recursos y lograr economías de escala.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Hay que tener
cuidado con la “eficiencia” porque es una palabra clave de la mentalidad que
busca privatizar todo y monetizar todo, dejando al pueblo sin nada. Entiendo
que aquí lo quieran usar para ofrecer el mejor servicio de recogido de desechos
posible.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Cero Tolerancia con Vertederos Clandestinos</span>:
Estableceremos planes de vigilancia para la</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">erradicación de
vertederos clandestinos y la disposición ilegal de escombros, con consecuencias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">reales como la
imposición de multas y obligación de remediación en caso de incumplimiento.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Bien. Están erradicado
el síntoma y no el mal, pero bien.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• <span style="color: #0070c0;">Manejo de Escombros</span>: Trabajaremos, como parte del
nuevo Plan Estratégico, alternativas para</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">facilitar el
manejo de escombros y materiales de difícil disposición que típicamente
terminan en<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">vertederos clandestinos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Bien]</p><p class="MsoNormal">• Manejo de
Neumáticos: Continuaremos explorando alternativas para una mejor atención al</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">problema del
manejo de neumáticos desechados, incluyendo mayor fiscalización y remediación.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Sigan
explorando. Esta es otra industria que
necesita un trastorno (“disruption”), igual que la industria de la
transportación privada. ¿Por qué andar en un coche que pesa miles de libras,
cuesta caro, y se bebe galones de gasolina nociva para llevar una persona con
sobrepeso poco saludable tres millas diarias a su trabajo? Hay mejores soluciones
a estos problemas.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span>En resumen, el
Sr, Pierluisi tiene una plataforma ambiental que, al lector que no conozca los
temas de la sostenibilidad, la justicia social, la economía ecológica, el
cambio climático, y la filosofía detrás del manejo holístico de la situación ambiental
compleja, pueda parecerle algo utilizable. Pero para las personas que tienen
conocimiento de todas las partes entrelazadas de estos temas, esta propuesta
deja mucho que desear. Usa algunas palabras clave, pero no las pone en contexto
ni explica un plan concreto de como las va a lograr.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Critica</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Basura Cero Puerto
Rico, al promulgar el reciente Debate Ambiental 2020, había identificado seis áreas
de importancia escogidas por los miembros de 58 organizaciones sin fines de
lucro ambientales, pero el Sr. Pierluisi no atendió al debate, así que no se
sabe cómo hubiera contestado – pero la lista forma una buena base de donde
crear una plataforma coherente y se puede comparar a l plataforma del Sr.
Pierluisi. Los puntos de interés eran: (en <b>bold </b>los temas recogidos por
Pierluisi)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Energía - (<b>Energía Renovable</b>,
<b>Política Pública Energética</b>; y Transformación de la AEE); 2/3<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Agua - (Riesgos del Cambio Climático y
el estado de la Infraestructura; el Servicio de la Autoridad de Acueductos
y Alcantarillados, el Cumplimiento con los Estándares de <b>Calidad de
Agua</b> y Monitoreo y Protección de Cuencas Hidrográficas); 1/6<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Conservación y Planificación
Ambiental - (<b>Protección de Terrenos</b> de alto valor ecológico,
Reglamento Conjunto, Revitalización de Áreas Urbanas); 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Agricultura (Agroecología, Soberanía
Alimentaria, <b>Compañías de biotecnología</b>, Incentivos en el sector
agrícola); 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Residuos Sólidos</span></b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"> (Ley 70 de Reducción, Reciclaje, <b>Desarrollo
de Mercados</b>, Waste-to-Energy) 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Recuperación Justa (Plan para la
recuperación justa de Puerto Rico, el Caño Martín Peña, <b>Apoyo a
Entidades de Base Comunitaria</b> y Comunidad Científica). 1/4<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Total: 7/25<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">El Sr. Pierluisi
menciona 7 de los 25 temas importantes para el pueblo de Puerto Rico que
conciernen nuestro ambiente, pero no adentra mucho en ninguno de ellos. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span>En adición, el
programa de Ciudades Sostenibles toman los siguientes temas en consideración
cuando hacen sus planes:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">1. Conservación
de energía. Una parte esencial del desarrollo de comunidades sostenibles es la
conservación de las fuentes de energía y el uso de energía renovable
descentralizada y limpia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">2. Reducción de
residuos y desechos, programa de compostaje<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">3. Promoción de
fuentes locales de alimentos y la soberanía alimenticia con agricultura
regenerativa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">4. Desarrollo de
espacios públicos <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">5. Control y
eliminación paulatina de la contaminación, incluyendo contaminacion luminica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">6. Apoyo a las empresas
locales, pequeñas, y sostenibles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">7. Edificios y
códigos que impulsen diseños que sean energéticamente eficiente (LEED, Passiv
Haus, etc)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Archivo de links a Planes
Ambientales para comparar y poder ajustar nuestra Visión
de País – como debe y puede ser:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://drawdown.org/drawdown-framework"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">The Drawdown Framework</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.queremossolpr.com/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Propuesta Energética Queremos Sol</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/9851/-The_United_Nations_Environment_Programme_and_the_2030_Agenda_Global_Action_for_People_and_the_Planet-2015EO_Brochure_WebV.pdf.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Naciones Unidas</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/green-new-deal/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Bernie Sanders</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/gnd/resolution">Alexandra
Ocasio Cortes / Green New Deal</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Latino America – </span><a href="https://tallerecologista.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Doc.-FES-2016.pdf"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Transición Energética Justa</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Europa – <a href="https://www.dwih-futureforum.org/?fbclid=IwAR2VsKCvpd8AB5ArOdBb0nd_02DS-tu06zK1fEyj_PiTrHSrAPlm67zKEmE">The
Future Forum, Germany</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Puerto Rico - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfG2btoizvY"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Debate Ambiental</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.pr-ccc.org/about-us/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PRCCC</span></a><u><span lang="ES" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1paRgy0dJBkUH4-5eev7z2SuR0diil8g9/view"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Plan Fiscal de PREPA 2020</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.109/v0h.b59.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CAMBIO-statement-HR-Com-Nat-Res-8_6_2020.pdf"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">CAMBIO ponencia sobre PREPA</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cambiopr.org/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Cambio</span></a><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Resumen del Green New Deal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Garantizar
trabajo para todos, con un salario que sustente a una familia, con seguro médico,
vacaciones pagadas y pensión <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Brindar a todos atención
médica de alta calidad; vivienda asequible, segura y adecuada; seguridad
económica; y acceso a agua potable, aire limpio, comida asequible y naturaleza
sana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Brindar recursos,
capacitación y educación de alta calidad, incluida la educación superior, a
todas las personas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Satisfacer el 100%
de la demanda de energía a través de fuentes de energía limpias, renovables y
de cero emisiones de carbón<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Reparar y mejorar
la infraestructura, eliminando la contaminación y las emisiones de gases de
efecto invernadero tanto como sea tecnológicamente factible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Construir o
actualizar la red eléctrica a ser energéticamente eficiente, distribuidas e
'inteligentes', y trabajar para garantizar un acceso asequible a la
electricidad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Construir nuevos
edificios para lograr la máxima eficiencia energética, eficiencia del agua,
seguridad, asequibilidad, comodidad y durabilidad, incluso mediante la
electrificación<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Reacondicionar
los sistemas de transporte público para eliminar la contaminación y las
emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero del sector del transporte, incluso
mediante la inversión en: infraestructura y fabricación de vehículos de cero
emisiones y transporte público limpio, asequible y accesible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Trabajar en
colaboración con agricultores y ganaderos para eliminar la contaminación y las
emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero del sector agrícola tanto como sea posible</span></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-70009113340402429202020-10-17T11:56:00.000-04:002020-12-18T01:07:32.175-04:00<p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">How to Have a Life Worth Living</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Prof. Jordan Peterson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gently edited by Monica Perez Nevarez from the lecture, for narrative ease<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Source <a href="https://youtu.be/E49l2KnyVUA">https://youtu.be/E49l2KnyVUA</a>
as of 10/17/2020<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You’re going to have to put some effort into your life, and
you need to be motivated to do that. So, what are your potential sources of
motivation? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, think of them as the “Big Five.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You want friends. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You want an intimate relationship. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You want to win competitions. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You want to engage in creative activity. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You want security. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those are all sources of potential motivation that you can tailor
to your own personality. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then there are other dimensions that you want to consider. Ask yourself,
if you could have your life exactly the way you wanted it in three to five
years, if you were taking care of yourself properly and seeing your
surroundings correctly, what would you want from your friendships? What would
you want from your intimate relationship? How would you like to structure your
family or your career? How are you going to use your time outside of your job? How
are you going to regulate your mental and physical self? And for that matter, how
much alcohol and drugs do you use? That’s an important question given that 5% -
10% of people need to keep that under control.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Develop a vision of what you would like your life to be, and
once the goals are established, you break down each goal into micro-processes
that you can carry out daily, weekly, monthly. The micro-processes become
rewarding in relation to their causal association with the goals. And that entangles
you with an incentive/reward system and keeps you moving forward. Everything works
better when you can see yourself moving towards a valued goal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What does this imply? That you better have a valued goal for
your life. Because otherwise, you cannot get any positive motivation. So, the
more valuable the goal, the more the micro-processes associated with that goal
start to take on a positive charge. You get up in the morning and you are
excited about the day ahead. You are ready to go. You have specified your
long-term ideal, maybe you also specify a place you want to stay the hell away
from as well, or something that you’re terrified to fail at, but are excited
about succeeding at, those are also useful tactics. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Specify your goal as a
unique individual. You want to be able to say, “If this can happen as a
consequence of my efforts, that would clearly be worthwhile.” Because the
question always is, “Why am I doing this?” Because doing <i>nothing</i> is
easy. You sit there and you do not do anything. So, in order to do something, the
question is “Why do <i>this</i>?” And the answer is that you’ve determined, by
some means, that it’s worthwhile doing, that it’s important to you, that it means
something to you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And the next question is, where would you look for
worthwhile things to do? You can consult your own temperament and also, look at
what it is that people accrue that is valuable across their lifespan. You do a
structural analysis of the subcomponents of human existence. What are they? You
need family, friends, community, career, educational goals, time outside of
work, hobbies, attention to your mental and physical health, etc. That is what
life is about. And if you don’t have any of those things, all you have left is
misery and suffering. You’re wasting your life. And that is a bad deal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The best thing you can do with regards to your
conscientiousness is to set up some aims for yourself. Goals that you actually
value. Because how are you going to hit a goal if you do not know what it is? Often, people will not specify their goals
because they do not like to specify conditions for failure. So, if you keep
yourself all vague and foggy, which is easy because it is a matter of not doing
anything, well, then you do not know when you are failing, or where you have
failed. People say that they do not want to know when they fail because that is
painful, so they keep themselves blind about when they fail. But then you’ll
fail all the time, and you won’t know it until you fail so badly that you can’t
fix it. And that can easily happen by the time you’re 40. So, I recommend you
don’t let that happen, because it is willful blindness. You could have known,
but you chose not to. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once you set up a goal structure, you have a say in the
outcome. In many ways, that’s what you should be doing at university. That’s
when you should be trying to figure out who you are trying to be, and aiming
for that. And you use everything you learn as a means of building that person
that you really want to be. I really mean “want” to be, I don’t mean “should”
be. Those things are going to overlap anyway. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once you get your goal structure up, you think, “If I could
have this, it looks like that life will be worth living, despite that fact that it
is anxiety provoking and threatening, and there’s going to be some suffering
and loss involved in living it. Obviously, the goal is to have a vision for your
life such that, all things considered, what you become justifies your efforts. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After you set your goals, what do you do?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You turn to the micro routines. Make them substantiate your
goals day to day, week to week, month to month. This is where a schedule can be
unbelievably useful. Figure out the role of the schedule. It’s not a bloody
prison. The first thing people do wrong is that they think they don’t want to
follow a schedule. What kind of schedule are you setting up? Well, I have to do
this, then this, then this, and then I go play video games, because who wants
to do all these things I have to do?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That is wrong. Set the schedule up so that you have the day you want
to have! That’s the trick. It’s like OK, if I set it up as the best possible
day I could have (while doing the things I need to do), what would that look
like? Schedule that. Of course, there’s a bit of responsibility that is going
to go on with that, because if you have any sense, one of the things you are
going to insist upon is that at the end of the day you’re not in worse shape
than you were at the beginning of the day. </p><p class="MsoNormal">So you must negotiate with yourself
and not tyrannize yourself. Negotiate with yourself like you are a person you care
for, in a way that is productive and that gives you a good life. And that’s how
you make a schedule work for you. And it’s done when you look at the day and
you say to yourself “that will be a good day.” And if you hit it with even 50%
accuracy, that’s great. Another rule is to increase your aim the next week,
because if you keep doing that, increasing what you get done and getting better
at realistic scheduling, you’re going to hit that sweet spot where things are
going to start to loop back positively and spiral you upward. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So that is one way you can work on your conscientiousness, by
planning a life you’d like to have, one day at a time. And you do that partly
by referring to social norms. That is more or less rescuing your father from
the belly of the whale, but the other way you do that is by having a
conversation with yourself as if you don’t really know who you are. Because you
know you won’t do what you’re told. You won’t do what you tell yourself you have
to do. Understand that you are not your own servant. You are someone you have
to negotiate with to get things done. You are someone you want to present the opportunity
to have a good life to, and that is hard for people, because they don’t like
themselves very much. There’s cracking the whip and that leads to procrastinating,
so one of the things you should be asking yourself is “Would you spend an hour doing
that?" Or "What if I paid someone $50 bucks to give me that hour?” and depending
on the answer, plan accordingly. Doing this depends on whether you think your
time is valuable. But the funny thing about assuming your time isn’t worthwhile
is that you don’t just sit around in a state of random responsibility and less
bliss, what happens is that you suffer existentially. And that is when you lose
the life you want, and maybe get depressed, or just give up.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those who seek true happiness find it within themselves. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What are you currently doing to make yourself a better
person?<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-14629317920782317732020-09-27T07:07:00.002-04:002021-02-17T13:27:13.556-04:00<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><h1 dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 30pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What We Should Really Do for the Climate</span></h1></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We should be pursuing both consumer and political means toward climate mitigation—what matters is that we do it collectively. Here's a big list of the actions we can take together.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even after decades of talk, hundreds of campaigns, thousands of articles, and millions of dollars spent building momentum to prevent climate change, the public still doesn't know how best to nudge the economy toward collective safety and survival. While it may not still be possible to ensure safety and survival for anyone, it’s worth working to save lives, human and non-, until we can’t. It’s still important to figure out and communicate actions people should be taking to move the economy and atmosphere toward decarbonization. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What We Should Really Do for the Climate</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We should be pursuing both consumer and political means toward climate mitigation—what matters is that we do it collectively. Here's a big list of the actions we can take together.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even after decades of talk, hundreds of campaigns, thousands of articles, and millions of dollars spent building momentum to prevent climate change, the public still doesn't know how best to nudge the economy toward collective safety and survival. While it may not still be possible to ensure safety and survival for anyone, it’s worth working to save lives, human and non-, until we can’t. It’s still important to figure out and communicate actions people should be taking to move the economy and atmosphere toward decarbonization. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So what can we each be doing in our lives to slow climate collapse and why should we do those particular actions? Toward the bottom of this article you’ll find a substantial, though incomplete, list of things people can do to effectively aid progress on decarbonization. I divide the list between actions for people with and without discretionary income as this is probably the single greatest factor determining how people can impact the issue in their lives. Importantly, in figuring out how individuals should act, the key difference doesn’t lie between consumption changes and political action, but in the degree to which one’s actions are coordinated with others: i.e., a movement. The list is unordered because such rankings are unhelpful in this issue. Every intervention will be more or less impactful depending on their particular circumstance and there’s no rigorous way to hierarchize effective actions. Climate change is too big for that. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before we get to the list, let’s first consider some of the factors that have caused such confusion on how to impact the issue so that we can strive for greater clarity now and avoid similar pitfalls going forward. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><br /></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very Confused Activism </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part of the confusion people have about how they can impact climate change, of course, has come from fossil fuel industry propaganda and corrupt politicians muddying the conversation in order to deliberately mislead the public. This phenomenon has been well-documented and has a straightforward remedy: ignore any message funded by fossil fuel companies or coming out of the mouths of fossil fuel-funded politicians (Republican or Democrat). </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The trickier source of confusion is a long-running, mainstream message suggesting that the best way individuals can impact climate change is through isolated consumer lifestyle tweaks. Messages like stop eating meat or stop flying planes or stop driving cars have largely dominated the conversation on what we can do to impact this issue. These are important actions to take, but only when they’re done in the context of a concerted, collective campaign. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What these messages are advocating are boycotts. An individual’s cutting meat or flying can impact climate change only if many, many people participate in such boycotts. While it is certainly worth trying to get many people to participate, mainstream media articles and even activist messages rarely discuss the fact that such boycotts typically only impact industries when conducted at scale and when they’re effectively targeted. Boycotts work when directed at a particular company and a particular behavior of that company and then are joined by many people. Think, for instance, of boycotting Nike (specific company) for its sweatshop labor (specific behavior). This kind of boycott can be very effective and have cascading effects through the entire market, changing the behavior of other companies until the whole industry has shifted. But the need for targeted campaigns is rarely incorporated into calls for lifestyle tweaks. There's instead just a vague admonition to “go vegan” or “stop driving.” A lot of the calls to “go vegan” have resembled sporadic shouting into a vacuum lacking a shared set of values or political goals rather than a coordinated effort to change anything. The message has become more a social goal post—are you in or are you out?—than a concentrated campaign to shift the food system. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A more effective strategy to reduce the impact of meat consumption might look like a campaign to get a lot of people to boycott a few particular meat production companies that engage in destructive behaviors like building CAFOs, clear-cutting rainforests, and abusing antibiotics. Shutting down or pressuring these companies can have cascading impacts that result in making meat a lot less carbon- and land-intensive and cruel. Yet, vegetarian and vegan movements simply haven’t achieved this outcome in the many decades they’ve been active: meat consumption is rising rapidly around the world with devastating consequences; the industry is more destructive than it’s ever been.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The consumer lifestyle focus has also confused the issue by asserting that an apocalyptic problem—i.e., the permanent collapse of global civilization becoming inevitable within a decade—can be prevented primarily by acting out relatively small-scale behavioral changes at a gradual pace. This is not only false, but it can turn off a lot of potential allies by sounding condescending and delusional, leaving people baffled or disengaged. If people want to go vegan or stop flying in airplanes, that’s good and important and we should encourage that. But it’s absolutely insane to suggest that those particular behavior shifts should be held up as the best ways to halt complete civilizational collapse. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of the confusion about how to confront climate change has also come from the debate between “individual actions” and “collective actions.” In this framing, individual actions are cast as things like foregoing meat and cars in one’s everyday life versus collective actions like protesting and voting. This doesn’t make much sense. Anything an individual person does, whether voting, protesting, or cutting meat is an “individual action.” Meanwhile, consumer actions—typically cast as “individual”—can be done collectively, like by purchasing solar panels as a cooperative or joining a mass boycott; in fact, these actions are only impactful when done collectively. The more meaningful category distinction is between consumer and civic actions, but both consumer and civic actions can be done in isolation or collectively. In most circumstances, an individual’s actions, whether civic or consumer, become most impactful when done at a mass scale coordinated with others, but remain largely ineffectual when done alone. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s also a frequently asserted point that leaders should model low-carbon lifestyles so that other people will voluntarily adopt them. Whether true or not, this argument is still based on the assumption that massive, global boycotts or altered purchasing patterns are the most effective ways to decarbonize the global economy, which may or may not be true. But in any case, it’s a huge assumption to make—and not necessarily supported by robust data—especially when there are other options like organizing for holistic policies like a Green New Deal or organizing politically to regulate industries.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another important distinction that often gets confused is the difference between reducing one’s personal carbon emissions and the extent to which one individually impacts climate change. The relationship between reducing one’s personal emissions and impacting climate change are not necessarily correlated positively. One could eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions they contribute to the world and have absolutely no positive impact on climate change, or even a major negative impact. A vegan, non-flying CEO of ExxonMobil who lives in a carbon neutral yurt is not mitigating climate change even if he reduces his personal carbon emissions to (theoretical) zero. He’s still perpetuating an industry that’s massively responsible for climate change. By the same token, another person could have a positive impact on reducing the effects of climate change, like by working to develop a new means of storing electricity or sequestering carbon or drafting a Green New Deal, while still flying all over the place and eating lots of meat. When we’re talking about what people can do to mitigate climate change, it’s more important to dedicate actions to influence the systems that maintain a fossil fuel economy than making Excel spreadsheets tracking one’s own personal carbon emissions. </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So Who Should Do What?</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many of the studies and articles that rank “the best” actions to impact climate change conclude that things like abstaining from meat, flying, and procreation are at the top of the list. It makes sense; people are busy and just want to know the one thing they can try to incorporate into their day. But such rankings are invariably unhelpful and unrigorous. The fact is, there is no “best thing” and there are no easy little tweaks that will amount to mitigating climate change. We each have to do a lot.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further, such lists are generally written for a narrow audience: affluent, educated people. Aside from the fact that these prescriptions tend to omit the fact that unless many people engage in such boycotts collectively they’ll have no impact on anything, it’s unfortunate that these lists are written for such a small and narrow population. While the implicit audience is the educated affluent, they are often explicitly prescribed as actions everyone should take. But it’s not realistic to prescribe a few universal behavioral changes to everyone since they certainly do not apply to most people (most people don’t fly) and not everyone is capable of committing to these changes (many cannot afford the time and money necessary to completely reform their diets, for instance). </span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, with that in mind, the list below attempts to suggest actions relevant to a broader set of people. It’s still written for a Global North audience because it’s not my place to tell people in the Global South what they should be doing about climate change. Many such communities are already on the frontlines of both climate disasters and activism; they have enough to worry about adapting to these changes and fending off predatory extraction. I’ve tried to provide a variety of non-ordered actions specifically designed for two groups: people with stable access to discretionary income and people without; this factor has probably the single biggest impact on how people can affect climate change. </span></p></span></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the U.S., given that almost half of Americans can’t afford basic necessities at any given time and that about three-quarters carry significant debt, it’s fair to assume that no more than half of Americans have a stable source of discretionary income at hand at any given time. Depending on how one defines “stable” and “discretionary,” it’s often probably a lot less than half. </span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 30pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 30pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt 30pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Here’s the List</span></p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So what are important actions for impacting climate change that people without access to discretionary income can take? In no particular order, here are some ideas: <br /></span></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Join a movement</b>: Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise Movement, The Climate Mobilization, DSA Ecosocialists, and 350.org are a few examples. These groups all have local chapters. Email, call, or go say hi to the organizers in your area, go to the events, get deeply involved.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Block fossil fuel infrastructure or other fossil fuel practices</b>. Doing this in the context of a movement is better than going it alone, but it is one of those few individual actions where doing it alone could actually have some outsize positive impact. Starting to get involved in organizations like those above can help point you toward this kind of sabotage. You can also disrupt oil mogul meetings.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self-educate about this problem, its solutions, its consequences, and all the huge ramifications of collapse so as to internalize what’s at stake. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Talk with everyone</b> you know about it, at work, at home, at holidays. Engage people in a way that’s welcoming and compassionate, but also truthful. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Unionize</b>. Then organize at work with demands that go beyond workplace equity to include related decarbonization goals, like divestment or changing the practices of the company (especially helpful in fossil fuel-adjacent industries). </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Strike</b>. Birth strike. Work strike. School strike. Just stop participating if you can. The more economic disruption from your strike the better. So, a work strike is better than a school strike. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Vote only for people who advocate strongly</b> for Green New Deal-style policies—and whose backgrounds plausibly suggest they’ll follow through—no matter their or your party allegiance. Engage and/or annoy any elected officials who don’t.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Pay attention to energy decisions made by local offices</b> like city councils and utility commissions. You can often publicly intervene in these decisions.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact your electricity provider urging them to <b>purchase their electricity from non-carbon sources (nuclear, solar, wind, hydro</b>—biofuels are technically renewable but still emit greenhouse gases).</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Convert your car to a biofuel</b> (may not be carbon neutral, but for vehicles it’s still better than fossilized carbon) and then help your neighbors do the same, and then propose a campaign to the movement you joined.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you can handle taking on student loans, <b>earn a degree in a subfield focused on climate and energy related issues</b> and try to work in this area. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Buy local goods and food </b>where possible and encourage others to do so. Join a campaign for this. Shorter supply chains are absolutely necessary for decarbonizing.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Organize neighbors to collectively generate basic necessities without fossil fuel inputs</b>: pool money to start a community farm, purchase solar panels, or support local manufacturers producing goods from local and regional resources.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Participate in city planning processes </b>to nudge decisions toward more walkable and bikeable, more dense, and more self-sufficient urban spaces.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Cultivate relationships with community and political leaders</b> and <b>pressure them on municipal decarbonization decisions</b>, like making city buildings carbon negative and energy positive, or rejecting new fossil fuel development, or mandating non-carbon energy production on new buildings. </span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 13pt; margin: 13pt -13pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 30pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are plenty of other actions, but this is a good start for generating ideas about how someone with little or no discretionary income can have a positive impact. Most of these actions also have the benefit of positive cascading effects—that is, doing one of them can lead to doing others, or can lead to progression within that category of action (like participating in city council meetings can escalate to running for a city council seat). They also can cascade through one’s social group.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 30pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt 30pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For people who do have discretionary income, there’s obviously a huge range of how much money people within that group control, and so variability in what actions they can take. A billionaire could single-handedly decarbonize the electricity production of several small cities; but instead of fantasizing about benevolent billionaire unicorns, let’s instead focus on people who have discretionary income in the thousands of dollars. That is, someone who can live comfortably on a steady income and also throw around a few thousand dollars per year. People in this category can, generally speaking, take all of the actions in the above bullet list. And in fact, with more money, they have more protection from legal consequences than those with less money, so they should be doing more to take those almost-illicit actions listed above.</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Divest your assets from any fossil fuel or adjacent companies</b>. Don’t care about your 401K; the whole future is at stake.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Quit your job and dedicate your professional life to this issue.</b> No, really. This is a thing people are already doing and it’s necessary that many, many more people do it. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pursue a degree in a sub-discipline focused on decarbonization. For example, if you pursue a degree in a STEM field, focus on non-carbon energy engineering or how to grow food at scale without fossil fuel inputs; the humanities and social sciences have perhaps an even more vital role to play. One might focus on political history of energy, for instance, or explore this huge transformation through literature.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Invest in renewable energy companies</b> or start a renewable energy company or a community renewable energy project.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Run for office</b>.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Decarbonize your own home</b> and life as much as possible (<b>solar panels, electric vehicles, local non-carbon food, taking trains</b>, etc.) and encourage neighbors to do so.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Donate to realistic politicians</b> (see: ones who recognize the reality of climate collapse) and withhold donations from politicians that fail to sufficiently support realistic legislation like a Green New Deal.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Donate to realistic advocacy organizations,</b> that is, the ones like those mentioned above treating climate like the existential emergency it is. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Fund scholarships</b> for other people to become educated and active in this issue.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Become an inventor </b>and discover some way of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, or storing energy more efficiently and without lithium or cobalt.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Invest in creative projects</b> like community art and pro-climate advertising, film festivals & documentaries, and other media (e.g., The Trouble).</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Invest money in community agriculture </b>and <b>non-carbon manufacturing projects.</b></span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Help fund campaigns to change local and state laws that prohibit decarbonization </b>strategies like microgrids. There are many such sneaky little laws standing in the way of energy transition that need dedicated, stubborn advocates with resources to overturn.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Invest money in research for decarbonization technologies</b>.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Donate to legal funds for protestors who’ve been jailed for trying to save lives. </b></span></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 13pt; margin: 13pt -13pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 30pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many other actions people with and without money can take. This is just a brief list of some that can both give people an individual impact and, if done collectively, go a long way to mitigating at least some effects of climate collapse. While a lot of people taking these actions may not “stop climate change,” at the very least they can begin to implement systematic shifts that could soften the impacts of collapse and save a lot of lives.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 30pt; margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: -13pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -13pt 30pt; padding: -17pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Samuel Miller McDonald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a writer and geography PhD student at University of Oxford studying the intersection of grassroots movements and energy transition. Source: <a href="https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/3/16/what-we-should-really-do-for-the-climate" target="_blank">https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/3/16/what-we-should-really-do-for-the-climate </a></span></p></span></blockquote><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cbfc3cf-7fff-54ca-9110-a4f49415b24e"><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-92004244333930041322020-09-27T06:41:00.009-04:002022-01-19T03:49:48.855-04:00<span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¿Qué deberíamos hacer realmente por el clima?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deberíamos buscar medios políticos y de bajo consumo para la mitigación del clima; lo que importa es que lo hagamos colectivamente. Aquí hay una gran lista de las acciones que podemos tomar juntos.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Después de décadas de charlas, cientos de campañas, miles de artículos y millones de dólares gastados en generar impulso para prevenir el cambio climático, el público aún no sabe cuál es la mejor manera de impulsar la economía hacia la seguridad y la supervivencia colectivas. Si bien es posible que no sea posible garantizar la seguridad y la supervivencia de nadie, vale la pena intentar salvar vidas, humanas y no humanas, hasta que no podamos más. Sigue siendo importante descubrir y comunicar las acciones que la gente debería tomar para impulsar la economía y la atmósfera hacia la </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">descarbonización</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entonces, ¿qué podemos hacer cada uno de nosotros en nuestras vidas para frenar el colapso climático y por qué deberíamos hacer esas cosas en particular? Hacia el final de este artículo, encontrarás una lista sustancial, aunque incompleta, de cosas que la gente puede hacer para ayudar de manera efectiva al progreso de la descarbonización. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Divido la lista en acciones para personas con ingresos discrecionales y personas sin ingresos discrecionales, ya que este es probablemente el factor más importante que determina cómo las personas pueden afectar el problema en sus vidas. Es importante destacar que, al determinar cómo deben actuar los individuos, la diferencia clave no radica entre los cambios de consumo y la acción política, sino </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">en el grado en que las acciones de uno se coordinan con otras</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: es decir, un movimiento. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La lista está desordenada porque tales clasificaciones no son útiles en este tema. Cada intervención tendrá más o menos impacto dependiendo de su circunstancia particular y no existe una forma rigurosa de jerarquizar las acciones efectivas. El cambio climático es demasiado grande para eso.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antes de pasar a la lista, consideremos primero algunos de los factores que han causado tanta confusión sobre cómo bregar con el problema para que podamos tener mayor claridad ahora y evitar errores similares en el futuro.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Activismo Confuso</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parte de la confusión que tiene la gente sobre cómo pueden impactar el cambio climático proviene de la propaganda de la industria de los combustibles fósiles y de políticos corruptos que enturbian la conversación para engañar deliberadamente al público. Este fenómeno ha sido bien documentado y tiene un remedio sencillo: ignore cualquier mensaje financiado por compañías de combustibles fósiles o que salga de la boca de políticos financiados por combustibles fósiles (de cualquier partido).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La fuente de confusión más complicada es un mensaje generalizado que sugiere que la mejor forma en que las personas pueden afectar el cambio climático es a través de pequeños ajustes aislados en su estilo de vida. Mensajes como dejar de comer carne o dejar de volar aviones o dejar de conducir automóviles han dominado la conversación sobre lo que podemos hacer para resolver este problema. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Estas son acciones importantes que se deben tomar, pero solo cuando se realizan en el contexto de un grupo o una campaña colectiva concertada.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lo que estos mensajes están promoviendo son boicots. El hecho de que un individuo deje de comer carne o deje de volar puede afectar el cambio climático solo si muchas, muchas personas participan en tales boicots con ese individuo. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Si bien vale la pena intentar que muchas personas participen, los artículos de los principales medios de comunicación e incluso los mensajes de activistas rara vez discuten el hecho de que tales boicots generalmente solo afectan a las industrias cuando se llevan a cabo a gran escala y cuando se enfocan de manera efectiva. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Los boicots funcionan cuando se dirigen a una empresa en particular, un comportamiento particular de esa empresa, y se unen muchas personas al boicot. Piense, por ejemplo, en boicotear a Nike (empresa específica) por su trabajo de explotación (comportamiento específico). Este tipo de boicot puede ser muy efectivo y tener efectos en cascada en todo el mercado, cambiando el comportamiento de otras empresas hasta que toda la industria haya cambiado. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pero la necesidad de campañas específicas rara vez se incorpora a las convocatorias de cambios en el estilo de vida. En cambio, solo hay una vaga advertencia de "ser vegano" o "dejar de conducir". Muchos de los llamados a “volverse vegano” se han parecido a gritos esporádicos al vacío sin un conjunto de valores u objetivos políticos compartidos en lugar de un esfuerzo coordinado para cambiar algo. El mensaje se ha convertido más en un mensaje de meta social (¿estás dentro o fuera?) que en una </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">campaña concentrada para cambiar el sistema alimentario</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Una estrategia más eficaz para reducir el impacto del consumo de carne podría parecerse a una campaña para hacer que mucha gente boicotee a algunas empresas de producción de carne en particular que se involucran en comportamientos destructivos como la construcción de operaciones CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, o grandes extensiones industriales de fincas de ganado concentrado), la tala de bosques tropicales, y el abuso de antibióticos en los animales que comemos. Cerrar o presionar a estas empresas puede tener impactos en cascada que resulten en hacer que la industria de la carne sea mucho menos cruel y que descargue menos carbono y use menos tierra. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sin embargo, los movimientos vegetariano y vegano simplemente no han logrado este resultado en las muchas décadas que han estado activos: el consumo de carne está aumentando rápidamente en todo el mundo con consecuencias devastadoras; la industria es más destructiva que nunca.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">El enfoque en cambiar el estilo de vida del consumidor ha confundido el tema al afirmar que un problema apocalíptico, es decir, el colapso permanente de la civilización global que se vislumbra como inevitable dentro de una década, puede prevenirse principalmente haciendo cambios de comportamiento a pequeña escala y a un ritmo gradual. