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![The University as Catalyst?
S We idealistically conceived of our universities as being centers where
new ideas and activism would be nurtured across the country. Under
the pressure of students today, that dream is being kept alive.
S The University can be a catalyst for change, for all the reasons
described in the Port Huron Statement.
S UM has official endorsed sustainability as a university mission.
S Promised a carbon reduction of 25 percent by 2025 [from 2006
baseline]
S The University has nearly 700 faculty and 600 courses that focus in
part on sustainability issues.
S Building efficiency, water use, recycling all improved.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/michiganpowerpointwithnotes-141118184126-conversion-gate02/75/I-Grew-Up-Shoveling-Coal-By-Tom-Hayden-61-2048.jpg)
![Cutting Emissions While
Improving Justice
S California law requires progress on reducing greenhouse
gas emissions [AB 32, 2006] and co-benefits for
disadvantaged communities [SB 535] at the same time.
S This is a path to a broader environmental coalition than
ever before, as community-based organizations and
trade unions seek there share of co-benefits
[weatherization, irrigation, rooftop collectors, green cars,
buses, trains, etc.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/michiganpowerpointwithnotes-141118184126-conversion-gate02/75/I-Grew-Up-Shoveling-Coal-By-Tom-Hayden-63-2048.jpg)
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- 6. Pollution and Segregation S So my early life was affected deeply by the coal, cars, the whole fossil fuel industry and also the systemic segregation of the races that led to violence in 1943 and 1967 and the shrinking and economic strangulation of Detroit. S For me, then, the issues of battling climate change and reversing poverty and racism have been profoundly connected.
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- 29. S California Clean Energy Economy
- 30. S California lawsdrive national progress in: clean air, fuel efficiency, green building design, green venture capital. S Consumer energy savings $74 billion over 40 years S 200,000 clean energy jobs S Renewable energy generation +56% between 2002-2012, three times more electricity from solar, 2002-2012
- 31. S Wind generationincreases five fold 2002- 2012 S 15.4% of California electricity is from renewables, three times the U.S. as a whole. S Silicon Valley venture capital: $27 billion since 2006 S Per Capita GHG emissions down 17% since 1990 S Phase out of out of state coal
- 32. “…Miles to gobefore we sleep.” - Governor Jerry Brown, 2014
- 33. The Green BlocRising: Pacific Rim S Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy: California, Oregon, Washington, & British Columbia
- 34. The Green BlocRising: East S Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Participants: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont; New Jersey until 2011 Observers: Pennsylvania, New Brunswick, Ontario, Québec
- 35. The Green BlocRising: Midwest S Midwest Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accords: S Signatories: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin S Observers: Indiana, Ohio, Ontario, South Dakota
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- 37. Michigan is inclimate crisis S Michigan is suffering from the legacy of coal that I grew up with. We have in this state the oldest coal plants in America We import 100 percent of that coal from other states, like Dick Cheney's Wyoming. Climate change - heat waves - is worsening the condition of the Great Lakes. Fishing in Lake Erie is like trolling in a dead zone. S
- 41. Michigan Renewables SMichiganPublic Act 295 (2008) SGoal:10% From Renewables by 2015
- 42. SUnion of Concerned Scientists (2014): S17.5% from Renewables achievable by 2020 S32.5% by 2030
- 43. S“Michigan has vastin-state renewable energy resources, enough to generate annually several times the state’s total electricity demand.” – Union of Concerned Scientists,
- 47. Students & TheUniversity
- 52. fuels with weaponsto obtain more fossil fuels for cars and industry S I learned how war was not about people alone, but about fire, smoke, pollution, the death of forests, fields and streams. Fossil fuels were used to belch death so that more fossil fuels could be obtained to power the gas-guzzling cars I grew up with in Detroit.
- 53. Sunrise in AnnArbor
- 57. The Granholm Moment S Back in 2008, under the leadership of Gov. Granholm, Michigan passed its Clean, Renewable and Efficient Energy Act, mandating the utilities and energy providers to supply ten percent of Michigan's electricity from renewables by 2015. S
- 58. 2012: a Setbackfor Renewables S Environmentalists pushed ahead with an initiative in 2012 to achieve a 20-25% renewable standard and were badly defeated under a ton of utility lobbying and spending. Your DTE here in Ann Arbor was a major opponent of that initiative.
- 59. Why an environmentaljustice coalition is necessary S Prop 23 (2010) by the Koch Brothers to suspend California Global Warming Law: S Defeated 62-38% overall, people of color 73% against, whites 57% against. S LA Times Poll 2010: S 50% of Latinos & 46% of Asian- Americans, “personally worry a lot about global warming.” Only 27% of whites worry.
- 60. Battling On SThe battle for Michigan is far from over. Obama's EPA standard of reducing carbon emissions from coal plants 30% by 2030 is helping drive the process. Michigan utilities are expecting to invest $15 billion in more efficient and renewables-based infrastructure over the next five years, and cutting coal by at least 50 percent. The fight will be over efficiency and renewables like wind and solar, versus natural gas and nuclear.
