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Want to receive email notifications about meetings and environmental events? Send your email address to Tom Taylor at tnt2703 AT excite DOT com. Our local group sends emails using a system provided by the national organization with the usual "unsubscribe" option.
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Some additional information from our April speaker, Jackie Fienberg from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance... the Redrock Wilderness Act will soon go to committee where it will be discussed. Right now is a GREAT time to send a letter to your congressman and ask him to support Utah Wilderness. Especially Mel Watt (D-12) or Brad Miller (D-13). Brad Miller is already a co-signer of the bill, so please just thank him.
The easiest way to contact your congressman is by email. You can do that by going to the website at: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml. When you put in your zip code the site will allow you to send a letter to your congressman only, so your congressman will know it’s from one of his constituents.
Don’t know your Zip Code extension? Go to: http://www.usps.com/ and type in your address. |
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About the Sierra Club
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 The
Sierra Club is a nonprofit member-supported, public
interest organization that promotes conservation of the
natural environment by influencing public policy
decisions -- legislative, administrative, legal and
electoral.
Photo: Great blue heron, Everglades NP, Anhiga
Trail
Courtesy
Philip Greenspun.
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Our Piedmont Plateau Group
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 Our meetings are held at the new environmental library, Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch in Price Park. The address is 1420 Price Park Drive, which is off of the section of Hobbs that runs between New Garden Road and Jefferson. Feel free to come early and check out books or walk the trails in the park. From 7:00 - 7:30, we will meet for refreshments and social time. The program begins at 7:30.
For a map, click
here (opens a new window).
The PPG Executive Committee meets the last Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm in the Community Room at Earth Fare on Battleground Ave. All Sierra Club members are welcome to attend!
In addition, we have organized,
club-led outings that
let you enjoy nature and learn about Sierra Club
activities. You can learn more about outings and see the
upcoming schedule
here.
Photo:
Courtesy of Cheryl Garrity |
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May Program: Plug-in hybrid vehicle technology |
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 How can emerging technologies in the automobile industry address the rising cost of petroleum? Please join us on Tuesday, May 13 to hear James Poch, Executive Director of the non-profit Plug-in Hybrid Coalition, will explain how the electrification of the automobile sector will benefit our nation’s economy, environment, and national security. Mr. Poch will have a plug-in hybrid prototype on hand.
Plug-In Hybrids combine today’s hybrid technology with larger batteries and the ability to charge from a standard electrical outlet. The result is a vehicle that can achieve up to 100 miles per gallon for local commutes while retaining a gasoline-electric engine for acceleration and range. Information on plug-in hybrids and the coalition may be found at www.plugincarolina.org.
On Tuesday, May 13, we will have a pre-PPG Group Meeting Dinner. Everyone is welcome to gather at Phoenix Asia, 1641 New Garden Road, at 5:45 to enjoy dinner before the meeting. Please RSVP by Monday, May 12 to Dick Mearns at Dick_mearns@bellsouth.net. We hope you can join us!
Thunder Horse Nursery will donate ten Niagara grape vines to the PPG Sierra Club. The price is $8.00 each and they will be available at the May meeting. Money from the sale of these grape vines goes to the PPG Sierra Club. For additional information call Thunder Horse Nursery at 668-2689.
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First Aid and CPR for Everyone |
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First Aid and CPR for Everyone: An
Introduction to Basic Lifesaving Skills has been
developed in response to recent research
that shows continuous compression-only CPR
can be effective in caring for a person with
no signs of life when a rescuer is unable,
untrained or unwilling to perform full CPR.
The product allows customers without formal
training to become familiar with life-saving
information using a high quality product
obtained at a reasonable cost.
First Aid and CPR for Everyone is intended to
provide consumers with an educational
overview only, and does not substitute for a
formal training course.
First Aid and CPR for Everyone includes:
1 Compression Tool
1 Hand Placement Diagram
1 Emergency First Aid Guide
1 Emergency Action Steps Wallet Card
1 Instructional DVD with an introduction
by Peyton Manning
Cost of Program: $15.00 Each
participant receives kit!
Order this and other American Red Cross products
through your local Red Cross chapter at
(336) 333-2111 or royall@usa.redcross.org
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