[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 7274]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO MARGARETE WALDEN

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                           HON. JIM McDERMOTT

                             of washington

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 29, 2008

  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, this past Sunday, April 27, 2008, 
Margarete Walden of the 7th Congressional District in Washington State, 
was announced the national winner of the Student Conservation 
Association and Mazda North American Operation's Conservation in Action 
multimedia contest. The contest was designed to create new, practical 
solutions to our Nation's most urgent environmental issues.
  Margarete Walden's winning essay, titled The Pen Pal Project: A Kyoto 
Protocol for the Individual Citizen, develops an action-oriented 
environmental solution. Implemented on the classroom level, American 
students would be paired with students from a developing country and 
would be responsible for lowering their carbon footprint to below per 
capita 1990 levels by the end of the school year. This pen pal 
partnership is modeled on the Kyoto Protocol so that the pairs can work 
together to meet their target while learning about international 
environmental politics. The project's main goal would be to provide 
students with a practical opportunity for action on global warming in 
the short term that would lead to a lifestyle change of great benefit 
to the environment in the long term.
  Today, I am proud to welcome Miss Walden to our Nation's capital 
where she will receive her cash prize and the 2008 fuel efficient Mazda 
3 sedan.
  Margarete Walden reminds our Nation that every citizen must be 
leaders in the incessant challenge to improve old models of 
conservation.

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