Sharing the below message from Mike McMeekin, who some of you know, regarding his current initiative, the Engineering Change Lab USA Climate Change Noble Purpose Statement. (Also, here is a Link to today's LinkedIn Updates on this topic.)
Greetings, I am re-sending my email from last week primarily as a reminder regarding the sign-up page for the Climate Change Noble Purpose Statement. As I noted below, we are seeking a nucleus of signers before making this page public. You can sign on both as an individual and as an organizational representative. The link below now includes those that have signed on so far. NSPE will be added to that list soon. It would be meaningful to have members of our Working Group signed on. Thanks for considering this and thanks to those who already signed on. Mike
Greetings. I hope everyone is doing well. Thank you again for your contributions to our ECL-USA Climate Change Noble Purpose Working Group. We are making good initial progress on the communications and outreach phase of this initiative. I have reached out to the organizations that were part of the Working Group and several other organizations that I felt would be supportive of the statement. Here are the organizations that have endorsed the statement so far.
- Engineering Change Lab – USA;
- Engineers Without Borders;
- Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure;
- National Society of Professional Engineers (approved by Committee on Policy and Advocacy and Board of Directors); and
- University of Nebraska Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty
Several other organizations are close to an endorsement. In addition, ASCE leadership has committed to supporting a roundtable discussion regarding the statement at their annual convention in the fall.
We also now have a website page set up that allows individuals and organizations to sign on as supporters of the statement. Before publicizing this page, I would like to have a nucleus of supporters already signed on. If you would be willing to sign on as individual supporters or if your organization can sign on, you can do so at the link below. All those who sign on will be identified on the page.
https://ecl-usa.org/climate-change/
I would also appreciate your assistance in identifying other organizations that we could reach out to for support.
Finally, I continue to believe that ECL-USA can find meaningful next steps in catalyzing further action by the Engineering Community in addressing climate change. I intend to ask all of you to participate in a discussion regarding potential next steps sometime in 2022.
Thank you again!
Michael P. McMeekin, P.E., ENV-SP
President / Executive Director
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: mikemc@ecl-usa.org
[P] 402-669-6021 [W] www.ecl-usa.org