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Climate Change Community Summit

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Start time:	Sat, Oct 11, 2008 07:30

End time:	Sat, Oct 11, 2008 11:00

Type:	Lecture/Talk

Website:	earthcharterpdx.org

Contact name:	Heather Carver

Contact email:	tierrabodhi [at] gmail.com

Address:	705 N Killingsworth St Terrell Auditorium Portland, Oregon United States

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The Global Climate Change Community Summits are a cooperative effort to bring together people within their local communities to address climate change and its effects through dialogues and actions that include environmental, economic, and social initiatives. In celebration of 2008, the UN International Year of Planet Earth, events will be held on October 11 in cities across the USA as well as in 10 other countries.

Please join us October 11, 2008 9:30am-1:00pm

Portland Community College, Cascade campus 705 N. Killingsworth St.

Terrell Auditorium

Free parking in the PCC lot.

Program Highlights:

· Round Robin—Live glimpses of Summits in other cities (including Senegal, Zambia & England), via the web

· Jill Sughrue, local sustainability consultant and one of 1,000 nationally-trained presenters with the The Climate Project, will present a slide show based on the Oscar-winning documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, highlighting the impacts of global warming on the planet and its inhabitants, both here at home and around the world.

· Jules Kopel-Bailey, Democratic nominee for Oregon House District 42. "Oregon cannot wait to confront climate change, to fix our schools, and to ensure that every Oregonian can afford health care… this will make Oregon a stronger state and bring good family wage jobs back to our community."

plus refreshments and information tables

The Earth Charter provides a prism for viewing the interconnected social, environmental and economic aspects of climate change.

The Earth Charter is an international statement of fundamental principles and values for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society. Created by the largest global consultation process ever associated with an international declaration, endorsed by thousands of organizations representing millions of individuals, the Earth Charter represents an ethical vision of interdependence and the responsibility we share for the sustainable well-being of all life. It is often called a "people's treaty" because the content originated from people in 78 countries, not from governments.

The principles illustrate not only our interconnectedness with one another and with our environment, but also the interdependence of the issues critical to our future—ecological integrity, social and economic justice, democracy, nonviolence and peace.

At a time when major changes in how we think and live are urgently needed, the Earth Charter challenges us to examine our values and to choose a better way. It calls on us to search for common ground in the midst of our diversity and to embrace a new ethical vision that is shared by growing numbers of people in many nations and cultures throughout the world.

Sponsors:

Northwest Earth Institute

SGI-USA

Chelsea Peil, ASPCC Sustainability Coordinator

earthcharterpdx.org

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