Dr. Kathryn Savoie PhD

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  For more information, contact Kathryn Savoie, Environmental Program Director, at (313) 216-2225 or ksavoie@accesscommunity.org.

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  Kathryn Savoie, Environmental Program Director at ACCESS, led a press conference on May 21 to insist that the Federal Highway Administration conduct a health impact study of the proposed Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal (DIFT) project, a truck-rail freight project proposed for South Dearborn/Southwest Detroit area.
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  For more information, contact Kathryn Savoie at ksavoie@accesscommunity.org.

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  The presentations will be given by Kathryn Savoie, phD, who was one of 1,000 individuals personally trained by Gore as part of The Climate Project to help spread the word about global warming.
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  Savoie is an ecologist who is currently environmental program director for Dearborn-based ACCESS.She describes the presentation as "very powerful" and says that it generally generates numerous audience questions.
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  Source: Kathryn Savoie, ACCESS

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  These are some of the impacts from global warming that Michiganders can expect to see unless action is taken to address the problem, according to Kathryn Savoie, who spoke at Westside United Methodist Church September 16, in a lecture sponsored by the Outreach: Missions and Social Justice Committee.
  
  Savoie came to the church as part of Al Gore's Climate Project, which aims to educate people about the urgent threat of global warming.
  
  During her 90-minute talk, modeled after Mr. Gore's power point presentation that serves as the basis for Academy Award-winning film "An Inconvenient Truth," Savoie explained the phenomena of global warming: As people burn fossil fuels such as coal and oil, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are released into the atmosphere, trapping more of the sun's energy and heating up the earth—especially the poles.
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  The effects of global warming, said Savoie, include melting polar ice caps, serious droughts, loss of fresh water, and increasing intensity of hurricanes and other extreme weather—a state of affairs that will lead to flooded coastal cities, increased incidence of disease and death, and loss of species.
  
  "If we don't solve this, it will be hard to deal with anything else," said Savoie, who serves as environmental Program Director for the Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services.
  
  Savoie offered hope that it was not too late to protect the planet and offered solutions that people can take to help conserve energy to reduce their so-called "carbon footprint," the amount of greenhouse gasses that they are responsible for producing. One easy solution, she said, was to change regular light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs.
  
  She also offered a challenge for elected officials at the state and federal level to advance policies that will help meet the country's energy needs while confronting global warming.

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  Dr. Kathryn Savoie, Environmental Program Director, presented the "Emerging Leader Award" to two exceptional students from the YALLA youth program.Savoie also recognized University of Michigan professor Dr. Bunyan Bryant, highly respected leader in the field of environmental justice, with a special "Lifetime Leadership Award."

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  For more information, contact Kathryn Savoie, Environmental Program Director: (313) 216-2225 or ksavoie@accesscommunity.org.

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  Published on: 10/19/2007    Last Visited: 10/19/2007  

  Kathryn Savoie, director of the Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Dearborn, will speak at the fifth annual Tri-County Waste Reduction Awards Program Workshop on Nov. 1.

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  Dr. Kathryn Savoie, Environmental Program Director for Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), is a participant in The Climate Project training led by former Vice President Al Gore.

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  Kathryn Savoie, Ph.d , Environmental Program Director

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  Published on: 4/27/2007    Last Visited: 4/27/2007  

  It was a heady time, recalls Kathryn Savoie, environmental program director for the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) in Dearborn.
  
  "Coming out of that summit, there was incredible energy and a lot of movement," says Savoie, who also participated in the historic gathering.
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  "I think there was a backlash from corporations that began in the early '90s," says Savoie."They began projecting the message that environmental justice was a job-killer."
  
  For there to be economic progress, there had to be what came to be known as "sacrifice zones," the argument went, areas where polluting and hazardous industries would be located at the expense of local communities for the greater economic good.
  
  Savoie sees that jobs versus the environment debate as a false dichotomy.
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  The idea of community being a "sacrifice zone" is fundamentally flawed, says Savoie."There are some people who will be hurt first, and hurt the most," she explains, "but those toxins are getting into the air, the soil, the water and our bodies.
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  Despite the stalled progress, Savoie and Wilkins are buoyed by the fact that, even though the number of minority communities being affected by polluters remains excessive, the movement itself has continued to grow.

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