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Conferences: Montana
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South Dakota Climate Challenge "Strategies for the Future" |
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"25x'25" is a rallying cry for renewable energy and a goal for America – to get 25 percent of our energy from renewable resources like wind, solar, and biofuels by the year 2025 25x’25 is a renewable energy initiative backed by organizations and individuals united by a common interest in making America’s energy future more secure, affordable and environmentally sustainable. Through the 25x’25 Alliance, partners are working together to advance renewable energy solutions from our nation’s farms, ranches and other working lands. 25x’25 is supported by the Energy Future Coalition and is led by a committee composed of volunteer leaders from the agricultural, forestry and renewable energy communities. |
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Dakota Resource Council (DRC) is a network of groups and individuals in North AND South Dakota that work to influence decision-making regarding issues that impact their lives. The Dakotas can claim
both the best wind resource and the worst coal in the nation.
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all the problems associated with the burning of coal, we urge
our decision-makers to move our states and the nation out of
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past and into the 21st century by focusing their
attention and resources on the development of
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The vision of Ducks Unlimited is wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. Singleness of Purpose - Our Mission: Ducks Unlimited conserves, restores and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. These habitats also benefit other wildlife and people. |
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Fresh Energy is a nonprofit organization leading the transition to a clean, efficient and fair energy system. Fresh Energy works to enhance our economy, protect human health and communities, restore our environment, and establish energy independence. In our sustained and coordinated effort to promote a modern, innovative energy system for the 21st century, we provide research, advocacy and innovative policy models while engaging citizens to take action on the energy issues that affect us all. Fresh Energy’s efforts focus on clean electricity, energy efficiency, transportation policy, global warming solutions, and energy justice. With expertise, strong alliances, and an impressive track record in each of these important areas, we’re able to maintain a long-range view while also nimbly responding to sudden threats and unexpected opportunities. |
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Intertribal Council On Utility Policy Intertribal Council On Utility Policy Intertribal COUP was formed in 1994 to provide a forum for utility issues discussion from regulatory and economic perspectives. The Intertribal COUP Council has representatives from ten Tribes located in a three-state area in the Northern Plains: South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The Tribes include the Cheyenne River; Flandreau Santee; Lower Brule; Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara; Omaha; Rosebud; Sisseton; Spirit Lake; Pine Ridge and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribes. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Telephone Authority is also a member. We provide policy analysis and recommendations, as well as workshops on telecommunications, climate change research, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) hydropower allocations, energy efficiency, energy planning, and renewable energy, with a heavy emphasis on wind energy development. Natural forces, geography and demographics have placed this vast windshed before the path of over a hundred million northeastern residents. Their need for sustainable energy solution that does not damage the health of their watersheds, forests, and the very air they breathe could not be more clear. COUP's goal of building out the wind power potential of the Great Plains will also help us protect the West's ever more scarce water resources from being depleted and degraded in the process of mining and burning millions of tons of coal every year. Increasing our nation's supply of wind power will directly reduce the carbon load on the atmosphere, nitric and sulfuric acids poisoning our forests and lakes, human health damage to respiratory systems, and genetic damage to future generations from accumulations of mercury. |
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National Center for Appropriate Technology The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) has a 30-year history of empowering people and communities to enhance their quality of life and their environment by using resources sustainably. We are a principle sponsor of this conference because climate change is, and will, increasingly inhibit the possibility of a sustainable future for Montana. Though a national organization, our first office was based in Butte, Montana and over the years we have worked closely with Montanans to meet the challenges of a sustainable agriculture and food system, a renewable energy future and conservation of its natural resources. We know there are multiple ways to meet the impacts of climate change, but we must act now or we may soon pass a tipping point into a set of irreversible problems. This conference will move us forward to constructive action. |
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National Environmental Trust is excited to help sponsor this conference because it will bring together diverse voices to discuss how global warming is affecting Montana and offer a venue to pinpoint and act on real solutions. Global warming is not a distant, far-off problem ... it is here now and is directly impacting Montana. We have seen more frequent wildfires and intense droughts, reduced snowpack, declining river levels and even shrinking glaciers in Glacier National Park. This symposium will advance international, national, state and local global warming solutions, preventing irreversible harm to our health, economy and climate. |
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The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) recognizes the increasing challenges we will face if the current shift in the global climate continues unchecked. Climate change will have a significant impact on our lifestyles and livelihood, as well as wreaking havoc on the health of our wildlife and the stability of our ecosystems. Answering this call to action, NWF has become a leader in climate change education, advocacy and policy. NWF believes this conference will serve as an invaluable tool in forging Montana’s answer to the climate challenge. Fueling the Fire: Global Warming, Fossil Fuels and the Fish and Wildlife of the American West (September 2006) |
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American Indian majority-owned, NativeEnergy is a national marketer of renewable energy credits or “green tags,” offering individuals and organizations a means to compensate for their global warming pollution, or to effectively power their homes and businesses with renewable energy. NativeEnergy’s patent-pending business process brings upfront payment to renewable projects for their estimated future green tag output, enabling its customers to help finance the construction of new wind farms and other renewable energy projects, such as tribal wind projects and methane digesters on family dairy farms, which directly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to meet the nation’s electricity needs. |
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South Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society The South
Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society is a professional
organization of approximately 200 wildlife biologists, administrators
and researchers living and working in South Dakota and is the
South Dakota affiliate of the national professional organization,
The
Wildlife Society. As managers of wildlife habitats and populations,
we are very concerned about the potential impacts climate change
will have on the resources we are charged with managing. We welcome
the South Dakota Climate Challenge as part of the effort to develop
understanding and actions to address the challenges that climate
change will pose. |
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South Dakota Clean Water Action South Dakota Clean Water Action participated in the nationwide April 14th "Step It Up 2007" National Day of Climate Action calling on Congress to Cut Carbon 80% by 2050. Thus, it welcomes and applauds the National Wildlife Federation and the South Dakota Wildlife Federation for bringing on the South Dakota Climate Challenge! Clean Water Action works to protect our water, our health, and our future. The dire consequences predicted by scientists to occur as a result of global warming requires action now. This conference presents a great opportunity to do so. Working together we can avert the pending crisis. |
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South Dakota Wildlife Federation South Dakota Wildlife Federation was founded in 1945 by a group of concerned outdoor enthusiasts who cared about wildlife and were willing to do something about protecting the wildlife and the State’s natural resources. The Federation soon became the leading voice in fishing and outdoor recreation throughout the State of South Dakota. SDWF became the first statewide organization of citizens to stand up and battle for realistic programs to manage the State’s resources. The SDWF has over 4,500 members made up of both in-state residents and out-of-state visitors. Our governing board of directors is made up of several landowners. There are 23 affiliate clubs throughout the state. Through SDWF’s history, 23 local affiliate clubs throughout the state promoted youth education, habitat improvement, landowner-sportsmen relations, and a host of other conservation minded activities. The SDWF is affiliated with, and active in, the National Wildlife Federation. Close working relationships between state and national organizations permit effective, coordinated conservation action at both levels of government. |
