Note: A copy of the Mar. 2022 email sent to the Harrisburg NAACP Environmental Committee follows. Internal links de-linked, attached postscript, and referenced as such.
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Thank goodness for spring -- my favorite time of the year! Around the first week of April, I'll send you the rough draft for the cartoon on fire prevention and safety. I'll notify you of an alternative means by which to send it if you provide me with no mailing address. Last summer, I kept emphasizing the Committee's attempts to partner with a tenant association, as well as plans to do the same with the fire department. Also see Environmental Committee: GTHU and Environmental Committee: GTHU, II below. The branch acknowledged the benefit of partnerships, but noted that the organization is a historic one with its own identity. Tonight, however, I've heard more acknowledgments and efforts by general and executive members to cooperate with other organizations. Speaking of the fire department, the Harrisburg Fire Bureau and Community LifeTeam EMS held its first CPR training at Firehouse #2 on 16th Street. The department intends to hold such a "meet-and-greet" every month. For more info, visit the news section under the "Government" category at harrisburgpa.gov. Or call 3-1-1. From June 11-13, Harrisburg will host the Pennsylvania Climate Convergence -- #PAClimate2022. According to pennsylvaniaclimateconvergence.org, the gathering will demand "urgent legislative and administrative action... to phase out... greenhouse gas production." Aside from the website, you can call 610-678-7726 for more info. On the consumption side, any PA resident served by an electric utility company may have their electricity powered by renewable energy (i.e. wind and solar). Shop a clean energy supplier -- which your utility company must distribute to your home -- at papowerswitch.com. Also see Environmental Committee: Renewable Energy Suppliers in Pa. below.
Women's History Month
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At the conjunction of the spring planting season this month and Arbor Day in April, I'd like to recognize a 2004 Nobel Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement for Women's History Month.
Among her accomplishments, the late Wangari Maathai spearheaded the planting of 20 million trees by women in Africa's Great Lakes Region. Before she became the first woman to earn a Ph.D in either East or Central Africa, Wangari earned a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966. (Source: www.nobelprize.org) Until next time, Jubalyn ExWilliams Chair | Environmental Committee Harrisburg NAACP XXX-XXX-XXXX
The founding Environmental Committee of the Harrisburg NAACP popularizes awareness for fire safety & prevention in the City of Harrisburg. Upon its formal conception in March 2021, the Committee has been developing a free educational product for young learners about non-arson house fires.
Would you like to join the Harrisburg NAACP and help shape the Environmental Committee, or another committee? Contact the Greater Harrisburg Area NAACP at hbgnaacp.com, its first website in 5 years.
Related: Environmental Committee: Renewable Energy Suppliers in Pa. (Nov. 2021)
Related: Environmental Committee: Black History Month - Former EPA Whistleblower (Feb. 2022) Related: Environmental Committee: Attempt to Volunteer with GTHU (Jul. 2021) Related: Environmental Committee: Attempt to Volunteer with GHTU, II (Aug. 2021) Related: Why oil companies in Africa might concede to reforestation (2019) Related: Ecosia over Google (2020) Related: Environmental Committee: Proposal on Harrisburg Fire Safety, Prevention (Mar. 2021) Related: Toni Morrison's birds eye view (2020) |