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esto no solo es falso, sino que puede desanimar a muchos aliados potenciales al parecer condescendiente y delirante, dejando a la gente desconcertada o desconectada. Si la gente quiere volverse vegana o dejar de volar en avión, eso es bueno e importante y deberíamos alentarlo. Pero es absolutamente una locura sugerir que esos cambios de comportamiento en particular deberían considerarse la mejor manera de detener el colapso civilizacional completo.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parte de la confusión sobre cómo enfrentar el cambio climático también proviene del debate entre las "acciones individuales" y las "acciones colectivas". En este marco, las acciones individuales se proyectan como renunciar a la carne y los autos en la vida cotidiana frente a acciones colectivas como protestar y votar. Esto no tiene mucho sentido. Cualquier cosa que haga una persona, ya sea votar, protestar o cortar el consumo de carne, es una "acción individual". Mientras tanto, las acciones de los consumidores, típicamente consideradas como “individuales”, se pueden realizar colectivamente, como comprar paneles solares como una cooperativa o unirse a un boicot masivo; de hecho, estas acciones solo tienen impacto cuando se realizan de manera colectiva. La distinción de categoría más significativa es entre acciones de consumo y cívicas, pero tanto las acciones de consumo como las cívicas pueden realizarse de forma aislada o colectiva. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En la mayoría de las circunstancias, las acciones de un individuo, ya sean cívicas o de consumo, se vuelven más impactantes cuando se realizan a escala masiva y coordinadas con otros, pero siguen siendo en gran medida ineficaces cuando se realizan individualmente.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">También se afirma con frecuencia que los líderes deben modelar estilos de vida bajos en carbono para que otras personas los adopten voluntariamente. Sea cierto o no, este argumento todavía se basa en la suposición de que los boicots globales masivos o los patrones de compra alterados son las formas más efectivas de descarbonizar la economía global, lo que puede ser cierto o no. Pero en cualquier caso, es una suposición enorme, y no necesariamente respaldada por datos sólidos, especialmente cuando hay otras opciones como organizarse para legislar políticas holísticas como un “Green New Deal” u organizarse políticamente para regular las industrias.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Otra distinción importante que a menudo se confunde es la diferencia entre reducir las emisiones de carbono personales y la medida en que uno impacta individualmente el cambio climático. La relación entre la reducción de las emisiones personales y el impacto del cambio climático no necesariamente tienen una correlación positiva. Una persona podría eliminar las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero que contribuyen al mundo y no tener absolutamente ningún impacto positivo en el cambio climático, o incluso un impacto negativo importante. Por ejemplo, un presidente de ExxonMobil que sea vegano y que no vuela en avión, y vive en una cabaña que es carbono-neutral no está mitigando el cambio climático, incluso si reduce sus emisiones personales de carbono a (teóricamente) cero. Porque sigue perpetuando una industria que es enormemente responsable del cambio climático. Del mismo modo, otra persona podría tener un impacto positivo en la reducción de los efectos del cambio climático, como trabajar para desarrollar un nuevo medio de almacenar electricidad o secuestrar carbono o redactar un “Green New Deal”, mientras sigue volando por todos lados y comiendo mucha carne. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cuando hablamos de lo que la gente puede hacer para mitigar el cambio climático, es más importante dedicar acciones que descarten los sistemas que mantienen una economía de combustibles fósiles en vez de hacer hojas de cálculo de Excel que rastreen las emisiones de carbono personales.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entonces, ¿quién debería hacer qué?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muchos de los estudios y artículos que clasifican “las mejores acciones” para impactar el cambio climático concluyen que cosas como abstenerse de comer carne, no volar, y dejar de procrear son las más importantes de la lista. Lo cual tiene sentido; las personas están ocupadas y solo quieren saber qué pueden intentar incorporar en su día a día fácilmente. Pero tales clasificaciones son invariablemente inútiles y poco rigurosas. El hecho es que no existe "lo mejor que se puede hacer" y no hay pequeños ajustes fáciles que contribuyan a mitigar el cambio climático. Todos tenemos que hacer mucho, y no va a ser fácil.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Además, estas listas generalmente se escriben para una audiencia limitada: personas adineradas y educadas. Aparte del hecho de que estas recetas tienden a omitir el hecho de que, a menos que muchas personas se involucren en tales boicots colectivamente, no tendrán ningún impacto, es lamentable que estas listas estén escritas para una población tan pequeña y limitada. Si bien la audiencia implícita son los ricos educados, a menudo se prescriben explícitamente como acciones que todos deben tomar. </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pero no es realista prescribir algunos cambios de comportamiento universales para todos</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, ya que ciertamente no se pueden aplicar a la mayoría de las personas (la mayoría de las personas no vuelan) y no todos son capaces de comprometerse con estos cambios (muchos no pueden permitirse el tiempo ni el dinero necesarios para reformar completamente sus dietas, por ejemplo).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entonces, con eso en mente, la lista a continuación intenta sugerir acciones relevantes para un conjunto más amplio de personas. Está escrito para una audiencia del Norte global porque no me corresponde a mí decirle a la gente del Sur global lo que ellos deberían hacer sobre el cambio climático. Muchas de estas comunidades ya están dando la lucha contra los desastres climáticos y son partícipes del activismo climático; ya tienen bastante de qué preocuparse por adaptarse a estos cambios y defenderse de la extracción depredadora bajo la cual sufren. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He tratado de proporcionar una variedad de acciones diseñadas específicamente para dos grupos: personas con acceso estable a ingresos discrecionales y personas sin ingresos discrecionales; este factor tiene probablemente el mayor impacto sobre cómo las personas pueden afectar el cambio climático.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En los EE. UU., dado que casi la mitad de los estadounidenses no pueden pagar sus necesidades básicas en un momento dado, y que aproximadamente tres cuartas partes tienen una deuda significativa, es justo suponer que no más de la mitad de los estadounidenses tienen una fuente estable de ingresos discrecionales a mano en cualquier momento. Dependiendo de cómo se defina "estable" y "discrecional", a menudo probablemente sea mucho menos de la mitad los que tengan fondos discrecionales.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aquí está la lista</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entonces, ¿cuáles son las acciones importantes para impactar el cambio climático que pueden tomar las </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">personas sin acceso a ingresos discrecionales</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En ningún orden en particular, aquí hay algunas ideas:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Únase a un movimiento: Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise Movement, The Climate Mobilization, DSA Ecosocialists y 350.org son algunos ejemplos. Todos estos grupos tienen capítulos locales. Envíe un correo electrónico, llame o vaya a saludar a los organizadores de su área, vaya a los eventos, hágase voluntario, involúcrese profundamente.</span></p></span></li><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bloquear la infraestructura de combustibles fósiles u otras prácticas de combustibles fósiles. Hacer esto en el contexto de un movimiento es mejor que hacerlo solo, pero es una de esas pocas acciones individuales en las que hacerlo solo podría tener un impacto positivo enorme. </span></p></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comenzar a involucrarse en organizaciones como las anteriores puede ayudarlo a apuntar hacia algún tipo de sabotaje, como parar el tráfico en protesta o difundir acciones dañinas por las redes sociales. También puede interrumpir las reuniones de los magnates del petróleo.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Autoeducarnos sobre este problema, sus soluciones, sus consecuencias y todas las enormes ramificaciones del colapso para internalizar lo que está en juego.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Habla con todos tus conocidos sobre el tema, en el trabajo, en casa, durante las vacaciones. Involucrar a las personas de una manera acogedora y compasiva, pero también diciendo la verdad.</span></p></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unirse a una unión. Luego, organícese en el trabajo con demandas que vayan más allá de la equidad en el lugar de trabajo para incluir objetivos de descarbonización, como la desinversión o el cambio de prácticas de la empresa (especialmente útil en industrias adyacentes a las de combustibles fósiles).</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Váyanse en Huelga. Huelga de no más nacimientos. Huelga laboral. Huelga escolar. Simplemente deje de participar si puede. Cuanto mayor sea la disrupción económica de su huelga, mejor. Entonces, una huelga laboral es mejor que una huelga escolar.</span></p></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vote sólo por las personas que abogan firmemente por políticas como el Green New Deal, y cuyos antecedentes sugieren de manera transparente que cumplirán su palabra, sin importar su lealtad o la de su partido. </span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Involucrar y/o molestar a cualquier funcionario electo que no lo haga.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preste atención a las decisiones energéticas o de uso de terrenos que toman las oficinas locales como los ayuntamientos, las agencias, y las comisiones de servicios públicos. A menudo, puede intervenir públicamente en estas decisiones.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comuníquese con su proveedor de electricidad para instarle a comprar su electricidad de fuentes que no sean de carbono (solar, eólica, hidráulica; los biocombustibles son técnicamente renovables pero aún emiten gases de efecto invernadero).</span></p></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Convierta su automóvil en un auto de biocombustible (puede que no sea carbono-neutral, pero para los vehículos es mejor que el carbono fosilizado) y luego ayude a sus vecinos a hacer lo mismo, y luego proponga una campaña al movimiento al que se unió para llegar a mas personas todavía.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Si puede aguantar un préstamo de estudiante, obtenga un título en un campo centrado en cuestiones relacionadas con el clima y la energía renovable y trate de trabajar en esta área.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compre alimentos y productos locales siempre que sea posible y anime a otros a hacer lo mismo. Únase a una campaña para esto. Las cadenas de suministro más cortas son absolutamente necesarias para la descarbonización.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organice a los vecinos para juntos generar colectivamente las necesidades básicas sin insumos de combustibles fósiles: junte dinero para comenzar una granja comunitaria, compre sistemas solares, o apoye a los fabricantes locales que producen bienes a partir de recursos locales y regionales.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Participe en los procesos de planificación de su ciudad para impulsar las decisiones hacia espacios urbanos más transitables caminando y/o en bicicleta, que sean más densos y más autosuficientes.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cultivar relaciones con líderes comunitarios y políticos y presionarlos en las decisiones de descarbonización municipal, como hacer que los edificios de la ciudad sean negativos en carbono y positivos para la energía, o rechazar el desarrollo de nuevos combustibles fósiles o exigir la producción de energía sin carbono en los nuevos edificios.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hay muchas otras cosas que se pueden hacer, pero este es un buen comienzo para generar ideas sobre cómo alguien con poco o ningún ingreso discrecional puede tener un impacto positivo. La mayoría de estas acciones también tienen el beneficio de efectos positivos en cascada, es decir, hacer una de ellas puede llevar a hacer otras, o puede conducir a una progresión dentro de esa categoría de acción (como participar en las reuniones del consejo de la ciudad puede escalar a postularse para un asiento en el consejo). También pueden pasar en cascada a través de su grupo social.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Para las personas que tienen ingresos discrecionales, obviamente existe una gran variedad de cuánto dinero controlan las personas dentro de ese grupo y, por lo tanto, la variabilidad en las acciones que pueden tomar. Un multimillonario podría descarbonizar por sí solo la producción de electricidad de varias ciudades pequeñas; pero en lugar de fantasear sobre los unicornios multimillonarios, centrémonos en las personas que tienen ingresos discrecionales de miles de dólares al año. Es decir, alguien que pueda vivir cómodamente con un ingreso estable y que además gaste unos varios miles de dólares cada año. Las personas de esta categoría pueden, en términos generales, realizar todas las acciones de la lista anterior. Y de hecho, con más dinero, tienen más protección contra las consecuencias que aquellos con menos dinero, por lo que deberían estar haciendo más para tomar las acciones enumeradas anteriormente.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Desinvierta su cartera de inversiones activa de cualquier combustible fósil o empresas adyacentes. No se preocupe por su 401K; el futuro está en juego.</span></p></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deje su trabajo y dedique su vida profesional a este tema. En serio. Esto es algo que la gente ya está haciendo y es necesario que muchas, muchas más personas pudientes lo hagan.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Obtener un título en una disciplina centrada en la descarbonización. Por ejemplo, concéntrese en la ingeniería energética sin carbono o en cómo cultivar alimentos a escala sin insumos de combustibles fósiles; las humanidades y las ciencias sociales tienen quizás un papel aún más vital que desempeñar. Uno podría centrarse en la historia política de la energía, por ejemplo, o explorar la enorme transformación que se avecina a través de la literatura.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invierta en empresas de energía renovable o inicie una empresa de energía renovable o un proyecto comunitario de energía renovable.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Postúlese para un puesto político.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Descarbonice su propia casa y su vida tanto como sea posible (paneles solares, vehículos eléctricos, comida local sin carbono, tomar trenes, etc.) y anime a los vecinos a hacer lo mismo.</span></p></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hacer donaciones a políticos realistas (o sea - a aquellos que reconocen la realidad del colapso climático) y no hacer donaciones a políticos que no apoyen una legislación realista como lo es el Green New Deal.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hacer donaciones a organizaciones de defensa, mitigación, y adaptación realistas, es decir, a las que tratan al cambio climático como la emergencia existencial que verdaderamente es.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Financee becas para que otras personas se eduquen y participen activamente en este tema.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conviértete en inventor y descubre alguna forma de eliminar el CO2 de la atmósfera, o de almacenar energía de forma más eficiente y sin litio ni cobalto.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invierte dinero en proyectos creativos como el arte comunitario y la publicidad a favor del clima, festivales de cine y documentales, y otros medios.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invertir dinero en proyectos de agricultura comunitaria y fábricas que sean carbono-neutral.</span></p></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ayude a financiar campañas para cambiar las leyes locales y estatales que prohíben las estrategias de descarbonización, como las microrredes de energía solar. Hay muchas leyes pequeñas y engañosas que se interponen en el camino de la transición energética que necesitan defensores dedicados y obstinados con recursos para revocarlas.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invertir dinero en investigación de tecnologías de descarbonización.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4df75c5-7fff-3f5a-62f2-4c2550948391"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Haga donaciones a fondos legales para manifestantes que han sido encarcelados por intentar salvar vidas.</span></p></span></li></ul><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En fin, hay muchas acciones que las personas con y sin dinero pueden tomar. Esta es solo una breve lista de algunas cosas que pueden tener un impacto individual y, si se hacen colectivamente, contribuir en gran medida a mitigar al menos algunos efectos del colapso climático. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Si bien es posible que muchas personas que toman estas acciones no “detengan el cambio climático”, al menos pueden comenzar a implementar cambios sistemáticos que podrían suavizar los impactos del colapso y salvar muchas vidas.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.54286; margin-bottom: -1pt; margin-top: -1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">---------------------</span></p><br /><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Samuel Miller McDonald</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> es escritor y estudiante de doctorado en geografía en la Universidad de Oxford, donde estudia la intersección de los movimientos de base (“grassroots”) y la transición energética. Original aqui: <a href="https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/3/16/what-we-should-really-do-for-the-climate" target="_blank">https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/3/16/what-we-should-really-do-for-the-climate</a></span></span>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-64057568814727385012020-04-21T17:36:00.016-04:002020-09-27T07:17:32.829-04:00My 50 Word Stories<br />
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<header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141412; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 1040px; padding: 0px 376px 0px 60px; width: 1040px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Bitter, Georgia, serif; font-size: 48px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Minimalism, Unwillingly</h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Bitter, Georgia, serif; font-size: 48px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 1040px; padding: 0px 376px 0px 60px; width: 1040px;"><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1040px; padding: 0px; width: 604px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/2020/08/17/monica-perez-nevarez-minimalism-unwillingly/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: Minimalism, Unwillingly"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2020-08-17T03:00:42-07:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">August 17, 2020</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/poetry-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Poetry</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/coping/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">coping</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/house/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">house</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/loss/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">loss</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/materialism/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">materialism</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/money/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">money</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/poem/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">poem</a>, <a href="http://fiftywordstories.com/tag/possessions/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">possessions</a></span></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1040px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 376px 0px 60px; width: 1040px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">You are my past, and Oh, how I cherish you.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The artwork, the books; the fine furniture saturated with memories.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You showcase five decades of my successes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">But once I could not pay, none of that mattered.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">The storage company will auction you off, breaking my retired heart,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />without regard.</p><hr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: 4px 4px; background: url("images/dotted-line.png") center top / 4px 4px repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability consultant during the day and a writer by night, bearing witness to Covid’s ever-expanding collateral damage.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><br /></p></div></h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Bitter, Georgia, serif; font-size: 48px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
Thirteen Suspects</h1>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/2020/03/25/monica-perez-nevarez-thirteen-suspects/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: Thirteen Suspects"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2020-03-25T03:00:05-07:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">March 25, 2020</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/artistic/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Artistic</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/despair/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">despair</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/economy/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">economy</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/hope/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">hope</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/society/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">society</a></span></div>
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“What do we have here?” asked the detective.</div>
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“Female, single, 60-something, sleeping pills,” the coroner responded.</div>
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“Anything else?”</div>
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“An empty Cuervo bottle, a pink slip, an eviction notice. A bare cupboard; wearing a new Gucci nightgown…”</div>
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“Cause of death?”</div>
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“A lethal mix of economic strangulation, diehard aspirations, and early-onset poverty.”</div>
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Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability consultant by day, and an aspiring writer and social critic at any other time, researching the many everyday things that can kill you while living in a collapsing economy.</div>
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Dear Alfie,</div>
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I never thought the absence of your troublesome door-scraping could make me cry inconsolably. I didn’t think the cavernous silence replacing your joyous yips would cut me deeply. I can’t believe I can live my life while my heart beats breathless and shallow, mourning you, my darling boy.</div>
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Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability consultant in climate-challenged Puerto Rico, a doting mother to her four-legged children, and inconsolable when they leave.</div>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/2016/12/30/monica-perez-nevarez-the-christmas-card/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: The Christmas Card"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2016-12-30T03:00:06-08:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">December 30, 2016</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/artistic/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Artistic</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/christmas/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Christmas</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/family/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">family</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/relationships/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">relationships</a></span></div>
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“Wishing you merry days and happy smiles during the holidays,” says the hand-written card, a picture of a well-dressed family traveling through China inside. The Christmas tree on the cover made me forget the cold, the hunger, the loneliness, but not the family resentments.</div>
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Sisters are sometimes the roughest critics.</div>
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Monica Perez Nevarez is a Sustainability Manager by day and a writer at night.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "bitter" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 48px;">Tempus Fugitive</span></div>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/2016/11/29/monica-perez-nevarez-tempus-fugitive/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: Tempus Fugitive"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2016-11-29T03:00:09-08:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">November 29, 2016</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/amusing-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Amusing</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/exploited/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">exploited</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/fling/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">fling</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/tempus-fugit/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">tempus fugit</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/time-flies/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">time flies</a></span></div>
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At drab Shelley’s checkout counter, Dan’s gaze stripped her bare.</div>
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He hung around until closing, and murmured in her ear, breathless.</div>
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With one kiss, he stole her heart.</div>
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Giddy, she took him home.<br />
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Next morning, she awoke—groggy and alone—to a bullhorn screeching “Come out with your hands up!”</div>
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Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability manager by day and a writer by night.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "bitter" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 48px;">Solve the Problem</span></div>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/2016/10/27/monica-perez-nevarez-solve-the-problem/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: Solve the Problem"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2016-10-27T03:00:11-07:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">October 27, 2016</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/creating/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">creating</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/homelessness/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">homelessness</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/writing/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">writing</a></span></div>
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“It’s raining.”</div>
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“Shush.”</div>
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“Raining!”</div>
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“Write what you know.”</div>
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Writing:</div>
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Posit: the here and now.</div>
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Twist: the here is grubby, the now is relative, but menacing concerns lurk in the shadows.</div>
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Outcome: blocked; none of it matters.</div>
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Not knowing how long my cardboard shelter will last isn’t letting me think straight.</div>
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Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability manager by day, but is trying to transition into writing full time.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "bitter" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 48px;">Karma Chameleon</span></div>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/2016/08/10/monica-perez-nevarez-karma-chameleon/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: Karma Chameleon"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2016-08-10T09:00:40-07:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">August 10, 2016</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/break-in/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">break-in</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/homeless/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">homeless</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/squatter/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">squatter</a></span></div>
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Closing the busted townhouse door, I enter, breathe in the clean air, the quiet, the warmth. A foreign-feeling sense of security envelops me. The “Bon Voyage” balloons in midair are slowly deflating.</div>
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I wonder how they’ll feel about this, after ignoring my “I work for food” sign for so long.</div>
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Monica is a sustainability manager by day and a writer by night.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "bitter" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 48px;">Mom’s Last Garage Sale</span></div>
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Inside the empty cottage, shadows of ghosts: smudges where your picture used to hang; discolored floorboards where your cactus stood guard; a sepia burn on the kitchen counter; air stained with your perfume.</div>
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Six hundred bucks to show for a lifetime’s work.</div>
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Her gifts whisper to me in my dreams.</div>
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Monica is a sustainability manager by day and a writer by night, who used to visit Cape Cod every summer and every Christmas.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "bitter" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 48px;">Facebook Friends</span></div>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/2015/09/01/monica-perez-nevarez-facebook-friends/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permalink to MONICA PEREZ NEVAREZ: Facebook Friends"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2015-09-01T03:00:53-07:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">September 1, 2015</time></a></span><span class="categories-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/artistic/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Artistic</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/category/stories/submitted-stories/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Submissions</a></span><span class="tags-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 20px;"><a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/letting-go/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">letting go</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/monica-perez-nevarez/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Perez Nevarez</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/moving-on/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">moving on</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/relationships/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">relationships</a>, <a href="https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/reminders/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fdf; text-decoration-line: none;">reminders</a></span></div>
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The picture on my timeline shows a victorious twenty-something in a designer wedding dress, studiously ignoring the besotted groom beside her.</div>
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I thought I had healed the wound carved by boyfriend-snatching ex-friends and wayward lovers months ago.</div>
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But Facebook is filled with daggers and I have no armor against them.</div>
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Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability professional by day and a writer by night.</div>
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guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-47014122244572083022020-03-11T12:00:00.006-04:002022-01-19T04:00:31.721-04:00Como Diseñar un Puerto Rico Sostenible<br />
<span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Educacion Ecologica - Curso escolar de Como diseñar un Puerto Rico Sostenible</span><br />
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<span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Visión
Ecológica y Sostenible para PR (de donde se desprenden grados academicos, clases, y talleres
necesarios) – <b>Temas</b> <b>Primarios</b></span><br />
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Aire Limpio<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Plantar
muchos arboles, algas, “moss”, urban food forests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">No
quemar ni usar productos o materiales tóxicos o plásticos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Dejar
de usar energia fósil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Crear
conciencia sobre aire, como se contamina, como conservarlo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Agua Limpia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Recoger,
filtrar, y almacenar agua de lluvia en casa, comunidades<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Manejar/Controlar
la llegada de desperdicios a los ríos y el mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Maximizar
el servicio y manejo de aguas negras, grises, y potables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Crear
conciencia de importancia de agua, como se contamina, como se conserva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Diseñar
sistema de alcantarillado que no mezcle agua negra con agua gris, o con agua
potable, y mejores sistemas de filtros o usos para el agua negra (humanure?) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Estudios
sobre cuencas hydrologicas, su salud, su potencial energético, potencial de hábitat
para crecer comida acuática, conservar 50% para hábitat natural<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Incorporar
zona marítimo terrestre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ix.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Comida sana<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Talleres
de temas de Soberanía Alimenticia orgánica y de permacultura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Agricultura
Urbana y Comunal: Como crecer comida en casa o comunidad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Agricultura
100% para crecer comida consumida aquí<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Composta:
Como mejorar los suelos con nuestros deshechos compostables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Parques
Alimentarios (Food Forests): Como añadir arboles frutales al entorno urbano
(Planificación agro-urbana) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Nutrición
y menú como factores de planificar huertos caseros, comunales, y de negocios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Como
cocinar y almacenar comida en casa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Cooperativas
de restaurantes, fincas, jardines comunales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ix.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>x.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Vivienda y Ropa<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Casas
eficientes (Pasiv Haus), asequibles (si no baratas, “affordable”, y seguras
(contra huracanes, terremotos, inundaciones, robo) para todo el mundo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Talleres
de como construir una casa sostenible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Como
coser, diseñar y hacer ropa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Ropa
hecha para durar, de materiales naturales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Donde
y como crecer los materiales naturales que no compitan con suelos dedicados a
crecer comida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Buena salud, buen sueño <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Balance
entre trabajo, ejercicio, y descanso (8 horas de sueño al día, 8 horas de
trabajo, 8 horas privadas)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Talleres
de buena nutrición, compra, almacenaje, y cocina de comida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Medicina
básica, CPR, emergencias básicas, salud mental <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Clases
de ejercicio para la comunidad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Seguridad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Seguridad
personal, digital, y familiar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Vivienda
segura y eficiente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Comunidad
segura, equitativa, y sostenible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Comunicaciones
regulares y de emergencia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Energia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Usar
toda energia neto-cero hasta llegar a reemplazar 100% energia sucia (usar solar,
eólica, hydro, biomasa, etc.) en redes descentralizadas, comunales y regionales
(propias, no alquiladas), y luego reanalizar situación<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Diseñar
y construir infraestructura de transporte público nacional, vehículos
personales livianos hechos aqui, lentos, y pequeños (bicis, motos, golfcarts) eléctricos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Enfocar
en viajes internacionales en transporte marítimo a vela y/o trasatlánticos con
biofuel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Incluir
en plan de 5 regiones hidrológicas y económicas (“hubs” futuros)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">h.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Manejo de desperdicios solidos<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Composta
casera, biodigestor casero o comunal</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Solo permitir
y usar plásticos compostables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Empaquetar
con materiales compostables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Centros
de acopio de recclaje y composta comunales, aceites usados, botellas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Servicios
regionales de recogido y distribución de composta, aceites, botellas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Arqueología
y rescate de materiales de los vertederos <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Reuso
y “upcycling” de materiales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">No
permitir el uso de materiales tóxicos o no compostables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ix.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Oportunidades
de negocio, biodiesel, cristal, agricultura vertical<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>x.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educar
a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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</span>xi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Escribir
política pública comprensiva</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.5in;">
<span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Visión
Ecológica y Sostenible para PR (de donde se desprenden clases y talleres
necesarios)</span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Temas</b> <b>Secundarios</b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Justicia
Social<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Participación
Comunitaria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Regionalizar
la economía en Cuencas Hidrográficas <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Diseñar
e implementar un Plan de Desarrollo Sostenible (próximos 1 – 10 años, 2020-2030)
a nivel municipal, regional, y nacional<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Diseñar
e implementar Planes de adaptación y mitigación al Cambio Climático (en 10 – 20
años, 2030-2040)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Diseñar
Plan de Emergencia Climática (emigración forzosa, en 20-30 años, 2040-2050) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Negocios
Verdes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Economía
Circular, local, y solidaria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Política
Pública para reforzar la sustentabilidad a todos los niveles y desincentivar
uso de energia fósil y otros tóxicos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Educación
para todos grados 1-16, y educación continua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Analysis
de situación:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Trabajos
hechos por OSFL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hechos por Gobierno de PR, y federal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
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hechos por sector privado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Iniciativas
Comunitarias<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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que faltan por hacer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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de negocios verdes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">Cambio
individual que llega a hacerse cambio nacional<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a legisladores y sector privado, crear relaciones con legisladores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-29199695236167510462019-09-03T08:54:00.003-04:002022-01-19T04:19:01.366-04:00The Opportunities of Collapse<br />
After Maria<div><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Gone are the months of walking up ten flights of stairs, every
day, in the dark, carrying three gallons of water so I could have something
to drink, hydrate the dogs, and be able to clean up a bit. Gone the oppressive
heat that enveloped us as Hurricane Maria traveled north and sucked every gasp
of air away from Puerto Rico for weeks on end. Gone are the endless mounds of
debris on lightless roads, and intersections with slow, cautious traffic that
no one dared drive in after sunset. Gone the block-long lines to get inside the
few cash-only supermarkets with empty shelves, the self-winding line at the ATM
machine, or the mile-long lines to buy rationed gasoline. Gone, the constant
drone of generators spewing sulphurous fumes in an incessant and costly battle
to keep refrigerators and air conditioners operational. Gone, the constant fear
of losing or needing medicines that were unavailable. Gone, the sleepless,
sweaty nights. Gone is the milling around in front of buildings with free WiFi
or driving around to find high ground where a weak cellular signal might get
through. At least I made it, even if I lost my job because of the storm. So
many of us didn’t make it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Twenty four months after Hurricane Maria, most people have electricity, internet, and cellular signal. Most roads are clear, and most street
lights are on, but one still does not feel safe. Supermarkets have restocked and are accepting
credit cards. Restaurants are open, although too many of them quietly closed
their doors forever. Gasoline prices have risen from pre-Maria .52 cents a
liter to up to .74 cents a liter (roughly from $2.08 to $3.00 a gallon), but it
is readily available. About 10% of the population flew off the island with one-way
tickets costing from $500 to $1,200; and about one third of those have come
back because they could not make it wherever they went. In middle-class
neighborhoods, every other house is either abandoned or for sale. In tourist areas and high-end
communities, hipster restaurants and expensive home remodels are rampant. In
poor areas, foundations of homes destroyed by the storm lay denuded, upwind of their
debris fields. Blue tarps still cover 30,000 homes. Commercial flights have resumed, and Isla
Grande Airport, San Juan’s small regional airport, is doing a brisk business in
private jet services for the ‘Vulture Capitalists’ that have descended on the
island in droves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As with any disaster, there are many newly minted disaster-relief
corporations that are cleaning and rebuilding our cities. Most are foreign,
because after a decade of economic depression, the locals have no up-front
money, and no credit. Airline pilots, once a bulwark of middle-class income, are
making poverty wages, and thankful to have a job; so are many lawyers and
doctors. Billionaires are taking advantage of generous tax breaks and buying up
as much prime real estate as they can. Half of the hotels are open, the rest are
still closed, taking this opportunity to rethink, remodel, or upgrade their
facilities after the storm. $15-dollar alcoholic drinks are the norm. Last month for the
first time ever, there was a posse of exotic cars on the expressway: an orange
Lamborghini, a neon green McLaren, and a red Ferrari, followed by a coterie of
Porsches and BMWs, although why they would submit such thoroughbred vehicles
to our potholed streets is beyond comprehension. The shopping malls, as always,
are full; but people visit them to sit in the air-conditioned common areas, while
most stores are hemorrhaging money for lack of sales. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We have gone through the July 2019 Summer Revolution, when citizens of all ages and walks of life said 'Enough' and in an unprecedented show of solidarity, protested for 12 days until they peacefully ousted governor Ricardo Rossello from office. </span>Pedro Pierluisi briefly became governor until the Supreme Court decided that transition was unconstitutional, and finally settled on Wanda Vazques, the Secretary of Justice, as the next governor. While the governorship has been decided, it is clear that both parties and all acting politicians need to rethink their goals and strategies.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is just enough recovery to make it seem as if everything is
back to normal. But scratch the surface, and you find a mass of people that
have lost their jobs and their homes and are frantically trying to regain their
economic footing, in an economy where there is no secure foothold. Nature has
rebounded, somewhat; Wall Street has rebounded, somewhat. But to the majority
of Puerto Ricans, there is no recovery – just one long, protracted, never-ending catastrophe. And to add insult to injury, we are surrounded by jet-set outsiders
buying up what is left of our natural resources, our real estate, our culture,</span> and our history - for
cents on the dollar.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Naomi Klein’s “Disaster Capitalism” is thriving in Puerto Rico.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The people who lost their jobs have found there are no other jobs to replace the ones they lost, and those jobs that do exist pay $7.50/hr to $10/hr, and people are scrambling to become entrepreneurs and offer home-based services in a market where no one has any discretionary income. Flea markets and
consignment stores have sprung up physically and virtually, as everyone rushes
to sell their belongings. These stores have become the archives of a time when
consumers filled their homes with goods that demand a level of care and
maintenance that only full-time servants are able to provide, at a time when hardly anyone has that luxury any more. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fifty-something women who used to be bankers are starting dog-sitting
businesses or catering businesses, and one woman I know is doing both.
