A Challenge: Sign the Kyoto Protocol as an Individual

Abi Abrash Walton, a faculty member in ANE’s Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program and contributor to The Well-Trained Activist, sent this one our way . . . .

In Altar Call for True Believers from the September/October issue of Orion Magazine, Janisse Ray challenges those of us who think we are walking our talk as environmentalists to take a harder, longer look at our actions. Have you signed onto the Kyoto Protocol as an individual? Would you?

In the article, Ray writes about her struggle to be as true to her environmental ethic as possible and acknowledges that she’s got a ways to go:

Still, I am far from saved. My footprint is surely too large for me to enter the kingdom of sustainability heaven. If sustainable living is a continuum, from excessive waste to zero waste, then I too am not where I want to be on it.

One effort Ray mentions is asking organizers of events at which she has been invited to speak to do as much as possible toward making the event green. Steve Chase, director of ANE’s Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program, recently pointed us to Environment Canada’s Green Meeting Guide, a great resource worth sharing widely.