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Great Lakes Echo
July 1, 2009
On the west side of Michigan’s Okemos High School is Zach Trelstad’s favorite classroom. To the right of the greenhouse entrance is the sandy ground with desert-native plants. To the left is the tropical area filled with large overhanging leaves, ponds with amphibians and intricate vines on lattice. It’s about the same size as a regular classroom but filled with sunlight and plants instead of light bulbs and desks.
“When I whisper at them, the frogs will croak back pretty loudly,” said Trelstad whose independent study in this mid-Michigan school’s greenhouse is one of his favorite school experiences.
“I’m more into this class than any other one where I’ve sat inside and listened to the teacher,” he said.
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WASHINGTON, DC,July 1, 2009 - The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announced the installation of its new Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas E. Menighan, BSPharm, MBA. In February 2009, Menighan was appointed as APhA’s Executive Vice President and CEO-Designate and began the transition into his new role.
He is the 26th pharmacist to serve in this role and succeeds Dr. John A. Gans who served in the same capacity for the last 20 years.
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New Haven, the Elm City, was the first city in the United States to create a municipal ordinance to encourage the planting of street trees. The ordinance was promoted by James Hillhouse, who at the beginning of the 19th century, planted hundreds of trees in the city. His master work is the "green cathedral" shaped by elm trees of New Haven's Green. New Haven's landmark ordinance created the city's distinctive and beloved environment of shady streets, many graced by majestic old-growth trees.
In recognition of the city's distinguished heritage and community stewardship, New Haven has just been accepted into the Tree City USA program, sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters.
Despite this rich tradition and the value placed on trees by the community, neighborhoods across New Haven have lost ancient trees and beautiful landscapes to highway construction, parking lots, and private and institutional development. Despite growing scientific understanding of the importance of urban trees to people's physical and emotional health, to air and water quality, to the safety and comfort of streets, to the value of urban real estate, and to community character and stability, current regulations do not support the city's interest in protecting trees.
The New Haven Urban Design League is working with a coalition of community groups, including the New Haven Land Trust and Vision New Haven, to research and propose regulations to improve the city's regulations affecting trees. Please contact us if you have suggestions or would like to join the effort.
The New Haven Urban Design League believes the quality of the built environment is critical to human happiness and a civil society.
The New Haven Urban Design League was founded by citizens devoted to protecting and enhancing New Haven's natural assets and urban design through research, education, and advocacy. The League works to improve the quality of life in New Haven by supporting projects that sustain the culture, beauty, utility, and economic health of the city -- both in its neighborhoods and in its region. The League seeks to strengthen the civic culture that is the foundation for good government, good planning, and good development.
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Now, with a clear soft spot from the federal government for all things smart grid, investors and start-ups are turning to new opportunities in the market, namely products and services focused on consumers and corporate clients.
While energy management and demand response systems are already beginning to reap rewards for companies with large office buildings and data centers, the consumer market has remained largely untapped, save a few pilot studies.
Matt Denesuk, partner with IBM Venture Capital Group, sees that changing in the year ahead.
Denesuk’s group partners with venture capitalists to offer expertise and product partnerships to start-ups seen as key to IBM’s business; companies picked by the group typically wind up either being acquired by IBM or developing long-term partnerships with the tech giant.
We spoke with Denesuk to find out which companies and technologies we might see Big Blue championing in the not-so-distant future.
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Impunity Watch Reporter, South America
BOGOTÁ, Colombia – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) launchedoffensives in different locations throughout Colombia on Friday leaving eight members of the security forces and five insurgents dead. The guerrillas kidnapped at least one government official.
Five soldiers and five insurgents died when FARC rebels attacked army troops in Colombia’s central region. Several soldiers were reported injured in the fight. The army says it has not been able to catch the guerrillas that attacked the troops.
Another three men died when FARC guerrillas attacked a citys council members in the southwest. According to official sources, the guerrillas were planning to kidnap several local representatives, but were foiled by law enforcement.
The FARC are celebrating their 45th anniversary, making them one of the oldest insurgent forces in the world. Established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, the FARC is Colombia’s oldest, largest, best-equipped Marxist insurgency. And despite recent setbacks, it remains strong.
Although the Tamil Tigers, one of the most brutal and innovative insurgencies are being decimated, and the Nepalese Maoists opt for the political route, the FARC remain committed to their unlikely aim of overthrowing the state and imposing a socialist regime.
