This Sunday's Green Jobs Rally at Saint Paul College will bring together an exciting coalition of those rising to the challenge of climate change by finding opportunities within solutions to the looming crisis. Presented by the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Blue Green Alliance and other strategic partners, the rally will call on policymakers to seize the opportunity to jump-start the economy by investing in green energy.
Oxfam Action Corps volunteers will be on hand with information putting a human face on climate change -- to initiatives promoted at the rally will create green jobs, mitigate global warming, and reduce the suffering already being felt by the world's poorest communities. You can help call attention to the plight of the world's poor by volunteering with us at the Green Jobs Rally! Contact us at minnesota@oxfamactioncorps.org
What: Green Jobs Rally, featuring Jim Hightower, the Minnesota's largest human wind turbine, empowering action, enlightening education, and much more!
When: This Sunday, 27 July 2008 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Where: Saint Paul College, 235 Marshall Ave, Saint Paul, MN
For complete details, visit the website of our friends at the Sierra Club North Star Chapter. Contact us to volunteer with Oxfam at the event!
Report on Climate Change and Poverty in Uganda
Last week, Oxfam published an important new report, titled Turning up the heat: climate change and poverty in Uganda. The work is an in-depth case study on how climate change is devastating millions already living on the brink. Read the report now. Warren Foster wrote this summary.
More Climate Change and Poverty News:
Integrated Regional Information Networks (UN), GLOBAL: A dollar more for climate change adaptation, a dollar less for health
New Vision, Uganda: New Practices to Help Farmers Beat Climate Change
Environment News Service, Avoiding Deforestation to Limit Climate Change 'Cheap and Practical'
Xinhua, Climate change to spoil Bangladesh's poverty alleviation efforts
