GP: introducing Alden Bryant, 2002 Climate Stabilization Act & Treaty movement, Reply to: Climate Solutions Book Wins Award

["David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@lightspeed.net>]

I am a member of the green-power list and this post caught my eye so I
copied it to the President of the Earth Regeneration Society, Mr. Alden
Bryant (a sage 79 year old lifelong social and environmental activist with
whom recently I have made contact and am trying to help), via fax since he
is not online but who is known as the "grandfather" of the United Nations
Climate Treaty of 1992 and who got the "Emergency Climate Stabilization and
Earth Regeneration Act of 1992" introduced to US Congress by his Congressman
from Berkeley CA, Ron Dellums (which never came up for a vote).  His work
with the International Society for the Systems Sciences and others experts
resulted in a comprehensive overview ~100pp booklet "Whose Earth to Loose"
which was submitted back then to members of Congress and the UN, and their
activism helped bring about the Rio Summit of 1992 which then led to Kyoto,
etc.

Mr. Bryant is a national treasure in my view who needs our help as activists
to take advantage of his myriad high level contacts to introduce a Climate
Stabilization Act into Congress this year and a companion Climate
Stabilization Treaty for consideration at the UN Summit on Sustainable
Development ("Earth Summit") in South Africa starting late this August.  His
myriad high level contacts/collaborators over the decades on this and other
issues include both US Senators from California, Dellums' successor
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, President Bush's chief of staff Andrew Card (who
as assistant to former President Bush (Sr)'s chief of staff John Sununu took
input from Mr. Bryant and changed the terminology to "Climate Change" from
simply the one aspect of it of "global warming" -- due to need to include
consideration of commensurate glaciation cycle factors, ozone layer
depletion, etc), and his contacts at the UN include a special assistant to
many UN Secretaries General over the years who is now working on this year's
Earth Summit organizing, et al, et al, et al.

Mr. Bryant has a new book 95% finished which contains the "C0/2 Budget"
target data for various bioregions, nations, etc., required to actually
implement changes required for effective climate stabilization, and he needs
publishing help to get it out to the public and to all congresspeople, UN
reps, etc., to substantiate and effectively introduce these 2002 Climate
Stabilization Act and Treaty documents which he already has the contacts
lined up to do.

This is a unique opportunity for climate activists to take effective action
to keep our planet from turning into a "Mars" before the "authorities" and
fossil fuel industry supported "climate scientists" figure out or
acknowledge what is really going on.

I urgently suggest that anyone who can do so, to please right now forward
this intro post to key people in climate stablization movement for their
support and contact with Mr. Bryant to help him implement these very
important plans.  He has virtually no resources or helpers on this right
now, and needs all of our help that he can get asap if this is to happen
this year.

Since he is not online, if someone can get him support for a computer to do
so, it will increase his effectiveness manyfold.

I do not have a scanner or resources either but I think it is very important
for someone who can, to scan his 1992 book and put it online for public and
governmental review as part of this campaign.  If someone can do this please
phone him and he will mail you a copy of that book to do so, along with any
other important related documents he has on file.  He has his new book on a
disc and perhaps arrangements could also be made with him to get that, or
the most important parts or summary, online to accelerate this process.

In the interim, I have set up a couple of yahoogroups for him and this work
and posted some background and a few pages of articles etc from him, but I
have so far hesitated  to post his 1992 book as eFax attachments there via
my fax machine, as that format is more difficult for folks to manage and not
as clear for the charts etc as other scanned formats.

If you or folks you can forward this post to can help, please contact Mr.
Alden Bryant directly at 510-527-9716 in Berkeley, California, and discuss
this with him asap.

Also interested folks may see some info on him and his work at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alden-bryant-associates
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/climate-stabilization-treaty
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-american-agenda

Thanks for whatever you can do to help on this urgent matter.

David Crockett Williams
gear2000@lightspeed.net



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Gray" <tomgray@igc.org>
To: <green-power@crest.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 5:17 AM
Subject: GP: Climate Solutions Book Wins Award


> Hmmm, well, yeah, this is self-promotional, but in a good cause.  I know
> Guy, and Patrick, and I know of New Society Publishers.  Deserving, all.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Dauncey [mailto:guydauncey@earthfuture.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:33 PM
> Subject: Climate Solutions Book Wins Award
>
>
> With brazen self-publicity.....
>
> Climate Solutions Authors Win Award at New York Book Fair
>
> The authors Guy Dauncey and Patrick Mazza, along with their publishing
house
> New Society Publishers, have just won the coveted Nautilus Award at the
New
> York Book Expo, that was held in  New York from May 5th-9th, 2002.
>
> The annually awarded NAPRA Nautilus Awards recognize books that make an
> exceptional contribution to promoting conscious living and positive social
> change. See http://www.napra.com (click on 'Nautilus') or
> http://www.napra.com/cgi-bin/napra-store/Winners2002.html?id=NY3M5FCa
>
> "Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change", by Guy Dauncey
> with Patrick Mazza, was the overall winner in the Ecology/Environment
> category. Their book is described as "a must read for anyone who wants a
> cleaner, healthier planet" by James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard
> Institute for Space Studies, one of the world's leading climate
scientists.
> It provides a concise and comprehensive overview of global warming, and
> describes 101 detailed solutions that can be put into practice by
> individuals, schools, colleges, churches, cities,  businesses, power
> utilities, corporations, governments, and global treaty makers.
>
> Bob Hunter, co-founder of Greenpeace, called it "the most important
> ecological book of our generation" in Toronto's EYE Magazine; the Green
> Business Letter called it "one of the clearest, most concise guides yet on
> coping with climate change."
>
> When asked about his response to winning the award, Guy Dauncey said "My
> hope is that the public  - from churchgoers to farmers, from governments
to
> corporate leaders - will read the book, and realize that while global
> warming is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, there are many
> solutions which will benefit everyone; they are not something we need be
> afraid of."
>
> The business magazine Green@Work wrote "It is a rare combination of
science
> and activism that makes this book so appealing. An immensely accessible
book
> that will inspire understanding as well as action."
>
> "Stormy Weather" is Guy Dauncey's fifth title; his last was a collection
of
> eco-utopian short stories set in the years 2005 - 2015, called
"Earthfuture:
> Stories from a Sustainable World". He lives in Victoria, B.C., with his
wife
> Carolyn Herriot, who runs The Garden Path Organic Plant Nursery. He is a
> writer, lecturer, and sustainable community planning consultant; editor of
> EcoNews, and a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland.
> http://www.earthfuture.com
>
> Patrick Mazza lives in Seattle, where he works as a researcher-writer with
> the Olympia, WA-based group Climate Solutions, which aims to make the
> Pacific Northwest a leader in global warming solutions.
> http://www.climatesolutions.org
>
> New Society Publishers is based on Gabriola Island, British Columbia,
> Canada, and specializes in books that contribute in fundamental ways to
> building an ecologically sustainable and just society. Published in July
> 2001, "Stormy Weather" was the debut title in their tree-free publishing
> program; it is printed on chlorine-free recycled paper made from 100%
> post-consumer waste.
> http://www.newsociety.com
>
> The book is available in all good bookshops and libraries, and directly
from
> the authors.
>
> For interviews, jpg photos, details on bulk purchase, "Gifts for Leaders"
> discount prices, or exam copies for classroom work, please email:
> Guy Dauncey guydauncey@earthfuture.com
> Patrick Mazza  patrick@climatesolutions.org
> or
> Judith Plant (New Society Publishers) 1-800-567-6772,
judith@newsociety.com
>
>
>
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