Countdown to the "Grow Tully Green" community forum on April 23rd

On October 4th, 2007, our community received an informative presentation of data regarding Climate Change In Our Backyard. In that presentation, Tully resident and Channel 9 meteorologist Dave Eichorn shared the scientific research linking current changes in climate to human activity, and brought it home, by sharing his own research on changes to local weather patterns. Just a week later, on October 12th, Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to raise awareness about global warming. During its announcement, the Nobel committee cited the winners "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

So, the bottom line? Most people realize that we are facing some pretty significant climate change challenges - they will affect all of us. In fact, climate change is already affecting millions around the world. Just today, another big ice shelf is breaking away in Antarctica - much faster than predicted by climate scientists.

So what can we do about it? What are we willing to do about it? At the Grow Tully Green community forum scheduled on April 23rd, we'll hear about what many local folks are already doing, and share ideas on what more can be done. There is much good news - more than we can share in just a few hours. And much more can be done, by each of us individually, at our places of work, and right here - in our community!

And for that reason, several of us decided to launch this dialogue, initially with this Grow Tully Green blog, and a Grow Tully Green Book Discussion group. So stay tuned here for more details. And if you have a desire to help with the blog, or the bookclub, or the community forum, please reach out here, or send an e-mail to Melissa O'Mara or Kraig Pritts.

And don't forget to fill out the survey below! We want to hear what you think. Please post additional ideas as comments to this post. Not sure what we'll do with them yet... Let's see what emerges or "grows" :-)