The Sanitized Biomess Enviro Show Tuesday, December 8 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, December 14 & 21; 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
[Blog w/links and YOUR comments at: http://envirosho.blogspot.com ]
[Webstreaming  on VFR at:
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Greetings Earthlings. Sick & tired of dirty old biomass incineration?
Looking for a cleaner image? New terms? How about biomass pellets? Meg
Sheehan <http://www.ecolaw.biz/about.php> calls in once more to cast more
sunlight on the Biomess. In our E-Valley-uation segment local liberal pols
climb in bed with the developers! We'll check-in with The Enviro Show Echo
Chamber and "Meet the new Boss", but first it's time for...Revenge of the
Critters! Humboldt squid
swim-in!<http://www.trutv.com/weird/tales-from-the-animal-kingdom/2009/08-11-200\
9-get-out-of-the-water.html>



It's a Foursome in our E-Valley-uation Segment. The Montague Reporter
informs us that the former Montague dump site once considered for a toxic
ash dump may now be utilized as a solar energy site. Talk about best use!
Also this: as reported in The Valley
Advocate<http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10912>,
some unlikely local reps seem to be greasing the skids for extermination of
endangered species. We brought up this attack on the Massachusetts
Endangered Species Act months ago but would anyone listen to a bunch of
pagan dirt-worshippers like us? Hrrumph! Finally, can Co-op Power really
pull-off a "sustainable" biomass pellet operation in Greenfield? Checkout
the pitch
here<http://www.cooppower.coop/index.php/component/content/article/34/167>(scrol\
l
down a few paragraphs). We guess you can register your thoughts on
their survey too, no? Hopefully we'll be getting a short call from Rev.
Billy about the Shopocalypse and his gig in Greenfield on the 19th.



In The Enviro Show Echo Chamber a bookish guy goes rogue on
Palin<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/11/palin-protest-san-franci\
sco-bookseller-will-donate-profits-from-going-rogue-to-alaska-wildlife-allia.htm\
l>(she
of the wolf slaughter and countless other bad ideas). Also this: remember
"The Story of Stuff" we linked to awhile back? Now it's The Story of Crap &
Trade <http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/>!



Our Meet the New Boss moment takes a brief look at what could well be
Obama's Waterloo. Did you catch the West Point speech on Afghanistan? The
U.S. isn't interested in other nation's resources?? Who knew!



Tom Neilson's Biomess song (which we can't play enough) takes us to our
interview with Meg. Then it's on to the Bus Stop Billboard:



Wednesday, December 9th, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Transition Towns. Northampton
Friends Meeting, 43 Center St., Suite 202. Transition Towns is a rapidly
growing model for pulling a community together toward sustainable, joyous
living. The goal is to get everyone involved in building a life that where
we meet local needs locally, phase out the use of fossil fuels and other
technologies that threaten the environment, and break through the isolation
and separation that modern society have brought about.
For more information call 582-6700

December 12th: Global Day of Action - demonstrations in 106 countries on
climate change. Go
HERE<http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/09/17/global-day-of-action-\
december-12/>
.

Saturday, December 12, 1-2pm. All about snow! What is snow and why is it
important to so many living things? Have you ever wondered about the
beautiful patterns of snowflakes? Come learn the answers to all of these
questions. Great Falls Discovery Center, Avenue A, Turners Falls. Ph
413.863.3221

Saturday, December 19, 2:00pm. Mass. Christmas Revival with Rev. Billy!
Greenfield All Souls Church, 399 Main Street, Corner of Hope and Main,
Greenfield

Monday, December 21, 12:47pm.: Winter Solstice!

Saturday, December 19, 1-2pm. How to identify trees. Come learn how to
identify a tree without its leaves. You will learn about tree shape, bark,
and buds of our local trees. This presentation is geared towards folks 12
years of age and older. Great Falls Discovery Center, Avenue A, Turners
Falls. Ph 413.863.3221


January 2-13. “Step It Up to Shut it Down” A Winter’s Walk From Brattleboro
to Montpelier to tell the Vermont Legislature to “Retire Vermont Yankee!”
and Replace it with Safe, Renewable Power Sources. Sponsored by the Safe &
Green Campaign. Call: (802) 254-9098.



That'll hold you 'til next time, yes? Hopefully our Winter Solstice Show
won't leave you cold (groan). Until then, remember: listen to yur' Mother!


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I've forwarded your message to Meg Sheehan, the enviro lawyer who was
instrumental in getting the question on the ballot. Speaking for myself,
small-scale biomass, utilizing slash and trimmings,  can be "environmentally
acceptable", however, there is a justified fear out there that whole-tree
harvesting for biomass incineration will lead to clear-cutting and poor
forestry practices. It is my understanding that trees continue to sequester
carbon way past "several decades" and that it can take well into 50 or more
years to sequester the carbon that is released in mere minutes of biomass
incineration. Given that the climate crisis is an immediate situation and
that we must reduce our carbon emissions to 350ppm ASAP, we don't have the
luxury to wait decades for the carbon to be re-sequested.  In any case,
perhaps it is best you have a dialogue with the experts, so please contact
Meg (address below) or Chris at MA Forest Watch <christoforest@...>
to continue the discussion.

d.o.



On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Richard Stein <rsstein1@...> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I think it good that the question of biomass power p[lants is being put on
> the ballot is desirable.  I am against these plants, but I feel that the
> ballot question is defective.  It considers biomass use ONLY on the basis of
> CO2 evolution which is, admittedly greater than with some fossil fuels.  The
> absorption of CO2 during formation of these fuels is not considered.
> Biofuels and fossil fuels differ in that biofuels are obtained from biomass
> which carries out photosynthesis for, at most, several decades, whereas
> fossil fuels are generated by geological processes occurring over many
> thousands or even millions of years.  This difference SHOULD be recognized
> but may not be by many approving the petition.
>
> I contend that biofuels can be environmentally beneficial PROVIDED they
> arise from biomass that is harvested SUSTAINABLY.  The state has been
> reluctant to define what this means, and it needs to be done in order that
> regulations make sense.  I define it as:
>
> SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING: Harvesting biomass at such a rate that it is not
> removed faster than its CO2 absorbing capacity is replaced by new growth.
>
> With this definition, we will have a steady state amount of CO2 absorption
> by biomass growth and biofuel use would truly be CO2 neutral and should be
> environmentally acceptable.
>
> I fear that withot understanding of this, approval of the measure by voters
> could result in restrictions on proper use of biofuels that could be
> environmentally harmful.
>
> Dick Stein
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Tribal Scribal <lionoak@...> wrote:
>
>> Boston - The Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign announced today has 72,568
>> signatures – more than enough to place a question on the ballot in
>> 2010 that will limit air pollution from biomass incinerators that are
>>
>>
>> being falsely promoted by utilities and the forestry industry as
>> “clean energy.” A Yes vote in November will alter the state Global
>> Warming Solutions Act and prevent a global climate disaster.
>>
>> “Biomass burning is dirty energy, but taxpayers and ratepayers are
>>
>>
>> being told it is  “clean and green” even though, per megawatt hour, it
>> produces more CO2, harmful particulates and NOx than burning coal.
>> Massachusetts voters are leading the nation in demanding an end to the
>>
>>
>> biomass burning scam financed by billions in ratepayer and taxpayer
>> subsidies for these toxic incinerators that burn trees,” said Campaign
>> Chair Meg Sheehan.  “The number of voters from different interest
>>
>> groups supporting this ballot question sends a clear message to Beacon
>>
>> Hill,” she said.
>>
>> Campaign volunteer Claudia Hurley of Westfield personally collected
>> over 1,000 signatures.  She says “Every voter I spoke to was very
>> concerned about the impact of biomass power plants on air quality, our
>>
>>
>> rivers and forests, and about increased truck traffic.  Fishermen who
>> love our rivers almost hugged me for giving them the chance to vote on
>> this in 2010.”
>>
>> “When it comes to burning forests for electricity, it’s a double
>>
>>
>> whammy– the incinerator burns the tree and spews out carbon dioxide,
>> and we also destroy the “lungs of the planet” -- trees that while
>> growing absorb the carbon dioxide that causes climate change,” said
>> Chris Matera of Massachusetts Forest Watch. “Voters who see proof of
>>
>>
>> our state forests being clearcut for biomass incinerators immediately
>> want to vote “yes” in 2010,” he added.
>>
>> According to the Campaign, President Obama’s emissions reduction
>> target of 17% for the Copenhagen climate talks is impossible to meet
>>
>>
>> because biomass burning will add more than 700 million tons of
>> unregulated carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year, 12% of total
>> projected U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.
>>
>> The incinerators also harm the public health and raise health care
>>
>>
>> costs.  The Hampden District Medical Society and the American Lung
>> Association/New England have declared the plants a public health risk
>> not deserving of financial subsidies. “At a time when our nation is
>>
>> struggling with health care costs, this is another reason to vote yes
>>
>> to stop air pollution,” added pediatrician Dr. William Sammons.
>>
>> According to Craig Altemose, Coordinator for Students for Just and
>> Stable Future, a sponsor of the ballot question,  “We do not believe
>> we can burn our way to a clean energy future.”
>>
>>
>> Other sponsors include the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition,
>> ARISE for Social Justice in Springfield, MA, Concerned Citizens of
>> Russell, and Concerned Citizens of Franklin County.
>>
>> ####################
>>
>>
>>
>> Contact:  Margaret E. Sheehan, Esq., Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign,
>> 508-259-9154, meg@...
<http://webmail.valleyfreeradio.org/src/compose.php?send_to=meg%40ecolaw.biz>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Richard S. (Dick) Stein
> Goessmann Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> e-mail: <stein@...>
> Home Phone: 413-549-0245 (Leave message on
>       Voice Mail)
> Lake Wyola Phone (occasional summer)
>     413-367-2252
>


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Boston - The Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign announced today has 72,568
signatures – more than enough to place a question on the ballot in
2010 that will limit air pollution from biomass incinerators that are
being falsely promoted by utilities and the forestry industry as
“clean energy.” A Yes vote in November will alter the state Global
Warming Solutions Act and prevent a global climate disaster.

