[Sustain] [SFGP-A] Fwd: SF Dept. of Environment Giving Away Free Canvass Bags

[Richard A. Knee]

For what it's worth, Bunning is a Republican, unless he's switched parties.


On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:34:40 -0700, Ann Garrison <anniegarrison at mac.com>  
wrote:

> OK; this does seem important.  Obama introduced the Coal to Liquid
> Fuel Transportation Promotion Act of 2007, with Jim Bunning (D-KY),
> on January 4th, 2007.  This is one of those bills that's absolutely
> lethal for the native Four Corners.
>
> It hasn't come to a vote on the Senate floor yet.  Barbara Barbara
> Boxer and Nancy Pelosi both seem to support it, though they refuse to
> respond to my letters.  Di-Fi finally wrote to say she'd take my
> concerns into consideration should it reach a full vote on the Senate
> floor.
>
> Again, not trying to start a bitter argument.  Just looking for
> clarity.   I did some studying and found that Obama's daughter has
> asthma and that, in the past, he did make some effort to fight coal-
> fired power in Illinois.  But it seems that, now that he's running
> for president, he has debts to pay to mighty Peabody Coal.   ---A.
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:58 PM, vicki leidner wrote:
>
>> obama got the sierra club endorsement in illinois.  coal and all.
>> v
>>
>> Ann Garrison wrote:
>>> May I forward this to Mary Ratcliff and Dr. Ahimsa Porter-Sumchai,
>>> not to start a fight, but just because they have a very different
>>> view of the local Sierra Club.  I believe Ahimsa joined the Board to
>>> try to influence it, but don't quote me on that.
>>>
>>> I did indeed find a local Sierra chapter on one of the Great Lakes,
>>> which had chosen "clean coal" as its solution, but you gotta remember
>>> that's Obama's state.
>>>
>>> And, like I said, they seem to be doing very well at working with the
>>> natives in the Four Corners.
>>>
>>> I also just looked up Sierra Club and Kyoto and found Karl Pope's
>>> article, "The Problem with Kyoto," much of which I agree with:
>>>
>>> http://www.sierraclub.org/carlpope/2007/03/trouble-with-kyoto.asp
>>>
>>> There seems to be quite a bit of variance between one Sierra Club and
>>> another, and they're certainly nothing, nothing like that despicable
>>> Apollo Alliance.
>>>
>>> 			R&R for one'n all---A.G.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 1:46 PM, John Rizzo wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Two statements that I must take issue with:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The Sierra Club seems sorta
>>>>> kinda OK there, in the native Four Corners, but here, Mary R. says
>>>>> they promoted Lennar's development in the shipyard.
>>>>>
>>>> This is a false statement. We absolutely do not support or promote
>>>> Lennar.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> And, in Obama's
>>>>> Illinois, around the Great Lakes, some local Sierra Club chose
>>>>> "clean
>>>>> coal" as their greenhouse gas limiting solution.
>>>>>
>>>> I don't know of ANY organization that has put more staff time,
>>>> volunteer
>>>> time, and money into fighting coal nationwide than the Sierra Club.
>>>> This
>>>> includes Illinois. Here are some Illinois victories against coal:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/coal/plantlist.asp#
>>>> IllinoisTaylorvilleEnergyCenter
>>>>
>>>> The Sierra Club spends a lot of resources and effort fighting new
>>>> coal
>>>> plants and the myth of "clean coal." Coal is also tied to the Sierra
>>>> Club's Mercury and Clean Water campaigns.
>>>>
>>>> See this web site for a great deal of information about coal and
>>>> Club
>>>> efforts:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/
>>>>
>>>> One of the Sierra Club's campaigns is called "Stopping the Coal
>>>> Rush"
>>>> led by the Club's Environmental Law Program.
>>>>
>>>> At the web site, be sure to sign the petition to end mountaintop
>>>> coal
>>>> mining that is literally destroying Appalachia.
>>>>
>>>> John Rizzo
>>>>
>>>> PS. For the past three years, the local Bay Area chapter has been
>>>> expending a lot of staff and volunteer to pass CCA (Tom and
>>>> Ross), 360
>>>> MW renewable energy. It will finally be introduced at the Board of
>>>> Supervisors on Tuesday. We are also working to get CCA
>>>> implemented in
>>>> other cities across California.
>>>>
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