The FARC are a throwback to the 1960s, when Cuban-inspired insurgent groups sprang up in South and then Central America. Its members are motivated neither by religion or ethnicity. And they are pretty much all that remain of those insurgencies that swept through Latin America.
The FARC has suffered almost seven years of sustained military pressure under President Alvaro Uribe -- a period that has seen its top leaders killed, mid-level cadres captured and the rescue of its top hostages.
Last year their founder and legendary leader, Manuel Marulanda, died of a heart attack at age seventy eight.
They have seen large scale desertions, with a record 3,000 deserters in 2008 alone.
Of the seven members of their ruling body, the Secretariat, two have been killed. One in neighboring Ecuador, another murdered by his own bodyguard, who cut off a hand to show the authorities and claim a reward.
The FARC are at their worst point in forty five years of fighting, says Alfredo Rangel, head of the Bogota think-tank Security and Democracy.
Up until recently they had always been growing, in numbers and territory. Now they are being driven back, and their numbers are falling. They are in terminal decline.
Yet the FARC are far from defeated. They are working on reinventing themselves. They have new leaders, including an anthropologist known by the alias Alfonso Cano, long the movements ideologue, a committed Marxist Leninist and hardliner.
He has now established his control over the movement, since the death of Marulanda, and delivered his new strategy for the rebels, called “Plan Rebirth.”
As part of Plan Rebirth, the rebels are working to reduce large-scale desertions, and have also sought to cut down on combat by increasing the use of mines and snipers.
They have also stepped up their attacks, with more incursions so far this year than any year since 2003.
And the rebels are trying to move away from their peasant roots and project themselves into Colombias cities, aided by training from international groups like the Provisional IRA and the Basque separatist group ETA.
s like a poker game. They [the FARC] have lost a few hands and lost a lot of chips but they still have enough to keep playing, said Luis Eduardo Celis, a conflict analyst with the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris in Bogotá.
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Today, more than a month later, the bill's still sitting on Governor Jon Corzine's desk.
Wait a minute, you ask. Didn't the governor support the legislation from the get-go? Isn't he aware that the backlog of 20,000 sites is a major embarrassment for New Jersey? Doesn't he recognize that the chairmen of the environmental committees in the Senate and Assembly put their reputations on the line in sponsoring the spills and spent countless hours negotiating the details with a host of affected parties?
The answer is yes, yes and yes. Dumb guys don't get to run Goldman Sachs.
So, what's up, you ask.
What's up is that the governor is running for re-election. And his polling numbers are scary bad and the state's economy continues to slump and the enviros are labeling him as anti-environment.
So what, you ask. Corzine can't possibly think for a minute that they'd endorse Republican Chris Christie over him.
Don't be silly. Dick Cheney will join a gay rights march before the Sierra Club endorses a Republican for governor in New Jersey.
But remember this: former DEP Commissioner Chris Dagget also is running for governor as an independent. And the governor's campaign folks know that a vote for Dagget is more likely a vote subtracted from Corzine, not Christie.
So, what's likely to happen?
Well, the governor does have a few more days at least to sign the bill. He might just go ahead and do that. But he also could throw the enviros a bone.
What kind of bone?
He could conditionally veto the bill, demanding that the legislature amend it to make it more palatable to the Sierra Club, NJ Environmental Federation, NJ Environmental Lobby, et al.
Or?
Or he could sign it and simultaneously issue an executive order giving the enviros something they value highly.
Like what?
Well, let me turn the question around and ask it of you, dear reader.
What could the governor give up that might please the environmental community, or at least get them off his back until November? And should he do it?
Use the comment block below. If you don't see one, click on the tiny "comments" line.
In the meanwhile, we recommend that you check out our earlier posts on this topic (below). Pay special attention to the interesting comments from folks involved in the site remediation process, both in New Jersey and in Massachusetts where a licensed site professional program has been operating for years.
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Training for the count is scheduled for Monday, May 18, 2998, from 6 to 7 p.m. at SoundWaters Center in Cove Island Park in Stamford. There will be 12 opportunities to count the horseshoe crabs that come ashore to spawn during the high tides of the new and full moons. Join the SoundWaters team to count the horseshoe crabs for one session, or for all twelve.