“Biomass burning is dirty energy, but taxpayers and ratepayers are
being told it is  “clean and green” even though, per megawatt hour, it
produces more CO2, harmful particulates and NOx than burning coal.
Massachusetts voters are leading the nation in demanding an end to the
biomass burning scam financed by billions in ratepayer and taxpayer
subsidies for these toxic incinerators that burn trees,” said Campaign
Chair Meg Sheehan.  “The number of voters from different interest
groups supporting this ballot question sends a clear message to Beacon
Hill,” she said.

Campaign volunteer Claudia Hurley of Westfield personally collected
over 1,000 signatures.  She says “Every voter I spoke to was very
concerned about the impact of biomass power plants on air quality, our
rivers and forests, and about increased truck traffic.  Fishermen who
love our rivers almost hugged me for giving them the chance to vote on
this in 2010.”

“When it comes to burning forests for electricity, it’s a double
whammy– the incinerator burns the tree and spews out carbon dioxide,
and we also destroy the “lungs of the planet” -- trees that while
growing absorb the carbon dioxide that causes climate change,” said
Chris Matera of Massachusetts Forest Watch. “Voters who see proof of
our state forests being clearcut for biomass incinerators immediately
want to vote “yes” in 2010,” he added.

According to the Campaign, President Obama’s emissions reduction
target of 17% for the Copenhagen climate talks is impossible to meet
because biomass burning will add more than 700 million tons of
unregulated carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year, 12% of total
projected U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.

The incinerators also harm the public health and raise health care
costs.  The Hampden District Medical Society and the American Lung
Association/New England have declared the plants a public health risk
not deserving of financial subsidies. “At a time when our nation is
struggling with health care costs, this is another reason to vote yes
to stop air pollution,” added pediatrician Dr. William Sammons.

According to Craig Altemose, Coordinator for Students for Just and
Stable Future, a sponsor of the ballot question,  “We do not believe
we can burn our way to a clean energy future.”

Other sponsors include the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition,
ARISE for Social Justice in Springfield, MA, Concerned Citizens of
Russell, and Concerned Citizens of Franklin County.

####################


Contact:  Margaret E. Sheehan, Esq., Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign,
508-259-9154, meg@...
<http://webmail.valleyfreeradio.org/src/compose.php?send_to=meg%40ecolaw.biz>


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[please forward]

There will be a bus (Strong Corp.) to Boston on Monday, Nov. 30 for the
Mass. Mobilization for Climate Justice www.massclimatejustice.org

Depart from the Fine Arts Center at U MASS Amherst at 6:30 AM and
returning about 5 PM.

Cost: Sliding Scale fee from $25 to $40

8:30AM - 11:30 Lobbying at the State House Breifing by the Leadership
Campaign
11:30AM - Walk to Rally at City Hall Plaza
12:00PM - Rally & Speak-out at City Hall Plaza
Planet Dance on Boston sidewalks
2:00PM - end up at Senators offices/Delivery of "Bundles of Climate
Choices" from the GREEN SANTA and Demands Letter
Planetary Die - In - for those who are committed to civil
resistance/risking arrest and who have accepted Nonviolence Guidelines and
have signed the  Climate Pledge of Resistance at www.beyondtalk.org
3:00 PM - Western MA participants return home- arrival approx. 5:30 PM

Planet Dance - Choose a current climate change victim or vulnerable being
from the internet or magazine and copy it onto card stock or attach it to
foam core board and carry it over your heart throughout the lobbying and
planet dance OR wear a mask, animal or plant costume or attire or carry an
item from nature that depends upon the choices our Senators,
Cocorporations, Banks, and each of us global citizens make.

Decide to participate in the Stop Global Warming Fast!
www.massclimatejustice.org  Nov. 30th - 10th Anniversary of WTO (and
throughout Copenhagen - Dec. 7-18)  Walk, ride a bus or carpool only; Shut
off all power strips and phantom loads and turn down the heat 8 degrees!
Fast from food to demonstrate our solidarity with those who hunger for
climate justice, our alliance with those who go hungry and are
poverty-stricken due to corporate greed and government policy decisions,
and  our thirst for energy policies that will substantially reduce carbon
emissions and establish clean energy resources and a science-based, green
infrastructure within the next ten years.

NO FALSE SOLUTIONS! Conservation incentives? - YES!
NO to  biomass, nuclear power and coal! Subsidize development of
geothermal power and heat, solar hot water, thermal, and electricity, wind
and tidal power and other clean and green energy innovations.  Develop a
Clean energy Impact Scale to assess the least amount of emissions at the
lowest cost. (Cost to be multi-faceted: human, environmental, carbon
sequestration potential etc.)

Contributions can be made on-line www.massclimatejustice.org at the rally
or on the bus.
RESRVE YOUR SEAT ON THE BUS TODAY!
CALL 413-522-7505 Leave a message with your name(s), phone and email
address please.


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: New England MCJ <newengland@...>
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Subject: BeyondTalk.net: New England November 30th Climate Actions!
To: lionoak@...


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  NEW ENGLAND

NOVEMBER 30th - Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
    Northeast N30 Climate Actions
(Maine, Boston, New York City, Burlington, VT)

*MAINE ACTIONS:*
There are currently three actions planned in Maine:

    1. Portland, Maine: An action focusing on false solutions (specifically
    industrial wind and biomass) including a rally downtown with street theatre
    including puppets, stilt walkers, etc.
     2. Bangor, Maine: The Maine Fair Trade Coalition is planning a rally and
    march in Bangor visiting several government offices.
     3. The third action would be further in northern Maine and concentrate
    on industrial wind, but the details of that have yet to be fully worked out.

*Maine actions contact: Meg: luna_tic@...*

*BOSTON, MASS. ACTION:*
We will begin on the evening of Sunday Nov 29th with a sleep out in front of
the State House on Boston Commons, fortifying the student-led "The
Leadership Campaign" demanding 100% clean electricity in 10 years in MA, by
refusing to sleep in buildings powered by dirty energy. We will have music,
dance and poetry, with possible distinguished speakers!

On the morning of Monday Nov 30th, we will join the students for some
lobbying at City Hall Plaza for the above target, followed by a rally
targeted at the federal and international level, focused on demanding real
climate solutions, climate justice, and exposing false solutions including
cap and trade. An exciting and informative array of speakers will be
featured!

We then march to the office(s) of John Kerry and possibly also Paul Kirk
(Kennedy replacement, also a co-sponsor of the terrible Boxer-Kerry US
climate bill) for some non-violent direct action. Details will be finalized
shortly.

All activists in the area are called to join. Spread the word!

*Boston Actions Contacts*:
Maggie Zhou, maggie@... 781-316-8283
Lindsay Shade, lshade@... 857-294-2015
Beth Adams, eadams333@... 413-522-7505

*BURLINGTON, VERMONT ACTION:*
Greenpeace and Global Justice Ecology Project are organizing a climate
justice rally and march in Burlington on November 30.

Events will begin at 3pm with a rally on the green next to the Davis Student
Center at UVM. At 3:30 the group will march down the hill to the Federal
Building on the corner of Elmwood and Pearl to demand the Obama
Administration commit to real and just action on climate change. The march
will be followed by a second rally at 4:30 adjacent to the Federal Building.

Speakers will address the Copenhagen climate talks, and debunk corporate-led
false solutions to climate change.

*Burlington Actions Contacts: *
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project,
anne@..., 802-578-0477
Jarred Cobb, Greenpeace, jcobb@..., 603-770-8679

*NEW YORK CITY ACTION:*
We're very excited about all the interest over the last two weeks in various
N30 solidarity actions in New York City. So we hope you'll join us as we
organize mass action on climate change on November 30, 2009! November 30
(N30) is significant both because it immediately precedes the upcoming UN
Climate Conference in Copenhagen and is the ten-year anniversary of the
protests that shut down of the World Trade
Organization meetings in Seattle, demonstrating the incredible power of
collective action.

As the President of the Maldives recently declared in a statement which
could have been made by any dedicated climate activist aware of what life on
the planet faces:

"We will not die quietly."

So we're going to help push for system change not climate change through our
solidarity actions here in NYC.

New York Actions contact: Robert Jereski, nyc@...

*DONATE TO SUPPORT THE CLIMATE PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE*

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6>

<http://www.beyondtalk.net/assets/images/btn-buy_action_offset.gif>*GOT THIS
EMAIL, BUT HAVEN'T YET SIGNED THE PLEDGE?
*[image: Take the Pledge!] <http://www.beyondtalk.net/the-pledge/>

  www.beyondtalk.net - the climate pledge of
resistance<http://www.beyondtalk.net>- contact
us <contact@...>

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[I just got this pitch from David Kroodsman of Amherst who rode his bike
all over the world map for years to raise awareness on the climate crisis.
He was one of The Enviro Show's roving reporter awhile back. Please go to
the site and watch his short video and vote. Thanks! - d.o. ]



Hi - Dave Kroodsma of Ride for Climate here. I was wondering if you could
help me out.

I am running an online voting competition for a chance to go to
Copenhagen. All you need to do is go here and vote: http://bit.ly/4sfoCg.

Also, Is there any possible way to share this with people on your list?
Thank you again. I need help and votes! If you could post about it on your
blog, that would also be a big help! Thanks!

David


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*N30 Climate Justice Action in Boston*

    - *Rally:*  Boston City Hall Plaza for a rally to start at noon.  We will
    make sure our demand for climate justice is heard loudly and clearly –
    through an array of speakers, music, street theatre, and a speak-out for the
    victims of climate change.
    *What you’ll need: *Just come out and show your support for climate
    justice.  Bring a friend.  Tell a friend.  Make a sign.  Dress up … as an
    endangered species or climate catastrophe; or just bring a photo, tree
    branches, leaves, or other material(s) to symbolize the drastic effects of
    climate change.  And… Santa is coming to town early this year – he and his
    shop had to relocate since the ice caps are melting, which he’s not very
    happy about!  He’ll need elves and reindeer to support him in his quest to
    remind John Kerry and Paul Kirk (co-sponsors, along with Barbara Boxer, of
    the terrible “climate bill” in the Senate) that they have a choice between
    being naughty or nice!


