How often have you learned
of a terrible injustice, but felt unable to do anything about it? Have
you wanted to help bring about change in our world, but believed it was
too difficult and too big for you to tackle?
Do you wonder where the
leaders are – why so many people are suffering, yet no one is leading
the way toward effective solutions?
Have you said to yourself, “I
feel strongly about the genocide in Darfur, (or about human trafficking,
global warming, torture and about other human rights violations) but
what can I do about it?”
Now, there is a channel
for your caring, your passion, your desire to make a positive difference
in our world. Imagine the power of a citizens’ lobby – people
throughout the nation who, together, achieve specific, effective, humane
changes in public policy.
High Road for Human Rights offers a unique approach,
bringing together compassionate people throughout the United States to
effect change.
HIGH ROAD NEWS
High Road President Rocky Anderson
Addresses The Florida
League of Cities
Beyond Lightbulbs and Hybrids:
Local Government Solutions
to Global Climate Change
From WMNF
AUGUST 14, 2008 - The
Florida League of Cities is meeting in Tampa this week. A pre-conference
seminar
sharing
ideas about how cities can help solve
global climate change was held this morning at the Tampa Convention
Center.
This seminar, Beyond Lightbulbs and Hybrids: Local Government Solutions
to Global Climate Change, was co-sponsored by the Florida League of Mayors.
Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, said he helped launch an
environmental program in 2001 called Salt Lake City Green that had a climate
protection component.
Anderson is president of High
Road for Human Rights, a group advocating for human rights including
reducing climate change.
Anderson called climate
change the “greatest challenge ever to humankind,” but said
there are ways that cities can help to reduce its impact, such as those
he implemented in Salt Lake City. “We helped stop the building
of a major highway into Salt Lake City.”
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Listen to the WMNF
Interview (mp3) with Rocky
Anderson