Once again SoundWaters is partnering with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, scientists at Sacred Heart University and other organizations for Project Limulus, the statewide horseshoe crab project which is gathering data to determine population numbers and migration patterns. As you may know, the harvesting of horseshoe crabs for use as bait has resulted in a dramatic population decline in not only Long Island Sound, but all along the Atlantic coastline. This in turn has had disastrous affects on migratory shore birds which depend on horseshoe crab eggs to fuel their migrations. The data we gather can make an impact.
The horseshoe crab count presents a wonderful hands-on opportunity to learn about this key species that inhabits Long Island Sound. All volunteers are welcome, including children 8 years old and up who are accompanied by an adult.
For more information, please contact Dianne Selditch by phone at: (203)406-3302, by e-mail: dianne@soundwaters.
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1. Canada has to slow down its population growth. Canadians must discard some hitherto popular mythology about Canada: namely, that its agricultural potential is more or less infinite, and that its resources and land area will always support a virtually open-door immigration policy. (P.9) Prime agricultural land, with good climate, which is very scarce in Canada, is as yet unprotected. We have not yet taken seriously the problem of ensuring our own future food supply, much less protecting our own position as an important exporter of food.
2. A growth moratorium in relation to exploding living standards is just as urgent as one in regard to exploding populations. It follows from this that one of Canada's principal international contributions would be to live frugally and avoid waste. In no way of course could Canada ever solve the world problem of overpopulation. It may sound incongruous that the second largest country in the world should seek to limit its numbers. Yet extent of territory is not a dominant factor when so much of it is desert and rock, swept by winter's wind. Failing to slow population growth and following a virtually open-door immigration policy will reduce Canada's future policy options and constrict Canada's ability to act.
3. Throughout history, most societies have been demographically young. Medical technology has allowed a substantial proportion of the world's present population to survive into their 60's and 70's. Canada has been young for most of its history. By UN standards, a country is 'old' when 8% of its population is 65+ .Canada joined this category in 1971 and it is anticipated that the 8% will double by 2001. Immigration levels should be in line with Canada's overall demographic objectives, and not be set solely to tide the country over short-term economic developments. Society must prepare for the meaningful and active participation of a considerably larger proportion of elderly people. This will require not only better access to goods and services but also opportunities for useful part-time employment. Adequate numbers of trained people must be provided to give good health care to the increasing number of elderly people. Policies must be adopted which will foster alternatives to institutional care, such as in-home and community services. Other countries have gone through their own aging process and survived. Canada has special problems, but it too can survive.
4. One can tell a great deal about a country by examining how its inhabitants spend their time : how much they work, at what occupations, and how they occupy their free time. Canada is second only to the US in the proportion of its work force engaged in providing services, yet the Canadian economy has a larger resource extraction base and a smaller manufacturing sector than most developed countries.
5. The population of Canada in 1975 was 23 million. Three-quarters of Canada's population was "urban"; 55% were metropolitan dwellers, living in continuous built-up areas with populations of 100,000 and more. Almost all of Canada's population increase in the next 40 years (to 2015) will occur there. The economy of scale argument might be breaking down with the metropolitan sizes projected for Canada. At some point, the environmental and social costs begin to outweigh the purely economic benefits. Growth of low density urban communities onto good agricultural land should be stopped.
6. Serious conflicts arise between the use of land for agricultural purposes and its use for development. At present, 13% of our land area is capable of some kind of agricultural production, but considerably less than half of this is capable of sustained production of common field crops. (P.44) Between 1966 and 1971, a million acres or almost one-tenth of the improved farmland in Southern Ontario was lost to agriculture.(P.45) Most of this land is being held in reserve for future urban expansion over the next two decades. In the meantime, it falls under the urban "shadow", and is no longer used for agricultural production. This phenomenon is seen mostly in Southern Ontario, but is also visible outside of Montreal and Vancouver. The elaboration of local, regional and provincial policies and mechanisms for land use planning and control and the synthesis of these into a national policy is an urgent necessity. Our best agricultural land, in terms of soil and climate, must be designated for agricultural purposes only. This is the responsibility of the provincial governments, and it should be done immediately in Ontario and probably also in Quebec. The B.C. Agricultural Land Reserve precedent should be studied and the issue of adequate compensation must be resolved. In order to have land farmed and not just saved for farming, and in order to improve rural land generally, agricultural land planning should have as high a priority as urban land planning.