    - *Planet Dance and March to Kerry and Kirk’s Office Building:* Santa
    will lead us in a “Planet Dance” to close out our rally and transition into
    a march to the offices of Senators Kerry and Kirk.  Once we arrive, at
    approximately 2pm, Santa will head inside to tell Kerry and Kirk that the
    climate doesn’t compromise, and neither will we on our demands for
    meaningful and just climate legislation.
    *What you’ll need: *Consider bringing a quote or statistic to accompany
    your endangered species/climate victim costume or photo, to be read aloud
    during a speak-out incorporated into the dance and march.


    - *Direct Action/NVCD: *Those interested in staying on to participate in
    some non-violent civil disobedience are welcome to accompany Santa or
    participate in a “die-in” outside the office.  Others of course are welcome
    to stay and rally without participating in NVCD, but please be advised that
    we will not be permitted to rally on the sidewalk/street directly outside
    the Senate offices building.
    *What you’ll need: *Please be prepared to adhere to NVCD guidelines.
    Visit
www.beyondtalk.net/resources<http://massclimatejustice.org/guidelines-for-activi\
sts/www.beyondtalk.net/resources>for
more information or training on NVCD.

        *See: http://massclimatejustice.org/
        Contacts: *Maggie:
maggie@...<http://webmail.valleyfreeradio.org/src/compose.php?\
send_to=maggie%40securegreenfuture.org>781-316-8283;
Beth:
eadams333@...; Lindsay:
lshade@...<http://webmail.valleyfreeradio.org/src/compose.php?send_to=lsha\
de%40gmail.com>857-294-2015


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Checkout This Bod Enviro Show Tuesday, November 24, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, December 1 & 8; 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
[Blog w/links and YOUR comments at: http://envirosho.blogspot.com ]
[Webstreaming  on VFR at:
http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen/web-stream-listening-help/ ]
[Podcasting at: http://www.podomatic.com/profile/enviroshow2009 ]





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/chemical_toxicity.jpg>
Greetings Earthlings. It's time once again to checkout our toxic bodies on
The Enviro Show, this time with Nena Baker, author of "The Body
Toxic"<http://www.thebodytoxic.com/>.
Toxic rubber duckies for the kids! ARRGGHHHH! As usual, we'll also checkout
The Enviro Show Quote of the Week, The Enviro ShowEcho Chamber, our "Meet
the New Boss" segment and then some. but first it's time for....Revenge of
the Critters! A seasonal special: Turkey takes its
toll!<http://news.aol.com/article/wild-turkey-causes-havoc-on-nj-turnpike/769399\
>



In The Enviro Show Echo Chamber folks are sleeping around in the climate
crisis<http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-night-i-slept-with-jim-hansen\
/>!
And this: 50% of U.S. warming due to land use
changes<http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/11/georgia-tech-50-percent-of-the-usa\
-warming-that-has-occurred-since-1950-is-due-to-land-use-changes/>.
Speaking of global warming, check this old
ad<http://www.grist.org/i/assets/2/humble-oil.jpg>for Humble Oil (now
Exxon/Mobil) pulled out on Grist. Finally, we checkout a
recent frontpage New York Times piece on the myth of carbon offsets for air
travel <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/science/earth/18offset.html?_r=1>.
Come Fly with Me? No thanks, Frank!!



Time to Meet the New Boss! Shall we take the high road with Bill
McKibben<http://www.climateimc.org/en/other-press/2009/11/18/us-mckibben-obama-c\
op15>,
or the full monty with veteran journalist Robert
Scheer<http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/as_wall_street_posts_record_profit\
s>
?




For our Enviro Show Quote of the Week we go for the wayback machine again
for a word from Thomas Carlyle:

"Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your
true worth."



A few short notes in our E-Valley-uation segment: WMass goes East for
N30!<http://massclimatejustice.org/>.
Also, a brief report on
resistance<http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/biomass_plant_proposed\
_for_eas.html>to
the proposed biomass plant for Springfield. And, Rev. Billy, The Stop
Shopping Gospel Choir and The Not Buying It Band! remind us to "Stop
Shopping" for corporate crap on Black Friday.....especially!


After our interview with Nena Baker, author of "The Body
Toxic"<http://www.thebodytoxic.com/>we head over to the Bus Stop
Billboard:

*

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Greenfield Conservation Commission
will hold a Public Hearing at the Greenfield Police Station Meeting Room
located at 321 High St. to review a Notice of Intent submitted by Pioneer
Renewable Energy, LLC, for property located with the public Rights of Way at
the intersection of French King Highway (Route 2A), Route 2, Adams Road,
Greenfield.

Thursday, November 26, 12 Noon - 40th Annual Day of Mourning. Cole’s Hill
(the hill above Plymouth Rock) Plymouth, MA. For More Information Contact:
United American Indians of New England/LPSG 617-522-6626 info@...
www.uaine.org Pot-luck Social to Follow

Friday, November 27, All Day! Buy Nothing Day.

Friday, November 27, 7pm. Screening of “A Killer Bargain” investigates the
toxic conditions for impoverished workers in Indian sweatshops manufacturing
textiles for customers in the developed world. Media Education Foundation
(behind the Woodstar Cafe on Masonic St., Northampton). Northampton
Committee to Stop War.

Saturday, November 28, 1-2pm. Wildlife Tracking. Learn the basics of how to
identify what animals left those tracks behind. You will learn how to
identify track features and track patterns. You will also be able to test
your knowledge at identifying select wildlife tracks. This program is
designed for individuals new to wildlife tracking. Great Falls Discovery
Center, Avenue A, Turners Falls. Call: 413-863-3221

Monday, November 30. N30 is the 10th anniversary of the WTO shutdown in
Seattle and is exactly one week before the climate talks in
corporatehaven..err..we mean Coppenhagen. Actions in Boston! See:
http://massclimatejustice.org/. Or call: 413-522-7505

Tuesday, December 1, 11am. Environment Committee hearing will be held in
Hearing Room A-2. State House, Boston. Bills of interest: *H 759*, sponsored
by Rep. Kocot, relative to wood burning electricity producing biomass
combustion facilities and their potential impact upon the air, water and
population of the Commonwealth; *H 778*, sponsored by Rep. Kulik, for
legislation to regulate commercial water storage and bottling.

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 7 pm, The air permitting hearing for the Springfield
Pioneer Renewable Energy Construction and Demolition Debris Incinerator at
the Kennedy Middle School, 1385 Berkshire Ave., Springfield. Call (413)
455-3829.



That's about it for the likes of us. Have a truly thankful holiday and
remember to.....LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER!


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Tuesday, November 10, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, November 16 & 23; 9pm.
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Greetings Earthlings. Once again, it's time to checkout our CO2 emissions.
We're told they're getting a bit out of hand. The average U.S. citizen is
responsible for 19.8 tonnes per person per annum. Michael
Despines<http://www.foe.org/our-staff>,
Climate Resilience Campaign Coordinator at Friends of the Earth joins us to
talk about the climate bill in congress and other such mind-numbing matters.
In the Enviro Show Echo Chamber we scope out the upcoming N30 actions, among
other things. There's the Quote of the Week to deal with as well as our
E-Valley-uation segment, but first it's time for...Revenge of the Critters!
Another listener submission folks, but you'll need to access to cyberspace
for this one. Talk about being the butt of all elephant
jokes!<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWgovxo3eA>



The Enviro Show Quote of the Week is a rerun of Al Gore's call to action on
the climate crisis: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young
people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired
power plants." Well actually, Al.....there are! Where are you??



That's a fitting segway into our Enviro Show E-Valley-uation segment and The
Enviro Show, LLC's proposal to blow the top off Mt.
Tom!<http://envirosho.blogspot.com/2009/10/enviro-show-llc-proposes-mountaintop.\
html>and
dump it in the reservoir. Sadly, when we sent out our press release
for
that highly beneficial example of economic development for the Mt. Tom
Reservation no one belived us! What's THAT about?? Speaking of mountaintop
removal, if you go
here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/p/dia/action/public/?actio\
n_KEY=1660>you
can take action to help stop it (maybe by...umm..
2011<http://www.grist.org/article/interior-will-consider-mountaintop-removal-rul\
e-in-2011/>
??).



Tom Neilson's Mountain-top Removal song takes us to The Enviro Show Echo
Chamber where we bring you back to the 350 Reasons Carbon Trading
Won't Work<http://www.350reasons.org/350_reasons_list.html>.
Checkout our new interactive pages
here<http://www.350reasons.org/thereasons/index.html>.
We had 100 people, from 6 continents and 13 countries working on the
project. Back to the drawing board Senators Kerry & Boxer! Also, it appears
that Ben Wright has Been Wrong about First Nations spiritual practices. The
spokes for Environment Massachusetts seems to believe Native people don't
speak for themselves and that Wampanoag spiritual practices are ...."pure
farce"? Checkout our response
here<http://envirosho.blogspot.com/2009/11/environment-massachusetts-treading.ht\
ml>.
And finally, the EPA agrees to cut toxic emissions at power
plants<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=epa-to-cut-toxic-emissio\
n>.....eventually.




Global Warming Remix by Avril Lavigne rocks us into our interview with
Michael Despines. Then it's on to the Bus Stop Billboard:

Sunday, November 15, 11am. Biomass Yes/Biomass NO! Speakers at the
Bernardston Untitarian Church across from the Sunoco Station on the corner
of Rte 10 & Depot Streets.


Wednesday, Nov. 18: 6 - 7:30: Springfield Public Health Council meeting,
Pine Point Citizens Council, 335 Berkshire Ave. Springfield. Proposed Palmer
Renewable Energy biomess plant. Contact: plpare@...

Wednesday, November 18, 7-9 p.m. Forests of Wonder. Join Bob Leverett,
co-founder and Executive Director of the Eastern Native Tree Society, as he
takes us on a virtual tour of his favorite woodland haunts. Hitchcock Center
for the Environment, Amherst. Pre-registration is required; please call
(413) 256-6006.