Millennials are working for minimum wage in cavernous </span>call centers inside repurposed
warehouses. Everyone is ‘making do,’ and, counterintuitively, finding that while
the situation is bad, it’s not as bad as they thought it would be. The 'New
Normal' is not easy, but it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It has forced me to simplify and refocus, and that is a good thing, and something I would have never done voluntarily to this level of minimization.</div>
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Maria has come and gone. But the economic depression compounded by
the austerity measures will continue to reverberate throughout our crippled economy for a generation, according to economist Heidi Calero. And that carries
negative consequences we will all have to suffer through, compounded by the many other
challenges we must also solve during that time.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For Baby Boomers, that means that whatever wealth they have left is all they are going to have for the rest of their lives unless they keep working and that
they are dependent on a bankrupt government for their quality of life.
For Gen X-ers and Y-ers that means they will have to lower their expectations
and adapt to a world that will never be as easy or as cheap (not that it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ever</i> easy or cheap) as the one they grew
up in. For Millennials it means embracing the concepts of ‘Less is More’ and
living in a hotter, angrier world. This “new normal” is will not be easy to
live with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The solution is reaching out and building alliances, and working together for a better future. The island government won't be able to help. The federal government is unwilling to help. We must help ourselves.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not a single proposed fiscal plan or legislation in the past two
years is anywhere near sustainable, either financially, socially or
ecologically. And that is because they all start from the wrong place: “how do
we get money out of this moribund economy without spending any money to help
the local economy get back on its feet?” At a time when Fiscal Austerity
Measures have been proven not to work, politicians in Congress and Puerto Rico
have decided to pay down a crippling debt before allowing or helping the local
economy to recover from the many forces outside of their control, without
changing those forces so they work for the people of Puerto Rico, instead of
against them. And what of the much-needed FEMA money? Of $95 billion needed to
restore the island’s infrastructure, only $30 billion is earmarked for disaster
relief, of which only $1.8 billion has so far reached the island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hidden Opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Catastrophes lead people to seek sustainability. Sustainability
demands individuals make decisions from a broader perspective, one which not only
includes economic solutions, but also social and ecological solutions. It
demands we build resilience into our recovery. The times demand we look at the
world with a gimlet eye and ask ourselves: with all that we now know, what is
the best way to solve all these problems holistically?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sustainability requires we drop the old arguments based on
religion or myth, politics or economics, self-interest or greed, for why we do the
things we do. It forces us to start from a science-based analysis that
clarifies the situation and the limits we face (environmental, economic and
social), within a framework of ethics and collective health and wellbeing. There
is a global consensus by 97% of all scientists, and by most nations outside of the
United States, that to survive, we must stop <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any and all</i> activities that extract, burn, or use fossil fuels
within the next 20 years, leaving trillions of dollars in the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We must transition to a circular economy that eliminates or
minimizes waste and creates no toxic wastes. We must embrace business
inefficiencies and incentivize small entrepreneurial markets that redistribute
wealth and keep it local. We must transition to a decentralized clean energy
grid and must focus all agriculture back into organic and permaculture programs
as quickly as possible and do away with all industrial farming and industrial animal
farms. We must set aside 50% of our land and oceans as protected wilderness, so
all other species have enough space to live well, and stop the mass extinction
now underway. We must concentrate population density in well-planned, walkable
cities with ample mass transit. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We must dismantle wealth-concentrating business
models and spread money around as if it were manure on a barren cornfield. We
must clean up the land, air, and waters, and treat them with the respect they
deserve as a living part of our habitat. And we must take care of the section
of the population that has lost their revenue streams due to global or
historical ‘Forces of Exclusion’ and offer them access to the necessities of
life (secure housing, food and water, health and mobility), as well as finding
ways of re-inserting them into a productive economy, instead of leaving them to
their own devices in an economy that has passed them by. Most important of all, we must work towards lowering population growth and supplant limitless economic growth with static economic growth, while cultivating a society that grows health and well-being for all instead of concetrating wealth for a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Puerto Rico has enough sunlight and wind to power its households
via photovoltaic systems, wind generators, batteries, and decentralized microgrids. By
transitioning PREPA’s (the local energy company) existing electrical generating
plants to locally produced organic algae oil, which is 98% equivalent to the ‘Bunker
C’ oil currently used, it can supply all the power needed by the commercial and
industrial sectors, and the algae oil can be grown on non-agricultural land
here in Puerto Rico, with ‘waste products’ of organic shrimp and fish, organic
fertilizer, and organic animal feed. This could be the first step to creating a circular economy, and stop
depending on outside sources for our food and our energy supply. That is the
crux of sustainability: using what we ourselves can produce, and whose profits
stay in our local economy because they are locally owned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Industrialization and globalization have given us many benefits and
made a few people very wealthy. But it’s time to realize that the costs of that
development model far outweigh the benefits they bring to the majority of
society, and both are based on an exclusionary mindset that systematically
leaves large portions of the population out of the better opportunities enjoyed
by a lucky few. As long as there are only ‘a lucky few,’ and as long as
society continues to want to emulate them, we will perpetuate an
untenable, and unsustainable, pyramid-scheme development that serves only the
rich.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Skeptics will say this means the economy will collapse. Open your
eyes, skeptics! The economy has already collapsed, and is on life support, no matter how high the Dow
Jones has risen. All the variables that underpin that growth rest on quicksand.
They will say we are incentivizing laziness. Wake up. It’s not laziness if the
private sector hasn’t enough jobs to cover 100% employment participation and 60% of the population is unemployed or underemployed. Money
alone will not get humanity out of the problems of Climate Change. Technology alone
will not get humanity out of Climate Change. ‘We the People’ need to change our
minds about how we can live on this earth without killing it (or ourselves).
Climate Change’s greatest challenge? Teaching people we must learn to downsize and love each other. Teaching people we need to live in towns and cities with fewer people,
less consumption, less mobility, and less overall wealth. More family, more happiness, more
wisdom, more health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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its status as one of the last remaining colonies in the world, have an immense opportunity
now. So does every nation, city and county that has been decimated by economic
forces outside their direct control. We have been forced to downsize; we must
now choose to rebuild in a sustainable way, as opposed to mimicking the excess
and obscene opulence of 18th-century kings. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. There is no need to aspire to own everything or control everything
around you, like kings of old. That lifestyle model has run its course and
proven insufficient, both emotionally and economically, for most people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now we must do something much harder: get everyone on the same sustainability
page and moving in the right direction, together. It means learning
self-discipline, not only individually, but as communities, regions and nations. It means talking to
each other and including everyone in decision-making. It means having small
families, in small homes, in small and self-sufficient communities or small to
midsize cities. There are limits to growth, and we have reached them. Now let’s
live within them in a way that benefits everyone, not just a few lucky ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over ten thousand years</i>,
the population growth bell-curve of the planet lay almost flat at around one billion
people. In the last 100 years, it has risen exponentially to almost 8 billion,
and is expected to reach 10 billion within the next two decades. The carrying
capacity of the planet before Climate Change was one billion people. The fact
we are now consuming almost twice as much as the earth can replenish in a year,
tells us that the bell curve is hitting its apex, and all we have left is a
downward slide. It can be a controlled slide, or it can be a chaotic slide. But
the slide down cannot be stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Add to that the catastrophic effects of Climate Change, which will
make every piece of land that is within 2,500 miles north or south of the
equator too hot to grow food in by 2040, and the mass migration north that fact
will cause in the next couple of decades. Add rising sea levels and how that
will impact all the major cities of the world by 2050, because they were all
built on or near water. Add to that the more frequent and larger storms, and
the more frequent and longer droughts, in places where they did not exist a
decade ago. Add to that the fact we have fished out the oceans of 33% commercial
fish and 90% of apex predators (tuna, cod, swordfish, sharks), many of them species
that have been living for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hundreds of
millions of years</i>, and once extinct, will be gone forever. Add to that the
fact we are demolishing all that is left of pristine forests in the Amazon, the
Congo, and Malaysia, which constitute the lungs of the planet. Add to that the
fact there will be more plastic in the oceans by 2030 than there are fish. If
the planet were a family home, it would be bursting at the seams with too much waste
and too many people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is our chance to start living a simpler, more natural life. With
right-size aspirations that have more to do with loving than hoarding, with a
healthy respect for our world and all the living things in it. If all of us
decided to start on the path of living sustainably, respectfully, and
consciously today, right now, we will have a chance to survive the next 1,000
years of climate change. If not, our species won’t make it. Period. We could be condemning our grandchildren to unspeakable heardships; let's not do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We have been handed an opportunity in the guise of a catastrophe.
Life is giving us a lesson, and a push towards becoming radically better human
beings, something the human race has avoided dealing with for centuries. Here’s
hoping we choose to create a better world rather than being smothered by
petroleum and greed. That is the challenge we face, the greatest challenge the human species has ever faced.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br /></div>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-38993382734407309482019-03-15T15:26:00.004-04:002022-01-19T04:26:29.887-04:00Speech given to the Congressional Natural Resources Committee hearings 15 March 2019 San Juan PR<span style="font-size: large;">English</span><br />
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distinguished members of the Congressional Natural Resources Committee, thank
you for giving me this opportunity to speak before you today regarding Puerto
Rico’s waste management situation. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My name is
Mónica Pérez Nevarez, and I am the Executive Director of Basura Cero Puerto
Rico, or Zero Waste Puerto Rico, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to educating,
consulting, and advising – people, communities, businesses and governments – on
reducing waste, recycling and composting, and envisioning and crafting a future
where waste is designed as a reusable resource, and curtailing the need for
landfills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Puerto Rico has 29
operating landfills, and of those, the EPA has stated their intention of
closing 19, for not complying with regulations. This means that it is likely
that some of those non-complying landfills are leaching toxic chemicals into
the soil, making their way into our rivers and oceans, and most distressingly, leaching into our aquifers. Aquifers which tens
of thousands of rural households and farmers use daily to get their water
supply. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Waste is a
byproduct of globalization, not a choice we islanders make. We import 93% of what we consume, and
we create over 3.8 million tons of garbage a year, or 6.5 pounds per capita per
day. Hurricane Maria exacerbated the situation by creating </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">6.2 million cubic yards of waste and debris, filling</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> landfills almost to the brim, making a dire situation even worse. In her wake, she left 300,000
homes with significant damage and 70,000 homes destroyed, which will have to be
torn down or be rebuilt, creating heaps of construction waste for years to come</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">.
And to add to the problem, China no longer accepts many types of waste materials we used to
outsource, so shipping waste off-island is no longer a viable option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But in
every crisis, there is opportunity. Governments everywhere are scrambling to rethink
the problem of waste, and designing a new process that does not create or
accumulate waste, but instead makes waste a resource. Because, let’s face it,
we’re running out of places to put it, and we can’t burn it due to all the
toxic residues it creates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In order
to adapt efficient waste management programs to Puerto Rico, we need a comprehensive Waste
Management Master Plan that includes reduction, recycling, upcycling and reusing, large-scale composting, water
conservation, clean decentralized energy, diverting organic materials, used oils, and glass from landfills, and home water catchment components.
This plan must fully fund research and analysis on opportunities, strategic development design,
comprehensive legislation, a stakeholder buy-in communications campaign, and
promote the professional management of waste reduction and follow-up maintenance, <i>at
scale, </i>especially in our rivers, hydrologic systems, and our reservoirs (especially with silt management). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For public
health and wellbeing, for a value-added tourism experience, and for the many
entrepreneurial opportunities this transition offers, Puerto Rico needs to
create a circular economy designed to minimize un-recyclable waste and make
landfills obsolete. Please, as members of Congress, a congress that oversees
how much cash flow Puerto Rico’s economy works with, and therefore can spend on this much-needed Master Plan, please do everything in your power to help us and allow us to embrace this chance to become a cleaner, healthier, safer, more
resilient, more self-sufficient, and ultimately, a more sustainable, island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thank you
for your time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">You can reach me </span><a href="mailto:monica.perez@basuraceropr.org"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">monica.perez@basuraceropr.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">
for further discussion of this topic. Or visit our website, </span><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">www.basuraceropr.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Honorable
Representante Grijalva, distinguidos miembros del Comité de Recursos Naturales
del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, gracias por brindarme la oportunidad de
hablar hoy ante ustedes sobre la situación de los desperdicios sólidos en
Puerto Rico.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Mi nombre es Mónica
Pérez Nevarez y soy la Directora Ejecutiva de Basura Cero Puerto Rico, una
organización sin fines de lucro 501c3 dedicada a educar y asesorar – a
personas, comunidades, empresas y gobiernos – a cómo reducir sus desperdicios,
reciclar, compostar, y visualizar y diseñar un futuro en el que los desechos se
conviertan en un recurso reutilizable, y no se necesiten los vertederos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Tenemos 29 vertederos
en operación, y de ellos, la EPA federal ha declarado su intención de cerrar
19, por no cumplir con sus regulaciones. Esto significa que es probable que
algunos de esos vertederos que no cumplan con los requisitos estén lixiviando
químicos tóxicos en el suelo, que luego puedan llegar a nuestros ríos y
terminar en el océano, pero más peligroso aún, llegar a contaminar nuestros
acuíferos. Acuíferos que utilizan decenas de miles de hogares rurales y
agricultores para obtener su suministro de agua.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">El desperdicio es un producto de la globalización, no es un algo que nosotros eligimos. Importamos el 93%
de lo que consumimos y creamos más de 3.8 millones de toneladas de basura al
año, o 6.5 libras per cápita por día. El huracán María exacerbó la situación al
crear 6.2 millones de yardas cúbicas de desperdicios, y ahora muchos vertederos están casi llenos, empeorando
una situación ya crítica. Además le causó daños mayores a 300,000 viviendas, y
destruyó 70,000 de ellas, las cuales tendrán que ser demolidas o reconstruidas, lo que
generará residuos de construcción durante años. Y, por supuesto, la China ya no
acepta muchos de los tipos de materiales que botamos, por lo que la
"solución" de mandarlo fuera ya no está disponible.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Pero en cada crisis,
hay oportunidad. Los gobiernos en todo el mundo están repensando el problema de los desperdicios sólidos y diseñando un nuevo proceso que no genere
ni acumule residuos, sino que haga que los residuos se conviertan en un
recurso. Porque, hay que decirlo, nos estamos quedando sin lugares para poner
nuestra basura, y no podemos quemarla debido a todos los residuos tóxicos que
genera la quema.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Para adaptar este
tipo de proceso a Puerto Rico, necesitamos un Plan Maestro de Manejo de
Desechos integral que incluya componentes de reducción, reciclaje, compostaje,
conservación de agua, energía limpia descentralizada, acopio y reciclaje de aceites usados y vidrios, y captación de agua en el
hogar. Este plan debe financiar completamente la investigación y el análisis
científicos, el diseño estratégico, la legislación integral, una campaña de
comunicación de participación de los interesados, y debe integrar nuevos
bachilleratos y maestrías académicas, así como incentivar la consultoría
profesional sobre proyectos de reducción de desechos y el mantenimiento y
seguimiento de esos proyectos, <i>a escala</i>
<i>nacional</i>.</span><span lang="ES-PR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Para la salud pública
y el bienestar comunitario, para una experiencia de turismo de valor añadido, y para las muchas oportunidades empresariales que ofrece esta transición,
Puerto Rico necesita crear una economía circular diseñada para minimizar los
desperdicios no-reciclables y hacer obsoletos los vertederos. Por favor, como
miembros del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, un congreso que define la cantidad
de flujo de efectivo con el que trabaja la economía de Puerto Rico, y por ende, cuánto puede gastar en un Plan Maestro tan necesario, por favor,
hagan todo lo posible para ayudarnos y permitirnos aprovechar esta oportunidad para
convertirnos en una isla más limpia, más sana, más resiliente, más autosuficiente y más
sostenible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Gracias por su
tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Pueden comunicarse
conmigo por email a <a href="goog_1743389583">g</a></span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="mailto:uayabapr@gmail.com">uayabapr@gmail.com</a> </span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> para obtener más
información sobre este tema. O visite nuestra pagina web, </span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/">www.basuraceropr.org</a>.</span></span></span>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-37371052481741477642019-02-06T16:28:00.002-04:002019-02-06T16:28:38.315-04:00Basura Cero Puerto Rico Blog 1/2019 (Versión en Español)<br />
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<span lang="ES">¡Bienvenido al primer boletín de Basura Cero Puerto Rico de 2019! Soy la nueva Directora Ejecutiva, y les estaré escribiendo cada mes para informarle sobre el manejo de desperdicios en nuestra isla. </span></div>
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<span lang="ES">2019 se está vislumbrando como un año excepcional para el reciclaje en todo el mundo. Esto sigue los acontecimientos del año pasado, cuando por primera vez en la historia, el mundo vio miles de millones de dólares en inversiones en energía limpia. Este año, estamos viendo que las corporaciones multinacionales y los gobiernos están prohibiendo el uso de plásticos, haciendo la transición a envases biodegradables, y fortaleciendo sus planes de reciclaje a gran escala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Y estos acontecimientos llegan justo a tiempo, porque <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/cleaning-up-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/">8 millones de toneladas métricas</a> de plástico acaban en el océano cada año, y el <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature">Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza</a> (WWF por sus siglas en inglés) ha estimado que más de 100,000 ballenas, focas y tortugas marinas mueren cada año como resultado de comer o quedar atrapadas por bolsas de plástico que se encuentran flotando en los océanos, por no mencionar las innumerables aves marinas que mueren de hambre con barrigas llenas de plásticos. Si no detenemos esta tendencia, en el <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea-by-2050-warns-ellen-macarthur">2050 habrá más plástico en los océanos que peces</a>.</span><span lang="ES-PR"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">254 corporaciones multinacionales se unieron para usar empaques biodegradables, y algunos íconos corporativos están usando una plataforma de cero basura llamada ‘<a href="https://loopstore.com/">Loop’</a>, para mejor habituar al público en lo que es la <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy">Economía Circular</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">En la región del Caribe, <a href="https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-entra-vigor-norma-prohibe-plasticos-solo-caribe-201901030922_noticia.html?fbclid=IwAR2odZbCLOGCXxU1kt1fmPig5EvmiI-hgpHwOyufxKIgHm_opnatI91m9XE#ns_campaign=amp-rrss-inducido&ns_mchannel=abc-es&ns_source=fb&ns_linkname=noticia.foto&ns_fee=0">Jamaica, Barbados, Belice, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Dominica, Granada y Trinidad y Tobago</a> han prohibido los plásticos de un solo uso y las copas de poliestireno. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sustainablecaribbean/photos/a.762316260816626/762315964149989/?type=3&theater">Barbados está prohibiendo todo uso de plástico</a>, y <a href="https://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/2019/01/27/dominica-to-provide-nearly-entire-population-with-geothermal-energy-funded-partly-by-its-citizenship-programme/?fbclid=IwAR3art7n35ixglTGakkWx6SZCUj8EZGwniOa8l0S2HH-8sbLUceGywDhK4s">Dominica</a> está alimentando sus necesidades energéticas totalmente de energía geotérmica volcánica.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">En Puerto Rico, ya no se pueden usar bolsas plásticas de un solo uso en los supermercados y se cobra por usar bolsas reusables, pero seguimos tirando más de 3.8 millones de libras de basura al año, y la isla tiene un largo camino por recorrer antes de poder implementar un plan de reciclaje integral. De los 119 vertederos históricos en Puerto Rico, sólo 29 están operando hoy día, y de esos, 19 ya han sido identificados por la Agencia de Protección del Ambiente federal (EPA por sus siglas en inglés) para clausurarlos porque no cumplen con sus reglamentos. Como consecuencia de ese incumplimiento, esos vertederos sueltan químicos líquidos tóxicos al suelo, que acaban llegando a los acuíferos subterráneos de la isla y contaminando el agua potable de cientos de miles de personas. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P2cA0jo2CdqgZdmI2DsF8QoXWvMDGeTKtLb-wDp8TZ0/edit#gid=0">81 de los 98 municipios</a> cuentan con Coordinadores de Reciclaje. Empresarios precoces han creado operaciones de reciclaje de <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/carton.html">cartón</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/papel.html">papel</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/plastico.html">plástico</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/arboles.html">árboles caídos</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/vegetativo.html">compostaje de materiales orgánicos</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/alimento.html">desperdicios de alimentos</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/electronicos.html">productos electrónicos</a>, <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/vidrio.html">vidrio</a> y <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/reparacion.html">centros de reparación</a>, y hay espacio para que crezcan muchos más negocios alrededor del tema de reciclaje, ya que actualmente solo reciclamos 10 % de nuestros residuos.</span><span lang="ES-PR"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">No hay duda de que nosotros los boricuas hacemos lo mejor que podemos bajo condiciones difíciles, y hay muchas personas comprometidas que ya están reciclando o quieren empezar a reciclar en la isla. Por lo tanto, este año mi misión personal es lanzar una campaña de firmas para pedir a nuestros líderes políticos que escriban y aprueben un proyecto de ley de reciclaje integral para la isla. </span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Continuaré el trabajo de Basura Cero con nuestros patrocinadores del sector privado para ayudarles a minimizar, segregar y reciclar sus desechos. Continuaré con nuestras relaciones con entidades académicas y gubernamentales y trabajaré con ellos para educar a los estudiantes y empleados gubernamentales en maneras creativas de "consumir menos y disfrutar más". Y crearé un programa de Consultoría Basura Cero que estará disponible para las comunidades y las pequeñas empresas que necesiten nuestros servicios. Nuestro programa de reciclaje más importante será el de "Los Rayos X de la Basura de Puerto Rico”, de modo que podamos clasificar todos nuestros desechos y, con ese conocimiento, crear un plan de acción estratégico para alcanzar nuestra meta de 70% de reciclaje para 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Para hacer todo esto necesitar</span><span lang="ES">é</span><span lang="ES"> el apoyo y el compromiso de los muchos voluntarios desinteresados que han trabajado tanto tiempo con nosotros para hacer de Puerto Rico un lugar más limpio, más saludable y más sostenible. Espero trabajar estrechamente con todos ustedes, y si aún no se ha inscrito para ayudar en algunos de nuestros muchos eventos este año, asegúrense de hacerlo <a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/involuacutecrate.html">aqui</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">Los dejo con una buena noticia. Basura Cero Puerto Rico y los trabajadores municipales de San Juan ayudaron a "limpiar" las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián 2019 al segregar y reciclar 172,490 libras de basura, de un total de <a href="https://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/recogen372530librasdebasuraenlasfiestasdelasanse-1322345/?fbclid=IwAR3C812g4UrWiGZG08fCrkEymFq3Ky7i_KFWl8hqxVI7IzjhokIu8jlYlSA">372,530 libras de basura recogida</a>. Reciclamos el <b><i>46% de los desperdicios de las fiestas</i></b>. ¡Se puede lograr altísimos porcentajes de reciclaje! Es cuestión de una buena planificación, un compromiso firme, y voluntarios acometidos y alegres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES">¡Les deseo lo mejor para el 2019, y espero verlos cada vez que quieran cambiar el mundo en que vivimos para el bien!</span><span lang="ES-PR"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-80853214622906945002019-02-03T12:15:00.000-04:002019-02-06T16:29:13.424-04:00Basura Cero Puerto Rico Newsletter 2019-1Basura Cero Puerto Rico Blog 1/2019 (english version)<br />
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Welcome to my first Basura Cero Puerto Rico Newsletter! I’m
the new Executive Director, and I’ll be writing you every month to let you know
what’s going on in our island on everything (zero) waste. </div>
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2019 is lining up to
be a banner year for recycling world-wide. Last year, for the first time in
history, the world saw billions of dollars in investments go to clean energy. This
year, we are seeing multinational corporations and governments ban plastics,
transition to biodegradable packaging, and strengthen their recycling plans, worldwide.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And not a minute too soon, because <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/cleaning-up-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/" target="_blank">8 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean</a></span> every year,
and the <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature" title="World Wide Fund for Nature">World Wide Fund for Nature</a></span> has
estimated that over 100,000 whales, seals, and turtles die every year as a
result of eating or being trapped by plastic bags found in the oceans, not to
mention countless seabirds that die of starvation with bellies full of plastics.