7. The most important issue in Canadian agriculture is whether it will meet the great needs of the future. Canada has a favourable trade balance in agricultural produce (almost $1 Billion in 1974). Our principal agricultural export is grain, 15 million tonnes annually. There is a growing world dependence on North America to make up for food production shortfalls in the rest of the world. The number of net food exporting countries has diminished drastically and no important new ones have emerged in the last quarter century. The U.S. (with grain exports of 70 million tonnes), Canada (with grain exports of 18 million tonnes) and Australia (with a similar 7 million tonnes) are the three major suppliers. Canada should continue to be a major exporter. Food exports should prove of major benefit to our balance of payments. We can succeed in maintaining our level of exports and in assuring the needs of our own population by slowing population growth, increasing our own production and cutting down on waste in consumption and production.
8. Adequate energy supplies and a satisfactory living environment for Canada's future population should be continuing national goals of overriding importance. Canada has been among the most energy-intensive countries in the world. The reasons are our hostile climate, transportation needs, industrial demands (one-third of total energy use) and energy-dependent lifestyle. Canada needs energy as much as fish need water. A severe energy shortage would endanger our survival in our climate. Two factors influence future energy demand: rates of change in per capita consumption and rates of population growth. The rate of increase in per capita energy consumption from 1960 to 1973 was 3.5%, equivalent to a doubling every 20 years. It is easier to control population increases than it is to control energy consumption. The former highly optimistic views of Canada's "limitless" resources now sound hollow. Recent investigations have revealed that even short-term supply data are alarming. The whole picture appears to be darkening. We need to conserve our own available supply. It should be treated as a critical and strategic national resource to be used only when needed.
9. The Science Council has therefore concluded that Canada is likely to need a great deal of capital in the decade ahead, and that this capital will be hard to raise. This however we must strive to do. We will need to increase our savings and reduce the current level of our consumption of goods and services in government and the private sector. Canadians should recognize that we live in a capital-intensive society and that we should no longer rely on immigration to regulate the economy. RECOMMENDATIONS : (1) Canada's rate of domestic savings must be maintained at a very high level. (2) We should attempt to fund our investment needs as independently of foreign sources of savings as possible.(3) In accepting foreign investment into Canada, relatively little should be admitted in the form of equity.
10. All serious opinion now points to the finiteness of Canada's resources, particularly in the energy sector. Canada's arable land and food resources are also finite and under pressure. Canada needs to control population growth at a conservative level and to organize more effectively our utilization of energy, land and manpower. The biggest international contribution Canada can make is to moderate its population growth in order to strengthen its position as an exporter of food, services and technologies. Even with the most generous immigration policies, Canada could accommodate only a tiny fraction of the over-population of other countries as to be insignificant. We should be encouraging our food producers to increase output to keep pace with rising demand. This would help us to meet our international obligations and contribute substantially to our balance of payments.
The Science Council of Canada's Report #25 was titled "Population, Technology and Resources" and was published in July, 1976.
The Science Council of Canada existed between 1966 and 1993. It is described as "an organization created by federal statute...to advise the government on science and technology policy. The original membership was 25 appointed scientists and senior federal civil servants, later altered to 30 appointed eminent experts from the natural and social sciences, business and finance, and no civil servants.
"It most often saw itself as a national adviser, transcending purely federal considerations. It also assumed an early warning function to alert governments and society to emerging opportunities and problems. The council often argued against the mainstream of advice from other agencies, public and private, and sometimes against the apparent inclinations of federal ministers. It was often a catalyst for action.
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Engineering vacancies covered by our specialist consultants include design, development, analysis, quality, manufacturing, production, assembly and testing, and we also support our Aerospace clients in the areas of Procurement, IT, Sales, Marketing and Human Resources.
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Conducted by CT EarthNeta web resource that provides a place where the diversity of local environmental initiatives can be seen and exploredthe report provides a snapshot of the progress of 368 bills introduced this session that relate to 43 local environmental management issues. It summarizes 6,459 individual votes cast by 187 legislators on 211 actions by 16 committees and 5 roll call votes taken by the state House and Senate.
The report provides more than 100 pages of detail tables that break voting down by legislator and by particular issues (for which votes were recorded as of April 27th, 2009), to provide more finely-grained information, on a more timely basis, than has been available before.
CT EarthNet found that at the start of the 2009 session, the leading issues (based on the number of bills introduced) were Renewable Energy, Transportation Modes, Energy Conservation, Recycling, Environmental Impacts, Health Toxics, Green Industry Jobs, Economic Development, Wastewater, Land Use, Long Island Sound, Wood Burning Emissions, Motor Vehicle Emissions along with others.