Thursday, November 19, 7 - 8:30pm. The Nature of New England. Great Falls
Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls. A strong emphasis in the
program is on the perceptions people have in favor of some groups of animals
(like birds) at the expense of other equally interesting ones (like snakes).
How various groups survive the winter season is also spotlighted. Call:
413.863.3221

Thursday, November 19, 7:30pm. Ramona Peters, "Columbus & Thanksgiving - A
Native Perspective". Leverett Town Hall.

Saturday, November 21, 1 - 2pm. Wild About Turkeys. Why were turkeys
reintroduced into the area? What roles do they play in the ecological system
as well as being Thanksgiving dinner? Come join Tasha Daniels, at the Great
Falls Discovery Center. Call: 413.863.3221

Friday, November 27, All Day! Buy Nothing Day.

Monday, November 30. N30 is the 10th anniversary of the WTO shutdown in
Seattle and is exactly one week before the climate talks in
corporatehaven..err..we mean Coppenhagen. Stay tuned for an action in
Boston.

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 7 pm, The air permitting hearing for the Springfield
Pioneer Renewable Energy Construction and Demolition Debris Incinerator at
the Kennedy Middle School, 1385 Berkshire Ave., Springfield.





Enough! Next time it's Nena Baker on the Body Toxic (no, it's not some
garage band....yet). Until then remember to listen to your Mother......ok?


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Ww would love to have you join us if you're in the mood for a charity
walk right off the lovely Hadley Common.  See below.

PLEASE FORWARD TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED!

Thanks and hope to see you!

Judy


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kristin DeBoer <kristin@...>
> Date: October 1, 2009 12:20:11 PM EDT
> To: Kestrel Trust <info@...>
> Subject: NEWS: 5K for Farmland to Benefit The Kestrel Trust
>
> NEWS RELEASE
> October 1, 2009
> Contact: Kristin DeBoer, The Kestrel Trust, 413-549-1097
>
> Road Race to Benefit Kestrel Trust
>
> AMHERST  ‑- The “5K for Farmland,� a road race and party to
> benefit The Kestrel Trust, will be Sunday, October 18 beginning at
> 10 a.m. on Hadley’s historic West Street Common. The 5K race – or
> 2 mile walk -- will also end on the common with post-race
> festivities featuring music, and locally grown food by Whole Foods
> Market and Wheatberry Cafe.
>
> The flat race course will take walkers and runners through the
> scenic Great Meadow of Hadley—a historic farming area that dates
> back to Hadley's founding in 1661. Kestrel is working with
> landowners, the Town, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts to
> permanently protect all of the farmland in this area.
>
> Proceeds from entry fees will help The Kestrel Trust further its
> goals of farmland preservation throughout the Valley. The Trust was
> founded in 1970. The race is organized by the Sugarloaf Mountain
> Athletic Club and is being held in conjunction with Hadley’s 350th
> anniversary.
>
> Registration fees for “5K for Farmland� are $20 per individual or
> $40 for a family.
>
> For more information and registration go to kestreltrust.org.
>
> Kohl Construction, Northampton Cooperative Bank, and Whole Foods
> Market are sponsoring the event.
>
> -END-
>
> Attachments: Photo of Race Route on Cemetery Road and Poster
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>



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The Noise Free Enviro Show
Tuesday, September 15, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, September 21 & 28; 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
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Greetings
Earthlings. Is it getting way too loud out there? Shall we kick all our
sound effects to the curb? Would you rather hear dead air?? Ted Rueter
of Noise Free America calls-in to sound-off. In our E-Valley-uation segment it's
hi-ho, off to the fair! Also, it's Climate SOS
in The Enviro Show Echo Chamber. As always, we'll checkout the Enviro
Show Quote of the Week and The Bus Stop Billboard, but first it's time
for.... Revenge of the Critters! Warning shoppers: Tubiflex Worms at
six o'clock!

Our Quote of the Week is on theme. We jump back in the Wayback Machine to hear
words of wisdom from good old Ben Franklin:

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise"



In the E-Valley-uation segment we reminisce about the Franklin County Fair
Parade
(guess who brought the "Entering Brownfield" banner?). We had a Biomess
booth and the Flying Wallendas got lots of air-time! Also, it's
referendum season. Time to advance the peoples' voice. This year the Stop
spewing carbon initiative! And, MORE!


What are we hearing in The Enviro Show Echo Chamber? An echo, right?? Sort of:
it's the return of the carbon tax but in FRANCE!. Wake-up America!! And this
Enviro Show Blog Bonus: Massachusetts' disappearing forests! Also, Why is the
"Greenest City" silencing green voices?


The natural sounds of way late summer takes us to our interview with Ted Rueter
of Noise Free America. Just think, soon you'll be serenaded by armies of leaf
blowers and obnoxious snowmobiles!



Onto the Bus Stop Billboard:


Thursday,
September 17 at 7:00pm at the Russell Elementary School, the Concerned
Citizens of Russell invite all members of the public to a Community
Information Forum on the impacts of the proposed Russell Biomass
facility. (413) 454-1898, janachicoine@...,
www.concernedcitizensofrussell.org


Friday, September 18 at
7pm. Bread & Puppet Cabaret! A benefit for the South Amherst
Conservation Association. Amherst Regional High School, 21 Matoon St.,

Amherst,
MA. Tickets available at Food for Thought Books in Amherst &
Broadside Books in Northampton. For info call (413) 256-0433

Friday,
September 18, 8pm. Concerned Citizens of Franklin County fund-raiser at
the Guiding Star Grange Hall in Greenfield, 401 Chapman Street. Contra
Dance to help raise money to fight the Greenfield Biomess Incinerator.

*September 20-25  Three Rivers Climate Convergence: United for Environmental
Justice (Pittsburgh, PA)
http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/regions/g20/
*September 21-23 International Coal Conference (Pittsburgh, PA),
*September 24-25 G-20 Summit (Pittsburgh, PA) Go to:  resistg20.org/

Monday morning, September 21. Global Climate wake-up Flashmob. Go to:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/sept21_hosts

Monday, September 21, 7:30pm.  Hampshire Mall Cinema, Hadley. "The Age of
Stupid" premier.  Go to: www.theageofstupid.net

Tuesday, September 22. Climate SOS Action in Boston. Contact us for details:
enviroshow@...

Tuesday, September 22, 6:30pm. D.O. reading at the Leverett Library in Leverett
Center. Call (413) 548-9220

Saturday, October 3, 10am-4pm. NESEA's "Green Buildings Open House". Pamela
Lester, 413-774-6051, x14, plester@...

Tuesday,
October 6, 9:30 AM. Blowin' in the Wind: Managing Renewable Energy
Siting Conflicts (1-Day Workshop). This seminar is designed for staff
and volunteers from planning boards, conservation commissions,
openspace committees and land trusts, elected officials and others who
care about conservation and sustainability in their communities.
Focusing on Massachusetts, this seminar will provide participants with
strategies for addressing the conflicts that arise as communities
wrestle with the dual objectives of land conservation and new
investments in renewable energy. Space is limited. Pre-registration
required. 464 Abbott Avenue, Leominster. Call (978) 840-4446



That is all. Next time Sen. Stan Rosenberg checks-in. Until then you best listen
to your Mother.



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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

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[Important referendum - Your help needed!]


Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:34:14 -0400
From: christoforest@...
To: christoforest@...
Subject: Big News














Hello All,





BIG
NEWS




An environmental
attorney from western Massachusetts has
filed a citizen’s referendum to ban commercial logging on Department of
Conservation and Recreation
Lands in
Massachusetts.
  These lands make up about 8% of
Massachusetts Land Area and include the Quabbin watershed, the source of
Boston’s
drinking water.




The language of the
citizens
referendum is as follows:








PETITION 09-17





INITIATIVE PETITION TO ASSURE THE QUITE
ENJOYMENT OF DCR FOREST LANDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROTECT
BIODIVERSITY




Be it
enacted by the People, and by their authority as
follows:




SECTION
1.
Section 2B of Chapter 132A of the General Laws is hereby amended by
adding the following sentence, “Commercial harvesting of wood products
shall be
prohibited on all forested lands owned by the Department of Conservation and
Recreation.  Said lands shall be
designated as forest reserves.”




The attorney general
office
has already approved the referendum and deemed that it is "constitutional”
and
the next step is to collect signatures, a lot of them, about 100,000 by November
16th.  While
that may sound daunting, if enough
people get involved, it is quite doable.




The attorney has asked
if
Massachusetts Forest Watch would be willing to help out and endorse the
effort.
  Our responsibility would be to provide
materials and provide as many volunteers as possible willing to help collect
signatures.  We already have the
materials, so I can handle that part without any difficulty, but collecting
the
signatures would require assistance from volunteers.




So, the
purpose of this e-mail is to inquire who is
willing to help out with the signature gathering effort.
   I am asking if people can give the following
information if they are willing to help out:




1.  How many
signatures would you commit to trying to obtain and/or how much time could
you
put in until November 16th.




2.  If you would
recruit others to help




Materials will be
provided.  If people tell a friend, and
they tell a friend, and so on, the list of volunteers can grow really fast.
   :-)




For a reminder of why
this effort is necessary please see:  www.maforests.org/
All of the logging in these photos is on
State Public Lands.




Also, at the following
link
is an animation demonstrating the impacts that would occur on MA forests
from
proposed biomass power plants.  www.maforests.org/Impacts.htm





This referendum would
protect
public lands from this threat.





Please
respond as soon as possible in order to
determine whether Massachusetts Forest Watch will be able to provide help to
the
heroic attorney speaking up for the trees.
Also, if you are part of an organization and it would be willing to
endorse this effort,  that would be
immensely helpful as well.




Additionally, FYI, there
is another
referendum under way to prohibit taxpayer “clean” energy funds from
funding new
power plants that release more CO2 per MW than coal (a.k.a. biomass),  and our
forest protection effort could easily
dovetail with the biomass one since public lands are being targeted to
provide
55% of the wood fuel for the large biomass plants.




