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Re: Vehicle Idling Awareness Efforts
2009-09-26 21:29:38 UTC
Hi Jay,
Sorry about that!
PowerPoint Presentations:
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/full-presentation-from-july-9th-webinar-gasping-for-breath-implementing-strong-anti-idling-bylaws-in-your-community/
If you want more material on idling, air quality, etc. - just email me at [email protected]
Thanks!
http://drivethrulies.wordpress.com/ (LOTS on here RE: Drive-thrus)
Cory Morningstar
Chair
Canadians for Action on Climate Change
Canada
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/ -
Re: Vehicle Idling Awareness Efforts
2009-09-23 20:01:04 UTC
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/full-presentation-from-july-9th-webinar-gasping-for-breath-implementing-strong-anti-idling-bylaws-in-your-community/
Gasping for Breath Implementing Strong Anti-Idling Bylaws in Your Community. Extended PowerPoint Presentation from Canadians for Action on Climate Change attached.
Link to full presentation below.
Podcast coming soon. Contact: [email protected]
Download the full presentation: https://www.yousendit.com/download/cmcwYUp3cG9VVGtLSkE9PQ
* Gordon A. McBean CM, PhD, FRSC | Professor and Director Policy Studies | Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
* Dr. Quentin Chiotti | Climate Change Programme Director and Senior Scientist | Pollution Probe
* Fleur Storace-Hogan | Sustainability Support Technician | City of Burlington
* Cory Morningstar | Council of Canadians | London | Canadians for Action on Climate Change
The issue of a drive-thru moratorium is a hot topic in many municipalities across the nation what is industrys response? Reminiscent of the tobacco industrys response to anti-smoking efforts, ad campaigns are being run in London and Comox BC intended to question the science or promote personal choice around drive-thrus. Are they hoping to sway pubic opinion and impede legislation? In the meantime, thousands of vehicles line up everyday in drive-thrus spewing unnecessary pollution into the environment.
Empowerment is as much about community mobilization as high-level political action. This is a local issue, with global consequences. Hundreds of leaders are gathered in Geneva discussing climate change. Many are from the developing world. The sense of urgency is palpable. We in the rich countries created the problem with our heavy use of fossil fuels, yet the people who will be most impacted will be the people in the poorest countries who had little to do with creating the problem. We need strong leadership at the federal and provincial levels, AND each of us need to make changes. Municipalities need to find the political will to effectively implement strong anti idling bylaws, to confront the enormity of Climate Change.
The most urgent need is to empower local government and local communities to understand climate implications and to take action. Health professionals and university academics have an important catalytic role. This fireside chat will provided stats, perspectives and inspiration to take on this role.
The topics of discussion in this Fireside Chat were
1) Implementing a strong anti-idling bylaw in your community
2) The contribution to Pollution
3) The contribution to climate change,
4) Drive-thrus
5) Barriers: political partisan issues, denialism, lack of political will and leadership
6) The crucial role of the health and academic sectors re: taking action on Climate Change
Ontarios smog causes 9,500 deaths per year, medical association says. Of these 1,000 occurred immediately after times of intense pollution.
The research on the human costs of pollution and pollution-related diseases estimated that around 21,000 people in Canada will die from breathing in toxic substances drifting in the air this year with 3,000 of those deaths due to short-term exposure to smog.
CHNET-Works! is a project of the Community Health Research Unit, University of Ottawa.
CHNET-Works! hosts Fireside Chats around current and pressing community health issues.
140 chats hosted since January 2009 no registration fees, no travel costs, no green house gas emissions!
www.chnet-works.ca
contact: [email protected]
Idling Presentation for Canadian Municipalities July 2009 PPM.ppt
Cory Morningstar
Chair
Canadians for Action on Climate Change
Canada
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/ -
Re: Vehicle Idling Awareness Efforts
2009-09-23 14:12:18 UTC
Hi,
I was just involved in the summer in a very successful Canadian webinar on Idling with Gordon McBean - Climatologist & Quentin Chiotti from Pollution probe. Would you like me to send you the presentation?
Cory Morningstar
Chair
Canadians for Action on Climate Change
Canada
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/ -
Environmental Community Leaders
2009-09-23 14:09:28 UTC
I am presently working on a research project in the City of London (Ontario) on community energy plans. The focus of my research is on the communities and interactions with the communities into tangible results in various areas. I am looking to find out first hand from community organizations and community leaders what initiatives worked and what did not work when attempting to engage citizens in communities and what actually has been proven in your city to stimulate behavioral change. Empirical data would also be helpful if it is available. I thank you in advance for your consideration. I appreciate your time.
Initiatives: We are looking mainly at environmental initiatives; specifically on energy conservation, sustainability, climate change mitigation.
Questions:
1) Initiatives that have worked and why you believe they worked.
2) Initiatives that have failed and why you believe they failed.
3) Your ideas for our shared natural environment and future how your ideas will engage citizens.
I hope you will consider sharing your insight and knowledge. You may also contact me via email: [email protected]
Sincerely,
Cory Morningstar
519.642.4890
Cities being Researched: Vancouver | Calgary | Edmonton | Greater Sudbury | Halifax | Guelph | Hamilton | Kingston | Victoria | Kamloops | Ottawa
Background: An emerging trend in Canada is the creation of community energy plans, where decisions that used to be left to regional level energy agencies or private individuals are now being considered at the community level. A desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to become more energy self-sufficient is driving this change. Theoretically, local level management is desirable because it achieves these goals through improvements in the three areas of energy efficiency, energy conservation and switching to renewable energy sources. September 2008 - The analysis of 10 of the first community energy plans in Canadian communities, ranging in population size from 500 to one million, found that that communities were choosing policies and programs centred on increasing energy efficiency and conservation while renewable energy received much less attention. (This should shift with the increased government rebates announced on March 31st 2009.) Municipal operations were called upon to set higher targets than the general community. Communities that recognized the substantial potential of renewable energy often focused on technologies that the municipal sector could implement, such as bio-fuels for their transportation fleet, wind, passive solar design, solar photovoltaics and solar thermal options. Calgary recommended implementing multiple renewable energy technologies while three of the five smaller communities proposed multiple renewable energy sources. The implication is that smaller municipalities and communities may be the most willing to lead in the planned introduction of renewable energy systems.
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/
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