Over the past several months, voting has pared down the number of environmental bills by more than two thirds, to 118, and the number of issues covered by bills advancing to 33. To date, over 80% of votes cast in 2009 have been yea votes, with the remaining 20% fairly evenly split between nay votes and absences.
Lawmakers casting the most votes about environmental bills overall (through April 27th) were led by Reps. Hennessy, Miner and ORourke, Sen. Meyer, Reps. Hornish, Reed, Miller, Hurlburt and McCluskey, Sen. Roraback, Reps. Fawcett, Fontana, Jutila, Camillo, Piscopo, Spallone, Conroy, Mushinsky, Willis and Chapin.
Bills not advanced by committee actions relate to issues such as Affordable Housing, Open Space, All-Terrain Vehicles, Air Quality, Global Warming, Light Pollution, Neighborhood Restoration, Ridgelines Scenic Views, Stone Walls and Water Management Supply.
Issues that record the most absences were led Lake Management, which tallied absences of 15% of total voting opportunities, followed by votes for bills about Tax Policy (as it relates to environmental management ) with absences of 14%, Recycling (absences of 14%), Green Architecture and Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Reductions (each with absences of 12%), Farm Preservation (absences of 11%), Environmental Impacts, Motor Vehicle Emissions and Wastewater (each with absences of 10%).
Information about bills, legislators, committees and voting is available dynamically using CT EarthNets Legi/Slate application and updated daily throughout the session.
CT EarthNet also indexes and relates information about over 1,200 local environmental groups online using its Info Tree application and organizes user-contributed content about groups, issues and legislation in its CTEN Community social networking application.
CT EarthNet will continue to release snapshots updating the progress of environmental bills and related issues through the final weeks of the 2009 state legislative session. News and updates can be found at http://ctearthnet.org.
For more information contact Brendan Hanrahan, CTEarthNet.org, (203) 767-6637, or e-mail bhanrahan@ctearthnet.org.
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HSE ND NII urgently requires specialist inspectors to carry out Health and Safety inspections in the following Nuclear sectors:
CI Engineers
Electrical Engineers
Safety Engineers
Human Factors
Chemicals Engineers
RPA
Civil Structural Engineers
THE ROLE:
Nuclear inspectors are expected to be capable of undertaking a variety of roles:
Inspecting sites;
Assessing technical safety cases;
Investigating incidents;
Enforcing the law and influencing improvement in safety cases;
Developing strategic approaches to secure high standards in the industry;
Managing nuclear research contracts etc.
The purpose of inspection is to secure and improve nuclear safety. The site inspector is the primary point of contact with the site and undertakes both planned and reactive inspections. The site inspector also co-ordinates the inputs of other inspectors who assess safety submissions or manage discrete projects at particular sites. This is to ensure compliance, to reassure the public and to improve safety standards. When inspectors find something wrong they initially provide advice but may issue verbal and written warnings. The powers available to inspectors enable them to serve Enforcement Notices and ultimately initiate prosecutions. There are also a wide range of powers available under nuclear licence conditions.
ABOUT YOU:
Applicants must have:
A good honours degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate scientific or engineering subject;
Corporate membership of a relevant professional institution;
Significant experience of working in responsible positions in the nuclear sector or other high hazard industry in design, construction, operation or safety appraisal in a safety case environment;
Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate a sound understanding of the current nuclear industry context and understanding of relevant principles and practices,
In addition to high technical ability and expertise your personal qualities are also important to us, such as:
Sound judgement based on your knowledge and expertise, often in a pressurised environment;
Drive and determination, and ability to stay calm under pressure;
An influential and persuasive approach to achieving objectives, emotionally resilient - able to get the job done in difficult circumstances;
The ability to work as part of a team;
Ability to effectively plan, prioritise and be forward thinking good investigative ability, and initiative to generate appropriate research.
Our inspectors come from a variety of mainly nuclear or high-hazard-related backgrounds, but all demonstrate calm and poise when working under pressure in one of the most demanding jobs in the public sector.
REMUNERATION:
You will be appointed on a salary dependant on skills and experience. Furthermore there are excellent opportunities for advancement to Principal Nuclear Inspector (max of salary range currently £69,897) and Superintending Nuclear Inspector (max of salary range currently £75,668).
