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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 18 | 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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| 1 | home, and it also gives a sneak peek to some of the globes; and
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| 2 | 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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| 8 | 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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| 16 | environmental movement in a "pop culture lens"; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Wendy Abrams has lobbied State and national | ||||||
| 18 | government to support environmentalism
from a business owner's | ||||||
| 19 | 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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| 1 | coalition that will make clean energy purchases; therefore, be | ||||||
| 2 | it | ||||||
| 3 | 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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| 9 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 10 | presented to Wendy Abrams as a symbol of our respect.
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