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Larry Menkes commented on Be a Leader 2015-04-11 23:54:09 -0400
I'm a professional sustainability advocate specializing in energy demand reduction through energy efficiency and conservation. I'm a nationally certified Sustainable Building Advisor with expertise in home, small business, institutional (including churches, mosques, synagogues and non-profits) and municipal energy demand reduction as a matter of fiscal responsibility.
I have been an environmental journalist since 1988, affilliated with the UN Earth Charter initiative since 2002, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council's Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) network as co-founder of Warminster Township's EAC. I was outreach coordinator for our EAC and produced and led over 100 video-discussions on environmental and energy issues. I founded The Post Carbon Institute's first Penna. chapter (ECLA PA) and a I'm a trained Transition Town facilitator. I'm a long term member of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council and a founding member of the Bucks-Montgomery County Branch. I'm also a member of 350,org and, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO USA). I teach an adult ed. class on the 3 "E's" (Energy, Environment, Economy) at Delaware Valley University.
I became a member of the BuxMont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's Green Sanctuary Committee (now working with our Peace & Justice Committee) even before I formally became a Unitarian.
I and dedicated and very passionate about this work. Our home is a lab for low-cost energy efficiency and conservation measures and is carbon neutral. Our backyard is a NWF Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary.
I have seen evidence that the environment and energy crisis is the greatest social justice issue ever faced by human civilization and that NTHE (Near Term Human Extinction) is becomming a possibility. I believe that the varied Unitarian Universalist initiatives, if unified and seriously pursued, hold the promise of limiting some of the most catastrophic sequelae of Global Warming. My vision is that the UUA, in close cooperation with other faith initiatives, can be part of a powerful joint spiritual leadership movement that can awaken public awareness of the climate emergency and through modeling and example, become the change we want to see in Pennsylvania, America and the world.
I have been an environmental journalist since 1988, affilliated with the UN Earth Charter initiative since 2002, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council's Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) network as co-founder of Warminster Township's EAC. I was outreach coordinator for our EAC and produced and led over 100 video-discussions on environmental and energy issues. I founded The Post Carbon Institute's first Penna. chapter (ECLA PA) and a I'm a trained Transition Town facilitator. I'm a long term member of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council and a founding member of the Bucks-Montgomery County Branch. I'm also a member of 350,org and, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO USA). I teach an adult ed. class on the 3 "E's" (Energy, Environment, Economy) at Delaware Valley University.
I became a member of the BuxMont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's Green Sanctuary Committee (now working with our Peace & Justice Committee) even before I formally became a Unitarian.
I and dedicated and very passionate about this work. Our home is a lab for low-cost energy efficiency and conservation measures and is carbon neutral. Our backyard is a NWF Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary.
I have seen evidence that the environment and energy crisis is the greatest social justice issue ever faced by human civilization and that NTHE (Near Term Human Extinction) is becomming a possibility. I believe that the varied Unitarian Universalist initiatives, if unified and seriously pursued, hold the promise of limiting some of the most catastrophic sequelae of Global Warming. My vision is that the UUA, in close cooperation with other faith initiatives, can be part of a powerful joint spiritual leadership movement that can awaken public awareness of the climate emergency and through modeling and example, become the change we want to see in Pennsylvania, America and the world.
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