Besides the opportunity to make a real difference, there are many benefits working for HSE:-
In addition to a competitive starting salary you can expect:
A permanent contract of employment including some of the best terms and conditions in the labour market;
A generous occupational pension scheme or a choice of stakeholder pensions, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best;
Five weeks rising to six weeks annual leave plus 10.5 public holidays and privilege days;
Active management of your health, safety and well-being at work;
Excellent working arrangements including state-of- the-art new building, gymnasium, restaurant and excellent, covered, free car-parking facilities;
If you have to move home to take up appointment, you may be eligible to receive limited relocation expenses up to a maximum of £15 000.
Within certain limits, HSE will refund your travelling expenses (and if you have to stay overnight away from home, your accommodation costs) incurred when attending an interview.
PLEASE CONTACT SIMON@ENERGYRS.CO.UK OR CALL 01454 203460 IF YOU WISH TO APPLY.
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Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of palpably fake Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same Daily Kos blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.
The evidence of manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the diligent detective work of independent investigative journalists in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate The Daily Kos, a "progressive" blog site, and the Obama campaign's "Fight the Smears" website, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance. Moreover, the blog and the campaign have been negligent in allowing the promotion of obviously fake official documents together with the purported image of Obama's birth certificate.
The bottom line is that there are a lot of rumors flying around. 100 days into his presidency, Obama has yet to offer satisfactory proof that any of the rumors are false. It would be nice of him to extend to us the courtesy of letting us know whether or not he is legally eligible to hold the office of President of the United States. Perhaps we'll find out before he's fully implemented his socialist dictatorship.
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California Disability Community Action Network
Over 2,000 marched from the Sacramento Convention Center to the State Capitol protesting against budget cuts to persons with disabilities, mental health needs, seniors, community organizations and workers who provide services Wednesday late morning in a loud demonstration that later filled the Capitol hearing rooms and hallways. Some estimates of the crowd exceeded well over 2,500 at its height around 12 noon, with the entire L street sidewalk and parts of the State Capitol grounds filled with people protesting and chanting “No More Cuts” for two solid city blocks.
The protest march and sidewalk demonstration in front of the State Capitol drew a crowd larger than expected was linked to an Assembly Budget Subcommittee hearing on regional center and mental health budget cuts that was held at 1:30 PM. The protest was also linked to a Senate Budget Subcommittee #3 on Health and Human Services hearing on Medi-Cal budget cuts scheduled for Thursday morning (April 23) at 09:30 AM in the State Capitol in Room 4203 (the hearing could be delayed if the Senate floor session does not end by 09:30 AM).
The crowds that packed Wednesday’s Assembly budget subcommittee hearing rooms and hallways were easily the largest to date at the Capitol in the past year.
Persons marching and demonstrating came from all parts of California, and covered the range of persons with disabilities, mental health needs, seniors, families, IHSS and other support workers, community organizations including providers, regional centers, independent living centers and others.
The march began from the west entrance of the Sacramento Convention Center four blocks away from the State Capitol and ended with a sidewalk demonstration in front of the Capitol grounds. Earlier hundreds of the marchers had lined both sides of J Street near 13th Street holding signs protesting cuts to the disabled, blind, mental health and seniors and chanting “No More Cuts.
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Connecticut residents called on leaders to maintain and supplement DEP funding levels by expanding the bottle bill and dedicating the unclaimed deposits to environmental programs and instating incentives to encourage reusable bags. CCE submitted more than 5,000 signatures on petitions supporting DEP program funding to the Governor.
The people of Connecticut have spoken loudly and clearly: environmental protection is not a luxury. said Emmett Pepper, CCE Connecticut Program Director. s budget for the environment pales in comparison to surrounding states, the state needs to have the necessary resources to keep our air and water clean.
The DEP carries out a wide variety of important environmental duties, including managing state parks, monitoring air and water quality, enforcing emissions standards, managing the fisheries in the state and protecting open space.
Unfortunately, Connecticut spends a smaller portion of its state budget than many surrounding states on environmental programs. Recently, the state spent as little as 0.23% of the budget on the environment compared to Rhode Islands commitment of 1.24% the same year. Throughout the state there are historic landmarks, picnic areas, and other important public spaces are inaccessible because of a lack of resources.
Connecticut simply cannot sustain any further cuts to environmental programs, said Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of CCE. Today, in the age of the having sufficient funds to manage state parks and protect the states air and water is more critical than ever. The Governor and General Assembly should listen to their constituents and maintain funding for Connecticuts environmental programs.
