The Sierra Club’s Elspeth Cordua works the crowd while Clark County Public Administrator John Cahill signs a comment card in support of clean air that will go to the EPA in Washington, D.C.

Sierra Club and Nevada Conservation League staff, together with a half-dozen volunteers from both groups, held a successful roundtable discussion on the problems with carbon and greenhouse gas pollution and opportunities for Nevada as clean renewable energy continues to develop.

NCL communications consultant Launce Rake hosted the panel on “Nevada’s Economy in a Post-Carbon World,” and the sharp panelists were UNLV Physics Prof. John Farley, Chairman William Anderson of the Moapa Paiutes, physician Dr. Joanne Leovy, Boulder City Development Director Brok Armantrout and Nevada Conservation League Education Fund Board Chairman Yvonne Kaeder. About 70 people attended the discussion, which our friend Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani helped us put on in the Clark County Commission Chambers.

The Las Vegas Sun covered the event, and you can read the paper’s story here.

Those who attended the event included our friends from the Outside Las Vegas Foundation, the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Las Vegas, ProgressNow Nevada, various elected officials and their represenatives, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and Mi Familia Vota, among others. Many of those who attended left wearing t-shirts declaring their support for clean air and healthy communities!

A big shout-out also to the volunteers and staff who helped make this a success: Elspeth Cordua, Brian Fadie, Rita Ransom, Jane Feldman, Lynn Goya, Anna Turner, and the staff at the Clark County Government Center.

To support these efforts, consider a sustaining contribution to the Nevada Conservation League.