If we do not stop this trend, by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea-by-2050-warns-ellen-macarthur">2050
there will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish by weight</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90256235/250-organizations-are-joining-forces-to-end-plastic-waste?fbclid=IwAR0Cwjzr9R7-5rOUrYCuSbjvA4XIyDuouKZX0pjh0gUsz6_ateDDBkvhsRQ">Multinational
corporations</a></span> are joining forces to use biodegradable packaging, and
some corporate icons are jumping onto a <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90296956/a-coalition-of-giant-brands-is-about-to-change-how-we-shop-forever-with-a-new-zero-waste-platform?fbclid=IwAR3s_3wQ193l2s1ct9l4HWZ6A_XKJkZzCepmiVvFHfa9anwd0M0dmi0EhV4">zero-waste
platform</a></span> called <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://loopstore.com/">Loop</a></span> to accustom customers to reusing
containers and creating a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy">circular economy</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Caribbean, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-entra-vigor-norma-prohibe-plasticos-solo-caribe-201901030922_noticia.html?fbclid=IwAR2odZbCLOGCXxU1kt1fmPig5EvmiI-hgpHwOyufxKIgHm_opnatI91m9XE#ns_campaign=amp-rrss-inducido&ns_mchannel=abc-es&ns_source=fb&ns_linkname=noticia.foto&ns_fee=0">Jamaica,
Barbados, Belize, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Dominica, Granada, and Trinidad and
Tobago</a></span> have prohibited single-use plastics and polystyrene cups. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sustainablecaribbean/photos/a.762316260816626/762315964149989/?type=3&theater">Barbados
is banning plastic altogether</a></span>, and <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/2019/01/27/dominica-to-provide-nearly-entire-population-with-geothermal-energy-funded-partly-by-its-citizenship-programme/?fbclid=IwAR3art7n35ixglTGakkWx6SZCUj8EZGwniOa8l0S2HH-8sbLUceGywDhK4s">Dominica</a></span>
is fueling its energy needs entirely from volcanic geothermal energy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/anagarciavaldivia/2019/01/22/the-end-of-plastic-cutlery-plates-and-straws-eu-market-says-goodbye-to-single-use-plastic-products/?fbclid=IwAR19GxhH-olGr8eKYFc5XNhsWiVq9CrY-hmen2-rarvTQ3QCZOsAXxbRP_g#288b4d091565">European
Market</a></span> has banned single-use plastics. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://ecoinventos.com/yes-future-positive-supermarket/?fbclid=IwAR30vQQ4azTsoucH0Ih47ezmBu7UD3B5goZwY6UQL-KCZ8JrLl2_SYKioAQ">Barcelona</a></span>
has opened the first packaging-free store in its history. Entire neighborhoods
in <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rFLNvMqns&feature=share">Manila</a></span>,
the Philippines, have made themselves “Zero Waste”. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://notibomba.com/chile-prohibe-el-uso-de-bolsas-plasticas-en-todos-los-comercios/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0XnDCqtDiz1nQT5K6BDqFpK4kGdnpuNISlVfI330EloEGiZUJUAQDGAYo">Chile</a></span>
has banned the use of plastic bags in all businesses. As of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_plastic_bags">January
1, 2019</a></span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">bans</span> have
been introduced in 54 <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">countries</span>
with varying degrees of enforcement, and 32 other <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">countries are</span> imposing a charge per bag. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the US, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/09/20/heres-a-list-of-every-city-in-the-us-to-ban-plastic-bags-will-your-city-be-next/#449629a53243">Hawaii
and California</a></span> have statewide plastic bag bans. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/09/20/heres-a-list-of-every-city-in-the-us-to-ban-plastic-bags-will-your-city-be-next/#449629a53243">349
cities and counties</a></span> in the US have banned plastic bags, including <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.earthday.org/2018/04/20/10-cities-and-countries-confronting-plastic-bag-pollution-head-on/">Washington
DC, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston</a></span>. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.axios.com/single-use-plastic-ban-states-world-31debb6d-a167-4370-bee5-19bff05f10f7.html">Vancouver</a></span>
and Halifax, Canada, have declared climate change emergencies and enacted
plastic bans. Nations like <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.earthday.org/2018/04/20/10-cities-and-countries-confronting-plastic-bag-pollution-head-on/">Kenya,
the United Kingdom, Australia, and China</a></span> have banned plastic bags in
their countries. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.factorydirectpromos.com/plastic-bag-bans/">Here</a></span>’s
a worldwide map of cities, regions,
nations, and states that have banned plastic materials.</div>
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In Puerto Rico, single-use plastic bags have been banned
from supermarkets, yet we throw away over 3.8 million pounds of trash a year, and
the island has a long way to go before it can implement a comprehensive recycling
plan. Of 119 historical landfills on the island, only 29 are currently
operating, and of those, 19 will be closed by the EPA soon because they are not in compliance
with regulations. As a consequence, those landfills are leaching toxic
chemicals into our underground aquifers and contaminating the drinking water of
hundreds of thousands of people. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P2cA0jo2CdqgZdmI2DsF8QoXWvMDGeTKtLb-wDp8TZ0/edit#gid=0">81
out of 98 municipios</a></span> have Recycling Coordinators. Precocious
entrepreneurs have created recycling operations for <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/carton.html">cardboard</a></span>, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/papel.html">paper</a></span>,
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/plastico.html">plastic</a></span>,
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/arboles.html">fallen
trees</a></span>, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/vegetativo.html">composting</a></span>
organic materials, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/alimento.html">food waste</a></span>, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/electronicos.html">electronics</a></span>,
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/vidrio.html">glass</a></span>,
and <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/reparacion.html">repair centers</a></span>,
and there is room for many more recycling-related businesses, because we
currently only recycle 10% of our wastes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s no doubt Boricuas do the best we can under trying
conditions, and there are many committed people that are already recycling or want
to recycle on the island. So, I am making it my personal mission this year to
launch a signature campaign to ask our political leaders to write and approve a
comprehensive recycling plan for the island. </div>
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I will continue Basura Cero’s work
with our private sector sponsors in helping them minimize, segregate, and
recycle their waste. I will continue our outreach to academic and government
entities and work with them to educate students and government workers in
creative ways of “consuming less and enjoying more.” And I will create a Basura
Cero Consultancy program that will be available to communities and small
businesses needing our services. Our flagship recycling program will be a
“Waste X-Ray” for Puerto Rico, so we can classify our waste and create a
strategic action plan to reach our goal of 70% recycling by 2025. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To do all this I will need the continued support and
commitment from the many selfless volunteers that have worked so hard
throughout the years to make Puerto Rico a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable
place to live. I look forward to working closely with all of you, and if you
haven’t yet signed up to help in one of our many events, make sure you do so <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.basuraceropr.org/involuacutecrate.html">now</a></span>.
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Let me leave you with one high note. Basura Cero Puerto Rico
and the municipal workers of San Juan, helped ‘clean’ Las Fiestas de la Calle
San Sebastian 2019 by segregating and recycling 172,490 pounds of trash, out of
a <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/recogen372530librasdebasuraenlasfiestasdelasanse-1322345/?fbclid=IwAR3C812g4UrWiGZG08fCrkEymFq3Ky7i_KFWl8hqxVI7IzjhokIu8jlYlSA">total
372,530 pounds</a></span> of waste. We segregated 46% of all waste materials. High
percentages of recycling can be achieved. It’s all a matter of a little
planning, a steadfast commitment, and joyful people working on it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wish all of you the best for 2019 and hope to see you the
next time you decide you want to change the world for the better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-45097638629643104272017-01-13T09:08:00.002-04:002020-06-27T11:13:12.485-04:00Trump and Cuba<header class="entry__header" data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"headline"}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: NotoNashkArabic, ProximaNova-regular, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Mr. Trump, if as President you want to get a better deal on Cuba, I suggest you just apply your time proven <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">11 negotiating tactics </em>to the analysis:</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">1.Get to know your market</strong>. With all due respect Sir, many of your Cuba advisors have never set foot on the island or left it a very (very!) long time ago. And for most of them, opposing relations with Cuba is a career. They are experts in scuttling other people’s business deals. And many of them have never sat across the table from a Cuban official and successfully negotiated a tough deal. What in the world do these people really know about making good deals down there?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">2.Maximize your options</strong>. Why would you engage in a policy that limits your options to simply saying NO and locking up the relationship in a permanent limbo? If you say YES, you have years to work on all sorts of deals with them, not just in business, but also in all kinds of areas-immigration, human rights, drug enforcement, oil exploration. That is a lot of balls in the air you can play with. And on political deals, trust me, with the Cubans, honey works better than vinegar.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">3.Use your leverage. </strong>There are a lot of business opportunities and really tough bilateral issues on the table for the very first time in decades. Use what you’ve got. And if you don’t like the outcomes, you’ve made it clear that you would walk away from the negotiating table. And the Cubans are terrific deal makers. But you’ve got to know how to play them. And let me tell you, intimidation doesn’t work. And this goes for business deals as well as for any policy negotiation. I think you would actually like them a lot.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">4.Deliver the goods</strong>. You want to create jobs, increase exports and create business opportunities for Americans. You know terrific people all over the country who work in industries like tourism, travel, entertainment, agriculture and construction. If you apply your own negotiating tactics they can make great deals that will create jobs in America. If you roll back the existing policies they will lose credibility-and a heck of a lot of money. Millions! Many Cubans already don’t trust American business and the American government. This is going to get in the way of Americans getting the best deals in the future. What would we get out of this except grief in our own backyard?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">5.Fight back</strong> -The real fight is with our competitors - the Europeans, the Canadians and the Chinese. Let’s fight to present the best proposals and get the pick of the litter. Don’t give up any gained territory. Go for more. So, play hard - but play.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">6.Location, location, location</strong>. The U.S. is Cuba’s natural market. Only ninety miles away! In this game of Monopoly, America owns Boardwalk! You’ve got the other countries beat. And even if Cubans import and export stuff from them, why not route container traffic through southern ports? But we have to make it legal to do so.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">7.Get the word out</strong>. OK, when Cuban-Americans were dancing in the streets of Miami celebrating Fidel’s death, it made sense for you to get the word out by sending a hardline pro-embargo message. Their grievances are real. But life goes on. Fidel’s brother Raul and his successors are going to be around for a long time no matter what we do and how many people dance on Fidel’s grave. If you stick to the normalization process, you will be able to get the word out hundreds of times. Who knows, maybe your kids could really expand the Trump brand down there.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">8.Protect from the downside</strong>. Cubans are the only immigrants who can just set foot in the U.S and, presto, they get to stay. That’s not fair to all of the people who are patiently waiting their turn to get approval to immigrate. Your immigration reform will have to get rid of the Cuban Adjustment Act. But - if you cut off the escape valve at the same time that you put the screws on Cuba’s economy, the whole place could just blow up. The result would be thousands of (by then illegal) Cuban boat people on U.S waters just like the Syrian refugees in Europe. Some regime-change advocates may think this is a dream come true, but it would be messy and hugely expensive in money, lives and votes.</div>
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A rafters mess would also make the human rights and repression situation in Cuba worse. Why? Because for the Cuban government this would be a ‘law and order’ problem.</div>
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When you build the wall, the border with Mexico will get harder to cross. Smugglers will then have to bring drugs into the U.S. via Gulf waters. The Cuban Coast Guard already works really well with the American Coast Guard to prevent this sort of thing. We can’t risk not getting their cooperation on drugs and, and for that matter, on oil spills.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">9.Contain the costs.</strong> Once you take office, you will have hundreds of major issues to worry about. Why complicate matters by getting into a side fight with a tiny little country that is neither a military nor an economic threat?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNova-bold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">10.Think Big. </strong>Granted, Obama opened the door. But you can be the President who really makes ‘<u style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Big Time Deals with the Cubans!</u>‘ Not just in business. If the Cubans can take more control over their own economic future, they can also start taking more control over their political lives. If you talk to the average Cuban on the street and even to most of the dissidents, they will tell you, loud and clear, that normalization has given them hope and a possibility for a better life. And there are hundreds of small business flourishing all over the place. Give them a chance to succeed.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">OK - Why am I telling you all this?... Who am I?</em></div>
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I am a Cuban-American exile who can claim as much family hardship from the Castro brother’s regime as any other exile can. I came to this country, went to school on scholarships, worked hard and even became part of “the elite”. And yes, I am a Democrat. And yes, I was with ‘her’. By the way - I already moved to Canada (30 years ago and for personal reasons). But because I have been able to travel to Cuba as a business professor for over two decades, I have seen with my own eyes what works and what doesn’t work.</div>
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Mr. Trump, you didn’t win Florida or the blue-collar vote or the American heartland or the business vote by promising that you would be tough on Castro. That is not their fight. They want jobs, opportunities...a better future.</div>
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Only you, through your executive power, can decide which way this will all go. Stick to the opening and Americans will reap huge rewards. Go back to a useless fight and it will cost both sides a lot, for nothing.</div>
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This is what I've been waiting for. For Businesses to embrace environmental and social limits on a big scale BECAUSE IT'S THE SMART THING TO DO. <br />
We must change our business practices and mindset. Business is not just the blood of "Economic Man," it is also a reflection of ourselves and our values. It is in our power to change things. Fortunately, the world is conspiring to bring humanity into sinc with some obvious realities: economic realities, social realities, ethical realities<span class="text_exposed_show">, political realities. We have to stop doing things "on automatic" because it was "the way things had always been done." That way has only led us to ruin. We have all the information we need to stop making ecocidal mistakes. </span><br />
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We need to step up and become a mature society, one that collectively recognizes challenge0before we are hit over the head with them. And THIS, this is what I do: I help businesses transition into a sustainable mindset and process, one that subsumes economic growth to environmental limits and yet succeeds; and finds a way to make a client's work socially needed, respected, and honored. <br />
That's right. I help the most entrenched, most unconvinced, most adamantly opposed see a path forward, a path away from irrelevance - or worse - toxicity. <br />
And to all those who use the word sustainability to prioritize economic sustainability over everything else, shame on you. That is NOT what sustainability is about. GET WITH THE PROGRAM.<br />
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Sustainability has been kicked upstairs at Microsoft Corp., a promotion in terms of where it sits, to whom it reports, what it does and how it is viewed across the organization. And therein lies a hopeful tale for the entire sustainability profession.<br />
The basics are this: Late last year, Rob Bernard, the company’s chief sustainability strategist, began reporting, via corporate VP Dan'l Lewin, to the company’s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, who in turn reports to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Previously, Bernard reported to the company’s public-sector division, a couple rungs lower on the organizational ladder.<br />
But where Bernard reports isn’t as important as the growing visibility of sustainability at Microsoft, and its growing integration into the company. It’s a prime example of a trend we’re seeing at other leadership companies.<br />
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When Nadella named Smith as Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer in September, he noted in a company memo that he’d tasked Smith with leading the company’s efforts “to accelerate initiatives that are important to our mission and reputation such as privacy, security, accessibility, environmental sustainability and digital inclusion.”<br />
For Bernard, who’d been leading the company’s environmental sustainability efforts since 2007, it was a pivotal moment. Suddenly, sustainability was part of the central organization, seen on a par with issues such as privacy and security — topics core to any technology company’s future. It was a time for Bernard and his team to take stock and step up their game.<br />
"It’s an acceleration, amplification and prioritization of sustainability within the company," said Bernard. "It’s now a cross-company initiative that has a center of gravity in the president’s office."<br />
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"We're taking a look at where we've been over the last six years on sustainability," Bernard told me recently. "And, more importantly, where we want to go." He quickly realized that with his newfound support his team needed to staff up in a few key areas. That’s led to a small hiring binge to build out the sustainability team, including last month luring Jim Hanna, director of environmental affairs at Starbucks since 2005, to become Microsoft’s director of data center sustainability. Several other hires are in the offing.<br />
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Bernard said that as a result of the changes and hires, "we’re accelerating our focus and commitment across three core areas of sustainability.”<br />
<strong>1. Operations.</strong> This has been Bernard’s bread and butter for the past several years — a wide range of initiatives familiar to most sustainability executives, focusing on facilities, employee engagement, external relationships and other issues.<br />
It also includes things that only recently have been on the agenda of some of his peers, such as <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-microsofts-internal-price-carbon-saved-it-10-million-year">the internal carbon tax</a> Microsoft launched in 2012, when the company decided to adopt a carbon neutral strategy for its global data centers, offices, software development lab and company air travel. Microsoft was ahead of most of its peers on that, although others are following its lead.<br />
<a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-business-no-longer-fears-carbon-pricing">CDP reported late last year</a> that more than 1,000 companies disclosed in their 2015 reports to CDP that they either have implemented a price on carbon for internal decision making or they plan to do so in the next two years.<br />
There's still more to do in addressing climate change, said Bernard. For example, "How do we source energy? We've done two big wind deals to date. I think you'll see the company continue to focus on these areas." That’s where Hanna likely will play a key role.<br />
And others: "We're bringing in more energy people on our data center team who have direct impact and experience with either sourcing and managing energy deals or new energy creation," said Bernard.<br />
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"We're now thinking about carbon in a more proactive way," he added. "We've done carbon offsets and projects in over 30 countries around the world. But have we really, really provided value to our customers and society in those 30-plus markets? How do we think about embedding those things much more at the local level than maybe we've even done before?"<br />
Beyond that, Bernard said, is new thinking within the company about how it sites facilities. "We're putting fairly large buildings on big pieces of property. Are we being as thoughtful as we possibly could be around the impact of where we're located?" He said part of the company’s next sustainability push — and its new hires — will be to broaden the company’s focus on such operational issues.<br />
<strong>2. Customer solutions.</strong> Microsoft is eyeing opportunities to expand and accelerate the impact its technology can have on its customers. First and foremost are the technologies the company has used at its Redmond, Washington, campus to monitor and optimize buildings’ energy use and operations.<br />
The short story, <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/news/2011/10/06/microsoft-finds-quick-payback-building-it-retrofits">as we reported back in 2011</a>: Microsoft, in partnership with Accenture and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, deployed smart building management systems on 2.6 million square feet of its corporate campus, which totals 125 buildings, 500 acres and 15 million square feet. Through energy management, alarm management and fault detection and diagnosis, the company saved more than $1 million a year in energy costs, with a payback time of less than 18 months. Microsoft later rolled it out to its entire Redmond campus.<br />
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Up to that point, Microsoft had used disparate building management systems to manage 30,000 unconnected, sensor-enabled pieces of equipment. As Microsoft writer Jennifer Warnick <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/05/06/microsoft-city">described in 2013</a>: "Imagine a symphony orchestra, but with every musician playing from different sheet music. Then, imagine trying to conduct that symphony — to make sure the music was on tempo, in key and starting and stopping as it should." It wasn't very harmonious, but today the instruments are in sync.This more than just an exercise in facility efficiency. It was also an effort to demonstrate the potential of Microsoft products in real-world applications. The team developed the smart buildings software with the help of vendors using off-the-shelf Microsoft software such as Windows Azure, SQL Server and Microsoft Office.<br />
The company’s principal partner in this effort, Iconics, went on to develop a line of business, eventually becoming a core part of Microsoft CityNext, a suite of services the company offers to help cities operate more efficiently. Microsoft, through that partnership, is rolling that out building efficiency services to public- and private-sector companies, both large and small, worldwide.<br />
Said Bernard: "If we're effective and thoughtful and we experiment on ourselves and get it right, there's an opportunity work with our customers to grow revenue."<br />
And grow impact, too: "It's great we've integrated 125 buildings and 15 million square and 6 building management systems. It's really interesting when you're talking about a billion square feet or 2 billion square feet. That's the impact that we need to have."<br />
<strong>3. Energy and carbon policy:</strong> Microsoft is poised to have a more public presence on policy issues related to sustainability, said Bernard. This is long overdue — not just for Microsoft, but for the world’s biggest companies in general, which have largely stayed behind the scenes when it comes to advocating for progressive carbon and energy policy, especially in the United States.<br />
"Our intention is to be more vocal on energy and carbon issues," said Bernard. "We're looking for people with deep policy expertise on environmental issues on carbon and energy and certainly beyond that."<br />
To that end, the company is <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=3&jid=217190&jlang=en&pp=ss">searching for a government affairs director</a>, based in Washington, D.C., "to develop sustainability-based policy positions and to help drive communication of these policy positions," according to the job description. It includes working to "assure our positions align with Microsoft’s and our customers’ business and sustainability goals."<br />
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Clearly, not all these initiatives are new (and some are quite old). But they are receiving increased attention from the C-suite, along with increased resources, as evidenced by sustainability's growing headcount and more strategic placement. Increasingly, they are being seen as core to the company’s strategy — and, presumably, to customers.<br />
Of course, resources don’t always equate to impact. (If you want proof, take a look at the many sustainability execs who work small miracles with tiny teams and frayed-shoestring budgets.) Still, Microsoft's move is a clear acknowledgment of C-suite buy-in, and a signal both internally and externally about the company’s intentions.<br />
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And it’s part of a trend we’re seeing elsewhere: other tech companies such as <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/beltway-valley-google-nabs-white-house-cso">Google</a>, <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/apple-first-us-tech-company-issue-green-bonds">Apple</a> and <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-amazons-sustainability-dream-team-deliver">Amazon</a> (the last of which has been ramping up its sustainability team to 40 or more people); consumer brands, such as McDonald’s (where <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/one-year-later-mcdonalds-supply-chain-sustainability-chief-francesca-debiase">Francesca DeBiase</a> serves double-duty as chief supply chain and sustainability officer, and where CEO Steve Easterbrook seems attuned to sustainability issues); and Steelcase (where <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/video/building-case-sustainability-leadership">CEO Jim Keane</a> seems to grasp the potential of sustainability overall, and the circular economy in particular, to create new revenue streams for the company). It's an encouraging sign that sustainability is firmly embedded within companies, and is seen as a platform for value creation.<br />
Back at Microsoft, Bernard understands the potential before him, as well as the opportunity to engage a wider swath of the company — both to serve the company’s internal sustainability goals and to engage customers in both the public and private sectors. <br />
"I’m super excited about the opportunities because I really think we're just starting to scratch the surface of the transformative capabilities of data and technology to reduce resource use at a massive scale," he said. "I think it's all part of changing consciousness and behaviors at a rapid pace at a large scale."</div>
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source:<a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-microsoft-gave-sustainability-promotion">https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-microsoft-gave-sustainability-promotion</a>guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-55632377881056517072015-03-23T16:27:00.003-04:002020-06-27T11:14:42.075-04:00Doing Business in Cuba<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 20pt; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 197%;"> Since the December 17, 2014 joint announcement by Cuba
and the U.S.A. that the two nations were re-establishing diplomatic relations,
there has been heightened interest from all business sectors over the prospects
of developing business relations with the island nation. Business opportunities
between Americans and Cubans will most certainly be plentiful, especially in
the long-term. However, the media frenzy has overlooked the inconvenient truth
that working in Cuba is still extremely difficult for foreigners, and will
remain so for a long time to come, especially for Americans. In an attempt to
shorten their learning curve and make their experience on the island more
rewarding and fruitful, we have developed this <i>Mini-Guide to Doing Business
in Cuba</i>. This guide provides newcomers wishing to establish business links
in Cuba – whether for profit, not for profit, hybrids, or as social
entrepreneurs - with realistic, practical and up-to-date information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 197%;"> This <i>Mini-Guide</i> has been prepared by the
members of the <i>Socially Responsible</i> <i>Enterprise and Local Development
in Cuba </i>project, an international collaboration of experts on Cuban<i> </i>enterprises
and development. Though it is probable that the majority of U.S.-Cuba
entrepreneurial activity will be for-profit, Cuba’s national commitment to the
social and environmental well-being of its citizens will, nevertheless, require
that <i>all</i> business activity be undertaken with sensitivity and
accountability over its social and environmental impact. Above all, it is
important to remember that engagement with Cuba should be done in a mutually
respectful fashion that helps Cubans preserve and enhance the achievements of
their Revolution, while minimizing risk and safeguarding the goodwill and
limited capital of inspired American entrepreneurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 197%;"> Cuba and the U.S. are currently discussing the
reestablishment of diplomatic relations. But the complete normalization of
relations may take years to achieve and, in a number of fundamental
business-related areas, may require congressional approval in the U.S.
