City Club Missoula speakers detail greenhouse gas cap systems

The key to decreasing carbon emissions is a cap on pollution, Keegan Eisenstadt told Monday’s City Club Missoula http://www.cityclubmissoula.org forum.

"The answer is weaning ourselves off our addiction to fossil fuels," said Eisenstadt, the chief executive officer of ClearSky Climate Solutions. "We need a binding cap that slowly decreases over time."

Eisenstadt said a cap system presents the best chance to successfully lower emissions because the system would set a limit on pollutants. And that cap would slowly decrease until emissions met a low, predetermined goal.

By AJ MAZZOLINI of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_328b50fe-ff2c-11de-b7a1-001cc4c002e0.html

***

City Club Missoula is a nonprofit organization with the mission of bringing together people to inform and inspire citizens on issues vital to the Missoula area community through public forums that encourage the discussion of new ideas and free exchange of thoughts. City Club Missoula welcomes everyone in the greater Missoula community to come to the Forums and participate in the discussions.

City Club Missoula is membership supported with fees on a sliding scale to make it possible for everyone to participate from city leaders and business executives, to students and senior citizens. The strength of the organization is in the volunteers who organize the speakers, arrange the meetings and help maintain the organization’s neutrality and openness.

Become a member of City Club Missoula http://cityclubmissoula.org/

City Club Missoula designs public forums on vital issues and encourages the free exchange of thought. We invite all points of view in a non-partisan setting. Your membership supports this important mission.

Membership Benefits:

* Support civic discourse in our community.

* Network with community leaders and involved citizens.

* Advance notice of upcoming events.

* Member discounts on forums.

Please join us as a member of City Club today. http://www.cityclubmissoula.org/join/index.html

**********************************

Future City Club Missoula Forums (Schedule subject to change)

February 8, 2010 – The Importance of Post Secondary Education – Sheila Stearns, Commissioner of Higher Education

March 8, 2010 – Family – School- Community partnerships to support learning.

April 12, 2010 – Social services in Missoula

May 10,2010 – Bikes in Missoula

June 14, 2010 – VISTA Projects in Missoula

Please plan on joining us and contributing to the community dialogue.