[greenon-l] New Ontario climate change strategy provides everyday practical solutions

[Conservation Council of Ontario]

FYI, we've posted a framework for "the People's Strategy" on climate change
on www.weconserve.ca <http://www.weconserve.ca/> . 

 

To paraphrase Pogo, "I have met the solution, and it is us".  Unlike other
climate change strategies that focus on the major emitters, and caps and
emission trading, our approach is to focus on consumers as the engine of
change.  We are, I believe, unique in that we emphasize the need to invest
in the products and services that will help make it easier for people to
adopt new conserver habits and practices.  

 

I am also putting the finishing touches on an overhaul of the
www.greenontario.org <http://www.greenontario.org/>  website, which is our
more comprehensive site of links and resources,  The Green Ontario site will
flesh out the We Conserve strategy with more resources on how to become a
better conserver.

 

 

Investing in the People's Strategy on Climate Change is one of our topics at
the upcoming Conservation Summit on April 27.  Be sure to register at
www.weconserve.ca/summit/ 

 

 

Chris Winter

 <http://www.weconserve.ca/> weconserve.ca

Ontario's Conservation Movement

 

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Emacs!

New Ontario climate change strategy provides everyday practical solutions

Finally, a strategy that is aimed at helping people take action

(Toronto, Ontario, April 5, 2007)   Today, the Conservation Council of
Ontario released an eight step consumer-oriented climate change strategy
called We Conserve: The People's Strategy on Climate Change.  

In a word, the strategy is "conserve."  In four words, "Be a better
conserver."  And in 28 words and eight actions, the strategy is."Live in an
energy efficient home with renewable power, in a compact and complete
community with lots of green spaces.  Drive less.  Buy local.  Eat local.
Waste less."

On the Council's website, www.weconserve.ca <http://www.weconserve.ca/>  ,
people can find a page of ideas for each of these eight actions, with links
to organizations and companies that make it easy to take the actions. 

"There's absolutely no point in asking people to conserve if we can't back
it up with tailored advice and support services, and with easy access to
conservation products like renewable power, car-sharing and locally-produced
food," said Chris Winter, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of
Ontario and the strategy's author.

The strategy is based on the Council's work over the past three years to
link a provincial conservation movement with an emerging conserver economy.
It also points to the need for provincial and federal climate change
strategies to emphasize public incentives, support for an emerging conserver
economy, and strengthening the social infrastructure for conservation.

"Any long term solution has to be based on a consumer-driven strategy,"
explained Winter.  "Caps and emission-trading are great, but people also
need to see that their governments are backing them up in their personal
efforts to conserve energy."

We Conserve is being promoted this month with posters in all 441 locations
of The Beer Store across Ontario.  And for the month of April, donations can
be made to the Conservation Council of Ontario through coin boxes in all The
Beer Store locations.

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CONTACT:        

Chris Winter, Executive Director, Conservation Council of Ontario,
416-533-1635 ext 1., cell: phone at 647-393-5000

The Conservation Council of Ontario is a provincial association of
organizations and conservation leaders working to facilitate the transition
to a conserver society and a conserver economy in Ontario.  Visit
www.weconserve.ca <http://www.weconserve.ca/>  for more information.
(Charitable # 11887 4858 RR0001)

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