Moreover, the U.S. government has not yet approved general tourist travel to
Cuba. This means that the financial and commercial embargos, as well as
portions of the ban on travel by U.S. citizens, with all of their negative
consequences, are still very much in place. Fortunately, there have been two
Congressional Delegations to Cuba recently (January and February 2015),
signaling a broad support for, and interest in, normalizing business relations
and opening a path towards the entry of American business interests into the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 195%;"> While the U.S. has made some progressive adjustments
to a number of pre- December 17 regulations, including increasing approved
travel categories and support for humanitarian efforts, a clear interpretation
of what these changes actually mean in practice is not yet fully defined. The
changes are being rolled out over time. Therefore, it is important to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 192%;"> While it is true that the Cuban government is in the
process of implementing important economic reforms that will create new
business opportunities, those seeking to profit from them must realize that <i>Cuba
is fully committed to remaining a socialist state</i> and it is not broadening
its business opportunities as a precursor to embracing capitalism. The overall
aim of reform is achieving a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 178%;">“prosperous
and sustainable socialism”, not adopting free-wheeling capitalism. Business
people that want to do business in Cuba must respect the tenets of socialism,
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="page3"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 178%;">the
parameters of the state’s political ideology, and adapt to the quantity of
state control over business transactions that exist in Cuba today. Those things
are not likely change any time soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 192%;"> Mutual mistrust must also be overcome. In the U.S.A.
there are powerful pockets of support for sanction against Cuba, and in Cuba,
some remain highly suspicious and mistrustful of American motives. For example,
some Cubans on the island interpret President Obama’s recent changes to
U.S.-Cuba regulations as an extension of the U.S.’s historical covert
operations seeking </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 189%;">‘regime
change’. Both sides have good reason given decades of spy vs. spy shenanigans
and business people can expect a certain amount of wariness when they first
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 196%;"> All business deals between Cubans and foreigners, as
well as any formal business deals between Cubans themselves, are made with the
explicit knowledge and approval of the Cuban government. Moreover, normal
business inputs such as local capital, updated plant and equipment and broad
access to fast speed internet are not be readily available for foreign
projects. However, Cuba’s highly qualified human resources, more often than not
approved and facilitated by the state, are plentiful and eager to work. Be
prepared to invest more than the normal time you usually schedule for permits
because of the extended time necessary to receive appropriate bureaucratic
approvals and access to necessary infrastructure and supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 195%;"> The Cuban government is not interested in attracting
foreign business for the sake of making money. On the island, there is neither
a consumer sovereignty traditions, nor an affluent consumer society with buying
power. Enterprises must have clear positive impacts on the population, the
environment, and on the economy, <i>as defined by state entities</i>, not
private enterprises. Corruption, though present, is seriously frowned upon and
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="page4"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 196%;"> The Cuban government is
looking for large investments, not small efforts. Projects valued at under
several million dollars will have a very difficult time getting reviewed. Keep
in mind that the government bureaucracy that approves projects is very small
and highly centralized. You will need local assistance just to get to the
doorstep of the right government official. Even then, entry into his/her office
may never happen due to understaffing. Also, it is also extremely difficult for
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) to establish a physical presence in
Cuba, even after investing large sums of resources in building relationships
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 195%;"> Entrepreneurs are generally self-confident “go get
‘em” types. However, when scouting out entrepreneurial opportunities in Cuba,
entrepreneurs will come to understand the depths of a popular and ubiquitous
Cuban expression – “No es facil / it’s not easy.” For their own health:
financial, physical and mental, American entrepreneurs in Cuba should check
their egos, and their preconceptions, at the airport gate, and be prepared to
learn a whole new way of doing things “a la Cubana,” the Cuban way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visit. Given the U.S.’s fifty-five year embargo, many myths and falsehoods
exist about Cuba. There is a lot of reading you need to do, starting with a
careful scrutiny of the current U.S. government regulations for U.S. citizens
and residents travelling to Cuba as well as any pending legal claim by U.S.
citizens (including Cuban-Americans) on the property or sector you wish to
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on the island for over five decades, but the Canadians, Europeans, Latin
Americans, Israelis and Chinese, among others, have. Learn from their
experiences and be aware that they will fight tooth and nail to protect their
business interests. Moreover, Cuban officials already know them, and more often
than not, trust them. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">American newcomers
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 191%;">There are many informative publications
about current economic conditions and policies being implemented in Cuba, on
U.S. regulations, and on legal claims. There is also literature on the business
interests of foreign partners on the island. And of course you will never go
wrong by brushing up on Cuban history in your effort to understand this truly
singular society. A suggested bibliography is listed at the end of this guide.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 171%;">Make sure your business concept truly
meets local social and economic needs as defined by the priorities of the Cuban
government.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 188%;">Don’t assume the Cubans will be interested
in your project, no matter how obviously good and relevant it seems to you. They
operate under many constraints that are difficult for Americans to understand.
It is crucial to listen carefully to what the Cubans actually want, and not
impose what you think they should want.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 182%;">To start a project, it is imperative to
first establish a relationship with a Cuban counterpart organization vetted by
the government to work with foreigners. Don’t show up in Cuba without previous
research and pre-established contacts with individuals and/or institutions.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 192%;">How to find a counterpart? Go to Cuba to
visit, learn, and explore. Seek out and participate in a Cuban conference in
your area or sector of interest. Such travel should be much easier under the
adjusted U.S. travel regulations. In this way you can make initial contacts and
check out the local state of knowledge of your intended business in a manner
that is cost effective. Often, there is more transparency in a conference
setting, especially when sponsored by a university or an academic association.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 172%;">After the initial exploratory visit on a
tourist visa, and in order to establish a formal business relationship, you
will need to travel to Cuba again under a business visa. Make sure you get the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">appropriate visa.
In many cases government officials will not talk to you if you only have a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">tourist visa.</span></li>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Don’t
think you will somehow figure out how to get around the rules of the game set
forth by the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cuban
government. You may do so temporarily, but never for long.</span></div>
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accept funding from USAID or any of its contractors. In Cuba such support is
tantamount to announcing you are working for regime change. Your venture will end
right there.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 188%;">By all means enjoy the beauty, history,
and uniqueness of the place. Get to know the warm, humorous, proud and
well-educated Cuban people. Take the time to smell the gardenias in what may
well be a once-in-a-lifetime experience at an unprecedented time in history.
Increase your tolerance for contradictions and don’t forget to have fun.</span></li>
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Responsible Enterprise and Local Development in Cuba Project</b> (SRELDC) -
Launched in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 197%;">2008
with support from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, SRELDC’s principal
objective is to understand and assist Cuban efforts to preserve the social
achievements of the Revolution while creating a prosperous and sustainable
economy. Over time, with crucial support from the Avina Foundation, the
initiative has expanded into an international Consortium of participants. This
group is comprised primarily of organizations and individuals from Argentina,
Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico and Spain. During the same
period, the Consortium has developed strong relations with a variety of
institutions in Cuba including universities, government agencies, and
non-profit organizations. Without such partnerships, successful programs would
not be feasible. In the U.S., SRELDC operates in affiliation with the Green
Cities Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization focused on international development
issues. No funding has been accepted, nor will be sought, from the U.S.
government or its subcontractors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For more information, contact Eric Leenson
at <a href="mailto:eleenson@soleconomics.com"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">eleenson@soleconomics.co</span></a><u><span style="color: blue;">m</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUGGESTED
RESOURCES ON THE CUBAN ECONOMY AND U.S. REGULATIONS</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;">U.S. Treasury Department</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;">:<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;"> Sanctions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;"><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/cuba.aspx"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/cuba.aspx</span></a>
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;">as<span style="color: blue;"> </span>of<span style="color: blue;"> </span>3/11/2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sanctions FAQ: <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/cuba.aspx#cuba_new"><span style="color: blue;"> http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/cuba.aspx#cuba_ne</span></a>w
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 93%;"> Cuba
FAQ: <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/cuba_faqs_new.pdf"><span style="color: blue;"> http://www.treasury.gov/resource</span></a>-</span></u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 93%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FAQ: <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/tab4.pdf"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/tab4.pdf</span></a>
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Restrictions: <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/testimonycubatravel.pdf"><span style="color: blue;"> http://www.treasury.gov/resource</span></a>-</span></u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 93%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b>of 3/11/2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</u></b>as<b> </b>of 3/11/2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b>of 3/11/2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rafael and Pérez Villanueva, Omar Everleny. “Analysis of the Portfolio of
Opportunities for Foreign investment in Cuba”, Cuba Study Group, and
fromtheisland.org: <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=dcd5881c-b5ed-4bd6-954b-694f392e8bd4"><span style="color: blue;"> http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=dcd5881c-b5ed-4bd6-954b</span></a>-</span></u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=dcd5881c-b5ed-4bd6-954b-694f392e8bd4"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">694f392e8bd4</span></a> </span>as<span style="color: blue;"> </span>of
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Richard– Series on Cuban Economy <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/search?start=1&q=Richard+Feinberg"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">http://www.brookings.edu/search?start=1&q=Richard+Feinberg</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;">Sagebien,
Julia & Spadoni, Paolo “Dealing with the New Cuba”, Ivey Business Journal,
Jan.- Feb. 2015 <u><span style="color: blue;">http://iveybusinessjournal.com/dealing-with-the-new-cuba/</span></u>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 89%;">Sagebien,
Julia & Leenson, Eric. “Cuban Remix”, Stanford Social Innovation Review,
Winter 2015 <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/cuban_remix"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/cuban_remix</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 97%;">Spadoni,
Paolo. “Cuba’s Socialist Economy Today: Navigating Challenges and Change”
(2014) Lynne </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rienner Publishers</span><br />
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Archibald R.M. and Henken, Ted A. “Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy
Landscape” (2014) First Forum Press, a division of Lynne Rienner Publishers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guayabaprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345706726947414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153520.post-38680592745957351042015-03-16T13:59:00.003-04:002022-01-19T04:28:29.450-04:00Environmental HeroinesEnvironmental Heroines (Draft, first three columns of matrix)<br />
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<td class="xl65" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Name
(Who)</td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">What</td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Country (Where)</td>
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<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">In
History</td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl87" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Hildegard
von Bingen </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Benedictine abbess, writer,
composer, herbalist and mystic. She wrote theological, botanical and
medicinal texts, songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality
play</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Germany</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl87" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Pocahontas </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Native American, daughter of
Chief Powatan, educator, guide and diplomat to British colonists</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl87" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary
Dyer </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Quaker</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl87" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Nanyehi,
or Nancy Ward </td>
<td class="xl95" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Cherokee "Beloved
Woman"</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="88" style="height: 66.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl87" height="88" style="height: 66.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jane
Golden </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">First US female Botanist</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="72" style="height: 54.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="72" style="height: 54.0pt;">Amrita Devi</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder of Chipko Movement. </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl87" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sacajawea
(“Bird Woman”) </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Shoshone Indian, captured by the
Hidatsa and sold in marriage to a French trapper, joined the Lewis and Clark
expedition as trailblazer and interpreter at 16 yrs old</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="86" style="height: 64.8pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl87" height="86" style="height: 64.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Marie
Dorion</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Native American guide and
interpreter, Iowa tribe </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="46" style="height: 34.2pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="46" style="height: 34.2pt;">Octavia Hill</td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Open space campaigner</td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="61" style="height: 45.6pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="61" style="height: 45.6pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kingsford" title="Anna Kingsford"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anna Kingsford</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">one of the first English women
to obtain a degree in medicine</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="110" style="height: 82.2pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="110" style="height: 82.2pt;">Jane Addams</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"> pioneer settlement worker,
founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist,
author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. </td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="26" style="height: 19.8pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
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<td class="xl90"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
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<tr height="26" style="height: 19.8pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl91" height="26" style="height: 19.8pt;">Current</td>
<td class="xl84"></td>
<td class="xl84"></td>
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<tr height="272" style="height: 204.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl100" height="272" style="height: 204.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Zwinger" title="Ann Zwinger"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Ann Haymond Zwinger</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">nature writer, Run, River, Run;
A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers, 1982; A Desert
Country near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja
California, 1983; John Xantus: The Fort Tejon Letters, 1857-1859 (editor),
1986; The Mysterious Lands: A Naturalist Explores the Four Great Deserts of
the Southwest, 1989;</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="95" style="height: 71.4pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="95" style="height: 71.4pt;">Adela Gondek</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Profesor of Environmental Ethics
and Environemntal Policy at Columbia University</td>
<td class="xl84">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="44" style="height: 33.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl70" height="44" style="height: 33.0pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Aika-Tsubota.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Aika
Tsubota </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">12 year old author of children's
book <span class="font5">Secrets of the Earth</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Aila-Inkero-Keto.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Aila Inkero
Keto </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President of the Queensland
Rainforest Conservation Society</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=162"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Aimee Christensen</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Christensen Global Strategies,
LLC</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Akbar Sara Hussain </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Engineer responsible for capping
burning oil wells after Kuwaiti War</td>
<td class="xl70">Bahrain</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Akima-Paul.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Akima
Paul </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">15 year old Environmental
Communicator</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Grenada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alanna_Mitchell&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Alanna Mitchell (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Alanna Mitchell</span></a></td>
<td class="xl71" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in
Crisis</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Alegria-Fonseca-Barrera.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Alegria
Fonseca Barrera </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">member of the Colombian
Parliament</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Colombia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Stewart" title="Alice Stewart"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Alice Stewart</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">physician, epidemiologist specialising in the effects
of radiation on health</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK </td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Tepper_Marlin" title="Alice Tepper Marlin"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Alice Tepper Marlin</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Council_on_Economic_Priorities&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Council on Economic Priorities (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Council on Economic Priorities</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters" title="Alice Waters"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Alice Waters</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Chef, Author, Restaurateur</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Alisa Gravitz</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">For 30 years Gravitz has
led Green America, the national green economy organization.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Alison Smith</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Activist, Election Finance
Reformist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_Yaroshinskaya" title="Alla Yaroshinskaya"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Alla Yaroshinskaya</span></a></td>
<td class="xl70">politician and journalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ukraine</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Ami Zota</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sc.D, M.S., postdoctoral fellow
in the Program on Reproductive Health and Environment at the University of
California, San Francisco </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">Amina J. Mohammed</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Engineer, Special Adviser to UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 Development Planning</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Nigeria</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aminata_Wade&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Aminata Wade (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Aminata Wade</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder of an association of
women's groups working against desertification</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Senegal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman" title="Amy Goodman"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Amy Goodman</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">host of Democracy Now! </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Amy Irvine</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nature Writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Amy Vedder</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Conservationist, Co-Founder of
the Mountain Gorilla Project</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ana
Maria Kleymeyer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">2008 winner Stratospheric Ozone
Protection Awards</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Argentina</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Andia Chaves Fonnegra</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Colombia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Anesia-do-Amaral-Schmidt.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anesia do
Amaral Schmidt </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">84-year-old dedicated to the
conservation of native woods.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Angela Merkel</span></a></td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany" title="Chancellor of Germany"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Chancellor of Germany</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Angelina M. Galiteva</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder of the Renewables 100
Policy Institute and New Energy Options, Inc.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="74" style="height: 55.8pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl70" height="74" style="height: 55.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Anita-Roddick.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anita
Roddick </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founded The Body Shop
International</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anitra_Thorhaug&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Anitra Thorhaug (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anitra Thorhaug</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Club of Rome</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Ann Daniels</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Polar Explorer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Ann Hancock</td>
<td class="xl82" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founder and Executive
Director of the Climate Protection Campaign</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Ann Veneman</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ex US Secretary of Agriculture</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="110" style="height: 82.2pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl70" height="110" style="height: 82.2pt;">Anna and Livio Michelini </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sociologist and Phycisist,
respectively, founders of
Environmental and Social Rehabilitation Programme for Informal
Settlements (Favelas).</td>
<td class="xl70">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Anna Getty </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Celebrity environmentalist,
Getty Oil heiress</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1998/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anna Giordano</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">joined the Italian League for
the Protection of Birds at the age of six, and organized an international
surveillance camp for the protection of migrating raptors and storks at 15</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Italy</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Anna-H.-Merz.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anna H.
Merz </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">gave everything she had to
create a Rhino sanctuary</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kenya</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Anna-Teixeira.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anna
Teixeira </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">secretary general of CAIPA, a
Portuguese NGO concerned with promoting sustainable development</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Anne Anderson</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">exposed one of the worst
Superfund sites in Massachusetts</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Anne-Howland-Ehrlich.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anne Howland
Ehrlich </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">senior research associate in
biology, associate director and policy coordinator of the Center for
Conservation Biology at Stanford University</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2006/islands"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anne Kajir</span></a></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">chief executive officer of the
Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby, Attorney, fights illegal logging </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Papua New Guinea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Anne LaBastille</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Wildlife Ecologist and nature
writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Anne-Mearns.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Anne
Mearns </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">established Wilger Veld and
Youth Conservation Clubs in approximately 50 schools</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">South Africa</td>
</tr>
<tr height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">Annelisa Kilbourn </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">British veterinarian and
wildlife expert</td>
<td class="xl70">UK </td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leonard" title="Annie Leonard"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Annie Leonard</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">proponent of sustainability and
critic of excessive consumerism</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Annie Novak </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and director of Growing
Chefs Field-to-fork education courses</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Anuja Mendiratta</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">M.E.S., Board Chair, Women's
Voices for the Earth</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=104"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">April Bucksbaum </span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director The Baum
Foundation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Salleh" title="Ariel Salleh"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Ariel Salleh</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sociologist, social economist,
ecofeminist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Arundhati Roy </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Indian author, actress, and
political activist </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Arunee-Dejdamrongsakkul.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arunee Dejdamrongsakkul </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">secondary school student at
Suksanari School in Bangkok, member of
"Divide by Two" energy efficiency group</td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1995/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Aurora Castillo</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder of Mothers of East Los
Angeles (MELA), a community organization fighting to protect East Los Angeles
from environmental and public health threats</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Åsa Persson, Dr.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Senior Research Fellow at
Stockholm Environment Institute, Planetary Boundary Governance</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl82" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Aye Net
and Thwe Thwe Win</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Imprisoned for fighting against
copper mine in their village</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Burma</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Aysia Wright</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"> B.A. in Environmental Science, a J.D.
focused on environmental law , founder of green online fashion shop
Greenloop </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Badria_Abdullah_Al-Awadi&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Badria Abdullah Al-Awadi (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Badria
Abdullah Al-Awadi</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director of Arab Regional Center
for Environmental Law (ARCEL)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kuwait</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Barbara-d-Achille.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Barbara
d'Achille </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">journalist. Lived in the Peruvian jungles for 18 years,
opposing any depredation and campaigned for national parks and sustainable
development. </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Lithuanian-Peruvian</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Barbara Marx Hubbard</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Futurist, politician, coined the
term 'Conscious Evolution', ideological heir to Buckminster Fuller</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Barbara-Y.-E.-Pyle.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Barbara Y. E.
Pyle </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">produced award-winning
environmental documentaries for the Turner Broadcasting System</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Barli
Development Institute for Rural Women India</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/H.-R.-H.-Princess-Basma-bint-Ali.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Basma bint Ali, H.R.H. Princess</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founder and chairperson of a
number of grassroots NGOs in the field of environment and sustainable
development</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Jordan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Bebe
Arcifa Khan-Ajodha</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Trinidad Tobago</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Belinda Reyers, Dr.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">A conservation biologist whose
research focuses on biodiversity , its condition, conservation and links to
human wellbeing. </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">South Africa</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Bernadette Castro</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Former Commissioner, NY State
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Bernadette Cozart</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">gardener, botanist, urban
gardening advocate</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Bernadette del Chiaro</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director, Environment
California’s Clean Energy Program</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Bernadette-Vallely.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Bernadette
Vallely </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and Director of the
Women's Environmental Network (WED) </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=153"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Beth Conover</span></a></td>
<td class="xl84">Principal, Headwaters Consulting LLC</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl88" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Beth
“Horehound” O’Brien</td>
<td class="xl84"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Beth Stevens</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Senior VP Env Affairs, Disney
World Wide Services</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Betsy Barlow Rogers</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">First Director, Central Park
Conservancy</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Betsy West </td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">executive producer MAKERS.com</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Bette Midler</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Actress, Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Beverly Wright</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">head of the Deep South Center
for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Bianca Jagger</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Celebrity, Activist,
Philanthropist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Nicaragua</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birut%C3%A9_Galdikas" title="Biruté Galdikas"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Biruté Galdikas </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">primatologist, conservationist,
ethologist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">BJ Cummings</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Principal at Community
Environmental Services, Inc.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Brenda-and-Robert-Vale.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Brenda and
Robert Vale </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">architects, they are at the
leading edge of developing houses and buildings, which have minimal impact on
the environment.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Brianna
Almaguer Sandoval</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Leading The Food Trust's Healthy
Corner Store Initiative</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Brigitte-Bardot.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Brigitte
Bardot </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founder of the "Fondation
Brigitte Bardot," active in promoting the protection of animals </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">France</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Bu Eroh</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">in 1985 led her community in
West Java in constructing a water channel across four kilometres of rough
mountainside. Three villages benefitted from the water supply</td>
<td class="xl70">Indonesia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Chief Caleen Sisk</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Caleen Sisk is the Spiritual
Leader and Tribal Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, in the McCloud River
watershed in Northern California</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Browner" title="Carol Browner"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Carol Browner</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">lawyer, environmentalist, and
businesswoman</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_J._Adams" title="Carol J. Adams"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Carol J. Adams</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">writer,
feminist, and animal rights advocate</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Carol Koury</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder, Sow True Seeds Co.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Carol Kratz</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Carol Mosely Braun</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and President, Good Food
Organics, Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Nomination, 2004</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Carolina-Garcia-Travesi.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Carolina
Garcia Travesi </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">15 year old global environmenal
activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/caroline-cannon"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Caroline
Cannon</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"> She has become the strongest and most
consistent voice against the rush to drill in the Arctic seas.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Caroline Lucas</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">British Green party politician</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Merchant" title="Carolyn Merchant"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Carolyn
Merchant</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ecofeminist, Author, <span class="font5">The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific
Revolution</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Carolyn Raffesnperger</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Anthropologist, Environmental
Lawyer, Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Fowler" title="Cary Fowler"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Cary Fowler</span></a></td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rural_Advancement_Fund_International&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Rural Advancement Fund International (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Rural
Advancement Fund International</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1991/islands"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Cath Wallace</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">lecturer at Victoria University
in economics and public policy, focusing primarily on the environment</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">New Zealand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Catherine-Caufield.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Catherine
Caufield </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">journalist for The New Yorker
and author of In the Rain Forest</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Catherine-Hicks.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Catherine
Hicks </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">raises funds for marine mammal
conservation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Keller_%28theologian%29" title="Catherine Keller (theologian)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Catherine Keller</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Theologian who fights for social
and ecological justice</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Catherine 'Kay" Kerr</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founder, Save the Bay</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Cathrine Sneed</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and director of the
Garden Project</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Cathy Oke</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Chair of the Future Melbourne
(Eco-City) Committee, Deputy Chair of the Future Melbourne (Connected City)
Committee and Co-Chair of the Parks and Gardens Advisory Committee.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/186"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Champa Shukla</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Bhopal activist who has ignited
the international campaign to seek justice for disaster survivors 20+ years
after</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Chan Eng
Heng, Dr. (and husband Mr. Liew Hock Chark) </td>
<td class="xl101" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://www.kustem.edu.my/seatru/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Sea
Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU) of University College, Terengganu</span></a></td>
<td class="xl70">Malaysia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Chandra-Degia-and-Jimmy-Brown.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Chandra Degia
and Jimmy Brown </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Catalysts for Wildlife and
Environmental Conservation (WECAN), formed in 1991, encourages environmental
awareness among Jamaican youth; the development of a sustainable conservation
ethic; and resource appreciation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Jamaica</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_Spretnak" title="Charlene Spretnak"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Charlene Spretnak</span></a></td>
<td class="xl102" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Women%27s_Hall_of_Fame" title="Ohio Women's Hall of Fame"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame for her writings on
spirituality and social justice.</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Charlotte-Rajeriarison.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Charlotte
Rajeriarison </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">University of
Antananarivo's head of the Ecology
Department</td>
<td class="xl70">Madagascar</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Chloe Coscarelli </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">vegan cupcake maker, activist,
entrepreneur</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Chodchoy Sophonpanich </td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">president of the Thai
Environmental and Community Development Association, Winner Global 500</td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Christiana Figueres</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Secretary of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)</td>
<td class="xl70">Costa Rica</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=194"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Christine Ervin</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Former U.S. Assistant Secretary
for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1992/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Christine Jean</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Her crusade to save the Loire by
rallying small opposition groups along
the river into one strong national organization, S.O.S. Loire Vivante, won
against govt plans to build a dam</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">France</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Loh" title="Christine Loh"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Christine Loh</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">JP, OBE, former Hong Kong
Legislator</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Christine-Milne.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Christine
Milne </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Member of the "Green Independent" party in the
Tasmanian Parliament</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Tasmania</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Duehring" title="Cindy Duehring"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Cindy Duehring</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Activist and researcher</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Claire Greensfelder</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">peace and safe energy activist,
educator, political campaigner, and occasional journalist focusing on climate
change</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Clare Dakin</td>
<td class="xl99">founded TreeSisters</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colette_Serruya&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Colette Serruya (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Colette Serruya</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">research and monitoring of Lake
Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Israel</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Colleen-McCrory.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Colleen
McCrory </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">protector of the world's largest
remaining temperate rainforest in British Columbia</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Connie Hedegaard</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">EU Climate Commissioner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Narbona" title="Cristina Narbona"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Cristina
Narbona Ruiz</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Zapatero" title="José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Minister of Environment in the
government of Spain</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Spain</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Crystal Lameman</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Beaver Lake Cree Nation, anti
Tar Sands activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Cynthia de Wit, Prof.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ecotoxicology and environmental
fate of persistent organic pollutants</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Cynthia Jurs</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">20 years healing the Earth,
Exec. Dir., Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">The Congo</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Cynthia Rosenzweig</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">NASA's Goddard Space Center,
Columbia University profesor </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1993/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dai Qing</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Daughter of a revolutionary
martyr, former missile technician, now a fearless journalist who opposes to
the Three Gorges dam.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Danielle
Nierenberg</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Senior Researcher at the
Worldwatch Institute, co-Founder of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Danuse Kvasnickova </td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Biology teacher, promoted
environmental education</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Czech Republic</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Daphne-Marjorie-Sheldrick.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">works with animals in Tsavo
National Park </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kenya</td>
</tr>
<tr height="156" style="height: 117.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl68" height="156" style="height: 117.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Deborah
Rice</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">She received her Ph.D. in
toxicology from the University of Rochester, after which she worked as a risk
assessor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Center
for Environmental Assessment</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="208" style="height: 156.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="208" style="height: 156.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Dee
Boersma</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Wadsworth Endowed Chair in
Conservation Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, has done
extensive field studies on penguins and other sea birds, research that has
led to a greater understanding of the human impact on marine ecosystems and
for advocating conservation through education.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Deirdre
Imus</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and President of the
Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Dian
Fossey </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Mountain gorilla researcher and
activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Diana H.