I look forward to your
response,





Thank you


Chris Matera, P.E.
Massachusetts Forest Watch
413-341-3878

Speak up for the
trees!




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Reminder: Be in the No Biomess Contingent in the Franklin County Fair Parade!


    The Concerned Citizens of Franklin County will have a booth at the Franklin
County
Fair from Sept. 10-13, and will march in the kick off parade.  Our goal is to
educate the public about the negative impacts of biomass incineration, as well
as,
raise money for the abutter’s group lawsuit.  At the booth we will have a
donation
container and raffle items.
         The fair parade will take place on Thursday, Sept. 10, and kick off is
at 5:30
behind Blessed Sacrament Church on Federal St., next to the Greenfield Middle
School.  WE NEED YOU TO WALK WITH US TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!  PLEASE COME!!   Ask
your family, friends and neighbors to join you.  Children and babies in
carriages
are welcome!  There is strength in numbers!  A hay wagon will be available
(minus
the hay) for people who can’t walk the distance.

1. Be in the parade:  Parade participants, floats, etc. start to line up at
4:00.
Try to arrive between 4:00-5:00.  It is anticipated that our group CCFC will
line up
behind the church in Row C, and we are #41.
2. You will need to purchase a wristband for $1 that will allow you to be in the
parade and enter the fair gate on Thurs. night.  Wristbands can be purchased
behind
the church on Thurs. night.  Look for the “Wristband” sign.  Your $1 benefits
the
repairs needed to the roundhouse roof.
3. Please wear sneakers, comfy clothes and bring a water bottle.
4. The most visible part of the parade is Federal and Main St.  Even if you can
only
walk this distance—please come, we need you!
5. Transportation:  You need to arrange to car pool with someone, leaving one
car
near the kick off site and one at the fair grounds (the parking lot across the
street from the fair main gate—free parking for parade participants).  There is
no
bus to bring you back to the kick off site.  Parking at the kick off site is: 
the
sides of Beacon Field, the Baystate Franklin Medical Group (old GTD building on
Sanderson and North St.) or anywhere you can find a spot on a side street.
6. Signs:  There will be signs with the names of each town in Franklin County on
them.  Please line up behind your town sign.  We would like each town
represented.
Feel free to make your own sign representing your profession:  nurse, doctor,
teacher, daycare provider, etc.  Hold it up or wear it attached to a string
around
your neck.
SEE YOU AT THE FAIR PARADE SEPT. 10!


***************************************

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

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Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

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Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
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Verizon Sponsors Mountaintop Removal Rally on Labor Day - Climate crisis
deniers will attend

     Tell Verizon: Don't Sponsor Mountaintop Removal Rally
[from the Center for Biological Diversity & Credo]




















What are you doing for Labor Day? Sponsoring a rally to cheer for blowing off
the tops of mountains and

destroying one of the world’s most important biologically diverse areas? If
you’re a Verizon Wireless customer, you may not know it, but you are.

Verizon Wireless is cosponsoring a Labor Day rally dubbed “Friends of America,”
backed by the fourth largest

producer of coal in the United States: Massey Energy. The rallysupports
dangerous mountaintop-removal coal mining, hosts a speaker who denies global
warming is happening, and is aggressively anti-union.

Massey Energy, a dirty coal company and the most egregious violator
of the Clean Water Act in history, is the moving force behind the
event. The rally features speeches by prominent global warming denier
Lord Christopher Monckton and [nut-job] conservative pundit Sean
Hannity. Ted Nugent will provide musical entertainment.

Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, issued his invitation to the rally
via a YouTube video in which he said:

"Hello I'm Don Blankenship and I'd like to invite you to a Labor Day
rally in West Virginia. We're going to have Hank Williams and have a
good time but we're also going to learn how environmental extremists
and corporate America are both trying to destroy your jobs."

Mountaintop removal has already destroyed more than 1.5 million acres of
hardwood forest and 1,200 miles of streams in Appalachia — the region that
boasts the world's highest diversity of salamanders, crayfishes, and freshwater
mussels.

Verizon Wireless should not support this destructive mining practice or continue
to ignore the fact that greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants
are the largest single contributor to our current climate crisis.

Send an email right now to Lowell McAdam, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless,
and demand Verizon withdraw sponsorship immediately of next week’s “Friends of
America” climate change-denying, anti-union rally. Insist the company explain
its support for the ludicrously destructive practice of mountaintop removal.

If you want to do even more, make a phone call now to Verizon headquarters in
New Jersey and speak to Verizon Wireless president and CEO Lowell McAdams at
(908) 559-2000ý. If you are a current Verizon customer, make sure to mention
that.

Verizon’s 87 million customers — all of us sharing planet earth — deserve
better.  Urgent action is needed before the Labor Day rally on September 7.
Email and call today.


(If you have a cell phone plan with Verizon, please edit the letter to include
this at the top. "As a Verizon Wireless customer..." As a current customer, you
have extra power to demand Verizon withdraw support for the rally.)

Action link:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27825




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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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WE NEED YOU TO WALK WITH US!!
         The Concerned Citizens of Franklin County will have a booth at the
Franklin County
Fair from Sept. 10-13, and will march in the kick off parade.  Our goal is to
educate the public about the negative impacts of biomass incineration, as well
as,
raise money for the abutter’s group lawsuit.  At the booth we will have a
donation
container and raffle items.
         The fair parade will take place on Thursday, Sept. 10, and kick off is
at 5:30
behind Blessed Sacrament Church on Federal St., next to the Greenfield Middle
School.  WE NEED YOU TO WALK WITH US TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!  PLEASE COME!!   Ask
your family, friends and neighbors to join you.  Children and babies in
carriages
are welcome!  There is strength in numbers!  A hay wagon will be available
(minus
the hay) for people who can’t walk the distance.

1. Be in the parade:  Parade participants, floats, etc. start to line up at
4:00.
Try to arrive between 4:00-5:00.  It is anticipated that our group CCFC will
line up
behind the church in Row C, and we are #41.
2. You will need to purchase a wristband for $1 that will allow you to be in the
parade and enter the fair gate on Thurs. night.  Wristbands can be purchased
behind
the church on Thurs. night.  Look for the “Wristband” sign.  Your $1 benefits
the
repairs needed to the roundhouse roof.
3. Please wear sneakers, comfy clothes and bring a water bottle.
4. The most visible part of the parade is Federal and Main St.  Even if you can
only
walk this distance—please come, we need you!
5. Transportation:  You need to arrange to car pool with someone, leaving one
car
near the kick off site and one at the fair grounds (the parking lot across the
street from the fair main gate—free parking for parade participants).  There is
no
bus to bring you back to the kick off site.  Parking at the kick off site is: 
the
sides of Beacon Field, the Baystate Franklin Medical Group (old GTD building on
Sanderson and North St.) or anywhere you can find a spot on a side street.
6. Signs:  There will be signs with the names of each town in Franklin County on
them.  Please line up behind your town sign.  We would like each town
represented.
Feel free to make your own sign representing your profession:  nurse, doctor,
teacher, daycare provider, etc.  Hold it up or wear it attached to a string
around
your neck.
SEE YOU AT THE FAIR PARADE SEPT. 10!



***************************************

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

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     Tuesday, September 1, 6:30 - 7:30pm
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Monday, September 7 & 14; 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
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Greetings
Earthlings. It's Happy B-Day to us! Four years and counting. And, it's down to
the sea once again! This time: still trying to
save Nantucket Sound from Big Wind corporados and their privatizing
friends at GreenPee! (did i spell that right?). We talk with Audra
Parker, Executive Director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound
about the issues and D.O. reports back from the line in the
....umm...sea? In our E-Valley-uation segment Jana Chicone nearly gets
busted for free speech on the Russell Biomess and in the Enviro Show
Echo Chamber we recall Ted Kennedy's good work for Mother Earth. As
always we do the Quote of the Week and checkout the Bus Stop Billboard,
but first it's time for... Revenge of the Critters! No, Revenge of the Octopus!

The Enviro Show Quote of the Week comes from the late Ted Kennedy:
"There
is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain will fall equally
on the just and the unjust. And the world that is left in the ashes of
Armageddon will little note nor long remember which was the evil
empire."


And in the Enviro Show Echo Chamber we mourn the loss of The Lion of the U.S.
Senate and review his long record of environmental legislation.  Also, from the
Center for Biological Diversity, Bat Alert: they need your help NOW!  Finally,
this Enviro Show Blog Action Special: Climate SOS!


In our E-Valley-uation segment we checkout Biomass Buzz for the near arrest
of arch foe of the proposed Russell Biomess, Jana Chicone for
exercising her First Ammendment Rights. Our link takes you to the cast
of players. Looks like they're straight out of central casting!


Leading
up to our interview with Audra Parker on the proposed Cape Wind/Bad
Wind industrial project, D.O. gives a brief report-back from the
frontlines on Martha's Vineyard where he had letters in both local
papers and engaged in outreach wars with Greenpeace corporado
supporters! See photos of GreenPee's corporate tactics here (note the
copywrites? how terribly corporate!).


Then it's on to the Bus Stop Billboard:

Wednesday,
September 2, 4:30 p.m. Michael Ratner will speak at Smith College, in
the Neilson Browsing Room of the library. His topic is CCR's 100 days
campaign and his book, The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by
Book. Ratner is with the Center for Constitutional Rights who are
working on the Green Scare.

Sunday,
September 6 thru Oct.1: "Climate Change?", works by artist Robert
Markey at the Art Gallery, St. Germain Campus Center, Western New
England College, Springfield. For info call (413)782-1567.

Thusday,September
10, 5:30pm the Franlin County Fair Parade starts at the Greenfield
Middle School. Join the CCFC contingent and march against the BIOMESS!
We'd like to have reps from every town in the Valley. Call 773-5529 for
details.


Friday, September 11, 7:30pm. Paul Winter Consort
performs for New England Farm Relief at the Latchis Theater in
Brattleboro, Go to www.brattleborotix.com



Saturday
September 12, 2-6pm  WHOLE FOODS MARKET WINE PARTY,
327 Russell St (Route 9), Hadley. Shall we bring the nationwide Whole Foods
boycott to this event? Yes we can!!

