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Volume 39, Spring 2012 Sierra Atlantic

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Feature Articles

Part I

•	Message from Executive Director, Michael Brune: Sierra Club and Natural Gas
•	Park Agency Greenlights "Sprawl on Steroids" in ADKs
•	Double Whammy: Frackers Lose Two Home Rule Decisions in One Week
•	Fracking: Is National Catching Up with the Grassroots?
•	National Club Election Coming This Spring

Part II

•	Club Moves to Block Natural Gas Exports from 3 States
•	New Chapter Study Shows NY the CLEAN Way to Finance Renewables
•	Farmers Fight Back: Challenge Monsanto over Patents for its Transgenic Seeds
•	Pipeline Would Have New Yorkers Cooking with (Radioactive) Gas
•	One Year After Fukashima: Why We Must Shut Down Indian Point - Now

Part III

•	Arctic Methane Seeps Alarm Scientists
•	Tidal Power Turbines on Trial in NYC
•	Upstate Politicians Seem OK with Four Unsafe Nuclear Plants
•	Victory! Under fire, NRC backs down on Indian Point Safety Exemptions

Columns

Message from the Chair	• Why I'm Still Very Proud to be a Sierran
Albany Update	• Public's Repudiation of Fracking Puts Cuomo in a Bind; Chapter 2012 Leg Priorities
Conservation Action	• Chapter Makes Energy Its Top Priority
Group Round-Up	• Iroquois, Niagara, Susquehanna Groups
Wheels of the Season	• Ducks Can Take the Cold, But Still Need a Place to Land
Recipes	• Nutrient-rich Teff Beats Wheat for Protein

Downloadable Materials

These facts sheets can help supplement your knowledge about current topics of interest within the chapter - feel free to download and distribute. If you do not have software to view PDF files, you can download it from the Adobe web-site.

• Cool Campus Climate Planning Guide (3.8 MB)

• Don't Eat A Cow Man (32 KB)

• Frac Act Handout 3_11

• Gas Drilling Handout4_10 (304 KB)

• Give A Wolf a Break - Go Veggie

• Give a Wolf a Break - Spanish version (160KB)

• Petition: Stop Climate Change (124 KB)

• Stop Factory Farming (136 KB)

• Wetlands at Risk Report (240 KB)

• Wasting of Rural New York (2.3 MB)

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