Wall</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">professor of biology at Colorado
State University who has studied soil biodiversity in Antarctica and Kansas
over the last two decades</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Diane
Wilson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Gulf Coast Shrimper and
Eco-warrior</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Dianne
Dumanoski </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Journalist, environmental
activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Digna
Ochoa</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">lawyer representing
environmentalists</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Dina-Iosifovna-Protsenko.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dina Iosifovna Protsenko </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director, State Committee on the
Environment</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Dolores
Huerta</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founder United Farm Workers
of America</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Donella
Meadows</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">pioneering American
environmental scientist, teacher and writer. She is best known as lead author
of the influential book The Limits to Growth</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="168" style="height: 126.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl74" height="168" style="height: 126.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway" title="Donna Haraway"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Donna Haraway</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">a Distinguished Professor
Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, United States; she has taught Women's Studies and the
History of Science, After high school Haraway moved to Paris and studied
evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on
a Fulbright scholarship. Haraway then did a triple major in zoology,
philosophy and literature at the Colorado College. She completed her Ph.D. in
biology at Yale in 1970</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Dorothy
Stang</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Deforestation fighter</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Dr. Deb Richter</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Fought for, and won a bill for
single payer health care in Vermont</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duna_K%C3%B6r" title="Duna Kör"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Duna Kör</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barlow_Rogers" title="Elizabeth Barlow Rogers"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Elizabeth
Barlow</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Landscape designer, Nature
writer, The Forests and Wetlands of New York City</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Edwige-Guillon.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edwige Guillon </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1991/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eha Kern</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=49"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Eileen Claussen</span></a></td>
<td class="xl70">Ozone Award</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2003/islands"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eileen Kampakuta Brown</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/195"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eileen Wingfield</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Eleanor
Fairchild</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">78-year-old farmer from eastern
Texas who is working to defend her land against the Keystone XL pipeline</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Eleni
Gabre-Madhin</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Food security entrepreneur,
created Ethiopia's first food comodity trading platform</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ethiopia </td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Elinor
Ostrom </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Political Scientist, known for
her defense of The Commons as a community management project</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Elisa
Lynch</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=46"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Elisabeth Graffy</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Coordinator; Natural Resource
and Environmental Indicators - Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Department of
the Interior</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Elizabeth
Colleton, Jane Evans and Susan Haspel</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">NBC Universal's "Green is
Universal" Initiative </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Elizabeth
Kolbert </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Journalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Elizabeth-May.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elizabeth May </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Elizabeth
Titus Putnam</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founded the Student Conservation
Association (SCA)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ellen
McArthur, Dame</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Solo around the world sailor and
yachtswoman, founded the Ellen McArthur Foundation (2009)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ellen
Meloy</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nature Writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ellen
Peterson</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ellen
Swallow</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=149"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Emily Figdor</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Federal Global Warming Program
Director, Environment America</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl103" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Emily
Pauline Johnson, aka Tekahionwake</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Poet and naturalist </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1995/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Emma Must</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Emma
Pullman </td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">First Nations tar sands witness
and blogger</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Elena
Bennett, Prof.</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">PhD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment
McGill University, Montreal, Canada</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="187" style="height: 140.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Erin
Schrode</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">At 13, Erin helped found a small
neighborhood organization outside San Francisco. Now 22, Erin's Teens Turning
Green is a student-led movement advocating eco-lifestyle and youth
leadership. Its banner initiative, Project Green Challenge, can now be found
in 21 countries and 48 U.S. states </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Erna-Witoelar.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Erna Witoelar </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Indonesia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Boserup" title="Esther Boserup"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Esther Boserup</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, Woman’s Role in Economic
Development.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Esther
Gulick</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founderof Save the Bay</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Esther-Peter-Davis.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Esther Peter-Davis </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">France</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Eung-Bai Shin </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/evgenia-chirikova"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Evgenia Chirikova</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Fadzai Zengeya</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Zimbabwe</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Fatih-Yilmaz.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fatih Yilmaz </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Somalia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2002/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fatima Jibrell</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director, Horn of Africa Relief
and Development Organization </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Fatma-El-Gohary.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fatma El-Gohary </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Egypt</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Langer" title="Felicia Langer"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Felicia Langer</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Fernanda
M. Kellogg</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President, Tiffany & Co.
Foundation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Fiona-Reynolds.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fiona Reynolds </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Florence-Fisher.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Florence Fisher </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Florence
Page Jacques</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nature writer, Snowshoe Country</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Florence
Robinson</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">professor of biology, Southern
University</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Frances
Beinecke</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President, National Resources
Defense Council (NRDC).</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="RANGE!A203">Frances Moore Lappe</a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmentalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Francis Boateng </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Ghana</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Francisca
Nneka Okeke</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Atmospheric geophysicist,
professor, scientist, and researcher</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Nigeria</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_d%27Eaubonne" title="Françoise d'Eaubonne"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Françoise
d'Eaubonne</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">French feminist, coined the word
ecofeminism</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">France</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gabrielle
Bernstein</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">International Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gaia
Vince</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Journalist, Author of
"Adventures of the Anthropocene"</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gay
Browne </td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://greenopia.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greenopia,</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Georgina
Mace</td>
<td class="xl105" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Centre for Biodiversity and
Environment Research</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Gertrude-Duby-Blom.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gertrude Duby Blom </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ginger
Strand</td>
<td class="xl78" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">novelist, environmental writer,
and an amateur historian</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Giomar Helena Borrero-Pérez</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Colombia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Gladys Kahaka</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Namibia </td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Gladys-Khangwayini-Mashinini.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gladys Khangwayini Mashinini </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">South Africa</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Gochoogin
Jamts Mongolia</td>
<td class="xl70">Mongolia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Gome Gnohite Hilaire </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Cote d'Ivoire</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gonoshasthaya
Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Bangladesh</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gordafrid
Miller</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Commissioner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Grace
Boggs</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Activist-Philosopher, co-founder
of Detroit Summer, founder of James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture
Community Leadership</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Gaard" title="Greta Gaard"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greta Gaard</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gretchen
Daily</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Stanford University professor,
co-founded the Natural Capital Project</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gretel
Ehrlich</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author of The Solace of Open
Spaces,</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Gro
Harlem Brundtland</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Norway's first woman prime
minister</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Norway</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl80" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helen_G._Cruickshank&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Helen G. Cruickshank (page does not exist)"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Helen G. Cruickshank</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">nature writer, Flight Into
Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiba_Sarabi" title="Habiba Sarabi"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Habiba Sarabi</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Governor of Afghanistan’s Bamyan
Province; apracticing physician, Governor Sarabi was forced to flee Taliban
rule. </td>
<td class="xl76"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Afghanistan</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Hafidi
My El-Mehdi Morocco</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Harekala-Moideen.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harekala Moideen </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Harriet Friedmann</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Professor of Geography and
Planning, Sociology and the Munk School of Global Studies</td>
<td class="xl70">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Hasna J. Moudud </td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">member of the Bangladeshi
Parliament, fought to save the coastal ecosystems in Bangladesh</td>
<td class="xl70">Bangladesh</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">Hazel Henderson</td>
<td class="xl81" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, a futurist,
evolutionary economist and author of nine books including <span class="font7">Ethical
Markets: Growing the Green Economy </span><span class="font6">(2006). created
the Green Transition Scoreboard™, tracking private investment worldwide in
green technologies.</span></td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1994/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Heffa Schuecking</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Helen
Clark</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">administrator of the United
Nations Development Program</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">New Zealand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mack_Chang" title="Helen Mack Chang"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Helen Mack</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Guatemala</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Helen Mary Caldicott</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">MD until 1980 when she resigned
to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war, anti-nuclear activist,</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia, USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Norberg-Hodge" title="Helena Norberg-Hodge"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Helena
Norberg-Hodge</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladakh_Ecological_Development_Group" title="Ladakh Ecological Development Group"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ladakh Ecological Development Group</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Helene
Aylon </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">ecofeminist, artist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Her-Majesty-Queen-Noor.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her Majesty Queen Noor </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Jordan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Hiroyuki Ishi </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Hope Burwell</td>
<td class="xl70">Organic Farmer, writer, teacher</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="110" style="height: 82.2pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl70" height="110" style="height: 82.2pt;">Hunter Lovins </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President of Natural Capitalism
Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more
sustainable business practices profitably.</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Idelisa-Bonnelly-de-Calventi-FUNDEMAR.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">marine biologist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Dominican Republic</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ikal-angelei"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ikal Angelei</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Fought against damming Lake
Turkana and won</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ethiopia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina_May_Gaskin" title="Ina May Gaskin"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ina May Gaskin</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Fernandez" title="Irene Fernandez"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Irene Fernandez</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Malaysia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Irina-Vasilevna-Springuel.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Irina Vasilevna Springuel </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Egypt</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Irma-Allen.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Irma Allen </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Swaziland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Isa
Bryant</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Isabel Cristina Chinchilla
Soto</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Costa Rica</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Isabella
Rossellini</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Actress, Director, Writer &
Celebrity Environmental Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Izabella
Teixeira</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environment Minister</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Jacqueline Holmes</td>
<td class="xl70">Kopali Organics</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Moudeina" title="Jacqueline Moudeina"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jacqueline
Moudeina</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Chad</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1999/islands"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jacqui Katona</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2002/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jadwiga Lopata</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Poland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=27"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jae Edmonds, Dr.</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Laboratory Fellow and Chief
Scientist;Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryJoint Global Change Research
Institute at the University of Maryland College Park</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jan
Barry, Thomas E. Franklin, Mary Jo Layton, Tim Nostrand, Alex Nussbaum, Tom
Troncone, Debra Lynn Vial, Lindy Washburn, Barbara Williams</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Toxic Legacy</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Jan-C.-Van-der-Leun.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jan C. Van der Leun </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ozone</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Netherlands</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=77"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jane Elder</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Communications
Specialist -- Jane Elder Strategies</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Jane-Goodall.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jane Goodall </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Primate Scientist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jane
Jacobs</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Urbanist and activist, primary
interest in communities and urban planning and decay.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jane
Long</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Associate Director-at-Large at
Lawrence Livermore National Lab</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jane
Lubchenco</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ecologist, professor of marine
biology at Oregon State University </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Biehl" title="Janet Biehl"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Janet Biehl </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1990/southcentralamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Janet Gibson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Belize</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Janet
MacGillivray Wallace</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Creek, J.D., LL.M., is an
environmental attorney and social change activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Janette
Sadik-Khan</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Commissioner, NYC Dept of Trans.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_Benyus" title="Janine Benyus"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Janine Benyus</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, Biomimicry</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Janis-and-Bob-Jones.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Janis and Bob Jones </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">New Zealand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jayni
Chase</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Activist and
Philanthropist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jean
Clark, Norma Dana, Marguerite Purnell, Betsy Barlow Rogers and Phyllis Wagner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Central Park Conservancy</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2002/southcentralamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jean La Rose</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Guyana</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Jean M. Belanger </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Jeanette Armstrong</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics
and Syilx Indigenous Literatures, recipient of the EcoTrust Buffett Award for
Indigenous Leadership</td>
<td class="xl70">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jennie
Dundas and Alexis Miesen </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Blue Marble Ice Cream Rwanda
microloans</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=106"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jenny Clad</span></a></td>
<td class="xl84">Director -- The Climate Project</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jenny
Deller </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Writer/Director/Producer
Documentarian</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jill
Buck</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"> wrote the Go Green
Initiative, which is now the largest and fastest growing comprehensive
environmental education program in the world</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jill
Danyelle </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">eco-fashion designer, green
interior designer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Jill
Phipps</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jill_Sheppard&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Jill Sheppard (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Jill Sheppard</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Barbados</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Jillian Banfield</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Laureate of the 13th Annual
L’Oréal-UNESCO 2011 For Women in Science Awards</td>
<td class="xl84">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Joan
Blades</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founder, MoveOn.org</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Joan
Kleypas</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">A marine ecologist and geologist
with the National Center for Atmospheric Research</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Joan
Norman</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1993/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">JoAnn Tall</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Joanna
Macy</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Writer, Environmental Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Jody Williams</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nobel Peace Laureate</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Johannie Maria Spaan</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">South Africa </td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Joke
Waller-Hunter</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">UNFCCC Executive Secretary</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">The Netherlands</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Joon-Yuep Cha</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Josie
Maran</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Actress, businesswomen, activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Joy Adamson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">protector of Lions</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Joyce Sequichie Hifler</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, A Cherokee Feast of Days</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Judith
(Judi) Beatrice Bari</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Earth First! Leader</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=164"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Judith Curry</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Chair, School of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences - Georgia Institute of Technology</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl104" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Judith Kimmerling</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental litigator</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA / Ecuador</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Judith
Nies</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Journalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Plaskow" title="Judith Plaskow"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Judith Plaskow</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Judith
Rodin PhD</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President, Rokefeller Foundation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Julia
Belle Thompson Bonds (Judy)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">executive director of Coal River
Mountain Watch</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=15"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Judy Corbett </span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director;Local
Government Commission</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">Judy DaSilva</td>
<td class="xl81" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Was awarded the Michael Sattler
Peace Prize from the German Mennonite Peace Committe</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Judy
Wicks</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://www.livingeconomies.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Business Alliance for Local Living Economies </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2003/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Julia Bonds</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Julia
Butterfly Hill</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Garnered int'l attention for the
world’s last remaining ancient forests; climbed 180 feet into the branches of
a 1000 year-old redwood tree </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Julia-Hailes.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Julia Hailes </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Julia
Louis-Dreyfus</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">celebrity environmentalist,
actress</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Julia
Martinez</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Instituto Nacional de
Ecología </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Julia
Trigg Crawford</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Farm Manager, activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Julie
Urlaub</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Managing Partner of Taiga
Company, a consulting firm helping clients to powerfully engage
sustainability communications in the social media space</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="117" style="height: 87.6pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl69" height="117" style="height: 87.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Juliet
B. Shore</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Economist, sociologist,
professor at Harvard and Boston College</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Jung Hee Park </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2005/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kaisha Atakhanova</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kazakhstan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=117"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kalee D. Kreider</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Communications Director --
Office of the Hon. Al Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="128" style="height: 96.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl68" height="128" style="height: 96.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kandi
Mossett</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, is
Native Energy & Climate Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous
Environmental Network</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Dr.-Karen-Eckert.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Karen Eckert </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_J._Warren" title="Karen J. Warren"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Karen J. Warren</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Karen Orenstein</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Friends of the Earth US</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Karen Wristen</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director, Living
Oceans Society</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Katarina
Kruhonja / Vesna Terselic</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Croatia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Andrew-and-Kate-Lipkis.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Kate and
Andrew Lipkis </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founded Treepeople</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kate
Harris</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Masters in geopolitics and
geobiology</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kate
Harris</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Chief Executive Officer, Centre
for Sustainability Leadership</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate_Lipkis&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Kate Lipkis (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Kate Lipkis</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl106" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/KateRaworth"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kate
Raworth</span></a></td>
<td class="xl107" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Researcher and lecturer
exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social
and ecological challenges</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kathleen
Bader</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Former President of NatureWorks
LLC</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kathleen
Dean Moore</td>
<td class="xl108" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/" title="spring-creek-project"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University and co-founder and Senior
Fellow of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the
Written Word</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=94"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kathleen Hadley</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director -- National
Center for Appropriate Technology</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kathleen
McGinty</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Chair, Council on Environmental
Quality</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="99" style="height: 74.4pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="99" style="height: 74.4pt;">Kathrin Barboza Márquez</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Bolivia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="57" style="height: 42.6pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl84" height="57" style="height: 42.6pt;">Katherine Richardson, PhD</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Oceanographer, State Natural
History Museum Copenhagen</td>
<td class="xl84">Copenhagen</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Kathryn-S.-Fuller.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kathryn S. Fuller </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kathryn
Wasserman Davis</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">With sustained philanthropic
activity over 75 years, she supported the restoration of the Hudson River.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="171" style="height: 128.4pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl68" height="171" style="height: 128.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kathy
Fletcher</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental catalyst, founder
and executive director of People for Puget Sound, has led this citizen
organization’s efforts to protect and restore the health of the Sound and the
Northwest Straits through education and action</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kay
Kelley Arnold</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Entergy Foundation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kelsey
Juliana</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">18 yr old walking across US for
Climate</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kendra
Pierre Louis</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">writer, researcher,
environmental strategist for the Post Growth Institute and author of Green
Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl85" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Kerri-Ann Jones, Dr.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Head of Bureau of Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Ki-Chel Choi </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kim
Stanley Robinson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kimberly
Snyder </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">holistic nutritionist </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kirsten
Brydum</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kirsten
Schwind</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">co-founded Bay Localize in 2006,
and in 2009 authored the Community Resilience Toolkit, a grassroots
climate adaptation guide</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1998/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kory Johnson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Krishnakumar Panday </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Nepal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Krisna Tamrakar </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Nepal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Kristine
Pearson and Rory Stear</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Kruti Parekh </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">KT
Tunstall </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Singer, activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Scotland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Kyung-Sun Won </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">L.
Hunter Lovins</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President, Natural Capitalism
Solutions</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1994/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Laila Iskandar Kamel</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Egypt</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Lalita-Balakrishnan.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lalita Balakrishnan </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=61"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Larisa Dobriansky</span></a></td>
<td class="xl84">Baker & Hostetler</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Laura
Berón </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">The Montreal Protocol: HCFCs and
HFCs</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Argentina </td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Laura
Miller </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition
(TCACC) </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Laura
Paskus</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Journalist specializing in
politics surrounding environmental stewardship and use, environmental
destruction and abuse.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Laura
Turner Seydel </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">environmental activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Laura
Tyson,</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder, The Women's Wilderness
Institute</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.lauriedavid.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Laurie David </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Global Warming Activist/Movie
Producer/Author</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="187" style="height: 140.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Laurie
Marker</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Tyler Prize Laureate In
recognition of her contributions in developing an ecosystem based approach to
sustainable management of a landscape, using the knowledge and economic
interests of the local population, and thereby also supporting the
continuation and survival of the cheetah.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laurie_Marker&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Laurie Marker (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Laurie Marker</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Mississauga Nishnaabeg Native
American, writer, author of Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation,
Protection and Resurgence of Indigenous Nations and Dancing on Our Turtle’s
Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada, First Nation</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Leanne
Mai-ly Hilgart </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founder and designer of the
vegan fashion label Vaute Couture </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Legeia Gonzalez L. </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Colombia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Leilani
Munter </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Race car driver and
environmental activist </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Leonie-Vejjajiva.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Leonie Vejjajiva </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Leymah Gbowee</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nobel Peace Laureate</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2004/southcentralamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Libia Grueso</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Colombia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Lilian-Corra.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lilian Corra </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Argentina</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lilky
Mabura</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nature Writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kenya, USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Lily-Venizelos.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lily Venizelos </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Greece</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Lily Yeh</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Healing economically devastated
communities through art</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Linda
Moulton Howe</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Journalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lindsey
Allen</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Exec Dit Rainforest Action
Network</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lisa
Berry</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lisa
Gansky</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, The Mesh</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lisa
Goddard</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director of the International
Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_P._Jackson" title="Lisa P. Jackson"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lisa P. Jackson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director, EPA</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Liz
Putnam</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President, Student Conservation
Assoc</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1990/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lois Gibbs</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">formed the Love Canal Homeowners
Association, led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act, or Superfund</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Loren-Legarda-Leviste.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Loren Legarda-Leviste </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Philippines</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Lorraine-Adams.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lorraine Adams </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Lorraine
Adams New Zealand</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Louise de Kiriline Lawrence</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">internationally
renowned naturalist, author and nurse. She was the most
prolific contributor to the National Audubon
Society magazine Audubon.</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Louise Miller</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Catalyst, former
state legislator, King County Council member, and member of numerous
environmental advisory committees</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Lucy Aquino</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">World Wildlife Fund Paraguay
Director</td>
<td class="xl70">Paraguay</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lynn
Chase</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Wildlife Artist, Philanthropist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lynn
Goldman</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">pediatrician and epidemiologist,
dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington
University</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lynn Henning</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lynn
Margulis</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Evolutionary Biologist,
associated with the Gaia hypothesis</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Lynn
Wagner</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Manager of IISD Reporting
Services’ Knowledge Management Projects: Climate Change Policy &
Practice, Biodiversity Policy & Practice and Sustainable Development
Policy & Practice.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">M. A. Partha Sarathy </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1996/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">M.C. Mehta</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ma-jun"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma Jun</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">MaVynee
Betsch</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Madeline
Janis</td>
<td class="xl96" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">co-founder and national policy
director of LAANE, LA A New Economy for All</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mae
Jemison</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder, BioSentient Corporation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Mairead Maguire</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nobel Peace Laureate</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Maitraye-Devi.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maitraye Devi </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Majora
Carter</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and Executive Director
of Sustainable South Bronx</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Małgorzata Górska</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Poland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Malin Falkenmark </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Mallika-Wanigasundara.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mallika Wanigasundara </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">sri Lanka</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2004/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Manana Kochladze</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Georgia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">Maneka Sanjay Gandhi</td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"> politician, animal rights
activist, environmentalist, former model and widow of the Indian politician,
Sanjay Gandhi</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Manulani Aluli Meyer </td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA, Hawaii</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Margaret (Peg) Tileston</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founding board member of the
Alaska Center for the Environment, helped to organize the Alaska Conservation
Foundation.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1993/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Margaret Jacobsohn</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Namibia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Margaret
Lydecker </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder, Green Drinks NYC
networking</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Margaret-Mee.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Margaret Mee </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Margaret-Robertson.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Margaret Robertson </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Margaret
Wittenberg</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Whole Foods Market Vice
President of Global Communications and Quality Standards</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Margaret-The-Lady-Thatcher.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Margaret, The Lady Thatcher </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2004/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Margie Eugene-Richard</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Margie
Ruddick</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental Designer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl73" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Margot
Elisabeth Wallström</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">European Commission Environment
Commissioner from 1999–2004</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Maria-Aida-Velasquez.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maria Aida Velasquez </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Philipines</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Maria
Cherkasova</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Journalist, Ecologist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2003/southcentralamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maria Elena Foronda Farro</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Peru</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2009/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maria Gunnoe</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Maria Mies </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sociologist, eco-feminist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Maria
Rodale</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Chairman, Rodale Publishing</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Maria-Teresa-Ortiz.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maria Teresa Ortiz </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Maria-V.-Cherkasova.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maria V. Cherkasova </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Marian Chertow</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director and Associate
Professor<br />
Industrial Environmental Management<br />
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Marielle
Anzelone </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Botanist and Urban Ecologist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Marie-Paul Labey France</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Marilyn
Waring</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Human rights and environmental
activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Marilyn
Weiner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">TV producer, Journey to Planet
Earth</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2008/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Marina Rikhvanova</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1996/southcentralamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Marina Silva</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="236" style="height: 177.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl74" height="236" style="height: 177.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Marion
Nestle</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Paulette Goddard Professor in
the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York
University, also Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of
Nutritional Sciences at Cornell</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Marion Shoard</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environmental activist,
Eldercare campaigner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Marion Stoddart</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="26" style="height: 19.2pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl68" height="26" style="height: 19.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Maritza-Pulido-Santana.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maritza Pulido-Santana </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Venezuela</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Martha Delgado</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environment Secretary, Mexico
City, Mexico</td>
<td class="xl70">Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Marti Boada </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Spain</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marti_Kheel" title="Marti Kheel"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Marti Kheel</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary and
Carrie Dann</td>
<td class="xl70"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Western Shoshone Nation</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary Ann
Sumner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Dryden, NY Town Supervisor</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary
Daly</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">feminist phiolosopher,
theologian, and academic</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Grey_%28theologian%29" title="Mary Grey (theologian)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary
Grey</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl87" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary
Harris "Mother" Jones</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">ORATOR, UNION ORGANIZER, AND
HELLRAISER</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl87" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary
Mavanza</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">manager of the TACARE program of
the Jane Goodall Institute, has helped hundreds of Tanzanian women start
environmentally sustainable businesses through microcredit loans and by
providing training in accounting. </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Tanzania</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Mary-McGillicuddy-Sheehy.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary McGillicuddy-Sheehy </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ireland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Mary Mellor</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sociologist, Green Economics
Institute</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mary
Robinson </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President of Ireland, U.N.’s
High Commissioner for Human Rights</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ireland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Mary-Zanoni-Allegretti.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Zanoni Allegretti </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Maryam
Henein </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Vanishing of the Bees movie</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Masazumi Harada </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Barlow" title="Maude Barlow"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maude Barlow</span></a></td>
<td class="xl75" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Maude_Barlow"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Maude_Barlow </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=65"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Maureen Hart</span></a></td>
<td class="xl88" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://sustainablemeasures.com/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Executive
Director; Sustainable Measures</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">May
Boeve</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founder, Step It Up, later
350.org, which merged w/ 1Sky</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">May
Lindstrom </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">green skincare chef </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="250" style="height: 187.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="250" style="height: 187.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_R._Berenbaum&action=edit&redlink=1" title="May R. Berenbaum (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">May R. Berenbaum</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Tyler Prize Laureate for In
recognition of her contributions in the field of coevolution of herbivorous
insects and plants, elucidating the physiological and genetic basis for
understanding the interactions between herbivorous insects and plants, her
application of these concepts to agricultural practices, and for sharing her
insights on the role of insects in our ecosystems.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Maya Lin</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Artist, Architect, and
Environmentalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="89" style="height: 66.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="89" style="height: 66.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Maxima
Acuna de Chaupe</td>
<td class="xl112" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">member of the Asociación de
Mujeres en Defensa de la Vida (Association of Women in Defence of Livelihood)
and the Unión Latinoamericana de Mujeres (Latin American Women's
Union)</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Peru</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1992/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Medha Patkar</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mei Ng</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Anthropologist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Melina
Laboucan-Massimo</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Lubicon Cree from Northern
Alberta, advocate for Indigenous rights</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=113"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Melissa Dann</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director -- Wallace
Global Fund</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Melissa Leach, Prof.</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director of the Institute of
Development Studies</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Melissa Nelson</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Michelle Lanzoni</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Biologist, Nature writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Minakshi Arora</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Yamuna Waterkeeper</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Mindy
Lubber</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director of the Investor Network
on Climate Risk, representing $11 trillion in assets </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Miranda
Gibson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Front-line Forest Conservation
Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Tasmania, Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Miriam Rothschild, Dame</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">zoologist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Molly
Morse</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder, Mango Materials, a
company that uses bacteria to turn methane into biodegradable plastic.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">MOLLY
MORSE</td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Mango Materials uses bacteria to
turn methane into biopolymer granules in a cradle‐to‐cradle loop, using a
patented process</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Molly-R.-Gaskin.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Molly R. Gaskin </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Trinidad Tobago</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Monica
Ralli</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">eco-entrepreneur, author and
social media maven</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Monica
Sjöö</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">painter, writer and a radical
anarcho/eco-feminist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Hauser" title="Monika Hauser"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Monika Hauser</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Italy</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Mr.-G.-V.-and-Mrs.-K.-Karlekar.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mr. G. V. and Mrs. K. Karlekar </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Mugamir Eisa Khalifa </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Sudan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Mukhtar Shakhanov </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Kazakhstan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Nafisa-Shah.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Nafisa
Shah </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Pakistan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Najib-Saab.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Najib
Saab </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Lebanon</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Nan
Fairbrother</td>
<td class="xl102" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer" title="Writer"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">English writer and lecturer,
Landscape architect</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Nance
Klehm</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"> Radical Ecologist, Landscape Designer,
Artist, Writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=174"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nancy Jackson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director - Climate
& Energy Project (CEP) - The Land Institute</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Nancy
Knowlton</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Smithsonian Institution marine
biologist </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">Nancy Langrall</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">senior policy advisor to US
Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island who chairs the Senate's Appropriations
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, to effectively
improve the quality of life in RI and to help protect and restore
Narragansett Bay</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Nancy-Lee-Nash.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nancy Lee Nash </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Nancy-Pearlman.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Nancy
Pearlman </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="208" style="height: 156.0pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="208" style="height: 156.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Nancy
Rabalais</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Marine Biologist, Gulf of
Mexico, Her work was featured in the 2010 television documentary, Troubled
Waters: A Mississippi River Story</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Naomi
Klein</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/other-resources/communicator-year-awards/naomi-oreskes-2011-climate-change-communicator-year"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Naomi Oreskes</span></a></td>
<td class="xl102" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/other-resources/communicator-year-awards/naomi-oreskes-2011-climate-change-communicator-year"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">2011 Climate Change
Communicator of the Year</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmada_Bachao_Andolan" title="Narmada Bachao Andolan"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Narmada
Bachao Andolan</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Natalia Greene</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Coordinator of the Political
Plurinationality and the Rights of Nature program at the Fundación Pachamama</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ecuador</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Natalie Merchant</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Singer, Activist, received the
Keeper of the Catskills Award from Catskill Mountainkeeper</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1996/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Ndyakira Amooti</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Uganda</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Nell Newman</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">established Newman's Own®
Organics: The Second Generation®</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Niki Goulandris </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Greece</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Nina
Sicha Siren Gualinga </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">19 year old youth leader of the
indigenous Sarayaku tribe</td>
<td class="xl70">Ecuador</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/187"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Norma Kassi</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Norma
Torres Sanes</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Poet and activist, civil
Disobedient fighting against US Navy bombing Vieques</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Puerto Rico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Normita_Thongtham&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Normita Thongtham (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Normita Thongtham</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Nyakima-Gitiri-Women-s-Group.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Nyakima Gitiri
Women's Group </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kenya</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Nyamuniwa-Nyamunda.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Nyamuniwa
Nyamunda </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Zimbabwe</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl90" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2003/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Odigha Odigha</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Nigeria</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ogonnaya
Dotson-Newman</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">MPH, Director of Environmental
Health at WE ACT for Environmental Justice</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ola
Cassadore Davis</td>
<td class="xl74" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">elder of the San Carlos Apache
Tribe, passed away at age 89, November, 25 2012</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Native American, USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2009/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Olga Speranskaya</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tsepilova" title="Olga Tsepilova"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Olga Tsepilova</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2006/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Olya Melen</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ukraine</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Omda-Sabil.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Omda
Sabil </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Omda-Sabil.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Omda
Sabil </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Sudan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2000/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Oral Ataniyazova</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Uzbekistan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Orly
Munzing</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Strolling of the Heifers
executive director</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Osamu Kobayashi </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Osprey Orielle Lake</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder and President of the
Women's Earth and Climate Caucus</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Otil-a-Beluad.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otil a Beluad </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Palau</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Paljor Dorje </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Pam Alabaster</td>
<td class="xl70">L'Oreal VP of Sustainability</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Parbati-Baruah.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Parbati Baruah </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Parviez Hassan </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Pakistan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Pat
McCabe, Woman Stands Shining</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">A Life-Bringer, Life-Bearer
Mother, writer, artist, activist, speaker and cultural liason, her work is
driven by the study of the Science of Right Relations.</td>
<td class="xl70">USA, Navajo</td>
</tr>
<tr height="142" style="height: 106.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="142" style="height: 106.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Patricia
Gualinga Montalvo</td>
<td class="xl113" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Kichwa leader from Sarayaku in
the Amazon rainforest. They are also known as the “Pueblo del Medio
Dia,” or people of the Zenith, stemming from an ancient prophecy that
Sarayaku would be a pillar of territorial, cultural, and spiritual defense, a
beacon of light as strong as the noonday sun at its zenith.</td>
<td class="xl70">Ecuador</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"> Patty
Murray (Senator D-WA)</td>
<td class="xl109" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">The Wilderness Society (TWS),
Sierra Club honored her efforts to protect America’s wild places and green
spaces</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Peggy
Liu</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Peggy
Oki</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Skateboarder and Surfer,
celebrity environmentalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="146" style="height: 109.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="146" style="height: 109.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Peggy
Shepard</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director, West Harlem
Environmental Action, Inc.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Perin Savakshaw Fitter</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Kenya</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Kelly" title="Petra Kelly"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Petra Kelly</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founder, German Green Party</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Phaedra
Ellis-Lamkins</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">CEO of Green For All</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl110" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phyllis-cuttino"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Phyllis Cuttino</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">director of Pew's Clean Energy
Program</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Phornthep
Phornprapha </td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Phra
Ajahn Pongsak Tejadhammo </td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2002/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pisit Charnsnoh</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Pisit Na Patalung </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">Polly Dyer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">founded the the Cascade Chapter
of the Sierra Club, the the North Cascade Conservation Council, served as a
member of the Governor's Water Resources Forum and was instrumental in
passing the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984.</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Pravit Tomyavit </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Purevjavyn
Bayarsaikhan </td>
<td class="xl70">Mongolia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl79" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
<td class="xl79"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Rachel Botsman</td>
<td class="xl100"><a href="http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> What’s Mine Is Yours</span></a></td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rachel
Carson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, Marine Biologist,
environmentalist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rachel
Corrie</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rachel
LaForest</td>
<td class="xl98">Executive Director of Right to the City</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rajendra
K. Pachauri </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Ram Prit Yadav </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Nepal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Rampa
and Tom Hormel </td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Ranjen Lalith Fernando </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Sri Lanka</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2004/Asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rashida Bee</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Bhopal activist who has ignited
the international campaign to seek justice for disaster survivors</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=93"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rebecca Flora</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Executive Director -- Green
Building Alliance</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Rebecca Lawton</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nature Writer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">Rebecca Tarbotton</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">executive director of the
Rainforest Action Network</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Reyam Al-Malikey</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Iraq</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=252"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rhea Jezer, Ph.D</span></a></td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Senior Lecturer, Environmental
Policy, Dept. of Environmental Studies, Cazenovia College</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Riane Eisler</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co Founder of the Center for
Partnership Studies, a social scientist, attorney, and author</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Richard
and Rhoda Goldman </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">established the Goldman
Environment Prize </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Riel Huaorani </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Rigoberta Menchú Tum</td>
<td class="xl70">Nobel Peace Laureate</td>
<td class="xl70">Guatemala</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Riki Ott</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Marine biologist, environmental
activist and educator</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Rita-Barron.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rita Barron </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rita
Miljo</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Founder African Primate Care</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">South Africa</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Robin
Wilson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">eco-friendly interior designer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Romina
Picolotti </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Argentina’s Secretary of
Environment</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rona
Fried</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">PhD, CEO,
SustainableBusiness.com, Green Dream Jobs</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2008/islands"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosa Hilda Ramos</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Goldman Prize winner</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Puerto Rico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Rosamund Kidman Cox</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Editor, BBC Wildlife</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Rose-Cotta.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rose Cotta </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Spain</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Roselie-Bertell.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Roselie Bertell </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Cancer researcher</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="132" style="height: 99.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl73" height="132" style="height: 99.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rosemary
Olive Mbone Enie</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Geologist and Gender Ambassador
with the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) of the Netherlands</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Cameroon</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Radford_Ruether" title="Rosemary Radford Ruether"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosemary Radford Ruether</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Rosina
M. Bierbaum</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Roula-Angelakis-Malakis.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Roula Angelakis-Malakis </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Greece</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Roz
Savage</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">ocean rower, campaigner, author
and speaker</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Manorama" title="Ruth Manorama"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ruth Manorama</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="229" style="height: 171.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="229" style="height: 171.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Patrick" title="Ruth Patrick"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ruth Patrick</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">A true pioneer in the field of
ecosystem science, Dr. Patrick dominates her field of limnology - the
scientific study of freshwater rivers and lakes. Probably the world's leading
authority on the ecology of rivers, she is an internationally recognized expert
on river pollution.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl83" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl83" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Saenaua-Women-s-Association.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Saenaua Women's Association </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Solomon Islands</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Safina-Z.-Siddiqi.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Safina Z. Siddiqi </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Pakistan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sahabat_Alam&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Sahabat Alam (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Sahabat Alam</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sahitya
Parishad</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sali
Eiler</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sallie
McFague</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">ecofeminist theologian</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sally
Bingham, the reverend Canon</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">The Regeneration Project</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="52" style="height: 39.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl69" height="52" style="height: 39.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sally
Jewell </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">President Recreational Equipment
Inc</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Salwa Osman Ebeid </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">First woman to be employed by
agency that reforested Sudan</td>
<td class="xl70">Sudan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sandra
Ely</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environment and Energy Policy
Coordinator for New Mexico</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sandra
Steingraber</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">PhD, ecologist and outspoken
environmentalist, author of five books addressing agricultural and industrial
pollution and their devastating impact on health, is anti-fracking heroine</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Sang-Hyun Kim </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">Sangduen “Lek” Chailert</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Time magazine named her one of
“Asia’s Heroes” for her work as a humanitarian and conservationist. </td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Sarah Cornell, PhD</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Research coordinator: Planetary
boundaries at the Stockholm Resilience Centre</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2002/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sarah James</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Satu Huttunen </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Finland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Sawroop
Krishna Sharma </td>
<td class="xl70">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Sayyid
Shabib Bin Taimour </td>
<td class="xl70">Oman</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Sekkou Zouha </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Morocco</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Seub Nakhasathien </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=101"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sharon Alpert</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Program Director for
Environment, Surdna Foundation</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Shecou-Bah Kabba </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Sheila-Gwennifer-Davis.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sheila Gwennifer Davis </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">New Zealand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Watt-Cloutier" title="Sheila Watt-Cloutier"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sheila
Watt-Cloutier</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Shelley Fiddler</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_Liao" title="Sheri Liao"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sheri Liao</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">environmental journalist and
activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper" title="Sheri S. Tepper"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sheri S. Tepper</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sherri
W. Goodman</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">U.S. Department of Defense</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Shirin Ebadi</td>
<td class="xl70">Nobel Peace Prize winner</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" colspan="2" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; mso-ignore: colspan;">Shomb
Sultan Khan Pakistan</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Shuangliang-Li.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shuangliang Li </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Sidrotun Naim</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">Indonesia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Sietz A. Leeflang </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Netherlands</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sigourney
Weaver</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Actress and Environmental
Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2006/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Liberia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Sione Latuila Tongilava </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Tonga</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Siti Aminah </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Indonesia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/sofia-gatica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sofia Gatica</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Argentina</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Song-Hak-Yun.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Song Hak Yun </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sonia
Hamel</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Massachusetts Office of
Commonwealth Development</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Sonia-Regina-de-Brito-Pereira.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sonia Regina de Brito Pereira </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Brazil</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Sook Pyo Kwon </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2007/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sophia Rabliauskas</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Sophia-Wambui-Kiarie.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sophia Wambui Kiarie </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kenya</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Southern-Women-Against-Toxins.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Southern Women Against Toxins </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Starhawk</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Stefanie
Iris Weiss</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, Eco-Sex: Go Green
Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Stella
Papasavva </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">The Sustainability
Consortium </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2005/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stephanie Danielle Roth</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Romania</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kaza" title="Stephanie Kaza"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stephanie Kaza</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sue
Clifford</td>
<td class="xl75" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Ground_%28charity%29" title="Common Ground (charity)"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">co-founded
Common Ground, an organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Summer
Rayne Oakes </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">model, celebrity activist,
author, co-founder of Source4Style</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sunita
Narain</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Ctr for Science and Environment</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=251"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan Anderson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director - Office of Sustainable
Development, City of Portland</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Susan Clark</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Susan
Freinkel</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author, Plastic: A Toxic Love
StoryUSA</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Griffin" title="Susan Griffin"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Susan Griffin</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">ecofeminist author</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Susan J.
