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| Thursday, Oct. 23 UCGroup Meeting 7 pm Putnam Co. Library downstairs meeting Rm. - Dr. John Harwood, Caney Fork Watershed Assn AND
Rain Barrel Festival planning
October 24, 7 pm
Kilowatt Ours on NPT
Nashville, TN, WNPT
Channel 8
Nov. 13-15
TN. Environmental Council/TN. Conservation Voters 2d Annual Summit for a Sustainable Tennessee Lipscomb University, Nashville
Nov. 17 TTU SEAC/SOCM /Sierra Meeting - Ecuador Oil Fights - Pictures and Stories by Dr. Jon Jonakin and Brian Paddock from their Global Exchange tour in July |
| 2009 Sierra Club Calendars are In/For Sale |
Engagement $13.95
Wall size $12.95
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Kilowatt Ours Broadcast Schedule (showings after 10/15):
CA
San Jose, CA, KTEH, 11/18 at 12am
FL
West Palm Beach, FL, WXEL - 11/15 at 8pm., 11/15 at 8pm
LA
New Orleans, LA WLAE, 10/20 at 8pm
MI
10/27 at 11pm
Grand Rapids, MI, WGVU, 10/19 at 5pm, 10/16 at 4 am
NC
Asheville, NC, SCETV, 10/19 at 10pm
Greensboro/High Point/Winston Salem, NC, UNC-TV, 10/23 at 10pm
Raleigh/Durham, NC, UNC-TV, 10/23 at 10pm
NV
Las Vegas, NV, PBS Jackpot Cable111, 10/25 at 4:01 AM, 10/25 at 9AM, 10/25 at 2pm
SC
Columbia, SC, SCETV, 10/19 at 10pm
TN
Memphis, TN, WKNO, 10/22 at 8pm
Nashville, TN, WNPT, 10/24 at 7pm
WA
Seattle, WA, KCTS, 11/14 at 12pm noon, 1/18 at 11pm
WI
Milwaukee, WI, WMVS, 10/15 at 10pm
Times and dates subject to change. Please check local listings to confirm broadcast information
The Kilowatt Ours Team
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 Dear UC Sierrans,
Please come to our Group meeting next Thursday night. Learn about the good things the Caney Fork Watershed Association is doing from our own former Group Chair and renowned founder of our Group, Dr. John Harwood, who is now leading the forces for our local watershed association.
Also PLEASE help us plan a super event scheduled for April on or near Earth Day - A Rain Barrel Festival - modelled after a very successful one put on by the City of Berea in KY. To learn more about what they did in Berea, go to the website for Sustainable Berea.
We're working with the City of Cookeville's stormwater program coodinator, UCG member Tracy Meggs, experienced rain barrel demonstrator Deborah Sam and local artists, including Tech art students, Merrit Ireland's Pacesetters student artists, and hopefully some of our other outstanding local artists. We're hoping to do this at Cane Creek Park.
The plan is to assemble a bunch of plastic food-grade barrels (hopefully donated), have the artists paint or decorate them, put in the correct plumbing and auction them off at the festival. Costs of the barrel, art and plumbing supplies would be recovered first - and then the proceeds would go to some local environmentally friendly project to be decided upon.
We need help in contacting businesses - and churches - or other entities to sponsor the barrels - and hopefully front the costs of art/plumbing supplies (we estimate to be about $35-40 per barrel if the barrel is donated, more if not) - and we need help planning and making decisions.
Do you own a business - or are you a member of a church - that you would be willing to ask to be a rain barrel sponsor? Please let us know - or better yet, come next Thursday night (Oct. 23d) and help us plan.
In Kentucky one of the barrels, donated by the garden club brought $300. Everyone I've talked to who attended the Berea event thought it was great! One of my lawyer freinds up there says he and his wife actually purchased five rain barrels and gave some away as gifts.
This could be a great thing for the city - and for all of us! HELP US MAKE IT SO!
Hope to see you next Thursday night.
Mary Mastin, Chair Upper Cumberland Group |
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From Jeff Barrie, Kilowatt Ours producer
Friends,
It has been an honor and a privilege to meet so many wonderful people over the years, criss-crossing the nation and talking about energy conservation. Today, I write with news and a call for help: As you know, throughout the month of October (and beyond), Kilowatt Ours will appear on numerous public TV stations nationwide, including the markets listed in this email. Would you please help us attract larger viewership? If so, here is how you can help:
Forward the email below to your contacts, friends, listserves, etc. Watch it on TV (invite some friends over). If it is not airing in your community, contact your local station viewer services department and ask if they plan to schedule a broadcast. Make a small donation to Kilowatt Ours to support our continued efforts to make this national release a smash hit! (visit www.KilowattOurs.org and click on "donate"). Use the attached .jpeg to use in your outreach, if helpful
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All the best,
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KILOWATT OURS IS COMING TO PUBLIC TELEVISION - OCTOBER RELEASE!
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Sierra Club files Federal Court Law Suit Against Nation Coal Corp. for Selenium discharges at Zeb Mtn
Water quality tests conducted between December 2007 and July 2008 by the groups bringing the lawsuit, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and the mine itself have repeatedly documented harmful amounts of selenium in water flowing away from the mine, often well above legal limits. With no indication the mine has taken any action to prevent future violations, it will likely continue to discharge toxic amounts of selenium into the waterways of Eastern Tennessee
Selenium is a recognized toxic pollutant that can be extremely harmful to people, causing hair and fingernail loss, kidney and liver damage, and damage to the nervous and circulatory systems. It also has a severe impact on fish and other water life, causing reproductive failure, birth defects and damage to gills and internal organs. Because selenium bioaccumulates in living organisms, it increases in concentration in the tissue of organisms as it moves up through the food chain.
The Zeb Mountain mine engages in mountaintop removal mining, a destructive form of coal mining that has already buried more than 1,200 miles of streams in Appalachia, destroyed forests on some 300 square miles of land, disrupted drinking water supplies, flooded communities, and destroyed wildlife habitat.
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