Greenpeace

Marquette is ready to tell the world that we are working to send the US back to Kyoto negotiations.  Marquette is one of more than two hundred communities making steps ahead of the federal government in endorsing the Kyoto Protocol and passing energy efficiency goals. 

This Saturday on Northern Michigan University Campus concerned citizens are gathering to hear from Greenpeace expedition leader Eric Larsen who made the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole this year.

62 days of pulling and paddling 225-pound modified canoe-sleds over 550 statute miles of shifting sea ice, open ocean, pressure ridges, whiteouts and blizzards, achieved what many thought would be impossible: the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole.

“We, the One World Expedition, stand here at the North Pole to bear witness to the dramatic effects of global warming and the plight of the polar bear.

After the visual presentation we will head out to take an aerial photo.  The photo will be broadcast around the world to show that people in Michigan are ready to stop global warming.  

Be there early and stay late!!! 3-5 pm

 Please RSVP for photo to 231-394-1581 or mike.powers@sfo.greenpeace.org

Directions: From Peter White Library on the NMU campus go left from parking lot to Front St, left on Ridge St, right on 4th, left on Kaye Ave, right onto UC parking lot.