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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Hi, all. I’m brand new to the
OS list. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m preparing for presenting an Open Space session at a
conference at </span></font>Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI; April
9-10). Here’s the blurb about the session:</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Title: Open Space for (Public Discussion of) "No
Regrets" Policies and Actions </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organizer: Tom Stanton, </span></font>Michigan
Renewable Energy Program, Public Service Commission</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change advocates "no regrets" mitigation and adaptation approaches;
these are ways to address climate change at no or very low cost, or with high
benefit-cost ratios. The 4th IPCC report explains: "[Some] mitigation
actions can result in near-term co-benefits (e.g. improved health due to
reduced air pollution) that may offset a substantial fraction of mitigation
costs. ... In several sectors, climate response options can be implemented to
realize synergies and avoid conflicts with other dimensions of sustainable
development." As Nordhaus and Shellenberger (2007, pp. 257-258)
anticipate, a helpful public policy response to global climate change could be
capable of establishing a new, inspirational “social contract”
based on a “clean energy investment platform” that could enable
“fulfillment, self-creation, and a new ecological politics.” This
session seeks to identify and actually begin the process of initiating
implementation of "no regrets" options for the Great Lakes Region:
mitigation and adaptation opportunities with various combinations of net
negative costs; near-term co-benefits, especially in terms of new economic
development and employment creation opportunities; and synergies with other
dimensions of sustainable development. Workshop leaders will use an "Open
Space" meeting approach (http://www.openspaceworld.org/), in which
participants self-organize. Participants will set their own agenda, and then form
small groups to begin work on the topics they choose. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEAD
DISCUSSION OF A SPECIFIC "NO REGRETS" TOPIC, please contact Tom
Stanton at <a href="mailto:stantont1@michigan.gov">stantont1@michigan.gov</a>.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Conference details are here: <a
href="http://www.environment.msu.edu/climatechange/index.html">http://www.environment.msu.edu/climatechange/index.html</a>
</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>If any of you are interested in participating
and/or helping to lead this session at this </span></font><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'>FREE</span></font><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>
conference, please let me know. I’ll buy your MSU Dairy Ice Cream
Cone (a $3 value you won’t soon forget)!!! </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thank you in advance for any help you can give me towards this
end… </span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All the best, </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-- Tom Stanton, Coordinator<br>
</span></font>Michigan Renewable Energy Program -- <a
href="http://www.michigan.gov/mrep">http://www.michigan.gov/mrep</a> <br>
voice 517-241-6086, generally 9a-5p, M-F<br>
EMAIL: <a href="mailto:stantont1%5bat%5dmichigan.gov">stantont1[at]michigan[dot]gov</a>
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