Brown</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">California Energy Commission</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=76"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan Joy Hassol</span></a></td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Director - Climate Communication</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Susan-Lakhan.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan Lakhan </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">West Indies</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Susan-Mahon.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan Mahon </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Barbados</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Susan
Rockefeller</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">philanthropist, Oceana Board of
Directors</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Susan
Seacrest</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Homemaker, Founder of the
Groundwater Foundation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Susan
Solomon</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Senior Scientist, NOAA, she
helped determine what caused the hole in the ozone layer.</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Suzan
Baptiste</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">United Nations Environment
Programme inducted Ms. Baptiste into their Global 500 Roll of Honour for
Environmental Achievement in 1993</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Trinidad</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Suzanne
Lewis</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Superintendent, Yellowstone Natl
Park</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2009/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Syeda Rizwana Hasan</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Bangladesh</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sylvia
Earle</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Celebrated Oceanographer</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Sylvia
McLaughlin</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Co-founder, Save the Bay</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl80" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="71" style="height: 53.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="71" style="height: 53.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Ta'Kaiya
Blaney</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">13-year old Sliammon youth,
creator of Salish Sea Youth Foundation</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Tara
Lohan</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Environemntal Writer, AlterNet</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodora_Stanwell-Fletcher&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher (page does not exist)"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher,</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">nature writer, Driftwood
Valley </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">T. Muller </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Zimbabwe</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl100" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.climateactionproject.com/action/index.php?title=fullview&id=13"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tabitha Crawford</span></a></td>
<td class="xl70">Principal, Rayan Solutions</td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Taisitiroo Satoo </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Ta’Kaiya Blaney</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Sliammon First Nation, 13 yr old
singer, songwriter, actress, environmental activist, Youth Ambassador for
Earth</td>
<td class="xl70">B.C. Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Tamas Lantos </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Hungary</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Tan Meng Leng </td>
<td class="xl70">Ozone Award</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Tatyana
Artyomkina</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Tatyana-Fyodorovna-Stepanenko.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tatyana Fyodorovna Stepanenko </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Tawakkol Karman</td>
<td class="xl70">Nobel Peace Laureate</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Teresa
Heinz Kerry</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Philanthropist, environmental
supporter</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1997/northamerica"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Terri Swearingen</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Terry Root, Dr.</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">PhD biology, Stanford professor,
IPCC contributor</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl77" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">Terry Tempest Williams</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Author specializing in
environmental issues and natural history, and Conservationist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl111" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Theo
Colborn, Dr.</td>
<td class="xl73" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">endocrine disruptor activist,
author of Our Stolen Future and founder of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
(TEDX) </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thuli Makama</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Swaziland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Tia
Nelson</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">The Nature Conservancy</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Tiahoga Ruge </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Tina
Woolston </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Tufts University Office of
Sustainability </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl104" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/TristaPatterson"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Trista Patterson</span></a></td>
<td class="xl103" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="https://twitter.com/TEEB4me"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Redesigns economic structures for better
alignment w the planet's living systems. Economist. Founder @TEEB4me.
Oxford Smith School Fellow.</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Trudie
Styler, Mrs. Sting</td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://ecoverusblog.com/eco-friendly-celebrities/ecover-and-the-clinton-global-initiative-recognize-sting-and-trudie-styler/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rainforest Foundation International</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2007/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tsetsegee Munkhbayar</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Mongolia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Tsevegyn Davaajamts </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Mongolia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Tsitsi-Vangili.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tsitsi Vangili </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Zimbabwe</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1994/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuenjai Deetes</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Thailand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl90" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Ully-Sigar.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ully Sigar </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Indonesia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2011/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ursula Sladek</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Usha Lee
McFarling</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Altered Oceans</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl80" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl80" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Plumwood" title="Val Plumwood"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Val Plumwood</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Valeriy Demyanenko </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Ukraine</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Valery P. Kukhar </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Ukraine</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Vandana
Shiva</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">prominent international
environmental activist, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer
and science policy advocate </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Veer Bhadra Mishra </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">India</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Veit Koester </td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">Denmark</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2000/europe"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vera Mischenko</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Vereniging Ode</td>
<td class="xl70">Organisatie Voor Netherlands</td>
<td class="xl70">Netherlands</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl76" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Verna-Simpson.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Verna Simpson </span></a></td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl76" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">Vikki Moore</td>
<td class="xl70"></td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">
<td class="xl76" height="166" style="height: 124.8pt;">Vicki Robin,</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">coauthor of the international
best seller,Your Money or Your Life (5 years on the Business Week list),
is a leading voice for sustainable consumption. </td>
<td class="xl70">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Victoria-Husband.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Victoria Husband </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Victoria-Sotiriadou.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Victoria Sotiriadou </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Greece</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Vivian-John-Wilson.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vivian John Wilson </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Zimbabwe</td>
</tr>
<tr height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="125" style="height: 93.6pt;">Vivian Wing-Wah Yam</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Laureate of the 13th Annual
L’Oréal-UNESCO 2011 For Women in Science Awards</td>
<td class="xl84">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl90" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
<td class="xl90"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1992/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wadja Egnankou</span></a></td>
<td class="xl68" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ivory Coast</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/1991/africa"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wangari Maathai</span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Nobel Peace prize winner.
Environmental and political activist</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Kenya</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl97" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Wendy James</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="83" style="height: 62.4pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="83" style="height: 62.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Dame-Whina-Cooper.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Whina Cooper,
Dame </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">championed protection of the
environment among the Maori people in New Zealand</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">New Zealand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Wilma
Subra</td>
<td class="xl72" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"><a href="http://leanweb.org/about-us/staff/wilma-subra">http://leanweb.org/about-us/staff/wilma-subra </a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Winfried-Lang.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Winfried Lang </span></a></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="187" style="height: 140.4pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="187" style="height: 140.4pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">Winona
LaDuke </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">Anishinaabe Native American,
Economist, activist, environmentalist, A graduate of Harvard and Antioch
Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development, LaDuke has
devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. </td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">USA</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl92" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Women-Environment-Preservation-Committee-WEPCO.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Women Environment Preservation
Committee - (WEPCO) </span></a></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Nepal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.2pt;">
<td class="xl92" height="42" style="height: 31.2pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Women-of-Mupata-Village.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Women of Mupata Village </span></a></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Zimbabwe</td>
</tr>
<tr height="62" style="height: 46.8pt;">
<td class="xl89" height="62" style="height: 46.8pt; width: 128pt;" width="171">World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)</td>
<td class="xl86"></td>
<td class="xl86">UK</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl93" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl93" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl93" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl92" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.global500.org/Roll-of-Honour-/-Laureate-Database/Yolanda-Kakabadse.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yolanda Kakabadse </span></a></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Ecuador</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl86" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Yongshun Ma </td>
<td class="xl86"></td>
<td class="xl86">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl92" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2006/asia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yu Xiaogang</span></a></td>
<td class="xl92" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">China</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl86" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Yung-Hee Rho </td>
<td class="xl86"></td>
<td class="xl86">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl92" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/192"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yvonne Margarula</span></a></td>
<td class="xl92" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl89" style="width: 69pt;" width="92">Australia</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl94" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 128pt;" width="171"></td>
<td class="xl94" style="width: 187pt;" width="250"></td>
<td class="xl94" style="width: 69pt;" width="92"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">
<td class="xl84" height="104" style="height: 78.0pt;">Zoë Hilton</td>
<td class="xl87" style="width: 187pt;" width="250">L’Oréal-UNESCO International
Fellows</td>
<td class="xl84">New Zealand</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl86" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Zsuzsa Foltanyi </td>
<td class="xl86"></td>
<td class="xl86">Hungary</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">
<td class="xl86" height="21" style="height: 15.6pt;">Zulekha Ali </td>
<td class="xl86"></td>
<td class="xl86">Pakistan</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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Monica Perez Nevarez
9/3/2013<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Adventures in tweeting</b><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>Tweeting is a universe onto itself, and businessmen as well as journalists are still trying to make sense of it. It’s not necessarily about letting your followers know what you are up to; it’ s about building trust and engagement with your followers and finding new ones. Best way to do that? Follow people with many followers, and live-tweet events that have a large following. The first is self-explanatory; the second less so. Below you will find a forensic dissection of a “live-tweet” event, to see what we can learn about that particular form of communication, and how you could harness that power. </i><br />
<br />
On 8/31/2013, President Obama gave a ten minute statement regarding his decisions on what actions the US should take against Syria for illegally and immorally using WMD gas to kill over 1,000 people in Damascus during their ongoing civil war (he is determined and ready to act with a limited military response, but wants Congress to debate and vote on the actions the US should take).<br />
<br />
I live-tweeted the event as a way to study the mechanics and uses of tweeter (and made all sorts of newbie mistakes for illustration purposes), as a case study of what live-tweeting looks like, its possible uses, risks, benefits, and best practices, and to highlight any shining examples of excellence under pressure.<br />
<br />
I learned of the event exactly three minutes before it was set to start (as it turned out, the President would be late, but no one knew that at the time).
[For a basic summary of live-tweeting from the horse’s mouth, read “Live Tweeting Best Practices” by Twitter <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/media/live-tweeting">https://dev.twitter.com/media/live-tweeting</a>; to read a well-known twitterer’s tips, see “How to tweet like a Pro” <a href="http://moz.com/blog/how-to-live-tweet-like-a-pro">http://moz.com/blog/how-to-live-tweet-like-a-pro</a>); for the best ways to make twitter work for your company read the misleadingly named “20 ways to tweet like a Pro” <a href="http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/20_ways_to_tweet_like_a_pro_45133.aspx#">http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/20_ways_to_tweet_like_a_pro_45133.aspx#</a>), and for expert tips on social media follow Sree Sreenavasin as @sree on twitter or visit his webpages <a href="http://www.sreetips.com/">http://www.sreetips.com/</a> and <a href="http://sree.net/">http://sree.net/</a>.]<br />
<br />
Since twitter is a fledgling communications tool, taking a forensic look at what happened in a relatively small amount of time on a broadly covered event will give readers a sense of how others use this tool, for what purposes it is used, and the skills needed to use it to effect. A short but weighty statement by the President that was covered widely by the mainstream media and on the twitter-sphere is a perfect choice because it was guaranteed to have the broadest kind of followers tweeting the event (and therefore the best examples of live-tweeting).<br />
<br />
Globally, of the hundreds of millions of people watching the President on TV, and the tens of millions that were on Twitter at the time, only about 43 people live-tweeted the President’s statement on Syria (in my circles).<br />
<br />
The numbers are small enough to be searched by hand, as opposed to using complicated algorithms. In a not-so-distant future, there will be so many people live-tweeting events that it will be much more difficult to do this kind of artisanal analysis.<br />
<br />
<b>The Set-up</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
The first thing I learned: research your subject before you live-tweet. (After the fact, I found AP had published a copy of the President’s speech at 12:30pm, which I could have used to follow and quote the President more accurately).<br />
<br />
It is very hard to take notes or tweet and analyze what is being said at the same time, so the more you know in advance, the better your tweets will be. Gather as much information as possible before you start.<br />
The second thing I learned was that live-tweeting is best done by people that are adept at the short-hand language of tweeter (let’s call it “tweetese” for now, with posts of less than 140 characters, use of the “@” or “at” symbol to message followers and the “#” or “hashtag” symbol to index posts for future search), and are experienced at tweeting while the event is happening.<br />
<br />
It is a learned skill to be able to listen, quote the important points, and write in “tweetese” at the same time. It very much feels like a mashup of doing three things at once: transcription (writing what is being said, listening), translation (digesting the information, putting it into tweetese), and micro-blogging (publishing information, typing correctly and quickly).<br />
There is a certain amount of preparation that goes on before the event starts (preparing your followers for the live-tweet event) and much commentary afterward, but tweeting live, while the event is happening, is writing history as you experience it.<br />
<br />
Later commentary and analysis will bring color and depth to the discussion, as well as many more perspectives, but it will be spatially dispersed, and the tweets harder to find (although with http://topsy.com, searching twitter will be easier).<br />
<br />
<b>Event Watch</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
I started my “event-watch” at 1:12pm for a scheduled 1:15 presidential statement by looking for TV channels that were covering the statement, as I was going to cover the event from home. CNN was carrying the event, as well as CNBC (who added distractions like cut-aways to infomercials during the half-hour wait – Note: there will always be a lot going on (or nothing going on), and you’ll find a lot of extraneous ‘noise’ when you live-tweet, so concentrate on what you are doing!). Also, make sure you don’t create extraneous ‘noise’ yourself by cutting distractions if you are at home: shutting off your cell phone, walking the dogs beforehand, and giving the children something engrossing to play with - if any of these situations apply to you.<br />
<br />
There were more sites on the internet live-streaming the event than broadcasting it on TV. Broadcast media have ceded control of this type of reporting over to social media, the more nimble of the two forms of communication; and TV mostly focuses on analysis after the fact.<br />
<br />
This live-streaming is a smart adaptation, because TV is better at planned, longer-form analysis than unscheduled (or off-schedule) events that can be ‘telegraphed’ with short messages (we’ve gone from soundbites to twitterbites).<br />
<br />
Live-tweeting opens up opportunities for people to weigh in with their opinions instantly; for experts and specialists in their fields to broaden their reach, their visibility, and their reputation by tweeting live events and attaching their expert opinions as added value and needed perspective; as well as for ‘trolls’ (cyber-bullies), snark-addicts and spin-doctors. 'Lurkers' are those that read everything but don't engage or interact, and make up the majority of followers.<br />
<br />
So for a non-violence activist, this Presidential statement was a time to weigh in on alternative options and the costs of war; for a defense contractor, it was a good time to analyze the military situation; for a political scientist, it was a good time to parse out the political and economic fallout of all the choices; and for a journalist, it was a good time to show their writing chops to the world, and link to in-depth articles on the subject.<br />
<br />
This was a political event, but the mechanics of tweeting are the same for business conferences and social events.<br />
<br />
Please note: being there is better than seeing it second-hand on TV, as some of the tweets made clear (there were anti-war protesters outside the White House chanting, and they were moved away by police before the President started his statement, so they were not heard on TV). But seeing it on TV is better than not tweeting about it at all; just let your audience know where you are when you start.<br />
<br />
The President was over 30 minutes late to the podium. I used the wait time to check my twitter feed for comments on the upcoming statement and to retweet posts for later study. Copy-pasting the thread to a Word document helps by archiving the event and creating a list of who else was live-tweeting the event (twitter streams constantly, so threads are lost unless they are copied to a document quickly).<br />
<br />
[Note: Every twitter feed is made up of people in your ‘circles’, i.e., people whom you ‘follow’ or who ‘follow’ you. This means my thread is different from anyone else’s thread and my thread will be shaped by the filters of who I ‘follow’.]<br />
<br />
If you ever want to create immortal tweets, tie them to a big event, an event that future historians will want to look into (and present followers are interested in), and be sure to include indexing tools (the use of hashtags - # - before a name, {as in #Syria in this case} to make your tweets easily searchable).<br />
<br />
<b>Methodology</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
Since I knew very little about the event I was about to cover, I decided to simply quote the President, as best as I could, as a way of practicing my live-tweeting. About 20 minutes after the end of the speech, I copied my thread to a Word document and started to dissect it. There were 617 posts in total between 1:12pm and 2:20pm (average of 103 tweets every ten minutes). During the actual Presidential Statement (10 minutes, 1:54pm to 2:04pm) there were 157 tweets of which 106 were about the President’s statement. There were 86 people from my circles tweeting at the time, with 43 live-tweeting the President’s statement exclusively.<br />
<br />
Here’s the breakdown:
Part 1 – Pre-event: 1:12pm to 1:54pm. In total, 253 tweets by 150 twitterers; just discussing the President’s statement on Syria: 78 tweets by 44 twitterers, with 40 twitterers tweeting more than once.<br />
<br />
Part 2 – Actual Event: 1:54pm to 2:04pm. In total, 159 tweets by 86 twitterers; just discussing the President’s statement on Syria: 107 tweets by 43 twitterers, with 18 twitterers tweeting more than twice, and two tweeting more than 8 times.<br />
<br />
Part 3 – Post-event: 2:04pm to 2:23pm. 156 tweets by 112 twitterers; discussing the President’s statement on Syria: 55 tweets by 41 twitterers. Edited thread for ‘only Syria’ comments here.
Content analysis: uses, risks, benefits, best practices, and examples of excellence. For the sake of brevity, I will only analyze the actual live-tweet event (Part 2).<div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Please note: being there is better than seeing it second-hand
on TV, as some of the tweets made clear (there were anti-war protesters outside
the White House chanting, and they were moved away by police before the
President started his statement, so they were not heard on TV). But seeing it
on TV is better than not tweeting about it at all; just let your audience know
where you are when you start.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The President was over 30 minutes late to the podium. I used
the wait time to check my twitter feed for comments on the upcoming statement
and to retweet posts for later study (you can see an unedited copy of my entire
live-tweet thread <span style="color: #0070c0;">here, </span>from 1:12pm to
2:20pm, and a three-part breakdown of the ‘before, during and after’ <span style="color: #0070c0;">here</span>, <span style="color: #0070c0;">here</span> and <span style="color: #0070c0;">here </span>respectively). Copy-pasting the thread to a
Word document helps by archiving the event and creating a list of who else was
live-tweeting the event (twitter streams constantly, so threads are lost unless
they are copied to a document quickly).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Every twitter feed is made up of people in your ‘circles’, i.e.,
people whom you ‘follow’ or who ‘follow’ you. This means my thread is different
from anyone else’s thread and my thread will be shaped by the filters of who I
‘follow’.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you ever want to create immortal tweets, tie them to a
big event, an event that future historians will want to look into (and present
followers are interested in), and be sure to include indexing tools (the use of
hashtags - # - before a name, {as in #Syria in this case} to make your tweets
easily searchable).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Methodology<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since I knew very little about the event I was about to
cover, I decided to simply quote the President, as best as I could, as a way of
practicing my live-tweeting. About 20 minutes after the end of the speech, I
copied my thread to a <span style="color: #0070c0;">document</span>, and started
to dissect it. There were 617 posts in total between 1:12pm and 2:20pm (average
of 103 tweets every ten minutes). During the actual Presidential Statement (10
minutes, 1:54pm to 2:04pm) there were 157 tweets of which 106 were about the
President’s statement. There were 86<span style="color: #0070c0;"> </span>people
from my circles tweeting at the time, with 43 live-tweeting the President’s
statement exclusively. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s the breakdown:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part 1 – Pre-event: 1:12pm to 1:54pm. In total, 253 tweets
by 150 twitterers; just discussing the President’s statement on Syria: 78 tweets
by 44 twitterers, with 40 twitterers tweeting more than once. Edited thread for
‘only Syria’ comments <span style="color: #0070c0;">here</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part 2 – Actual Event: 1:54pm to 2:04pm. In total, 159
tweets by 86 twitterers; just discussing the President’s statement on Syria: 107
tweets by 43 twitterers, with 18 twitterers tweeting more than twice, and two
tweeting more than 8 times. Edited thread for ‘only Syria’ comments <span style="color: #0070c0;">here</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part 3 – Post-event: 2:04pm to 2:23pm. 156 tweets by 112
twitterers; discussing the President’s statement on Syria: 55 tweets by 41
twitterers. Edited thread for ‘only Syria’ comments <span style="color: #0070c0;">here</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Content analysis: </b>uses,
risks, benefits, best practices, and examples of excellence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the sake of brevity, I will only analyze the actual
live-tweet event (Part 2).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Text of Obama's statement on Syria </span></b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">as provided by AP via the
White House <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">(with
highlights on important points)</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(with
tweets in red, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">and
highlights in yellow</span>) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[Editorial
license was taken when physically separating the minutes of the speech for this
article so that sentences were kept together even if the minute actually ended in
mid-sentence. The tweets are also in reverse order for easier reading and analysis.]<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES">[1:54pm, minute 37]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b><span lang="ES">Monica Perez Nevarez</span></b><span lang="ES"> @guayaba</span></a><span lang="ES"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373865470350598144" title="1:50 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span lang="ES">37m</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">It's starting <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[When the President walked up to the podium, I tweeted this
short message as a starting marker. I should have used a hashtag to index my
tweets.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/politico"><b>POLITICO</b> @politico</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/373865545466007552" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">37m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">WATCH LIVE: Obama remarks on Syria</span>
<a href="http://t.co/jOyhLBaxXd" target="_blank" title="http://politico.com/live">http://politico.com/live </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">President Obama:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 1 (minute 37 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Good afternoon, everybody. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Ten days ago, the world watched
in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst
chemical weapons attack of the 21st century</span>. Yesterday the United States
presented a <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">powerful case
that the Syrian government was responsible for this attack on its own people.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Our intelligence shows the Assad
regime and its forces preparing to use chemical weapons, launching rockets in
the highly populated suburbs of Damascus, and acknowledging that a chemical
weapons attack took place. And all of this corroborates what the world can
plainly see - hospitals overflowing with victims; terrible images of the dead.
