Winter Rockin’ Concert

Rock n’ Roll Started at 312 Productions presents

The Green Boomer

December 28, 2011

Wednesday 7:00PM to 10:00PM

(doors open at 6:30PM)

Tickets at :

Savoy Bar and Grill, 127 S. Franklin St. Saginaw

Yasmeen’s Mediterranean Foods, 3545 Bay Rd. Saginaw

World Cafe, 200 Center Ave. Bay City

Beth Trahan Fitness, 710 Washington Ave. Bay City

Meets and Mooore, 1411 S. Wenona Bay City

Washington Street Irish Pub, 112 Washington Ave. Bay City

Rattlesnake Ricks, 708 Saginaw St. Bay City

$25/person ($15 tax deductible donation) includes admission, two drink tickets and hearty snacks. Additional drink tickets for wine or beer will be available.

Music provided by the

Reivers and Cornality

and all musicians together in the

NNo BOFF band

Global warming must be seen as an economic and security threat. Kofi Annan

Donated funds to be used by local groups working on Climate and Energy education projects.

Saginaw Valley Sustainability Society www.sagvalss.org

Michigan Environmental Council www.environmentalcouncil.org

Lone Tree Council www.lonetreecouncil.com

The unique thing about this concert is that it will be a blend of people who have:

• worked on “climate action and educational events” in the past, and
• are working on climate change events in the present;

with great music from local musicians playing familiar rock ‘n’ roll and songs of social concern

• played in an up-beat fashion, and
• leading to a finale that makes you want to do it again soon;

and that has just enough information about what the 350 people are trying to do (end the burning of fossil fuels by putting a price on carbon) so that this event is more than just a GREAT PARTY.

Climate Change in a Nut Shell

The most significant indicator of the negative impact that humans have caused to the climate of the Earth is the measure in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our air. For 400,000 years the amount of CO2 in the air varied between 180 and 280 ppm of CO2 due to the fact that the Earth’s orbit is not a perfect circle and that the Earth wobbles on its axis as it revolves. When the human population reached one billion in about 1810 and the burning of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas and oil) began to become our main source of energy, the amount of CO2 started to increase each year. In 1954 (the beginning of Rock n’ Roll) it reached 312 ppm. In 1989 in hit 350 ppm and it is now 389 ppm and going up 2 ppm each year. Early scientific estimates were that 540 ppm would be a safe level, but more research and understanding has brought that figure down to 350ppm. The increase to date has affected our weather bringing flooding in some areas and drought in others, more violent tornados and hurricanes. If we do not stop burning fossil fuels the increase in CO2 will increase the temperature even more, causing glaciers and ice fields to melt more rapidly. This will increase sea levels, and very possibly cause the release of methane hydrates from the permafrost and ocean floors (nature will make it worse with no way for us to influence or moderate the increase).

Individually we can conserve, but to get policies that will end the burning of fossil fuels we need to set a price on carbon. The goal of the Winter Rock-In-Concert is to provide funds to help educate people about the consequences of climate disruption and the solution. Additional information can be found at www.sagvalss.org and www.lonetreecouncil.com.

Most of the advertising about energy on TV and radio is to lead you to believe that we can keep safely burning fossil fuels – you know that this is not true. Join Us!