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Light refreshments are served.
Protect New York State
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Greenburgh Nature Center (See directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible
location.
Whether you’ve got a two acre lot or an apartment patio garden, you can enrich the opportunity for life to thrive all around you! Learn how we can each contribute to the overall health and beauty of our world as we create a spreading “neural network” of biodiversity in our own backyards. Darrin Duling, Director of the Native Plant Center in Valhalla will present ideas for creating native gardens that will attract and support insects, birds and animal life on whatever size property you have. Sprainbrook Nursery Proprietor Al Krautter will explain how the use of organic nutrient systems protects our water, soil, and wildlife of all sorts, as well as the health of our children and pets. Bring ideas and questions about your own property’s potential biodiversity to discuss with our presenters.
Mason Curtis, President of the Rye High School Natural Environment Club will talk about the Club’s activities, including their program for Wildlife Habitat Certification of their high school property, the school district, and eventually the City of Rye.
Northern Westchester:
Time: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 7:00 - 9:30 PM
Place: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Westchester, 236 South
Bedford Road, Mount Kisco, NY 10549
Southern Westchester:
Time: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 7:00 - 9:30 PM
Place: Community Unitarian Church at White Plains, 468 Rosedale Ave. White
Plains, NY 10605
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth
in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and
upward mobility. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning
to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty
and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life
and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand
for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply.
Second film of the Transition Westchester Winter Film Series. There will
be a discussion group after the film. Admission is free, although small
donations are welcome to help offset licensing costs of the series.
See www.transitionwestchester.org for
more information.
Greenburgh Nature Center (See directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible
location.
Understanding how birds assess and utilize urban-rural corridors during migration is essential to their conservation. However, little is known about how birds evaluate the obstacles and utilize the resources available during migration, which generally occurs at night. Fordham University professor, Dr. Alan Clark, has been conducting research, using night flight call recording data combined with small-scale radar data, to better understand how urban light and noise pollution affect migrating birds. Dr. Clark’s research goal is to provide important information to wildlife managers and city planners on how to improve conditions for birds migrating through urban landscapes.
Greenburgh Nature Center (See directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible location.
Chris W. Burger will tell us about the Marcellus Shale Gas Play, giving history, explaining how gas is extracted, impacts (positive and negative), ways industry strives to protect the environment and problems they experience, and how people react. Mr. Burger is a resource management consultant and college instructor, and has degrees in chemical engineering, social psychology and economics, chairs the Broome County Energy Commission, and is on the NYS Sierra Club Gas Task Force.
Greenburgh Nature Center (See directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible location.
At present a developer is hoping to build a parking structure,
intended to hold 1450 cars, for the Westchester County Airport. The
structure would be situated in two wetland areas which buffer the
Kensico Reservoir, the source of water for 9 million people in New
York, including 85% of Westchester County. Tania Vernon and Karen
Schultz, long-time Sierra Club activists, will share their insights
into the ongoing struggle to preserve the water supply we all take for
granted. They will center on the need for citizens to hold county
government accountable to the 3 resolutions passed by the Westchester
County Board of Legislators, NY Senate and Assembly, which affirmed
non-expansion of the airport's footprint, including flights, gates,
hangars, parking and permits for heavier planes. The federal EPA's
letter of support for NYC Department of Environmental Protection
Commissioner Chris Wards' efforts to protect the Kensico Reservoir
must also be honored.
Greenburgh Nature Center (See directions below)
This is a handicapped-accessible location.
Join us for this unique and fun experience. We share in earth-honoring
community through two rituals based in ancient traditions. Learn and
dance the inspiring, uplifting, and healing Sacred Circle Dance (SCD)
from Jean Ando, who has been doing Sacred Circle dancing since 2003.
She has taught SDC to adult and teenagers in different areas of New
York. Dancing in a circle is an ancient tradition common to many
cultures for marking special occasions, strenghtening community and
encouraging togetherness. The steps are simple and easy to learn. Then
Dorothy Cunha will tell us about the ancient Peruvian shamanic
traditions, who has studied this path for 15 years. She will teach the
Pachamama (Earth Mother) Renewal Ritual as taught to her by don Oscar
Miro-Quesada, a well-respected ceremonialist from Peru. Based in the
shamanic arts, don Oscar created the Pachakuti Mesa tradition to help
anchor us as we transform into earth-honoring, heart-centered people.
Perform the Pachamama Renewal Ritual to re-invigorate your
relationship with Mother Earth.
99 Dromore Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583, (914) 723-3470
From Rye & Southeast WestchesterTake I-287 West to Exit 5 (Route 100). Go left at the end of the ramp, go to traffic light and turn left again, and continue 0.5 miles to Central Avenue (Route 100). Turn right onto Central Avenue/Route 100 and go 2.8 miles. Pass an Office Depot with red logo on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too far.)
From Northern WestchesterTake the Bronx River Parkway to Exit 22 (Westchester County Center), where you turn right. Cross Route 119 to Central Avenue (Route 100). Take Central Avenue for 2.8 miles. Pass an Office Depot with red logo on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too far.)
From Southern WestchesterTake Bronx River Parkway north to Exit 15 (Fenimore Road). Turn left onto Fenimore, cross over parkway and go through the town of Hartsdale to Central Avenue (Route 100). Turn left and go 1.2 miles. Pass an Office Depot with red logo on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too far.)
From Rockland CountyTake Tappan Zee Bridge, continue on Route I-287 east, get off at Exit 5. You should be on Route 119 east and Route 100 south, which share the pavement. Turn right onto Central Avenue/Route 100, and go 2.7 miles. Pass an Office Depot with red logo on the right, go about 100 yards and Dromore Road is on the left. (If you see Burger King on left, you went too far.)
Scottish Highlands Service Trip and Barge CruiseApril 9 through 20, 2010
Join the Sierra Club's first international
service trip in some 15 years. After we meet in Inverness,
the largest city in the Highlands, we will work with a Scottish
environmental organization in such activities as fence removal
and planting native trees in the forests of the Highlands. We
will work six days, with Wednesday being a free day to explore. During
our work week, we will stay in small accommodations with communal
cooking facilities. After our work week ends, we will board
a barge for a four day, three night slow and scenic cruise
down Loch Ness (where we can sail or canoe while we search
for the Loch Ness Monster, commonly known as Nessie), or we
can hike or bicycle along the Great Glen Way. We will
pass through locks during our cruise down the lochs. Our
trip will end in Fort William, near Ben Nevis, the highest
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Prevent Expansion of the Westchester County AirportNYPIRG Urges No Expansion at Westchester County Airport
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Here’s a great way to help the
environment right now:
Get the
newsletter online.
The Lower Hudson Group posts Terra Firma on the Internet and
you can download or read it there instead of receiving it in the
mail. We’ll notify you
via e-mail each time a new issue is ready.
There are advantages. Your mailbox will be a little less
cluttered, the Sierra Club will spend a little less money
on printing and distributing newsletters and more on the
environment, and you’ll be able to see your
newsletter the minute it’s ready.
Interested? Send an e-mail message with the
subject line
“Give me Terra Firma on the Web” to pgrove24@gmail.com.
Be sure to include your Member #, which can be found on the
mailing address area on your newsletter or your Sierra
Magazine.
The e-mail address you send from will be the one to which
we will send each new issue notice.