All told, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">well over 1,000
people were murdered</span>. Several hundred of them were children - young
girls and boys gassed to death by their own government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">This attack is an assault on human dignity. It also presents a serious
danger to our national security. It risks making a mockery of the global
prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones"><b>Mother Jones</b> @MotherJones</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/373865581000159232" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">37m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama has begun speaking about the
situation Syria. WATCH LIVE: </span><a href="http://t.co/BpRfkp5HXG" target="_blank" title="http://1.usa.gov/b2uIyI">http://1.usa.gov/b2uIyI </a>
<a href="http://t.co/rkKUum5U3l">pic.twitter.com/rkKUum5U3l</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/themoneygame"><b>BI: Markets</b> @themoneygame</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/themoneygame/status/373865596100050944" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">37m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">BREAKING: Obama To Seek
Congressional Authorization For Strike On Syria</span> <a href="http://t.co/sgi3Av5KW1" target="_blank" title="http://read.bi/197LZnc">http://read.bi/197LZnc </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373865603544924161" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">37m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">LIVE: Obama steps up to podium to
speak on</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a>
<a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/GottaLaff"><b>GottaLaff</b> @GottaLaff</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/GottaLaff/status/373865412024225793" title="1:50 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">38m</span></a>
[notice that I left the minutes timestamp by Twitter as a reference point,
because tweets sometimes show up out of order on your timeline, like this one.
All future out of order timestamps are highlighted.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">PRES OBAMA SPEAKING NOW. LIVE FEED</span>:
<a href="http://t.co/3cAJCi6Dcq" target="_blank" title="http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/08/31/live-streaming-video-president-obama-speaks-on-syria-115p-edt/">http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/08/31/live-streaming-video-president-obama-speaks-on-syria-115p-edt/ …</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Retweeted</span>
by <a href="https://twitter.com/lafloran">lafloran hussein P,</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes"><b>The New York Times</b> @nytimes</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/373865634146570240" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">37m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Watch President Obama's statement on
Syria via</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews">@nbcnews</a>: <a href="http://t.co/FwG5GN6ahP" target="_blank" title="http://nyti.ms/19W2tzI">http://nyti.ms/19W2tzI </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/ReutersLive"><b>Reuters Live</b> @ReutersLive</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/ReutersLive/status/373865600046469121" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">37m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Now live: Obama delivers statement
on Syria. Watch here --></span> <a href="http://t.co/OFIXVlh6Dh" target="_blank" title="http://reut.rs/14jsGrg">http://reut.rs/14jsGrg </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters">Reuters
Top News</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[The professional outlets, Mother Jones magazine, Business
Insider Markets magazine, PBS Newshour, the New York Times and Reuters, all
placed their beginning markers with links to live feeds of the event or to
longer articles. Alternative media Political Carnival had its ‘correspondent’
“Gottalaff” do the same. Everyone was driving followers to their coverage. No
one quoted what the President actually said during his exposition.] <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 2 (minute 36 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">It endangers our friends and our
partners along Syria's borders, including Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and
Iraq. It could lead to escalating use of chemical weapons, or their
proliferation to terrorist groups who would do our people harm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">In a world with many dangers,
this menace must be confronted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Now, after careful deliberation,
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">I have decided that the
United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets.</span>
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">This would not be an
open-ended intervention. We would not put boots on the ground. Instead, our action
would be designed to be limited in duration and scope.</span> But I'm confident
we can <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">hold the Assad
regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior,
and degrade their capacity to carry it out.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">Our military has positioned assets in the region.</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"> The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has informed me that we
are prepared to strike whenever we choose. Moreover, the chairman has indicated
to me that our capacity to execute <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">this mission is not time-sensitive; it will be effective tomorrow, or
next week, or one month from now. And I'm prepared to give that order</span>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC"><b>David Corn</b> @DavidCornDC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/373865685413138432" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">36m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Biden is next to him. Looking
somber.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373865697795137536" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">36m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">President to ask Congress to approve
Syrian strikes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt"><b>Peter Baker</b> @peterbakernyt</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/373865656325652480" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">37m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama starts out by making case
Kerry made yesterday, arguing in more forceful terms that Syria govt
responsible for massacre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">The
New York Times</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch"><b>Pew Research
Center</b> @pewresearch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/373865752434323456" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13">36m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama now making</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a> <span style="color: red;">statement; See Bruce Stokes analysis: Does public care about
UN blessing over Syria? </span><a href="http://t.co/u0zcnfrKDU" target="_blank" title="http://pewrsr.ch/15cuZsT">http://pewrsr.ch/15cuZsT </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews"><b>CaribNews/PuertoRico</b> @caribnews</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews/status/373865879890841600" title="1:52 PM - 31 Aug 13">36m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "All told well over
1,000 people were murdered…hundreds of them were children."</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil"><b>Leigh Munsil</b> @leighmunsil</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil/status/373865935649533952" title="1:52 PM - 31 Aug 13">36m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: I have decided that the U.S.
should take military action against Syrian regime targets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Note: The minutes on my twitter feed are in descending
order, and I am writing this piece chronologically.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 3 (minute 35 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">But having made my decision as
commander in chief based on what I am convinced is our national security
interests, I'm also mindful that I'm the president of the world's oldest
constitutional democracy. I've long believed that <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">our power is rooted not just in our military might, but
in our example as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people</span>.
And that's why I've made a second decision: <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">I will seek authorization for the use of force from the
American people's representatives in Congress</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Over the last several days,
we've heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I
absolutely agree. So this morning, I spoke with all four congressional leaders,
and <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">they've agreed to
schedule a debate and then a vote</span> as soon as Congress comes back into
session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/themoneygame"><b>BI: Markets</b> @themoneygame</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/themoneygame/status/373865944101437440" title="1:52 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: The U.S. 'should' take
military action in Syria</span> <a href="http://t.co/sgi3Av5KW1" target="_blank" title="http://read.bi/197LZnc">http://read.bi/197LZnc </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373865976376614912" title="1:52 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">President says "children gassed
to death by their own govt" - adds "this menace must be
contained"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones"><b>Mother Jones</b> @MotherJones</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/373865995036676096" title="1:52 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">“The United States should take
military action against Syrian regime military targets” -- President Obama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt"><b>David Leonhardt</b> @DLeonhardt</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/373866011789107200" title="1:52 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama using conditional voice to
describe attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b><span lang="ES">Monica Perez Nevarez</span></b><span lang="ES"> @guayaba</span></a><span lang="ES"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373866046262095872" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span lang="ES">35m</span></a><span lang="ES"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Exposition of problem. US should
take military action, no boots on ground, hold Assad accountable. </span>[Mistakes:
No attribution – should have put the word Obama in front, and quotes around
what he said; should also have used a hashtag.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost"><b>Huffington
Post</b> @HuffingtonPost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/373866050808324096" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "I have decided the
United States should take military action against Syrian regime military
targets"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373866050951348224" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: This menace must be
confronted</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/CNBC"><b>CNBC</b> @CNBC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/373866065392304128" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">BREAKING: Pres. Obama says he has
decided that the United States should take military action against Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol"><b>HuffPost Politics</b> @HuffPostPol</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/373865759874629632" title="1:51 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">36m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "This attack is an
assault on human dignity"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews"><b>CaribNews/PuertoRico</b> @caribnews</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews/status/373866098430849024" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "The United States
should take military action"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/politico"><b>POLITICO</b> @politico</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/373866107397869568" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: The U.S. should take military
action against Syrian regime targets</span> <a href="http://t.co/jOyhLBaxXd" target="_blank" title="http://politico.com/live">http://politico.com/live </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones"><b>Mother Jones</b> @MotherJones</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/373866112502337536" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">“We are prepared to strike whenever
we choose” -- President Obama</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373866138180259841" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: I have decided the US should
take military action</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/katz"><b>Andrew Katz</b> @katz</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/katz/status/373866127178227712" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: We are prepared to strike
whenever we choose. This is not time-sensitive. Could be tomorrow, next week or
one month from now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews">CaribNews/PuertoRico</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Independent_ie"><b>Independent.ie</b> @Independent_ie</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/373866180249157632" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">UN rejects Syria pullout to allow
strikes, Obama says will be 'limited' action</span> <a href="http://t.co/G9Cu7RdWuu" target="_blank" title="http://indo.ie/orCTx">http://indo.ie/orCTx </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez
Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373866186272169984" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">35m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">We are prepared to strike any time</span>
<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS</a> [same mistakes as above]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Minute 4 (minute 34
on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">In the coming days<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">, my administration stands ready
to provide every member with the information they need to understand what
happened in Syria and why it has such profound implications for America's
national security.</span> And all of us should be accountable as we move
forward, and that can only be accomplished with a vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">I'm confident in the case our
government has made without waiting for U.N. inspectors. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">I'm comfortable going forward
without the approval of a United Nations Security Council that, so far, has
been completely paralyzed and unwilling to hold Assad accountable.</span> As a
consequence, many people have advised against taking this decision to Congress,
and undoubtedly, they were impacted by <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">what we saw happen in the United Kingdom this week when
the Parliament of our closest ally failed to pass a resolution with a similar
goal, even as the prime minister supported taking action</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch"><b>Pew Research
Center</b> @pewresearch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/373866226671681536" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama says he has decided US should
take military action against</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a>, <span style="color: red;">but doesn't say when</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt"><b>Peter Baker</b> @peterbakernyt</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/373866065677152256" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">35m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "I have decided that the
United States should take military action against Syrian targets."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">The
New York Times</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC"><b>David Corn</b> @DavidCornDC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/373866266563321856" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: we should take action, no
need to rush, and Congress should have a say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/GottaLaff"><b>GottaLaff</b> @GottaLaff</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/GottaLaff/status/373866055950544896" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">35m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">PBO: I'm confident we can hold them
acct'able, degrade. We're prepared to strike whenver we choose LIVE FEED:</span>
<a href="http://t.co/3cAJCi6Dcq" target="_blank" title="http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/08/31/live-streaming-video-president-obama-speaks-on-syria-115p-edt/">http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/08/31/live-streaming-video-president-obama-speaks-on-syria-115p-edt/ …</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/lafloran">lafloran hussein P,</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil"><b>Leigh Munsil</b> @leighmunsil</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil/status/373866288990281728" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: U.S. prepared to strike
whenever we choose, not time-sensitive. Will seek authorization from Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373866308997115905" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">"I have concluded that military
action" is necessary, President says - we strike "whenever we
choose" and "I am prepared to give that order"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/CapehartJ"><b>Jonathan Capehart</b> @CapehartJ</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/373866043615109120" title="1:53 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">35m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">POTUS sounds like he means business.</span>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23awaitingaction&src=hash">#awaitingaction</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/lafloran">lafloran hussein P,</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373866341230718976" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: There will be no boots on the
ground and will be limited in scope</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez
Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373866354602160128" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Seek authorization from Congess</span>
<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS</a> [another lesson: correct your
tweets for grammar and spelling before you publish them.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/AP"><b>The Associated Press</b> @AP</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/373866368510459904" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">BREAKING: Obama: U.S. should take
military action against Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones">Mother
Jones @MotherJones</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/373866372935086080" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">“I will seek authorization for the
use of force from the American people’s representatives in Congress” --
President Obama</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt">Peter
Baker @peterbakernyt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/373866340538273793" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "I will seek
authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives
in congress."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">The
New York Times</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost">Huffington
Post @HuffingtonPost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/373866416195129344" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">34m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "I will seek
authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives
in Congress."</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 5 (minute 33 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Yet, while I believe I have the
authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional
authorization, I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course,
and our actions will be even more effective. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">We should have this debate, because the issues are too
big for business as usual</span>. And this morning, John Boehner, Harry Reid,
Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell agreed that this is the right thing to do for
our democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">A country faces few decisions as
grave as using military force, even when that force is limited. I respect the
views of those who call for caution, particularly as our country emerges from a
time of war that I was elected in part to end. But <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">if we really do want to turn away from taking
appropriate action in the face of such an unspeakable outrage, then we must
acknowledge the costs of doing nothing</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Here's my question for every
member of Congress and every member of the global community: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/politico"><b>POLITICO</b> @politico</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/373866449057488896" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama says he'll seek authorization
for use of force from Congress</span> <a href="http://t.co/jOyhLBaxXd" target="_blank" title="http://politico.com/live">http://politico.com/live </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC"><b>David Corn</b> @DavidCornDC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/373866471866114048" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">There will be a debate and vote when
Congress gets back to town. </span><span lang="ES" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: ES;">"All of us should be accountable."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews"><b><span lang="ES">CaribNews/PuertoRico</span></b><span lang="ES"> @caribnews</span></a><span lang="ES"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/caribnews/status/373866474974486528" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span lang="ES">33m</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: ES;">AHORA:
Obama pedira autorización al Congreso para atacar el gobierno en Siria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch"><b>Pew Research
Center</b> @pewresearch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/373866482167709696" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama says he will seek
congressional approval for military action against</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373866505647448064" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: I will seek authorization for
use of force from American people's representatives </span><a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373866506108432384" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">POTUS: "I have decided the
United States should take limited military action" against Syria - will
provide Congress w/what it needs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil"><b>Leigh Munsil</b> @leighmunsil</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil/status/373866597447766016" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Predicted a vote on Syria would fail
in House -> RT</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/repjustinamash">@repjustinamash</a>:
<span style="color: red;">Thank you, Mr President.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373866661700706304" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13">33m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama says Congress to debate and
vote once back from session</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6 minutes (minute 32 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to
death in plain sight and pay no price? What's the purpose of the international
system that we've built if a prohibition on the use of chemical weapons that
has been agreed to by the governments of 98 percent of the world's people and
approved overwhelmingly by the Congress of the United States is not enforced?</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Make no mistake - this has
implications beyond chemical warfare. If we won't enforce accountability in the
face of this heinous act, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">what
does it say about our resolve to stand up to others who flout fundamental
international rules? To governments who would choose to build nuclear arms? To
terrorist who would spread biological weapons? To armies who carry out
genocide?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">We cannot raise our children in a world where we will not follow
through on the things we say, the accords we sign, the values that define us.</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">So just as I will take this case
to Congress, I will also deliver this message to the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Independent_ie"><b>Independent.ie</b> @Independent_ie</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/373866693300592640" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Breaking: Obama says has decided to
seek authorisation for use of force from congress. More to follow on
Independent.ie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd"><b>Chuck Todd</b> @chucktodd</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd/status/373866425058091008" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">34m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">POTUS will seek authorization from
Congress. But will NOT call Congress back early. So debate is not for another 9
or 10 days<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/lafloran">lafloran hussein P,</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes"><b>The New York Times</b> @nytimes</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/373866720324489216" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Breaking News: Obama Will Strike
Syria, But Will Seek Congressional Authorization</span> <a href="http://t.co/eqDfdEsmLj" target="_blank" title="http://nyti.ms/Zf40cq">http://nyti.ms/Zf40cq </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC"><b>David Corn</b> @DavidCornDC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/373866749927518208" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "We should have this
debate."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost"><b>Huffington
Post</b> @HuffingtonPost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/373866789962530816" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">HAPPENING NOW: Obama delivering
statement on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash"><span style="color: red;">#Syria</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://t.co/SoM07Fw0g6" target="_blank" title="http://huff.to/1dw2LS4"><span style="color: red;">http://huff.to/1dw2LS4 </span></a><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/373866789962530816"> View
summary</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt"><b>Peter Baker</b> @peterbakernyt</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/373866420112605184" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">34m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: Talked with four leaders in
Congress and they agreed to schedule debate and vote when Congress comes back
to town.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt">David Leonhardt</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez
Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373866799949180928" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">We should have this debate. It is
too important</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS</a> [same
mistakes as above, and mis-use of the “@” symbol]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/djrothkopf"><b>David Rothkopf</b> @djrothkopf</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/373866651990503425" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">33m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama trading paralysis and
impotence of UN for paralysis and impotence of US Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof">Nicholas Kristof</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch"><b>Pew Research
Center</b> @pewresearch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/373866833868492800" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">UN approval before using military
force lacks widespread global agreement</span> <a href="http://t.co/oHM2HIwvvH" target="_blank" title="http://pewrsr.ch/17nXuaF">http://pewrsr.ch/17nXuaF </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/TIME"><b>TIME.com</b> @TIME</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/373866836929953792" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama will seek congressional
authorization for military strike against Syria</span> | <a href="http://t.co/70Z0STWGxr" target="_blank" title="http://ti.me/17mGy2G">http://ti.me/17mGy2G </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/373866836929953792"> View
summary</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373866839472087040" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: We should have this debate
because the issues are too big for business as usual </span><a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC"><b>David Corn</b> @DavidCornDC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/373866863815426048" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Rand Paul, your move.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373866892940689408" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Pres. critical of
"paralyzed" UN, says he'll bypass if needed; says he can carry out
attack on his own - but wants Congressional vote<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/ecofhp"><b>Eco-Friendly Home</b> @ecofhp</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/ecofhp/status/373866911328518146" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">32m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Congress&src=hash">#Congress</a>
<span style="color: red;">is so strange. A man gets up to speak & says
nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.- Boris Marshalov</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23quotes&src=hash">#quotes</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 7 (minute 31 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">While the U.N. investigation has
some time to report on its findings, we will insist that <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">an atrocity committed with
chemical weapons is not simply investigated, it must be confronted.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">I don't expect every nation to
agree with the decision we have made. Privately we've heard many expressions of
support from our friends. But <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">I will ask those who care about the writ of the international community
to stand publicly behind our action.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">And finally, let me say this to
the American people: <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">I
know well that we are weary of war</span>. We've ended one war in Iraq. We're
ending another in Afghanistan. And <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">the American people have the good sense to know we cannot resolve the
underlying conflict in Syria with our military</span>. In that part of the
world, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">there are ancient
sectarian differences, and the hopes of the Arab Spring have unleashed forces
of change that are going to take many years to resolve. And that's why we're
not contemplating putting our troops in the middle of someone else's war.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch"><b>Pew Research
Center</b> @pewresearch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/373866951334199296" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Even before chemical weapons furor,
Assad had little support among publics in the region </span><a href="http://t.co/xKUij38pwk" target="_blank" title="http://pewrsr.ch/146rcwS">http://pewrsr.ch/146rcwS </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez
Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373866990316060672" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Question what message we send if
dictator gases people and there is no reaction?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews"><b>Anonymous</b> @YourAnonNews</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/373866998599786496" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Breaking: Obama will seek
congressional approval before any military strikes against </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash"><span style="color: red;">#Syria</span></a><span style="color: red;">. Congress not in
session until Sept. 9th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones"><b>Mother Jones</b> @MotherJones</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/373867071764828160" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">“What message will we send if a dictator
can gas hundreds of kids to death in plain sight and pay no price?” --
President Obama</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/AP"><b>The Associated Press</b> @AP</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/373867099514748928" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">BREAKING: Obama will seek
authorization from Congress for taking military action against Syria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy"><b>Oliver Darcy</b> @oliverdarcy</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/373867082493861888" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: "Make no mistake, this
has implications beyond chemical warfare."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil">Leigh Munsil</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373867142052974592" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">President not indicating he'll call
Congress back early; it returns on Sept. 9; any hostilities against Syria
appear weeks away - if any<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/sixoone_"><b>david m aka
sixoone</b> @sixoone_</a>31m<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">'No attack on Syria' anti-war rally
in central London</span>. <a href="https://twitter.com/Demotix">@Demotix</a> <span style="color: red;">News</span> <a href="http://t.co/ql1AaYUlWo" target="_blank" title="http://www.demotix.com/news/2542107/no-attack-syria-demonstration-central-london">http://www.demotix.com/news/2542107/no-attack-syria-demonstration-central-london …</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/CNDuk">@CNDuk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HandsOffSyria&src=hash">#HandsOffSyria</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/TheGreenParty">@TheGreenParty</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/TheGreenParty">The Green Party</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/sixoone_/status/373823560042561538"> View photo</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez
Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373867158423760897" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">This has implications beyond WMD...
To genocide, bullying, ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters"><b>Reuters Top News</b> @Reuters</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/373867163984986113" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">31m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama to seek U.S. congressional
debate and vote to consider approving limited military action against Syria
gov't</span> <a href="http://t.co/G5dlR7xRuU" target="_blank" title="http://reut.rs/14jsGrg">http://reut.rs/14jsGrg </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/373867163984986113"> View summary</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 8 (minute 30 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Instead, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">we'll continue to support the Syrian people
through our pressure on the Assad regime, our commitment to the opposition, our
care for the displaced, and our pursuit of a political resolution that achieves
a government that respects the dignity of its people.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">But we are the United States of
America, and we cannot and must not turn a blind eye to what happened in
Damascus. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Out of the ashes
of world war, we built an international order and enforced the rules that gave
it meaning. And we did so because we believe that the right of individuals to
live in peace and dignity depends on the responsibilities of nations</span>. We
aren't perfect, but this nation more than any other has been willing to meet
those responsibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">So to all members of Congress of both parties, I ask you to take this
vote for our national security. I am looking forward to the debate.</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"> And in doing so, I ask you, members of Congress, to
consider that <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">some things
are more important than partisan differences or the politics of the moment.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/carolineghosn"><b>Caroline
Ghosn </b>@carolineghosn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/carolineghosn/status/373867202191323137" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Listening to President Obama on the
radio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones"><b>Mother Jones</b> @MotherJones</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/373867207622541313" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">“We cannot raise our children in a
world where we do not follow through on the things we say” -- President Obama</span>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol"><b>HuffPost
Politics</b> @HuffPostPol</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/373866670684524544" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">33m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "While I believe I have
the authority…I know the country will be stronger if we take this course…we
should have this debate."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost">Huffington Post</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt"><b>Peter Baker</b> @peterbakernyt</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/373866967897100288" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">31m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "What message will we
send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay
no price?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">The
New York Times</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373867247355592704" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: This has implications beyond
chemical warfare</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/loisromano"><b>Lois Romano</b> @loisromano</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/loisromano/status/373866752175636480" title="1:55 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">32m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama says no troops will be sent
into Syria. Willing to go in without UN security council which he called
"paralyzed"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/politico">POLITICO</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/camanpour"><b>Christiane
Amanpour</b> @camanpour</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/373867258030084096" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Pres says he's made decision to
strike soon, next week or next month, like UK he'll seek congressional approval
....rolling the dice? ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil"><b>Leigh Munsil</b> @leighmunsil</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/leighmunsil/status/373867296688582657" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Makes U.S. look like aggressor? RT</span>
<a href="https://twitter.com/EasonJordan">@EasonJordan</a>: <span style="color: red;">Surprising that Syrian state TV would televise Obama's
remarks live</span>. <a href="http://t.co/VQcSCSRKaF">pic.twitter.com/VQcSCSRKaF</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC"><b>David Corn</b> @DavidCornDC</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/373867331903971328" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: this is not lonely-at-the-top
time; it's time for people's reps to make a hard decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/camanpour"><b>Christiane
Amanpour</b> @camanpour</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/373867350002774016" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">.... US credibility and our right
NOT to be attacked by WMD on the line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373867398949924864" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">"An atrocity committed with
chemical weapons...must be confronted," president says of</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23syria&src=hash">#syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/USRealityCheck"><b>US Reality
Check </b>@USRealityCheck</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/USRealityCheck/status/373867405342031872" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">The President Will Explain What's
Next for Syria: The President announced a surprise press conference</span> ... <a href="http://t.co/Yf4CAOftTO" target="_blank" title="http://bit.ly/12XXOLI">http://bit.ly/12XXOLI </a>
taw <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23US&src=hash">#US</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/USRealityCheck/status/373867405342031872"> View
summary</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez
Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373867429405159424" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">30m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">While UN investigation goes ahead,
genocide must be confronted. Asking leaders to stand behind this action</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 9 (minute 29 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">Ultimately, this is not about who occupies this office at any given
time; it's about who we are as a country</span><span style="color: #0070c0;">. I
believe that the people's representatives must be invested in what America does
abroad, and <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">now is the
time to show the world that America keeps our commitments</span>. We do what we
say. And <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">we lead with the
belief that right makes might - not the other way around.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">We all know <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">there are no easy options</span>.
But I wasn't elected to avoid hard decisions. And neither were the members of
the House and the Senate. I've told you what I believe, that <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">our security and our values
demand that we cannot turn away from the massacre of countless civilians with
chemical weapons. And our democracy is stronger when the President and the people's
representatives stand together.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: yellow; color: #0070c0; mso-highlight: yellow;">I'm ready to act in the face of this outrage.</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373867528080330752" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: We cannot raise our children
in a world where we do not follow through on the things that we say</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost"><b>Huffington
Post</b> @HuffingtonPost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/373867599672532993" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "We cannot raise our
children in a world where we do not follow through on things we say" </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/JNSmall"><b>Jay Newton-Small</b> @JNSmall</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/JNSmall/status/373867062466076673" title="1:57 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">31m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Wow. Congressional approval is going
to be a nightmare to get thru the House. Anyone remember the House's disastrous
failed votes on Libya?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME">TIME.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b>Monica Perez Nevarez</b> @guayaba</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373867635261587456" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Looking
for a political solution, while supporting the Syrian people</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/freddoso"><b>David Freddoso</b> @freddoso</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/freddoso/status/373867532211326977" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Have we
just witnessed the high point of executive power in the U.S.?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen">Ben Smith</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/stevebruskCNN"><b>Steve Brusk</b> @stevebruskCNN</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/stevebruskCNN/status/373867531510894592" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Our International Desk says Syrian
State TV is carrying President Obama's address live<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen">Ben Smith</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/cnnbrk"><b>CNN Breaking News</b> @cnnbrk</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/373867748499017729" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">28m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">President Obama: US "should
take military action against Syrian targets" but he'll seek Congressional
approval. </span><a href="http://t.co/Uub3ahxALJ" target="_blank" title="http://on.cnn.com/179eqgU">http://on.cnn.com/179eqgU </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/373867748499017729"> View summary</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/stuartmillar159"><b>Stuart Millar</b> @stuartmillar159</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/stuartmillar159/status/373866414861742080" title="1:54 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">34m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "I am prepared to give
that order. But...I will seek authorisation for the use of force for the
American people's reps in Congress"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardianUS">GuardianUS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/vijayprashad"><b>Vijay Prashad</b> @vijayprashad</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/vijayprashad/status/373867769109827584" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">28m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama puts it in the laps of the US
Congress. Good move. Lights are back on in Beirut.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/stuartmillar159"><b>Stuart
Millar</b> @stuartmillar159</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/stuartmillar159/status/373866898217529344" title="1:56 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">32m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama makes clear he believes he has
the authority to launch strikes without authorisation. But says country and
decision stronger with it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardianUS">GuardianUS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/acarvin"><b>Andy Carvin</b> @acarvin</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/acarvin/status/373867551270658049" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: We cannot and must not turn a
blind eye on what happened in Damascus.</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof">Nicholas Kristof</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/emile_hokayem"><b>Emile
Hokayem </b>@emile_hokayem</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/emile_hokayem/status/373867485772382208" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">So the most limited strike ever will
take the longest process ever to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof">Nicholas Kristof</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/ewenmacaskill"><b>Ewen
MacAskill</b> @ewenmacaskill</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ewenmacaskill/status/373867609109700608" title="1:59 PM - 31 Aug 13">29m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama in White House statement
delays attack on Syria to give members of Congress a chance to debate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardianUS">GuardianUS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minute 10 (minute 28 on timeline)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Today I'm asking Congress to
send a message to the world that we are ready to move forward together as one
nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Thanks very much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport"><b>West Wing
Reports</b> @WestWingReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/373867859413172224" title="2:00 PM - 31 Aug 13">28m</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">President tacitly acknowledging lack
of political capital to proceed unilaterally; wants/needs Congressional buy in
on</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba"><b><span lang="ES">Monica Perez Nevarez</span></b><span lang="ES"> @guayaba</span></a><span lang="ES"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/guayaba/status/373867927986249728" title="2:00 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span lang="ES">28m</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">.</span><a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS">@POTUS</a> <span style="color: red;">looking
forward to debate. We must assure the world that that we keep our commitments.
Right makes might, not the other way around</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/marniemix"><b>Marnie Glickman</b> @marniemix</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/marniemix/status/373867986094149632" title="2:00 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">27m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama will seek authorization from
Congress for force through Congress. Will peace prevail? Will we stand up for
non-violence?</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23syria&src=hash">#syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol"><b>HuffPost
Politics</b> @HuffPostPol</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/373867526720991232" title="1:58 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">29m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Obama: "We cannot and must not
turn a blind eye on what happened in Damascus"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Retweeted by <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost">Huffington Post</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Salon"><b>Salon.com</b> @Salon</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Salon/status/373868064955437056" title="2:01 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">27m</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">"Your fatwa does not apply
here": Muslim artists battle fundamentalism</span> <a href="http://t.co/1XgY3h0M1J" target="_blank" title="http://slnm.us/lLHVh7d">http://slnm.us/lLHVh7d </a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour"><b>NewsHour</b> @NewsHour</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/373868075676106752" title="2:01 PM - 31 Aug 13"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">27m</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">OBAMA: Our country is stronger when
the president and the people's representatives stand together</span> <a href="http://t.co/bCilLkPT0K" target="_blank" title="http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR">http://to.pbs.org/15oCanR </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Syria&src=hash">#Syria</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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