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June 30 is the deadline for entries in Sierra's 2nd Annual Paddlesport contest. There are only a few weeks left to win a Bell canoe, a Necky kayak, or a paddling trip to beautiful Southwest Florida. Go here to enter: action.sierraclub.org/paddlecontest
Meetings are free and open to the public.
Light refreshments are served.
Do you live in Rockland County? If you want to get involved with the local campaign on global warming or would like to be added to our email list, please call Peggy Kurtz at (845) 358-3386 or email pkurtz3@optonline.net or Stephen Safran at (845) 353-0884 or safran41@gmail.com. Visit the Rockland County Sierra Club website by clicking HERE.
Greenburgh Nature Center (see directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible location.
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Swan Goose Reintroduction at Muraviovka Park, Far Eastern Siberia |
Muraviovka Park is a 15,000-acre wetland/upland complex and is the first privately owned nature preserve in Russia. It is the brainchild of Dr. Sergei Smirenski, a world-renowned ornithologist on endangered cranes. His goal in creating the park was to preserve habitat for Russian wildlife, to demonstrate to local people ecologically sound farming practices, to bring children and adults from different countries and backgrounds together to help solve environmental problems, and to teach the local people about their environment.
Kurt Hundgen, Executive Director, Greenburgh Nature Center, worked with Dr. Smirenski to reintroduce the endangered Swan Goose to the Amur Region in Far Eastern Siberia.
Greenburgh Nature Center (see directions below)
Sierra Club members are invited to help with our pond restoration project by participating in a day of planting at Woodfrog Pond. Under the supervision of Greenburgh Nature Center staff, participants will take part in the planting of native species along the banks of our vernal pond, which will provide habitat for fauna and protection to the banks of the pond. (Wear work clothes and bring small shovels and trowels, if you have them.)
Greenburgh Nature Center (see directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible location.
After years of denial, it has turned out that Indian Point has been leaking radioactive water for years. From Entergy’s and the NRC’s point of view, leaks are simply part of an active waste management program and of the allowed discharge of 12,000,000 gallons a day into the Hudson. It will have no effect on current plans to relicense the plant for another 20 years.
Find out the latest on relicensing, how we can replace the electricity, and what we all need to be doing in our communities for a more sustainable future.
Our speaker is Marilyn Elie, who has followed Indian Point for over a decade and is co-founder of Westchester Citizens Awareness Network, which has filed contentions with the NRC as part of the relicensing process. She is also a member of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition which has been working to close Indian Point since 9/11.
99 Dromore Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583, (914) 723-3470
From Rye & Southeast Westchester Take 287 West to Exit 4 (Route
100A – Hartsdale). Go left and continue to Central Avenue (Route
100). Turn right onto Central Avenue and go 1 mile. Pass the Hartsdale
Post Office on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore Road is
on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too far.)
From Northern Westchester Take the Bronx River Parkway to Exit 22
(Westchester County Center). After exit, cross Route 119 to Central
Avenue (Route 100). Take Central Avenue for about 2 miles. Pass the
Hartsdale Post Office on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore
Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too
far.)
From Southern Westchester Take
Bronx River Parkway north to Exit 15 (Fenimore Road). Turn left onto
Fenimore, cross over parkway and go through the town of Hartsdale
to Central Avenue (Route 100). Turn left and go 1 mile. Pass the
Hartsdale Post Office on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore
Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too
far.)
From Rockland County Take Tappan Zee Bridge, continue on Route I-287 east, get off at exit 5. You should be on Route 119 east and Route 100 south, which share the pavement. Stay on Route 100 south (not Route 119) and take it for slightly under 3 miles. Pass the Hartsdale Post Office on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too far.)
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Prevent Expansion of the Westchester County AirportNYPIRG Urges No Expansion at Westchester County Airport
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environment right now:
Get the
newsletter online.
The Lower Hudson Group posts Terra Firma on the Internet and
you can read it there instead of receiving it in the
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There are advantages. Your mailbox will be a little less
cluttered, the Sierra Club will spend a little less money
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environment, and you’ll be able to see your
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Be sure to include your Member #, which can be found on the
mailing address area on your newsletter or your Sierra
Magazine.
The e-mail address you send from will be the one to which
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