SENATOR BARBARA BOXER'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB SPEECH ON GLOBAL WARMING

April 18, 2007 Washington, D.C.
The following are U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's remarks as prepared for delivery to the National Press Club.

I wanted to speak with you today about combating global warming, because the warming of our earth is more than an inconvenient truth; it is the challenge of our generation. Read Full Speech>

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CONTRA COSTA REUSE & RECYCLING GUIDE
www.cccrecycle.org

This website and the County Recycling Hotline
1 - (800)750 - 4096

are designed to aid residents and businesses in recycling their waste products in their homes, schools, and places of work.

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4 To request a printed copy of their recycling booklet, call the Hotline number shown above.

STOP JUNK MAIL KIT
www.StopJunkMail.org
Did you know that it takes nearly 17 trees to make a single ton of paper? That equates to about 100 million trees being used for all the junk mail being sent all around the United States every year. Go to www.stopjunkmail.org for your own "Junk Mail Kit", and see how you can help end this needless waste of resources.

1-877-STOPWASTE (786-7927)

ALAMEDA COUNTY RECYCLING GUIDE / STOPWASTE.ORG
www.stopwaste.org
This amazing resource offers a wealth of information for everything related to recycling:
buying environmentally-friendly products, choosing environmental landscapers, a comprehensive directory of businesses that recycle, where to take plastic grocery bags, you name it.

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An Inconvenient Truth is the academy award-winning documentary film from director Davis Guggenheim which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.

With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Al Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.

Visit http://www.climatecrisis.net/ for more information about the film, and how you can take action to help stop global warming.

In past years we've had a Christmas tradition at our church called "the greening of the church." On the first Sunday of Advent, the sanctuary would be decorated with evergreens in symbolic celebration of the everlasting life that Jesus' birth heralds for all Christians. Today the "greening" of the church calls for broadening the scope and meaning. It includes living in covenant with God's creation in the natural world, and being committed stewards of our natural resources.

Our congregation is learning to be better stewards. We try to deepen our understanding of how to live in harmony with nature, and to share our planet's limited resources with all of God's people.

We try to learn to live simply, so that others might simply live.

Our early steps on the path:

• Showed the film "An Inconvenient Truth" to our congregation, and followed up with an information session led by Jeni Krencicki, a volunteer trained by Al Gore's education team. Jeni currently works as a volunteer presenter of Al Gore’s global warming slide show and as a staff member of the U.S. Climate Pledge. She may be contacted by email at jennifer.krencicki@yale.edu if you would like to have a similar presentation done in your community.
  
  

  Conducted an energy inventory at church and made improvements to conserve energy--replaced light bulbs with new energy saving bulbs, fixed leaking plumbing
• Have ordered special hot beverage cups that are made from recycled paper and are compostable
• Started a young adult group interested in researching green practices and resources.
  CHALLENGE: To offest your carbon usage. Check out www.nativeenergy.com/why_offset.html for more information.
• Started this web page of recycling and environmental living resources, hoping to expand it with your contributions and recommendations!
  

TELL US!
Got a favorite earth-friendly web site you'd like to suggest as a link to our page?

Email the link or web site address to Pastor Jennifer at Walnut Creek UMC.