Friday, September 18
at 7pm. Bread & Puppet Cabaret! A benefit for the South Amherst
Conservation Association. Amherst Regional High School, 21 Matoon St.,
Amherst, MA. Tickets available at Food for Thought Books in Amherst
& Broadside Books in Northampton. For info call (413) 256-0433

Friday,
September 18, 8pm. Concerned Citizens of Franklin County fund-raiser at
the Guiding Star Grange Hall in Greenfield, 401 Chapman Street. Contra
Dance to help raise money to fight the Greenfield Biomess Incinerator.


*September 20-25  Three Rivers Climate Convergence: United for Environmental
Justice (Pittsburgh, PA)
http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/regions/g20/
*September 21-23 International Coal Conference (Pittsburgh, PA),
*September 24-25 G-20 Summit (Pittsburgh, PA) Go to:  resistg20.org/


Monday, September 21, 7:30pm.  Hampshire Mall Cinema, Hadley. "The Age of
Stupid" premier.  Go to: www.theageofstupid.net

That
is all. Tune in next time for a Noise Free America......umm....it's a
campaign, not like dead air for everyone! Until then, remember: LISTEN
TO YOUR MOTHER!!



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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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See info below and please call your representative to find out from
them what's up.  I'm surprised at some of the sponsors of this bill.

Judy

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> Date: August 13, 2009 4:50:40 PM EDT
> To: judyeiseman@...
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> Reply-To: smoser@...
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>
>
>  Environmental League of Massachusetts
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> In This Issue
> Mass. Endangered Species Act
> Sustainable Water Resources Act
> State Bill Tracking System
> Quick Links
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> Donate to ELM
>
>  ELM Website
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> MA Environmental Collaborative
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> ELM Green Budget FY10
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>  EarthShare
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> August 13, 2009
> Effort to Gut the Mass. Endangered Species Act
>
> A "late-file" bill sponsored by Rep. Coakley-Rivera and Senator
> Buoniconti from Springfield would undermine the Mass. Endangered
> Species Act.   By limiting state action only to land designated as
> "significant habitat" (which is very difficult to do and has not
> been done in MA), the bill will make it extremely difficult to
> protect our rare and endangered species. The state would not be able
> to regulate the take of rare species, either directly or through
> habitat alteration.
>
> The bill will be heard by the Natural Resources Committee most
> likely soon after Labor Day.  We will need a good turnout to
> demonstrate our opposition.  Please stay tuned.
>
> Sponsors and text of the bill follows.  If you have a relationship
> with any of the sponsors, please let them know that you oppose the
> bill and that it would gut our endangered species protections.
>
> Sponsor/District:
> Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera, 10th Hampden
> John W. Scibak, 2nd Hampshire
> Rosemary Sandlin, 3rd Hampden
> Brian Michael Ashe, 2nd Hampdon
> Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., 12th Hampden
> Benjamin Swan, 11th Hampden
> Thomas M. Petrolati, 7th Hampden
> James T. Welch, 6th Hampden
> Michael F. Kane, 5th Hampden
> Lewis G. Evangelidis, 1st Worcester
> Peter V. Kocot, 1st Hampshire
> Donald F. Humason, Jr., 4th Hampden
> Sean Curran, 9th Hampden
> Joseph F. Wagner, 8th Hampden
> William Smitty Pignatelli, 4th Berkshire
> Christopher J. Donelan, 2nd Franklin
> Denis E. Guyer, 2nd Berkshire
>
> Text of the Bill:
> An Act designating natural heritage functions of the Department of
> Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement.
>
> Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
> Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
>
> Subsection (d) of Section 5 of Chapter 131A of the General Laws, as
> appearing in the 2006
> Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:
>
> "The director shall not impose any project review or permit
> requirement upon any land unless
> such land is located within an area which has been duly designated
> as a significant habitat."
> Sustainable Water Resources Act:
>
> There was a very good turn out of advocates at the hearing several
> weeks ago in support of the Sustainable Water Resources Act.  The
> Act would direct the state to develop streamflow standards, enable
> communities that so choose to establish water banks (charge a
> reasonable fee on new development that would use additional water
> resources) and strengthen current statutes related to dams by
> including dam removal as an option.
>
> Watershed and other environmental groups testified on three panels
> with other groups testifying individually.  There was good
> attendance by members of the Natural Resources Committee including
> both chairmen.   Excellent and compelling visuals were presented by
> the Mass. Rivers Alliance depicting dry stream beds throughout the
> state.   Mass Water Works, which opposes the bill, also had a good
> presence so we need to keep the pressure up.   ELM and our
> colleagues will be meeting with the bill sponsors and committee
> chairs in the coming weeks working towards getting the Committee to
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> attended the hearing.  It is not too late to submit testimony, but
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> please contact Nancy Goodman.
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The Drugs in Your Water Enviro Show
Tuesday, August 18, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, August 24 & 31; 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
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Greetings
Earthlings! Out of the Valley on vacation? Don't forget you can catch
us on the webstream. No matter where you are, do you know what's in the
water coming out of your tap? (Didn't we already ask you that?).
Whistle-blower and Director of New England Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility, Kyla Bennett
calls in with the low-down. And, The New Boss's signing statements are
starting to look like the old boss's signing statements. We'll checkout
The Enviro Show Echo Chamber with Jim Hightower on the invasion of the
FrankenTrees! Also, the Quote of the week, but first it's time for.....
Revenge of the Critters! Mum attacked by killer chipmunk!

In The Enviro Show Echo Chamber Jim Hightower scares the beejesus out of us with
tales of the invasion of the FrankenTrees!


Soooo,
you thought all those Bush Era signing statements and the scourge of
the "unitary executive" were behind us? Think again! In our "Meet the
New Boss" segment: Obama's embrace of Bush tactic riles Congress.


This timely Enviro Show Quote of the Week comes from Rachel Carson:

"In
the age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind to even his
most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has
become the victim of his indifference".


In our E-Valley-uation segment: remember The Blob?
Well after it terrorized small town PA back in '58 the U.S. Army
dropped it in the Arctic thinking it would stay frozen forever, right?
Arctic? Global Warming? Well......it's baaaack and it's right HERE in
the Valley! And YOU can become one of its' victims!! We're taking The
Blob to Pittsburg for the G20 at the end of September and YOU are
invited to accompany it! Just drop us an email saying you want to
babysit The Blob and we'll get back to you. The address is:
enviroshow@....


"Head of the River"by Eliot Bronson from "101 Subtle Ways" takes us to our
interview with Kyla Bennett. Recall Kyla's efforts last year to keep more drugs
and personal care products out of Massachusetts waters? No? Tune-in then!


Finally, we have a gander at the Bus Stop Billboard:



Thursday,
August 20, 2009, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain date: Friday, August 21,
2009) Herp Search! Hitchcock Center for the Environment, 25 South
Pleasant Street,
Amherst. We’ll visit a variety of habitats in the
local area, searching for snakes and turtles, salamanders and frogs.
Pre-registration is required; please call (413) 256-6006.

Wednesday,
August 26, 7:30 - 9:30am. Morning Nature Walk. Participants will meet
at the bird bath outside the main entrance to the Great Falls Discovery
Center in Turners Falls by the bridge. For more information, call
413.863.3221 or visit www.greatfallsma.org.

Wednesday August 26,
7pm. MELTDOWN: VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL. Christ Church Cathedral, 35
Chestnut St, Springfield. A dramatic presentation of the stories of
survivors of the disaster at Chernobyl, read by local activists
including Sr. Jane Morrissey SSJ, Jeannine Haas, Frances Crowe, Ruth
Hooke, and Chris Rohmann. Donation welcome. Sponsored by AFSC, Arise
for Social Justice, Traprock, CAN, Peace Pagoda, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, and the Enviro Show.

Friday, September 18 at 7pm. Bread & Puppet Cabaret! A benefit for the South
Amherst Conservation Association.

Three IMPORTANT reasons to go to Pittsburgh, PA:

*September 20-25  Three Rivers Climate Convergence: United for Environmental
Justice. Check it out!
*September 21-23 International Coal Conference
*September 24-25 G-20 Summit. Go to:  resistg20.org/


We
are so out of here. Next time we rewind your mind with Cape Wind: the
right project in the WRONG place! Until then, remember.....(are you
listening Cape Wind believers?)...LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER!


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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

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http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:43:02 -0400
Subject: [act-ma] Aug 10, 11 -- Greenpeace looking for climate activists to
demonstrate when Obama is in NH on Tue








David Pomerantz <dpomeran@...>
writes:
  Hi!

We’ve got an amazing,
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tell President Obama that we want him to
rescue the climate.

The President is coming to Portsmouth, NH on Tuesday
for a town hall forum on healthcare. We want to make sure he knows that people
want a healthy planet for our children and grandchildren too.

So we need
you to gather up all your friends, make a handmade sign if you want, and meet
with other climate activists on Tuesday, August 11th to ask the
president to lead.

We'll be leaving from our office in Davis Square (see
directions below) at 7:45 a.m. in order to get there early and stake out
a good location. Or you can meet us at Portsmouth High School at 9 a.m. - just
look for the folks in the bright red "Stop Global Warming" t-shirts.

If
you can make it, please e-mail david.pomerantz@... or call me at
914.584.9054 immediately so I can make sure we
have enough cars in the carpool.


For the climate,

David Pomerantz
Greenpeace Field Organizer -
New England
Directions to our office:






We’re located at 240B
Elm St in Davis Square. The easiest way to get here is by the T. Take the red
line to Davis Square. Get out at the Holland St. exit, make a right, and walk
straight for 2 minutes or so. Our office is just past the Dunkin Donuts and
Social Security building, down the stairs.

If coming by car,
please see this map: http://tinyurl.com/m2fauf
--

David Pomerantz
Climate Rescue Organizer, New
England
Greenpeace
914.584.9054

Skype: davidpomerantz
twitter:
@GreenpeaceMass
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50532305713&ref=ts
Meetup:
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and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical
world."

