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I hope you have made plans to participate in Give to Lincoln Day for a gift to Nebraska Peace Foundation.
If you are planning to give on-line at Razoo.com, you can make you contribution anytime on or before May 16, just be sure to specify the date for the donation to be “A Giving Day.”
There are many reasons to choose Nebraska Peace Foundation as the organization you donate to, here are just a few. You would be supporting our educational efforts on the many priority issues that we work on. Here are some of the issues we focus on:
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Nebraskans for Peace is offering scholarships to graduating high school seniors. Three $500 scholarships and six $100 scholarships will be awarded to seniors who wish to pursue a college education. The awards, based upon written essays, will be evenly divided among the three congressional districts. The recipients will be students who wish to further their education in an area consistent with the mission of Nebraskans for Peace: peace with justice through community building, education and political action.
Applications should go within the body of an email (not as an attachment) to NFPscholarships@gmail.com on or before April 8, 2013. Winners will be notified no later than April 22.
The application must include:
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By Erin Andersen
Lincoln Journal Star
January 12, 2013
One hundred years ago, headlines were filled of talk of a world war.
But on a small farm near Junction City, Kan., Josephine Peterson was giving birth to a son -- Raleigh Peterson Jr.
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On Thursday, Dec. 6, the Nebraska State Board of Education will be discussing the removal of curriculum requirements to teach high school students about climate change. This could be quite detrimental to our students. Allowing them to graduate without teaching them about climate change is going to limit their understanding about the effects our actions have on that change.
Humans affect the planet in a myriad of ways and our students need to study, discuss, debate, and understand their environment in order to take the reigns as our future leaders. Climate change is part of a global conversation - one which will continue to dominate world issues. The conversation will take place with or without our students -we do them no favors by keeping them ignorant of the subject.
The Board is asking for feedback from Nebraska's educators, parents, and citizens. Please help your voice be heard by contacting the State Board of Education members and asking them to please keep climate change as part of the Geography requirements for our High School Students.
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With the state suffering through the worst drought on record (worse even than the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s), Nebraskans are getting a personal initiation into the perils of climate change. Production agriculture in the Midwest is facing its poorest harvest in decades and worries are growing that—without massive snowfall this winter to replenish soil moisture—next year could be even worse. Skepticism about the science of global warming is being hourly supplanted by fears that climate change is already upon us and that our politicians in Washington aren’t providing any leadership.
Good thing, then, that the featured speaker for the 2012 Annual Peace Conference October 20 is a globally recognized expert at mobilizing citizens to lobby elected officials on climate legislation. Mark Reynolds, executive director of the “Citizens Climate Lobby,” will deliver the keynote address entitled, “Finding Our Voice in Democracy: Our Best Chance at Preventing Catastrophic Climate Change.”
Reynolds has extensive background in bringing citizens and officeholders together to find common ground on energy, environment and public policy. That face-to-face communication is central to the Citizens Climate Lobby’s mission of ending America’s reliance on carbon-based fuels. CCL’s proposed ‘fee and dividend’ policy would assess a progressively rising fee on fossil fuels at the border or domestic source and return the money directly to consumers to offset the increased energy costs. The higher price of oil, coal and natural gas, in turn, would make clean renewable energy sources like wind and solar competitive in the marketplace, propelling us toward a ‘green economy’ while simultaneously reducing the dangers of climate change. (For more information, see: www.citizensclimatelobby.org )
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