- 61. The University asCatalyst? S We idealistically conceived of our universities as being centers where new ideas and activism would be nurtured across the country. Under the pressure of students today, that dream is being kept alive. S The University can be a catalyst for change, for all the reasons described in the Port Huron Statement. S UM has official endorsed sustainability as a university mission. S Promised a carbon reduction of 25 percent by 2025 [from 2006 baseline] S The University has nearly 700 faculty and 600 courses that focus in part on sustainability issues. S Building efficiency, water use, recycling all improved.
- 62. The University asCatalyst? S The University has the Graham Sustainability Institute. S The University has just begun to purchase wind energy for its AA campus. S But only 3.5 percent of purchased electricity is from renewables. Half the University's electricity is still from coal. Carbon Emissions have increased. S The University has not signed the carbon reduction agreement endorsed by 684 college presidents. Ohio State is purchasing 25% of its electricity from local wind farms, and uses geothermal wells for building heating and cooling. It has a zero-waste football stadium. Stanford is lowering emissions by 50 percent, and recently decided to divest from coal and look at other fossil fuel divestment options.
- 63. Cutting Emissions While Improving Justice S California law requires progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions [AB 32, 2006] and co-benefits for disadvantaged communities [SB 535] at the same time. S This is a path to a broader environmental coalition than ever before, as community-based organizations and trade unions seek there share of co-benefits [weatherization, irrigation, rooftop collectors, green cars, buses, trains, etc.
- 66. So Which WayDetroit?
- 73. Detroit is aresult of white flight, the outsourcing of industry, and heavy pollution S Detroit also is an opportunity for sustainable development at all levels, from community gardens to workforce training and local jobs, energy-efficiency and wind/solar manufacturing. S Reducing emissions pollution and raising up justice can go hand in hand. S Will they?
- 74. A New DetroitModel for a world of urban poverty and pollution. S The world’s megacities where billions live suffer from crises similar to Detroit. They need reinvestment along sustainable lines, not abandonment of people and polluted property.
- 75. The UN ClimateTreaty Timeline S Lima Negotiations, December 2014 S Paris Summit, December 2015
- 76. UN Climate TreatyGoal S Achieving “Climate Stabilization” S No greater than 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) warming above pre-industrial levels S 15 Countries produce 70% of global GHG emissions: S Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indian, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States S Jeffrey Sach’s Report: S “Not on track to stay within the 2° C limit” S “Goal is feasible” S “December 2015 is our last chance.”
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Editor's Notes
- #3 I grew up in Highland Park, the heart of Detroit, when the car industry was booming and times were good. My dad was an accountant at Plymouth, and a Marine. My mom and I sat on our couch watching President Roosevelt rally us to war with tanks and jeeps made in Detroit.
- #4 My chore was shoveling coal. The fire in the furnace was an inspiration. I was doing my part. I never was told of carbon pollution.
- #5 As the war ended, we moved to my coal-heated house in Royal Oak. where I attended Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower Church.
- #6 This 2007 revealed how Royal Oak was one of the first white suburbs with racial covenants.
- #8 I entered the UM in 1957 when it cost $100 per semester. A different world from now. It was the year of "On the Road" and the Little Rock school desegregation crisis. I became the Daily editor and was swept up in the student civil rights movement. [PHOTO AS STUDENT EDITOR AND "TRY HARDER"]]Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" had not yet been published. I entered the UM in 1957 when it cost $100 per semester. A different world from now. It was the year of "On the Road" and the Little Rock school desegregation crisis. I became the Daily editor and was swept up in the student civil rights movement. [PHOTO AS STUDENT EDITOR AND "TRY HARDER"]]Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" had not yet been published.
- #9 I became the Daily editor and was swept up in the student civil rights movement. ]Rachel Carson's environmental epic "Silent Spring" had not yet been published.
- #10 I was inspired by the civil rights movement and the Peace Corps, and traumatized by the Cuban missile crisis. I moved South to Georgia and Mississippi. [PHOTO OF BEATING]
- #11 Like thousands of other students north and south, I left the university to become a community organizer in the slums of Newark
- #12 Newark, July 1967
- #15 Detroit July 1967
- #16 Vietnam 1967. Chemical fires. Agent Orange, defoliation, the toxic works of Dow Chemical, Midland, Michigan.
- #19 After Vietnam came the 1973 Arab oil embargo and the anti-nuclear movement. I joined and wrote about the Jerry Brown campaign for Rolling Stone, where I learned about energy alternatives.
- #20 Jerry Brown asked me to head his new Solar Energy Council [SolarCa] and be the California representative to the Carter administration’s solar energy program.
- #40 Also from Wyoming
- #45 Michigan and the Great Lakes have huge potential for energy from wind farms.
- #46 Also huge solar potential
- #47 Minnesota leads in the Mid-west
- #48 Michigan students have been demanding a sustainable university with other students across the US
- #49 The Port Huron Statement [1962] was the founding statement of SDS, calling for the rights of all to a voice in the decisions affecting their lives.
- #50 Sharon Jeffrey and Dick Magidoff, UM campus leaders, 1962.
- #51 Dick Flacks, UM graduate student in 1963. Another drafter of the Port Huron Statement.
- #52 Few thought a student movement was even possible.
- #54 Sunrise in Ann Arbor
- #57 I worked with Archbishop Tutu [right] for divestment from apartheid in California. They said it was impossible.
- #66 This state map shows where pollution and a poor economy, budget cuts, lack of health care and other services, and racial disparities all meet.