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Photo Gallery
Louisville Climate Action Network
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Rally participants, above, point green fingers to the 1 Sky shared by all.
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US Representative John
Yarmuth (D-KY 3rd), left,
addressed the audience and
announced that he is a
co-sponsor of the Safe
Climate Act, which calls for
federal leadership to cut
US greenhouse emissions by
80% by 2050-- a goal that
could be met, largely using
existing technology, per a
recent, federally-funded
report.
Art Williams, director of the Metro Air Pollution Control District and
participant in the original Kyoto Protocol negotiations, below, updated
the audience on steps taken to implement Mayor Abramson's
endorsement of the US Conference of Mayors' climate agreement.
Sarah Lynn Cunningham of the Louisville CAN steering committee,
below, led participants in street theater on Louisville's
environmental history and potential futures (healthy versus not so).
A street theater prop, by Robert Hatfield, below, of
our skyline on parched earth: Louisville in 2050?
Louisville CAN Steering
Committee member Sally
Cravens, with help from students
Cassidy and Trish, left, provide
cue cards for street theater
participants as the group ponders
whether various ideas might be
viable in Louisville's tool box for
reducing its carbon footprint.
From the nationwide Step It Up 2007 day of action on 03 Nov 07 (Photos by Cameron Smither of LCAN Students)
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