ABOUT US

As young citizens, we are concerned about the future of our planet. After President Trump pulled the United States from the Paris Climate Accord in 2017, the future of the earth looked even more bleak. Last year, on May 31st, 2018, we brought our original draft of our “Resolution for Environmental Sustainability and Improvement” to City Council; since then we have been busy revising the resolution and speaking with different organizations within our community.

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We began this process when we were all in high school at Bloomington High Schools North and South. Before presenting our first draft of the climate resolution to the City Council of Bloomington, we spoke to the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability, and took many suggestions they offered and proceeded to incorporate these into our resolution. Since presenting to the city council, we have talked to the Bloomington Tree Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, Bloomington Commission on Sustainability, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington Transit, and Bloomington Environmental Commission. In addition, we have met with several people from various city departments about the feasibility. We have presented our resolution at the Youth for Environmental Leadership Summit held at IU, Woke Wednesday at Bloomington North High School, The Academy of Science and Entrepreneurship and Green Drinks in Bloomington in order to gather citizen support.

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We were pleased to learn that our ideas are well supported throughout our community.  We want to thank Dave Rollo for sponsoring this resolution to City Council. In addition we would like to thank Amanda Figolah, Angela Shelton, Ann Burke, Michael Hamburger, Ben Brabson, Matt Flaherty, Dave Williams, Beth Rosenberger, Autumn Salamack, the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability, the Environmental Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, and Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington Transit.

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