We are not victims, we are the perpetrators of a vast experiment on ourselves and we can do something about this growing problem of air pollution. Humans are smart enough to adapt, spiritual enough to realize the creation is a gift and may be willing enough to pass on a better world than we received. Here is where you come in.

You matter because about half of the sources of green house gas [GHG] in Florida is from utilities and the other half is from transportation. Yes it is hard to believe that every time you take a bus or ride a bike or share a car with a friend you improve the air quality. Even harder to conceive is that every time you change an incandescent light that frequently burns out with a compact fluorescent bulb that you reduce the demand for electricity and that reduced demand means less oil and coal burned to generate electricity. Coal and oil are fossil fuels that are the chief contributors of greenhouse gases to the air we breathe. All of us make hot air! Indeed the Southeast contributes 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions and the USA contributes 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions on earth. With only 4% of the global population we have a disproportionate impact on the environment. Like a car left in the sun with its windows up, green house gases, are slowly heating up the air you breathe, the gift of creation and the breath of life.

So as an ecological actor of great importance to this drama of hot air and overheated exhausts you can begin today to care for yourself, act better with respect to your neighbors, care for the community of people on earth and cherish the biological wealth of the planet. Breathe a little easier and support the work of the Alliance for Florida's Future. Move us to a green, clean and lean future by promoting the use of renewable, less-polluting and more sustainable fuels. Light your world with lighter energy in that this bulb means that 1/4 ton of carbon dioxide will not go into the air during its lifetime because it saves energy.

The Alliance is the largest sustainable development effort centered on energy, ecological design and healthier living to combat global warming in Florida. With over thirty members this association of civic, business and environmental organizations is promoting a resolution we want you to endorse and help us to pass.

Broward County on 8-29-2000, passed a resolution for the state to adopt a global warming response plan. Since then five more have followed: Miami-Dade, Martin, Alachua, Hillsborough and Seminole.

• Energy use can reduce our GHG emissions
• 25 other states have done this
• We save money, lives and property by being aware
• Children deserve our action to moderate global warming now

How we act in concert is of utmost importance because the air you breathe is not just yours. The air we pollute goes somewhere else. If we become cleaner tomorrow we must help our neighbors clean up their pollution as well. The air spills into the lungs of all people across the globe. Acting in one country -- like acting in one home to put water heaters on a timer or buy efficient appliances is very good, but it is not good enough to affect the sort of changes that are required if the whole planet is to breathe a little easier.

We need you, we need your support, we need your letters and your participation to lead the way in promoting energy efficiency statewide, nationwide and worldwide because: we consume too great a share of the world's resources wastefully and a more efficient world is healthier, prosperous and clean.

Earth Day 2000 was focused on promoting "the clean energy agenda" to, reduce our use of fossil fuels. Assist us in bringing solar energy and alternative fuels to the markets that are now rigged in favor of fossil fuels. Acting in concert we can renew and still power our communities to actively engage in building a better tomorrow because of the clean, renewable and sustainable technologies that exist widely today. There is a world depending on your response, help us and help yourself to a safer and less expensive future.

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Goals -- 3 intentions: make people part of the solution,

explain the problem and

have awareness lead to action.

1 What you and I do has an affect on the air's character, quality and composition

2 the atmosphere is as close to you as the alveoli of (air sacks) in your lungs.

3 the very nitrogen comprising 80% of the air you breathe

4 Some people can not take that depth of breath,

5 Because of five principle green-house gases that like CO_{2 trap heat}

6 we are not victims, we are the perpetrators of a vast experiment on ourselves... Here is where you come in.

7 you matter because about half of the sources of green house gas in Florida

8 So as an ecological actor of great importance to this drama of hot air and overheated exhausts you can begin

9 The Alliance is the largest sustainable development effort centered on energy, ecological design...

10 resolution language in bulleted form -- list counties were it is passed, pending - etc.

11 How we act in concert is of utmost importance because the air you breathe is not just yours

12 We need you, we need your support ... Help us promote the clean energy agenda of Earth Day 2000.