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Coal is too dirty for college

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Sierra Club Rally At G-20, Free Concert Sept 23. Kathy Mattea, Joan Jett, Big Head Todd...

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Sierra Club recruits in Sacramento to beat Big Coal

Mobilize to fight pollution and make a few bucks.

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Chevron & Sierra Club: Drilling for Common Ground

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Arthur Frommer's Top Ten Bargain Travel Tips: Trip on a Deal Ep. 17

http://www.triponadeal.com This week travel legend Arthur Frommer co-hosts! What... more

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How to Green Your Network?

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Never Say Never: Leaders of Chevron and the Sierra Club Meet Tonight

Current Green had the good fortune of catching up with Climate Journalist Greg Dalton just hours before the historic meeting he organized with Chevron CEO Dave O’Reilly and Carl Pope, Executive Director of The Sierra Club (it will be the first time the two have met, and will accept questions from a live audience).

Current Green: Who are you and why should we care?

Greg Dalton: I’m a former journalist who founded Climate One at The Commonwealth Club after visiting the Russian Arctic in 2007, a year of historically low sea ice levels. When we weren’t flying around on helicopters or listening to lectures from climate experts, I read Tim Flannery’s “Weathermakers.” That was a transformative experience. Climate One is now a thriving leadership dialogue for engaging top executives from business, government, advocacy and academia.

The United Nations Development Program unveiled its first major report on climate change at Climate One in November 2007.

Last year, Governor Schwarzenegger announced his governor’s climate summit in a conversation with me at Climate One.

A few days later, I had a conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who unveiled the Google 2030 Energy Plan.

Two weeks later I convened a broad group of people to engage in a private conversation with John Hofmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil USA. The group included environmental activists, including one who “spent my youth banging my head against Shell Oil.” It also include investors, a reverend, retired California Senator Byron Sher, and two people (Van Jones and Diana Farrell) who now work in the White House for President Obama. Around small tables for a few hours, they made new connections and discussed building a path to a prosperous low carbon economy. That set the stage for engaging Chevron and The Sierra Club.

Current Green: What is the significance of this meeting?

Greg Dalton: This is the first time Chevron CEO Dave O’Reilly will meet Carl Pope, Executive Director of The Sierra Club. Chevron is the largest corporation in California. The Sierra Club is the state’s largest environmental organization. The chiefs of two California icons sitting down for the very first time. More than 500 people are participating. It is open to the public and anyone can submit a written question to the moderator, Alan Murray, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Interestingly, both Chevron and The Sierra Club opted out of the US Climate Action Partnership, a group of 40 large corporations and environmental groups that are recommending a cap and trade system for reducing carbon pollution. USCAP has been a main venue for compromises between environmentalists and large corporations in polluting industries. The fact that Chevron and The Sierra Club haven’t been participating makes this meeting even more significant. Oil companies and environmental advocates realize they need to communicate with each other, respectfully, even though they have very different views about the role of fossil fuels in powering our future.

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http://blogs.current.com/green/2009/06/10/never-say-never-leaders-of-chevron-and-the-sierra-club-meet-tonight/Current Green had the good fortune of catching up with Climate Journalist Greg Dalton... more

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Welcome to the Sierra Club! :: California Redwood Chapter

Suit Urges Water Board Action
A coalition of conservation and fishermen’s groups, including the Redwood Chapter, are challenging the failure by the state and regional water boards to implement clean water laws that protect wild rivers and streams in California’s North Coast region. The coalition has filed a lawsuit to urge the agencies to adopt clean-up plans required by state law that will meet pollution limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "While the Regional Board appears to be making some progress, they have lost 60 staff members since 2001, leaving the agency unable to protect our wild rivers," said Daniel Myers, representing Sierra Club’s Redwood Chapter. "Unfortunately, neither the Regional Board nor the State Board have taken meaningful measures to acquire the staff and resources that are needed for the TMDL program to succeed."
The full text of the press release is here.
http://redwood.sierraclub.org/Committees/Water/NorthCoast%20TMDL%20PR%20FINAL.pdf

Call for CEQ Salmon Director
More than 75 commercial and recreational fishing associations and conservation organizations, including the Sierra Club, have called on President Obama to create a high-level Salmon Director position in the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to restore West Coast salmon populations, protect fishing jobs and rebuild the salmon economy.