-
Thomas Jefferson
more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

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CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

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http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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ALL THE KIDS STAYED INDOORS DURING RECESS.

Maine Activist Hillary Lister Discusses Her Experience Living with Biomass
Incinerators

Whether for or against the Biomass Incinerator proposed for the Industrial Park
here,
every Greenfield resident wants to know: "what’s it like to live with Biomass in
the neighborhood?"
Hillary Lister, who will speak at the First Congregational Church, 43 Silver
Street,Greenfield at6 P.M.,
Monday, August 10, 2009 is a good person to ask. “Biomass” may be a new term to
most
people in the Pioneer Valley, but it's been part of thevocabulary of Mainers
since
the 1970’s, when struggling paper mills converted to Biomass. Atthe time it
seemed
like a good way to keep local economies from collapsing. Unfortunately, thenew
incinerators, in conjunction with lax air quality regulations, turned Maine into
NewEngland’s leading toxics disposal site!In 2004, a mountain of wood chips
piled
beside a Biomass plant in Athens, Maine began tointernally combust. “It
smoldered
for six weeks,” Lister said. “The local fire department tried toput it out, but
they
couldn’t. People were going to the hospital. All the kids stayed indoorsduring
recess.”The experience changed Hillary Lister’s life. A powerful and articulate
young voice, Lister hasworked tirelessly to catalogue environmental and public
health concerns of Biomass, anduncover the legislative cronyism that has left
her
state a toxic dumping ground.Like it or not, Greenfield has become ground zero
for
the next stage in the Biomass saga.According to a recent front-page article in
the
Boston Globe, opposition to the proposed BiomassIncineration Plant came to a
head
when: “More than 400 people packed a Greenfield school lastmonth to protest a
proposed biomass plant…” A core group who helped galvanize this groundswell of
concern has formed into a non-profit called the Concerned Citizens of Franklin
County(CCFC). Lister will speak as their guest this coming Monday August 10,
2009 at
the FirstCongregational Church of Greenfield, 43 Silver Street, Greenfield.
Suggested Donation: $5# # #For more information regarding Hillary Lister’s
presentation and future work of the ConcernedCitizens of Franklin County (CCFC),
please contact: Wendy LaPointe at 413-863-9892 or see
www.greenfieldbiomass.info





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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

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Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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The Save the Land Enviro Show

     Tuesday, August 3, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, August 10 & 17; 9pm.
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Greetings Earthlings. Will developers fill every last acre with condos,
McMansions and malls? Carol Gray of the South Amherst Conservation Association
joins us to talk about saving the former Rock Farm on South East Street
in Amherst, an environmentally rich piece of land threatened by a
proposed high density development of 17 luxury condos (just what
Amherst needs: more condos!). The Globe spins in our E-Valley-uation
segment and it's Obama's bad in "Meet the New Boss". Also, The Enviro
Show Echo Chamber defers to The Daily Show while the Quote of the Week
gets dragged out from beneath the Wayback machine, but first it's time
for...... Revenge of the Critters! Leech attack. Gardeners beware! Better wear
eye protection.

On the E-Valley-uation segment, The Boston Globe tries for balance on the
Biomess. Ya' right! Do read the comments. Speaking of comments, YOURS are needed
to curb destructive ORV's in Massachusetts. Also, an update on the proposed
Northampton dump expansion over the Barnes Aquifer. And an Enviro Show Blog
Action Special: help bring Zero Waste solutions to The Commonwealth.


Then it's Time to Meet the New Boss! Treehugger asks: Is the Green Honeymoon
Over?. Hey! we filed for divorce months ago!!


The Enviro Show Quote of the Week is short & sweet; special for all you
developers out there:
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau


Meanwhile,in The Enviro Show Echo Chamber Jon Stewart pans the House Climate
Bill. It's our Blog Special, guys. Then it's back to the sea. Last week's
Science Times revealed that Scientists Find a Microbe Haven at Ocean’s Surface.
Check it out: "Scientists say it is important to become better
acquainted with this mysterious ocean skin, because it may play a
critical role in the environmental well-being of the planet....The
microlayer is also crucial to the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon
dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas."


"God Bless the
Grass", by Sara Thomson from "Big Breath" takes us to our interview
with Carol Gray. We'll see if we can hold our tongues concerning
certain yuppie developers...umm...sorry. We'll do our best to
behave....really! (really?)


Finally we checkout the Bus Stop Billboard:


Thursday,
August 6, 6:10pm. Screening of "Flow". Irena Salina's award-winning
documentary investigation into what experts label the most important
political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water
Crisis. The film begs the question: CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER? Jones
Library, Amherst (accross from The Amherst Cinema)

Saturday, Aug 8th. 9:30pm VFR benefit @ the Elevens, 50 Conz Street,
Northampton. “Music, raffle, community!”

Friday,
Saturday & Sunday, August 7-9. Northeast Organic Farmings Assn's
annual Conference & Celebration of Sustainability, held on the
UMass-Amherst campus on this year. www.nofasummerconference.org for
details.

Sunday, August 9. Solar Rollers Tour Vermont 31st
Anniversary Ride. Brattleboro-Vernon. If you are interested in riding
with us or interested in hosting the riders for an evening presentation
and overnight floor space, please contact claire at 413-626-3620 or
cchang@...


Thursday, August 20th, 7pm through
Sunday August 23rd, 5pm. Gender and Deep Ecology. Earthlands Program
Center, Petersham, MA. An unusual gathering of women and men for an
in-depth exploration of our relationship to ourselves, each other,
Spirit and Earth. Registration info@...
(978) 724-3448.

Tuesday,
August 25, 7 PM. "MELTDOWN - Voices of Chernobyl" Edwards Church 299
Main St. Northampton, MA. MELTDOWN is a dramatic presentation that asks
the question, "What if it happened here?" The voices in the play are
those of Chernobyl survivors but the readers are local, from Western
Massachusetts. Call AFSC at 413-584-8975


Wednesday August
26, 5:30-7:30pm, WESTERN MASS GREEN ECONOMY WORKING GROUP. Pioneer
Valley AFL-CIO Hall, 640 Page Boulevard, Springfield (732-7970). This
Working Group consists of advocates for a Green Economy which serves
local communities; guarantees workers' rights to organize; and promotes
community-owned sustainable projects.

Thursday, August 27, 2009,
9 am - 1 pm. Massachusetts Forest Futures Visioning Process at the
Doyle Conservation Center, Leominster. Contact Claudia at
mandchurley@... .

Done. Next time Mark Beaubien, winner
of the Chris Collins Climate Challenge and the Biomass My Ass Enviro
Show! Until then, remember: listen to who? YOUR MOTHER!!




***************************************

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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[Destructive ORV's are trashing Massachusetts woodlands. Support
efforts to rein them in! - d.o. ]






A hearing for SB366 and HB2230 was held on July 28, 2009. Please read

the bills and submit your comments right away.

HB2230, Rep. Gobi, An Act Relative to Recreational Vehicles

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/186/ht02pdf/ht02230.pdf

SB366, Sen. Baddour, An Act to Regulate the Use of Highway and

Recreational Vehicles

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st00pdf/st00366.pdf

Testimony should be addressed to:

The Honorable James E. Timilty

Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Room 507

Boston, MA 02133

Telephone: (617) 722-1222

Fax: 617-722-1056

The Honorable Michael A. Costello

House Chair, Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

State House

Room 167

State House

Boston, MA 02133

Be sure to reference the bill number, in this case either SB366 or

HB2230, or any of the other bills you cite.

Five other bills are now in the Public Safety Committee and will

likely be heard in September:

*HB3330 - An Act relative to the regulation of snow and recreation

vehicles

HB3368 - An Act relative to regulation of off-road vehicles

HB3297 - An Act relative to recreational vehicles

HB3224 - An Act to further regulate the use of recreational vehicles

SB1889 - An Act relative to recreational vehicles

*HB3330 sponsored by Rep. Smizik most closely resembles the work of

the DCR Off Highway Vehicle Enforcement Working Group, in which the
Massachusetts Forest and Park Friends Network participated. The bill sponsored
by Senator Baddour is

also inclusive of a number of recommendations by the Working Group, but

also asks for a lower noise level of 96 decibels and a stiffer age

restriction. HB3368  seeks to bring OHV noise levels within the legal

limit of allowable noise levels from other sources. It also calls for

2 reps from friends groups to sit on an OHV advisory board. You can

look at the content of each bill by going to http://www.mass.gov/legis/

You can also look at the document produced by the Working Group at

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/recreate/ohv/ohvworkinggroup.htm

If you have any interest in seeing stronger recreational vehicle

enforcement policy and laws that will give enforcement personnel the

tools they need to enforce the law, now is the time to act.  Written

testimony sent by regular mail is the most effective way to voice your

opinion. When you send a letter to the committee chairs be sure to

copy your own representative and senator.

You can find more information on the Massachusetts Forest and Parks

Friends Network website: www.networkingfriends.net. Click on "Critical

Issues"  or  "Friends Network OHV Initiative".

————————————————

More about off-highway vehicles (OHV)

Friends Network Facilitators want to thank everyone who responded to

the OHV survey we sent out in March. We collected 103 data samples on

62 forests, parks and trails. There is nothing better than local

knowledge. We now know where the problem areas are and how illegal

users usually access the properties. We would like to share this

information with DCR and law enforcement agencies, but, so far, our

offers to assist in the state's efforts to develop an OHV Enforcement

Plan have not been accepted. We were looking forward to the June

Stewardship Council (SC) Meeting as DCR was to unveil the OHV

Enforcement Plan that the SC had asked for 2 1/4 years ago. What we

got was a report, not a plan. You can find the minutes on the SC

website here http://www.mass.gov/dcr/stewardship_council.htm. After

that huge disappointment, we told the SC that we would write an

enforcement plan ourselves! Perhaps citizens can't actually write the

plan, given that state agencies need to cooperate for the plan to be

effective, but we can say what we expect a plan to look like!

Therefore, we are asking your help.

