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Articles from the Communications Committee
Environmentalism - The Next Four Years By Frank J. Regan Communications and Conservation Chairperson One of our most popular programs last year, "Global Warming in the Northeast", the lecture in November by Dr. David Wolfe from Cornell University, highlighted a new purposefulness and urgency of our educational programs. We had a large turnout for this program that zeroed in on the potential ramifications of climate change and agriculture in our area. The skinny is that some crops should do well (weeds) and others may not (such as cauliflower) as our area continues to warm up. An added benefit among local environmentalists, one we should always consider in our programs, is the opportunity for creating new relationships. Dr. Wolfe describes this: “I am glad that I now have this connection to the Sierra Club in the Rochester area. I think sometime down the road there may be opportunities to bring some of the local leadership of your organization together with farmers in the area to address particular issues and search for common ground.” In the next four years, these kinds of programs that help us develop a closer rapport with environmental experts will become critical. The reelection of George W. Bush, with his dismal record on the environment, and the media that seems less inclined to report on the environment, heralds a new era where concerned individual and groups like the Sierra Club must take charge of their information gathering. Just because our major news sources are not talking about these issues does not mean they are not critical: clean air, corporate accountability, ecoregions protection, environmental education, environmental justice, factory farms, genetic engineering, grazing, marine wildlife protection, species preservation, nuclear Waste, recreation issues, sustainable Consumption, lifestyle choices, toxics, trash transfer, transportation, and wetlands. More than ever, we need the dedication of scientists like Dr. Wolfe to inform and engage the public on critical environmental matters. During an administration hostile to the basic tenets of environmental science, a vacuum must be replaced by our active pursuit of knowledge and actions to keep our environment healthy. Please come to this new year’s educational programs (in force) and suggest some programs for the Rochester Group of the Sierra Club that you believe will be useful in informing Rochester-area citizen about environmental issues. Right now we have the Thirst Program and the yearly Environmental Forum. If someone wants to suggest a program (or get involved in a specific issue like energy, pollution, wetlands, and especially help us promote our programs, they can contact me at FrankRegan@RochesterEnvironment.com I'd like to hear from our members what Rochester-area environmental topics are most important to them and what kind of information would be most useful. They should check the events in each Eclogue and our web site events page at http://newyork.sierraclub.org/rochester/outings.htm
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