Pacific salmon and steelhead are in great peril across much of the West Coast. But with Federal leadership, and with science guiding our way, we can restore salmon to our rivers and ocean, return to work thousands who have lost their jobs in fishing-based industries, and create thousands of new sustainable, family-wage jobs in economically depressed coastal and rural communities.
The full text of the letter is here.
http://redwood.sierraclub.org/Salmon.state.ltr.to.Obama.pdf

"Preservation" Ranch - We Propose a Better Plan.The ironically named "Preservation" Ranch project is the 20,000 acre vineyard conversion project near Annapolis, Sonoma County. Among other environmental impacts, roughly 1700 acres of forest will be permanently converted to vineyards. The project materials are still being submitted to Sonoma County Permits and Resource Management Department, after which the EIR phase will begin. The Redwood Chapter has been following the progress of this project for several years. This Premier Pacific Vineyards investment in deforestation, funded by CalPERS, is being made to support a non-essential agriculture, the production of luxury, high-end wines. Furthermore, the investment bodes to become an exemplar of how our overlogged forests are treated in the future; it is precedent-setting since it is the largest-scale attempted conversion of forest in No. California. In the present political and financial times, when the public and the world are learning the 'inconvenient truths' about global warming and at the same time the world is threatened with grave financial collapses, we do not think CalPERS should be financing such work. Here is our latest letter to the CalPERS Board, in which we suggest that, rather than deforestation, there are other options for managing and restoring over-logged timberlands, such as those employed by the Nature Conservancy for their Garcia River Forest Climate Action Project.
More about "Preservation" Ranch can be found here .
http://www.redwood.sierraclub.org/sonoma/Forest.htmlSuit Urges Water Board Action A coalition of conservation and fishermen’s groups,... more

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Protect the Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining!

Target: U.S. House of Representatives Sponsored by: Sierra Club Before he left... more

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Join the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal

Target: Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator and Nancy Sutley, Chair of the President's... more

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Free Tutoring from Athma-Pure Buddies for the kids and teens.

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Tar Sands Film Festival in Ottawa during President Obama’s visit

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Athma-Pure Buddies recommend to see the Golden Gate Bridge from Gigapan.org

It is an amazing gigapixel picture from Gigapan.org. You zoom it, see it and appreciate it. Athma-Pure Founder Ramen loves this picture. Everyone loves it too. Happy valentine day to you all.

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The Golden Gate Bridge construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million. Strauss was chief engineer in charge of overall design and construction of the bridge project. Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions.

The bridge has approximately 1,200,000 total rivets.
The weight of the roadway is hung off of two cables that pass through the two main towers and are fixed in concrete at each end. Each cable is made of 27,572 strands of wire. There are 80,000 miles (129,000 km) of wire in each of the two main cables;[22] the total is sufficient to go around the world roughly 6 times.

The project was finished by April 1937, $1.3 million under budget.

The bridge-opening celebration began on 27 May 1937 and lasted for one week. The day before vehicle traffic was allowed, 200,000 people crossed by foot and roller skate.[4] On opening day, Mayor Angelo Rossi and other officials rode the ferry to Marin, then crossed the bridge in a motorcade past three ceremonial "barriers," the last a blockade of beauty queens who required Joseph Strauss to present the bridge to the Highway District before allowing him to pass. An official song, "There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate," was chosen to commemorate the event. Strauss wrote a poem that is now on the Golden Gate Bridge entitled "The Mighty Task is Done." The next day, President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC signaling the official start of vehicle traffic over the Bridge at noon. When the celebration got out of hand, the SFPD had a small riot in the uptown Polk Gulch area. Weeks of civil and cultural activities called "the Fiesta" followed. A statue of Strauss was moved in 1955 to a site near the bridge.

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Storm In The Gulf

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9/11 Forgotten Heroes

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Breathless in LA

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Dioxin, Duplicity & Dupont

The DuPont plant in DeLisle, Mississippi has been releasing large amounts of dioxin... more

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The Day The Water Died

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Bush administration repeals 1983 law, allowing coal mines to pollute watershed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is easing the way for coal companies to dump debris from mountaintop mining into nearby valleys and streams in a move deplored by environmental and Appalachian citizens' groups.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved the repeal of a 1983 law that prohibited surface coal mining within 100 feet of flowing streams. Most U.S. surface coal mining is done in the steep mountains of Appalachia, across Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.

EPA's approval was the last hurdle for a proposal that originated at the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining. The rule goes into effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, which has not yet occurred.

This will allow more mountaintop-removal mining, where coal is mined by blasting off the tops of mountains and the crumbled mountaintop debris is pushed into adjoining valleys, environmental groups said in a statement.

