WHO WE ARE:
Tom and Nancy Small, editors and principal writers for the West Michigan Climate Action Network, are retired Western Michigan University professors who have long been peace and environmental activists. They are the co-founders of the Kalamazoo Area Chapter of Wild Ones, a national organization dedicated to the preservation of native plants and other species and the restoration of native ecosystems and natural landscapes. They believe that nuclear weapons and climate change are the two most immediate threats to life on earth, but that species extinction and loss of biodiversity, stemming from multiple causes, are even greater long-range threats to civilization itself

Ed Shankman, web person for West Michigan Climate Action Network, has been web person for Kalamazoo Earth Days and for various political and social-justice campaigns. He is the facilitator of Portage-Kalamazoo Freecycle, working to reducing waste and consumption by connecting individuals to gift usable items. "Changing the world one gift at a time."

The rest of the Climate Action Network is ALL OF YOU. Please take your place in this network by telling us what you're doing, and how we can help you.

We welcome your news, your suggestions, your comments.

• To inform citizens about the dire consequences of climate change and species extinction, and how these problems are being addressed at local, national, and international levels;
• To convince citizens that they must act now, on behalf of all peoples and all species, for what affects even the least visible of earth’s creatures affects us all;
• To help citizens concerned about climate change and species extinction support one another and participate in local, national, and international efforts to slow climate change and species extinction and reduce their harmful effects.