Several programs are on the chopping block or facing reductions because of the low levels of funding. One of the most imperiled is the lobster restoration program. Designed to save the struggling lobster industry, this successful program brings high school students and lobstermen together to mark female lobsters with a on their tail before returning them back to the Sound. The makes the lobster off-limits for being harvested and allows the population to grow. The lobstermen are paid for the lobsters they mark and the students learn about wildlife in Long Island Sound. The program was unfunded last year, but was able to survive by using leftover funds from the previous year. Those funds are gone, so new money is needed.
DEP programs like the Lobster Restoration Program are important to the local economy and to the well being of Connecticut residents, said Emmett Pepper. The natural world is the foundation to our economy and we cant afford to short-shrift it.
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DELIGHTED doomsayers who applauded the announcement last week that an ice sheet on the west Antarctic cost was collapsing should leave the champagne on ice. Because, as Greg Roberts reports in The Weekend Australian, it appears everything is icier in most of Antarctica. This is not to deny that other parts of the planet appear to be warming up, or even to argue against the orthodoxy that human activity is responsible. But every warning of what global warming will lead to is not inevitably accurate. As Adelaide geologist and Eureka Prize winner Ian Plimer points out in an interview with Jamie Walker in the paper this morning, predictions of what will happen to the planet under a range of climate conditions to come will not necessarily occur simply because they are predicted by computer models. As any economist will explain, models deliver on the data provided by the programmers. "Garbage in, garbage out" as one anonymous expert famously put it. And as our understanding of the environment changes, so will what we expect to happen. "Always changing the future is" as a famous, if fictional, futurologist says.
For environmental activists, any suggestion prophecies of planetary peril should be considered carefully is heresy. Climate change doubters are apologists for Western consumer lifestyles that produce the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming, they argue. But there is more sociology than science in such suggestions. For people who believe it is wrong for all Australians to have electricity when many Africans do not, global warming is a statement of faith. Many scientists are equally upset, saying the evidence is in and people who question the cause and effect of global warming should defer to those who have done the work. The problem is, as Professor Plimer demonstrates, expert irritation does not disguise the fact that the science is anything but settled. Atmospheric scientists dominate the global warming debate, he says, and their focus on carbon dioxide emissions excludes other disciplines and obscures other issues that may describe what is going on and why.
Perhaps scientists who say there is a 90 per cent certainty that global warming is human-induced are correct. But as Professor Plimer argues, such claims are impressive-sounding figures of speech - scientists can believe them, but they do not know. No one does. This is not to deny the need for ever-more research on global warming or the case for development of economically sustainable sources of alternative energy. In Australia there is bipartisan support for both. But to assume we know how much the planet will warm this century and what effect this will have is a matter of faith, not reason. And faith-based research is less science than secular religion.
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According to CT EarthNets keyword/issue index, Renewable/Clean Energy ranks as the sessions top environmental issue, based on 36 bills introduced. A third were reported joint favorable (12 bills) and five bills (such as HB-6603 Class III Renewable Standard, HB-6636 Clean Energy Fund and HB-6635 Solar Power) are currently on Senate or House calendars (as of Apr 14).
Left are many other bills about solar (such as SB-595 Large-scale Community Solar and HB-5993 Residential Solar), renewable energy sources and promoting renewable energy. There were four bills proposed about geothermal technology, incentives and study. Others dealt with biodiesel and biosludge energy.
Transportation modes was second--with 32 bills initially introduced. Three of these were reported joint favorable (SB-237 Light Rail, SB-445 Highway Congestion Pricing, SB-735 Bicycle, Pedestrian Access) with SB-735 currently on the Senate calendar.
Left are 24 bills about LEV, hybrid, Electric and Golf Cart Vehicles, Modes to Transit Stations, Bridgeport Intermodal, Freight Rail, New Haven-Springfield rail, Norwalk/Danbury rail, Transit Service Improvement, Bicycling Support, Biking, Walking Improvements, Transportation Patterns and others.
Energy conservation efficiency was a close third with 31 bills introduced. Eleven were reported joint favorable and three bills (HB-6632 Energy Efficiency Coordination, HB-6536 Energy Efficiency, Conservation, HB-6638 Obsolete Energy Standards) are on the House calendar.
