Full Text of HR0275 95th General Assembly
HR0275 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Wendy Abrams on | 4 |
| receiving the Environmental Leadership Award from the Illinois | 5 |
| League of Conservation Voters; and
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| WHEREAS, She and her husband, James, generously | 7 |
| contributed to the University of Michigan to establish the | 8 |
| Abrams Scholarship Fund, which gives support to undergraduates | 9 |
| who pursue internships in environmental field work; and
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| WHEREAS, Wendy Abrams was the innovator of and driving | 11 |
| force behind the Cool Globes exhibit, which will be on display | 12 |
| this summer along the lake front and at the Field Museum in | 13 |
| Chicago; the Cool Globes exhibit will be a string of 5-foot | 14 |
| diameter globes, each artistically unique and expressing the | 15 |
| concerns and effects of global warming; she had the initial | 16 |
| idea and has garnered the sponsorship of Exelon, Pepsi, | 17 |
| McDonald's, and Toyota; and
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| WHEREAS, Wendy Abrams set up the Cool Globes website, which | 19 |
| gives users not only a description of the exhibit and | 20 |
| information on its location and opening date, but also collects | 21 |
| pledges for lowering global warming; it gives weekly tips on | 22 |
| how to become more climate-control friendly everyday in your |
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| home, and it also gives a sneak peek to some of the globes; and
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| WHEREAS, She has garnered national attention for the Cool | 3 |
| Globes exhibit by having high profile personalities | 4 |
| participate and put out a globe of their own, with former | 5 |
| President Bill Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, Leonardo | 6 |
| DiCaprio, and Jodie Foster each taking a part in the Cool | 7 |
| Globes exhibit; and
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| WHEREAS, Wendy Abrams is the chief operating officer of | 9 |
| Medline Industries; she currently serves on the National | 10 |
| Council of Environmental Defense, the National Advisory Board | 11 |
| for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Illinois | 12 |
| Steering Committee for the Sierra Club; Wendy graduated from | 13 |
| Brown University and received her MBA from Northwestern | 14 |
| University's Kellogg School of Management; she is an advisor to | 15 |
| Shift, a multi-media company that focuses on expanding the
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| environmental movement in a "pop culture lens"; and
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| WHEREAS, Wendy Abrams has lobbied State and national | 18 |
| government to support environmentalism
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| point of view; one of her goals is to redefine coal-powered | 20 |
| electricity from being the main problem to being a solution for | 21 |
| climate change, and she believes it is good public policy to | 22 |
| avoid building new plants that are immediately obsolete; she is | 23 |
| currently meeting with health care companies to try to build a |
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| coalition that will make clean energy purchases; therefore, be | 2 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 5 |
| congratulate Wendy Abrams for her hard work and dedication to | 6 |
| making our world a better place to live and on receiving the | 7 |
| Environmental Leadership Award from the Illinois League of | 8 |
| Conservation Voters; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 |
| presented to Wendy Abrams as a symbol of our respect.
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