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 I Love Mountains Day - Feb. 11th
Sierra Club at 'I Love Mountains Day 2009,' (c) KFTC
Join hundreds of people who care about Kentucky's mountains, people, water resources at I Love Mountains Day Thursday, February 11th.
Groups and individuals from across the state who are working to end mountaintop removal will gather at 11:00 a.m. at the Capital Ave. Bridge over the Kentucky River to march in unity to the state capitol (.6 mile).
Get more details and an agenda
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Join Our Conservation Efforts
The Cumberland Chapter has a hardworking core of committed volunteers working on a variety of conservation issues in Kentucky. We need lots more help!
If you would like to learn about the issues on which we're working, lend a hand, or simply listen in to stay up to date on environmental happenings in the Commonwealth, we'd like to invite you to join our Issues and Information Forum listserv.
For information on how to subscribe, click the tab below:
Join our Chapter Issues and Information Forum listserv
To join our Issues & Info Forum Listserv:
Send an Email as described below:
To: Listserv@lists.sierraclub.org
From: <your email address>
Subject:
Body of Email: Subscribe KY-ISSUES-AND-INFO-FORUM YourFirstName YourLastName
If you wish to subscribe to our list, but have trouble, just let us know and we'll be happy to help you!
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Mountaintop Removal Forum Listserv
Mountaintop Removal (MTR) has been a priority issue for the Cumberland Chapter for several years. Our current MTR Taskforce is working hard on this issue in Kentucky - and we need all the help and involvement of our members that we can get.
If you would like to learn more about MTR, ask questions, participate in the MTR discussion, get involved in some of the activities with which we need assistance, or simply listen in as a way of staying up to date on what's happening around this issue - we'd like to invite you to join our Cumberland Chapter MTR Forum listserv.
Click the tab below for instructions on how to subscribe:
Join our MTR Forum listserv
To join our MTR Forum Listserv:
Send an Email as described below:
To: Listserv@lists.sierraclub.org
From: <your email address>
Subject:
Body of Email: Subscribe KY-MTR-FORUM YourFirstName YourLastName
If you wish to subscribe to our list, but have trouble, just let us know and we'll be happy to help you!
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Volunteer Help Wanted!
Help us keep you informed about opportunities that fit with your unique environmental concerns and skills. Please share your outings, conservation and volunteer interests with us by completing our Volunteer Interest Survey:
1. Take our on-line Volunteer Interest Survey
2. Or print and complete our
hard-copy Volunteer Interest Survey and Snail Mail it to us at the address on the form.
Visit our Volunteer page for more opportunities to volunteer!
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Sierra Club “Cool Cities” Campaign:
Solving Global Warming One City at a Time
Mayors of the Kentucky cities of Louisville, Lexington, Villa Hills, and Owensboro have signed the "U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement," joining hundreds of mayors across the nation in a pledge to reduce global warming carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution in their cities to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012!
Go to our Cool Cities page to find out how you can help your city become a Cool City.
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Position papers and documents
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Resources
Visit our Resources pages to view conservation fact sheets - like the problems associated with "coal to liquid fuel," "What to do if...guides" for dealing with various environmental problems that may impact you locally, position papers, public comments, and much more. |
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2009 Cumberland Chapter Handbook
Handbook and Outings Guide of the Kentucky Sierra Club. This publication contains information on outings and events for 2007 as well as important contact and organizational information for your Kentucky Chapter and its Groups, Executive Committee members, officers, staff and more.
Download our Kentucky Sierra Club Handbook & Recreational Outings Guide (PDF 2.00 MB). |
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Highlights of a few of our upcoming chapter events. For a full list, visit our EVENTS page. |
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Outing: Dayhike
February 14, 2010
Nature Conservancy
Charles Spring Property
Palmyra, IN
Join us for a hike along the Blue River on Nature Conservancy property and the adjoining DNR state nature preserve. Outstanding vistas!
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General news and information. |
KENTUCKY NEWS
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February 5, 2010
State Hears from Residents on Proposed Coal Burning Plant
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Listen to this report by the Kentucky News Connection - Public News Service.
WINCHESTER, Ky. - The Kentucky Division for Air Quality got an earful Thursday night from those on both sides of a plan to build a coal-burning power plant in Clark County. East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) has an $819-million facility in mind it says would provide residents with the lowest-cost energy possible. The public hearing revealed a vigorous debate among those who support and those who oppose the plant.
Steve Wilkins receives his electricity from EKPC through Blue Grass Energy and is opposed to the plant, called Smith 1. He says it would emit several toxic chemicals, including nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and mercury, which he says would likely find its way into the nearby Kentucky River.
"Kentucky already has a warning for people eating fish out of any Kentucky waterway for high mercury concentrations."
A study funded by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the Kentucky Environmental Foundation and the Sierra Club showed that improved energy efficiency and renewable power sources would be a better approach, he adds.
"EKPC could actually meet the same energy needs that the proposed Smith 1 plant would provide, and do it at a lower cost."
Public comment on the plant ends February 12.
Read the full Article by the KY News Svc.
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February 9, 2010
Sierra Club Praises Obama Administration Steps to Encourage Outdoor Activity, Better Nutrition for America's Youth
Washington, DC -- Two important Obama Administration initiatives announced this week will help encourage outdoor activity and better nutrition for America's youth.
Today First Lady Michelle Obama announced the "Let's Move" campaign, which encourages children and young adults to eat better and get more exercise. To help launch the campaign, President Obama signed a memorandum creating an interagency task force to address childhood obesity.
This follows U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's Monday rollout of the "Youth in the Great Outdoors" initiative, through the Department of the Interior’s Office of Youth in Natural Resources.
In response to these announcements, Sierra Club's National Youth Representative Jacqueline Ostfeld issued the following statement:
Sierra Club praises First Lady Michelle Obama for her ambitious initiative to put America's children on a path towards healthier lifestyles. Today's children are living increasingly indoor and sedentary lives. We appreciate the First Lady's commitment to getting kids physically active again by praising local efforts to create safer outdoor spaces for children, like sidewalks, parks and community gardens, initiatives that would reconnect them with the world outside.
The inclusion of the Department of the Interior in the anti-obesity task force shows a commendable commitment to incorporate public lands and time outdoors into the initiative.
Sierra Club's Building Bridges to the Outdoors project is committed to expanding and improving opportunities for youth from underserved communities to connect with the great outdoors.
The 'Youth in the Great Outdoors' initiative will help launch a new and diverse generation into future careers with our public land management agencies, while providing good jobs that engage youth in physical activity. We hope to see additional initiatives from the new interagency task force on childhood obesity that would get children moving again by connecting them with the great outdoors.
Read the full press release
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