Twenty-four bills were introduced about Recycling Waste, six were reported joint favorable and three bills (SB-995 Refuse, Recycling Dumping, HB 5215 Reusable Shopping Bags and HB-5474 Recycling) are on Senate and House calendars.
Left are other bills about plastic/paper bags, single-stream recycling, recycling drug bottles and a bill about nuclear waste storage funds and others.
Seventeen bills were introduced about Health Toxics; six were reported joint favorable (SB-257 Pesticides at Day Care, SB-919 Phasing Out PBDEs, SB-924 Artificial Turf Moratorium, SB-1020 Pesticide at Schools, HB-6496 Green Cleaning Schools, HB-6572 BPA Ban) with SB-919 and HB-6496 on chamber calendars.
Left are other bills about chemicals in personal products, environmental cleanups, mercury thermostats, pesticides and dangerous chemicals and others.
Environmental Impacts Protections was the subject of another 17 bills introduced. Five were reported joint favorable (SB-871 DEP Enforcement, SB-1106 Hazardous Releases, HB-6501 Oil Tank Removal, HB-6539 Environmental Health, HB-6659 Environment Statutes) with SB-1106, HB-6501, HB-6659 on chamber calendars.
Left are bills about utilities impacts (four bills), DEP Information Gathering and Funding, state project environmental assessment and noise pollution and others.
Sixteen bills were introduced about Watershed Wetland Integrity; four were reported joint favorable (SB-569 Wetlands, Watercourses Act, HB-5467 Marine Science School, HB-5934 Wetlands Commission Training, HB-6590 Inland Wetlands Standards) with SB-569, HB-5467, HB-5934 on chamber calendars.
Remaining are bills about inland wetlands protections and permits, wetlands vegetation, Highlands water diversions, watershed protection and others.
Green Industry Jobs was the subject of 15 bills; five were reported joint favorable (SB-1068 Green Jobs, SB-1071 Extending Tax Deadlines, SB-1129 Energy, Economy, SB-1130 Energy, Economy, HB-5975 Renewable Energy Training) with HB-5975 on the House calendar.
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"Public education is important because land conservation is an inherently political process," he said. The history of land conservation, he said, has stressed the need for accurate, science-based information (as well as some "patient opportunism") to convince politically and economically powerful people of the importance of conserving important lands.
The many workshops through the day-long conference included everything from "Anatomy of a Land Transaction" (Melissa Spear) to "Advocating for Conservation in Tough Economic Times" (Sandy Breslin of Audubon Connecticut) from presenters that included Chester L. Arnold Jr., from UConn's Center for Land Use Education and Research, Juliana Barrett, from UConn in Groton, who discussed Habitat-based Management Planning. Jiff Martin and Ben Bowell from American Farmland Trust discussed Tools for the Farm Friendly Town and David Sutherland of The Nature Conservancy discussed Effective Lobbying for Land Trusts.
The Councils mission is to advocate for land preservation, stewardship and funding, and ensure the long-term strength and viability of the land conservation community. The intent of the new Council is to enable our conservation community to learn from each other and to even more effectively advocate for critical issues at the State Capitol.
The Connecticut Land Conservation Council was formed in 2006 by the merger of two existing programs of The CT Chapter of Nature Conservancy: the Land Trust Service Bureau (LTSB) and the Land Conservation Coalition for Connecticut (LCCC). The Council provides CTs conservation community with:
* Technical assistance and referrals for land trusts and other organizations on Connecticut-specific conservation topics.
* A new and improved website to increase communications with the membership of CLCC.
* Training and education, including the annual Convocation.
* A voice and advocate for your organization and at the Capitol.
* Your source of conservation news and activity.
* A venue for bringing forward issues of importance to other conservation groups.
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A free lunchtime bike commuting workshop is being offered on Thursday March 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Dorchester House Multi-Purpose Room. Light Lunch Provided.
The Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike), Massachusetts statewide bicycling education and advocacy group, is offering a one-hour workshop on the basics of commuting by bike and bike safety. This workshop is intended for people who are not currently bike commuters and are interesting in learning more. The workshop covers:
Why commute by bicycle
Equipment - how to choose the right bike and gear
Choosing the best route
Getting started
Riding safely in traffic: the law is on your side!
Click here for flyer.
Location of the March 12 Bike Commuting Workshop - Dorchester House, 1353 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester MA 02122
Sponsored by Dorchester Houses Sustainability Team, DotWell, and the Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition. Please take our survey on bike commuting.
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