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Sat May 10: Trail Maintenance and Invasive
Plant pull/dig at John Muir Park
Sat, May 17: Garlic Mustard Removal Brooklyn
State Wildlife Area
Sat, May 17: Teacher Workshop and FROG HIKE
with Randy Korb.
Sun, May 18: Bike the Capitol City Trail
Mon, May 19: Cherokee Marsh Full Moon Hike
Thurs, May 22: Kayak Lake Monona
Click
here for details....
 
Our
Next Program
May:
Photo Tour of Big Bend National Park
Wednesday, May 21
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Madison
Public Library Main Branch
201 W Mifflin
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here for details....
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Moving
Beyond Coal
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Protest
at Alliant’s Shareholder Meeting
Thursday,
May 15 — 12:15pm
Alliant Energy Expo Center
John Nolen Drive and Rimrock Road
Rain or shine.
For more information:
One
of Sierra Club's top priorities both locally and nationally
is to cut our global warming pollution a reasonable, achievable
2% a year. One of the best ways to do that is to Move Beyond
Coal - and in South Central Wisconsin, the Four Lakes Group
is working to do just that.
Wisconsin
generates more than 75% of its electricity by burning coal.
Our over-reliance on is toxic from start to finish:
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We
get our coal from strip mines in the west and mountain-top
removal mining in the east that devastates peoples health,
their homes, and their lives.
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Burning
coal pollutes the air and water, acting as a main driver
of global warming, causing more than 22,000 people across
the country to die prematurely every year because of air
pollution, and filling our fish with mercury pollution
that damages the development of over 630,000 babies each
year. Once coal is burned, the toxic ash contaminates
our land and groundwater with heavy metals.
See this
Sierra
Club report for more about the harmful environmental and
health effects of coal.
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Clean Air Task Force, "Dirty Air, Dirty Power: Mortality
and Health Damage Due to Air Pollution from Power Plants."
June 2004. Available online
here.
- (U.S.
EPA, Methylmercury: Epidemiology Update, Presentation
by Kathryn Mahaffey, PhD at the National Forum on Contaminants
in Fish, San Diego, CA (January 25-28, 2004))
There
are much better ways to meet our energy needs.
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Doing more with less. Experts tell us
that we can cut our energy use in half using off-the-shelf
efficient technologies from lighting to furnaces to motors.
We can more than double the efficiency of our energy production
by using technologies like cogeneration.
- Relying
on renewables. We can rely on much cleaner fuels
like wind and the sun's energy. We can burn biofuels that
reduce global warming pollution, soot, smog, and mercury.
- Cleaning
it up. We can kick the dirty coal habit. New coal
plants lock us into the dirtiest fuel for decades.
Read
more in our fact
sheet. (PDF)
Come
to the Conservation Committee meetings - we meet
the 1st Monday of every month! Contact
Seth Nowak for details and directions to the next meeting.
Join
the Conservation Email List-Serv - get updated information
on the campaign by joining our email list. Contact
Seth Nowak for details.
Other
Great Web Resources
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