Send Caroline to Annapolis!

With the pas­sage of Sen­ate Bill 690 dur­ing Mary­land’s 2011 Leg­isla­tive Ses­sion, Mary­land start­ed on the path of becom­ing the Trash Cap­i­tal of the U.S.

This needs to stop, and we need your help.

Leg­is­la­tors need to hear from voic­es that rep­re­sent the inter­ests of Mary­land res­i­dents, not from paid lob­by­ists and state agen­cies who mis­rep­re­sent burn­ing trash as clean energy!

Fred­er­ick and Car­roll Coun­ties avoid­ed the mis­take of build­ing a 1500 ton per day trash, sludge, and tire incin­er­a­tor, because the cit­i­zens edu­cat­ed the coun­ty offi­cials about the con­trac­tu­al and eco­nom­ic terms of these facilities.

Now, Mary­land’s Gen­er­al Assem­bly with 69 new mem­bers need to learn the down­side of incin­er­a­tion ver­sus the eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fit of Zero Waste prac­tices. It’s time to move Mary­land toward reusing resources instead of burn­ing them.

Car­o­line Ead­er, who was born and raised in Fred­er­ick, Mary­land was one of the main oppo­nents help­ing to defeat the Fred­er­ick incin­er­a­tor. Car­o­line worked with Ener­gy Jus­tice, Insti­tute for Local Self Reliance and oth­ers to devel­op a plan which ulti­mate­ly defeat­ed the pro­posed Fred­er­ick incin­er­a­tor. She will be going to Annapo­lis in March and April to ana­lyze bills regard­ing incin­er­a­tion, Zero Waste, and to work for the advance­ment of clean energy.

Ener­gy Jus­tice needs your mon­e­tary sup­port to pay for this inten­sive work in Annapo­lis this leg­isla­tive ses­sion. Tax-deductible dona­tions to this link will be used for Car­o­line’s work in Annapolis.

Why send Caroline?

For 7 years Car­o­line worked on stop­ping the pro­posed incin­er­a­tor for her home­town of Fred­er­ick, Mary­land. To the grass­roots bat­tle she added her ener­gy, polit­i­cal savvy, and relent­less atten­tion to detail and abil­i­ty to ana­lyze con­tracts and the finan­cial impli­ca­tions to tax­pay­ers. The project was defeat­ed Novem­ber 2014.

Car­o­line holds a Bach­e­lor’s Degree in Envi­ron­men­tal Biol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado, Boul­der, and a Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Man­age­ment Cer­tifi­cate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado Envi­ron­men­tal Cen­ter which includ­ed train­ing in Zero Waste, Recy­cling and Waste Man­age­ment; Sus­tain­able Elec­tric­i­ty Sys­tems; Smart Grid; Solar Elec­tric; Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Coor­di­na­tor; Cre­ative Financ­ing of Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Ini­tia­tives; Com­mu­ni­cat­ing Sus­tain­abil­i­ty; Sus­tain­abil­i­ty for Munic­i­pal­i­ties; and Sus­tain­able Strate­gies in the Build­ing Industry.

Dur­ing the course of the cam­paign against the incin­er­a­tor in Fred­er­ick Car­o­line decid­ed to pur­sue a mas­ter’s degree in Ener­gy, Reg­u­la­tion and Law at Ver­mont Law School. She will be grad­u­at­ing this spring with her course work to date being Renew­able Ener­gy Law & Pol­i­cy; Amer­i­ca’s Ener­gy Cri­sis – Solu­tions; Ener­gy Reg­u­la­tion and the Envi­ron­ment; Ener­gy Law & Pol­i­cy in a Car­bon Con­strained World; Envi­ron­men­tal Law; Oil and Gas Pro­duc­tion & the Environment.

Let’s join togeth­er to have our voice heard in Annapo­lis! Car­o­line will be work­ing to teach Mary­land leg­is­la­tors that Zero Waste will have ben­e­fits nation­wide as it will set a prece­dent for the rest of the coun­try to move towards. The result will be more jobs, more pros­per­i­ty, and a clean­er envi­ron­ment for all.

Please, Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation Here Or Mail Your Check to: Action Cen­ter Inc 1434 Elbridge St Philadel­phia PA 19149 … and mark the dona­tion “Car­o­line”.