Thurs, Feb 2 6:30 pm-8pm Curtis Bay Health Forum - focus on air quality and trash incineration - Info here. Location: Curtis Bay Recreation Center, 1630 Filbert Street,Curtis Bay, MD 21226 (1/2 hr from Columbia) Wed, Feb 22 10 to 1 , Student Rally for Offshore Wind in Annapolis - Continue the fight for offshore wind at MSCC's upcoming rally: show your support and lobby your senators! Info here and http://marylandoffshorewind.org/ Mon Feb 27, 5:30 to 8 - Sierra Club Lobby Night in Annapolis focused on Maryland Bag Bill - info http://maryland.sierraclub.org/events/e066.asp - There is still a lobby night on Feb 27 but this one is largely on the Maryland Bag Bill. They are encouraging people not already scheduled to come on Feb 27 to come to a larger Sierra Club Lobby night on March 5 that will cover all 3 major Sierra Club priorities - Maryland Offshore Wind, the statewide Bag Bill and stormwater. Sign up for March 5 here. Tues Feb 28, 7 pm Solid Waste Forum hosted by the Carroll County Board of Commissioners , in the K building (the 'new' one), Room 100, Carroll Community College, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster, MD. Info. and agenda www.wastenotcarroll.org Wed, Feb 29, 6:45 PM Global Warming: Does God Care?: A Theology, Justice, and Science Conversation between two authors and "green faith" environmentalists, DC activist Lyndsay Moseley recently of the Sierra Club and theologian & environmental "innovator" Jim Ball at Buffalo Billiards Dupont Circle, 1330 19th St. NW, Washington, DC. Info and sign up here. Thur March 1, 9-6 - Symposium (and webcast) from the Smithsonian on "Limits to Growth" Info and webcast: www.clubofrome.org/?p=3392 Schedule of speakers - http://si.edu/Content/consortia/limits-to-growth.pdf Lester Brown will be speaking about "World on the Edge" plus Dennis Meadows who wrote the book "Limits To Growth". (Co-author, Donella Meadows, who was also very famous, died some years ago of breast cancer). This is an incredibly rich program. "The morning session will focus on the lessons of Limits to Growth and will consist of presentations by two of the original authors of the work, Dennis Meadows and Jørgen Randers. Also, Club of Rome Member Herman Daly will give his view. These talks will be complemented by an outside perspective from Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. The afternoon session will address the difficult challenges of preserving biodiversity, adjusting to a changing climate, and solving the societal issues now facing the planet. "
Mon March 5, Sierra Club Lobby Night in Annapolis covering all 3 major Sierra Club priorities - Maryland Offshore Wind, the statewide Bag Bill and stormwater. Sign up for March 6 here. Mon March 12, 3 to 8pm, , Progressive Working Group Lobby Night in Annapolis - Includes MD Offshore Wind. Info here. At the Ways and Means Committee Meeting Room, House Office Building, Room 131, 6 Bladen St., Annapolis, MD 21401 Thurs, Mar 15, 6 to 9 pm, Climate Engineering: New Directions in Technology Assessment at the US Government Accountability Office. Talk at dinner meeting of DC Chapter World Future Society. Hilton Garden Inn, 7301 Waverly Street, Bethesda, Maryland. Advance paid registration by Monday March 12 is strongly encouraged. Info and Register at www.natcapwfs.org/events.htm $37 non-chapter-members till 3/12, $43 after. July 22-24, 2012 Citizens Climate Lobby conference, The Cure for Climate Trama, in DC. Register here. See also: Chesapeake Climate Action Network Resource on Area Events http://chesapeakeclimate.org/getinvolved/events.cfm Ongoing canvassing for Md Offshore Wind throughout fall/winter 2011 in Baltimore, Prince George and Montgomery Counties (in districts with possible swing votes for bill) - Volunteer! Contact Keith@chesapeakeclimate.org |
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