December 2010
47 posts
Still a few 2011 Sierra Club calendars...
Contact Tamara if interested. Only $10 each.
tamara.smith47@comcast.net or tamsmith47@gmail.com
James River News Hub: Resolved to get outside and... →
Boing Boing: Aerial photos of industrial... →
Treehugger.com's Most Popular and Memorable Posts... →
Illinois Walgreens Converts To Geothermal Energy →
What is CVS doing? Let’s see some competition.
Island Community Turns To Hydrogen →
The Oil BP Tried To Hide Has Been Discovered, In... →
Power From The Tides →
BBC: New solar fuel machine 'mimics plant life' →
Grist's Top Green Stories of 2010 →
Giving The Gift Of Wind →
Fish Thought to Be Extinct for 70 Years... →
In new discovery, caterpillars whistle to scare... →
California Passes Cap & Trade Bill - Creates... →
Solar is Hot Spot for U.S. Exports
From SolarNation.org :
Another study released this week shows that solar jobs in the U.S. are responsible for some very positive export news.
The report, U.S. Solar Energy Trade Assessment 2010, has been published by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research. It finds that the U.S. is a major solar exporter, with net exports of solar energy products totaling $723...
Henrico panel denies landfill permit for coal ash →
The Green Brewhaha: Sustainability at Fort George... →
How does this compare with local breweries?
Blog on Southside Greenway: How Dick & Willie can... →
Nintendo, Canon, Panasonic `Fail to Act' on... →
Conservation Committee Meeting Cancelled For...
However, we are having more informal meetings for our upcoming Environmental Film Festival at the Byrd. Contact Tamara by email by clicking here.
Misleading Eco-labels on Seafood Muddy the Waters... →
Sierra Club Calls on Leaders at COP16 to Pull... →
Virginia Sierra Club leaders Glen Besa and Tyla Matteson were part of this photo.
Danish company is developing green power plants... →
Turner Turns on the Solar in New Mexico →
“Nobodies been killed doing it. Which is an important thing if you are a miner. No one went underground, it’s all on the surface of the desert.”
City Press Release on SCFOJ's Green Giant Award
City of Richmond
News Release
For Immediate Release Contact: Michael Wallace
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 (804) 646-2772
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Best College Football Recyclers Announced →
Push for James River Parks License Plate →
The JR Park license plate campaign will be at our fundraiser holiday gala tomorrow night.
If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation? →
Get your reservations in!
Just a FYI, we already many reservations for Wednesday’s event, but tonight is the last time to make one. Auction items include bicycles, silver dollars, restaurant gift certificates, passes to opera/symphony/forum/theater, spa treatments, artwork, outdoor activity/movie passes, Segway tour, home energy audit, etc, etc. (get your holiday shopping done with some unique items!)
Sierra Club Falls of the James Group Honors City...
For Immediate Release
December 3, 2010
Contact: Adele MacLean, Co-Chair
Sierra Club Falls of the James Group
282-8637 or 503-1492
Sierra Club Falls of the James Group Honors City of Richmond
The Sierra Club Falls of the James Group will confer its annual “Green Giant Award” on the City of Richmond this year for pioneering work the city and in particular Sustainability Manager, Alicia Zatcoff,...
Solar Cell Efficiencies Continue to Rise →
Green Prison Reform (For Richmond's future new...
It began as a small project to involve prison inmates in environmental research, but has turned into a set of major green innovations in several of our state’s prisons; the Sustainable Prisons Project. Started by Evergreen State College professor Nalini Nadkarni, the program offers classes and lectures about sustainability to inmates. The program, which started at Cedar Creek...
WIKILEAKS: US GOVERNMENT MANIPULATED CLIMATE... →
Jamie's James River photo →
Sierra Club Movie Review Friday: 127 Hours →
Danny Boyle’s first film since his award-winning Slumdog Millionaire tells the true story of how engineer and outdoor enthusiast Aron Ralston gets trapped in a desert canyon for five days with only a bottle of water and a little food….
……As the film ends, we’re left feeling a kinship with the wilderness, and with our fellow man.
Tell VDOT “No” to U.S. Route 460 Expansion – TWO...
VDOT is holding two public hearings on proposals to build a new US Route 460 from Suffolk to Petersburg . This upwards $2.5 billion “highway in search of traffic” will open up a mostly rural landscape to developers and to costly sprawl. The new highway will pass through many low-lying areas and damage hundreds of acres of wetlands and miles of high-quality streams. Will you attend a public...
TED talk on houses from reclaimed materials →
What Are Urban Trees Worth? Billions in Stored... →
WatchThis sort of concept seems ripe for Richmond’s Sister Cities program.
Reminder - This Coming Wednesday
The Falls of the James Group, Sierra Club’s 29th Holiday Mistletoe Celebration will be held Wednesday, December 8 at 6:30 P.M., at the seasonally decorated Science Museum of Virginia, located at 2500 West Broad Street in Richmond. The evening includes buffet dinner, holiday music, and features a program by Dr Jeff Kirwan, VA Tech Professor and co-author ofRemarkable Trees of Virginia. In...
James River and Tributaries - City of Richmond... →
Click above for pdf report.
REPORT: Offshore Wind is Next Clean Energy Wave...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2010
REPORT: Offshore Wind is Next Clean Energy Wave for Virginia
National Report Tallies Up to 6 Gigawatts of Atlantic Offshore Wind Projects
Virginia Beach, Virginia (December 1, 2010) – Up and down the Atlantic coast, states and offshore wind developers are making significant progress in advancing offshore projects according to a new report. The report...
From Style: Richmond Needs More Parks, Lost Report... →
Charlottesville Woman Makes No Trash Resolution →
Maple Syrup Production Slows Due To Climate Change →
Bluefin Tuna Denied Protection From Global and... →