"The EPA's own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality," said Ed Hopkins of the Sierra Club. "By signing off on a rule to eliminate a critical safeguard for streams, the EPA has abdicated its responsibility and left the local communities that depend on these waters at risk."

Some 126 million tons of coal came from U.S. mountaintop mining in 2007, accounting for 10 percent of U.S. coal production, said Carol Raulston of the National Mining Association.

Raulston disputed the environmentalists' charges, saying the new rule was "merely a clarification of what is required in order to conduct any type of mining activity."

Mountaintop mining is safer for miners than underground mining, but its ecological impact has drawn fire from local communities and environmental activists.

More than 400 mountaintops have been stripped of trees and flattened, 1,200 miles of mountain streams have been buried under mining debris since mountaintop mining began in earnest, the groups said in a statement after EPA approved the rule.

"The EPA's decision is a slap in the face of Appalachian communities, which have already endured enough injustice from mountaintop removal," said Vernon Haltom of West Virginia-based Coal River Mountain Watch. "My home and thousands of others are now in greater jeopardy."

The U.S. environment agency said in a statement that it worked closely with the Office of Surface Mining to "enhance environmental protections in the final rule, including requirements that no mining activities may occur in or near streams that would violate federal or state water quality standards."

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The EPA is really not helping anything but special interests at this point. Lets hope Obama does something to restructure it...WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is easing the way for coal companies to... more

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Asthma Cure by Athma-Pure Logics

Follow the athma-pure logics to stay healthy. You experience it for yourself and feel better.
Some of the foods develop some allergies that we do not know for sure. Everyone body is different based on the genetic predisposition. Chronic stress on your body and mind will develop some allergies. Your skin rash or itchy skin is the best indicator, tells you that you have some kinds of allergy reactions by eating some foods. The constipation also develops some skin allergies. That is why you listen to your body after eating certain foods that develop allergies. And write down those foods in your diary for future references. The common allergy foods are egg, peanut, tree nuts (cashew, walnut, almond, pecan), milk, citrus peel/pulp, spinach, some spices, sesame seeds, some natural foods, artificial sweeteners, food dyes, wheat, shell fish, shrimp, eggplant, tomato, alcohol, wine and soy products and Sleep well. Reduce your stress on your body and mind.

The genetic predisposition of the human body is protected and improved by a long term effect of the food you eat, the water you drink and the air you breathe in order to have your athma or soul lives longer with good health. Be calorie conscious in selecting the food you eat, and stay physically active. Do not skip meals. Prefer to eat small portion of meals, five times a day. Your body needs fuel to function properly without any stress.

Our bodies are alkaline by design and acid by function. The fluids that make up 70% of your body must remain alkaline for you to experience optimal health. If you eat acidic foods in a meal, you should balance that meal with alkaline foods. Eat acidic foods only as needed. Omega-3s are used in the formation of cell walls, making them supple and flexible, and improve circulatory oxygen uptake with proper red blood cell flexibility and function. An ideal intake ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 fatty acids is between 1:1 and 4:1, with most Americans only obtaining a ratio between 10:1 and 25:1. You should include optimum levels of omega-3s in your meal. Follow the nutritional pyramid.

No one is perfect, and no process is perfect either. At least, you need to remind yourselves about self discipline and self control, sometimes using the moderation and balance principles, which will boost your self esteem to function properly in your daily life. Love and enjoy the work you do. Everyone is born genius with certain talents. Use those talents at the right time and right place. Cultivate that special talent of yours and respect your peers. Live simply, stay calm and persistent towards your goals by walking on your own path. Know your values, and manage and lead from those values. Maintain your perspective on all things, at all times. Once you have found good people, mentor and coach them. Provide support, guidance, direction and encouragement.

Stay on your solid path and focus on your goals. Do not rush or push yourself too hard to reach your long term goals. Do not compare yourself with others; time will bring you wealth. Share your personal wealth with your local community towards a good cause. Forgiveness is a special gift for, the ability to forgive will make you happy and a loving nature and spiritual life will bring its own gifts. We begin aging when we stop learning. Remember, if you do not have enough knowledge, you will easily be fooled by others. Update your knowledge daily.

Finally, Knowledge is the power of wealth which will bring you happiness along the way.

Kindly yours,

Gajendran Ramen, B.V.Sc., M.V.Sc., M.S. (Human Nutrition)
Well-being Mentor and Founder
Personal Nutrition Care and Research Group
Santa Rosa, California 95401 U.S.AFollow the athma-pure logics to stay healthy. You experience it for yourself and feel... more

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