1) Help with the OHV Enforcement Plan: What would you want to see in

an OHV Enforcement Plan? If you want to review OHV enforcement plans

from other states you can find them online.

2) Keep the OHV Survey going: Please fill out the survey below. If you

turned in the survey in March, please send us an update if you have

visited the forest, park or trail since March 2009. Let us know if

illegal OHV activity has gotten worse, or if you have seen improvement

in enforcement over the past few months. Feel free to add any new data.

Here are the survey questions. It really helps if you copy and paste

the questions and write your comments below the question you are

answering. Please put the word "Survey" in the subject line and send

your survey to  by October 1, 2009. The Enforcement

Plan suggestions and the survey data will be compiled and discussed at

the Friends Network Conference, October 24.

Illegal Off-Highway Vehicle Activity Survey

1) List the forests and parks you visit.

2) For each place you list, state whether or not illegal OHV activity

is happening there and, if it is, to what degree. (Please note: It is

as important for us to know where illegal OHV activity is not

happening as where it is.)

3) Add any comments that are important to the particular situation.

4) Answer the questions below that apply:

Have you ever contacted anyone about illegal OHV use in a state forest

or park?

How?

What was the response?

Where do illegal OHV riders enter the forest or park (please be as

specific as possible)?

Can you name a public road regularly crossed or used by illegal OHV

riders to enter the property?

Are signs posted stating that OHV use is illegal?

Are state boundaries clearly marked to prevent unintentional trespass?

What, if any, damage has occurred to wildlife or to the environment?

What is the impact on visitors and recreational users?

Have you ever felt threatened or endangered by an OHV?

Have you heard of anyone who was threatened or harmed in an OHV

incident?

Do you have suggestions on how enforcement officials might best stop

illegal OHV activity in a particular place?

##################

Massachusetts Forest and Park Friends Network

www.networkingfriends.net




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- Thomas Jefferson

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The Nuke-free Future Enviro Show


Tuesday, July 21, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, July 27 & August 3, 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
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[Webstreaming  on VFR at:
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  Greetings Earthlings. D.O.'s off this week, but he left this
behind. Do you think "we can create a nuclear free future"? A mystery
guest from AFSC braves the walk down to the basement to join us and
talk about all things nuclear. Our new and improved segment, "Meet the
new Boss..." finds Obama between a rock and a hard place! We'll have a
look at the latest from the Biomess in our E-Valley-uation segment and
checkout the Enviro Show Echo Chamber, but first it's time
for.....Renvenge of the Critters! More Revenge of the Trees from
Down-under!!

In our new "Meet the New Boss..." segment Greenpeace does the Obama banner-drop
on Mt. Rushmore. Also, we try again for that "Bush redux" piece that keeps
getting shelved.....over and over and over....


In
our E-Valley-uation segment WE HAVE A WINNER! Collins is voicing second
thoughts on the Biomess. The winner of the Chris Collins Climate
Challenge is Mark Beaubien, Greenfield businessman and driver of sense
into thick heads! Mark gets to be on the show AND wins the Mass Earth
First! bumpersticker!! Also this: the proposed Springfield Biomess looks a LOT
like environmental injustice!


Meanwhile, over in the Enviro Show Echo Chamber we refer you to Rainforest
Action Network's Take Action page
linked to The Enviro Show Blog for some on-line "activism". While here
in the real world, how about some action in the street! Checkout the G20 and the
International Coal Conference Actions, both coming to Pittsburg in late
September.  We're talking major action here!  Also, your Enviro Show Blog Bonus
Special: Ten things you can do to abolish the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.


"The Great Unknown" by Dar Williams takes us to our interview on a Nuclear Free
Future. August, you may recall, is the anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some legacy, huh?



Finally, on the Bus Stop Billboard:


Wednesday, July 22, 6pm. Springfield Biomess meeting at the Arise office, 467
State St., Springfield. Call for info: 734-4948

Thursday,
July 23, 2009, 5:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. MID-SUMMER EVENING NATURE WALK.
Experience a leisurely late-day stroll around the Quabbin Dike at the
height of life and activity in this ecosystem. We will encounter
wildflowers, a chorus of insects, perhaps grazing deer, turkeys and the
singing of Hermit Thrushes. Pre-registration is required; please call
(413) 256-6006.

Saturday, July 26, 1-4pm. Water chestnut removal
at Fitzgerald Lake. River Valley Market & Broad Brook Coalition.
Call (413)584-2665

"Meltdown; Voices From Chernobyl" Part of August "Nuclear Free Future Month".
July 25,  7:30 PM  GCC, Greenfield, MA
July 26, 7:30 PM Mocha Maya House, 47 Bridge St. Shelburne Falls, MA
July 27, 7 PM 1794 Meetinghouse Main St., New Salem, MA
August 25, 7 PM Edwards Church 299 Main St. Northampton, MA
For more info. contact Shantigar: 413 339 2747 (for July dates)  Jeff Napolitano
at AFSC-413-584-8975

Friday,
July 31, 9am to 2pm. Come paddle the Connecticut River to Rainbow Beach
in Northampton with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and
Recreation and learn about conservation efforts to protect the
federally endangered Puritan Tiger Beetle. Found in only two locations
on the planet (the other is Chesapeake Bay), the puritan tiger beetle
faces some steep odds in its efforts to survive in the Connecticut
River Watershed. Participants should meet at the Elwell Recreation Area
boat landing, Northampton, Mass., at 9:00 am. Seating is limited. Bring
lunch, water, sunscreen,
insect repellant, and binoculars (to see
the beetles and other wildlife). Please call 413-863-3221 to register
for this FREE program. Registration deadline is July 29, 2009.

Sunday,
August 9. Solar Rollers Tour Vermont 31st Anniversary Ride.
Brattleboro-Vernon. If you are interested in riding with us or
interested in hosting the riders for an evening presentation and
overnight floor space, please contact Claire at 413-626-3620 or
cchang@...


We are soooo out of here. Next
time: Carol Gray joins us to talk land conservation in South Amherst.
Until then, remember to listen to your Mother!




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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
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The Coming Biomess Enviro Show, Part IIITuesday, July 7, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, July 13 & July 20, 9pm.
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Greetings
Earthlings. It's back to the Biomess again! Hang onto
your...umm...biosphere! Jana Chicone returns to the studio to update us
on the proposed Russell biomass incinerator and Chris Matera calls in
from his undisclosed location deep in the forests of New England where
he'll speak for the trees. As always we check-in to our E-Valley-uation
segment and The Enviro Show Echo Chamber, as well as hear The Quote of
The Week, but first it's time for..... Revenge of the Critters! Attack
of the trees!

The big news in our E-Valley-uation segment
is, of course, the.....ahem...decision? by the Greenfield old boys
network....umm...we mean Zoning Board of Appeals, giving the go-ahead
for Madera Energy to build their biomass forest incinerator. Bring in
the lawyers! Be sure to read Mary Serreze's piece in The Valley Advocate. While
you're at it, checkout the new Mass Forest Watch Power Point.  And, we MAY have
a winner of the Chris Collins Climate Challenge! Only time will tell. Stay
tuned!


"The
Land of Fake Fires" by Joules Graves from "Plunge" segways us nicely
into The Enviro Show Echo Chamber: Who says old news is no news?? We
read from the Madera, California Tribune that Madera Power's (Yes, THAT Madera)
biomass plant BLEW UP! two years ago. Also, Jeffrey St. Clair answers the
disturbing questions: Who is Sam Hamilton?
Who is Tom Tidwell? And why is Obama in bed with enemies of the Earth?
And this: More corporate privatization of the Commons! This time for solar and
geothermal energy!  And this hold-over that went unread on the last show, Is it
Bush Redux in the Obama White House?.
Say it ain't so, O! Finally some GOOD NEWS: A federal judge just struck
down the Bush administration's rules limiting protection and citizen
oversight of the entire 193-million acre National Forest System.


The
Quote of the week comes by way of loyal listener, Lynn from right here
in the Valley. At the Greenfield ZBA hearing The Man from Epsilon
Associates, Environmental Engineers and Consultants, regarding the
proposed Greenfield forest incinerator said:

"There will be no change in air quality because we will be able to purchase
offsets".

WHOA! It's like magic. Who needs atmospheric science!


Did
you get enough thunderstorms last week? We'll raise one right here in
the studio as an introduction to Jana & Chris, both of whom are
raising a storm of protest over the oncoming biomess!



Then we scope out the Bus Stop Billboard:


Wednesday,
July 8 at 10:30 a.m. The Greenfield ZBA Re-vote will be at the
Greenfield High School cafeteria. It's a circus! Bring funny hats &
noise-makers!

Thursday, July 9, 4-7:00 p.m. Powerhouse Tour.
See a house that makes more power than it consumes. Corner of Sherman
and Clark Ave, Turners Falls.
Call Tina at 413-863-5253

July
10-12, SolarFest - New England Renewable Energy Festival. Forget-Me-Not
Farm, Tinmouth, VT. SolarFest '09 is three days of world-class
musicians, dancers and performance artists, a stellar line-up of
speakers, and over 70 workshops on renewable energy and sustainability
topics. For 15 years, demonstrating the power of
positive energy! www.solarfest.org/

Wednesdays,
July 8th & 15th, Fridays, July 10th & 17th, 7:30 - 9:30am.
Morning Nature Walks. Participants will meet at the bird bath outside
the main entrance to the Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls
at 7:30 A.M. For more information, call 413.863.3221 or visit
www.greatfallsma.org.

Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10 a.m. to noon.
MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS: THE GEOLOGY OF THE PIONEER VALLEY. Discover the
stories in the stones around us! The Holyoke Range can tell us much
about how the Earth’s crust is shaped. It is a geologically unique
area, where we can find evidence of shifting tectonic plates,
earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciers, and erosion, all in one day’s field
trip. This Hitchcock Center trip is based at Skinner State Park and
involves some light hiking. Adults and families with children ages 8
and up are welcome. Bring a picnic lunch and stay to picnic on top
after the program. Pre-registration is required; please call (413)
256-6006.

Friday July 17, 7pm, “Women from Planet Diversity”:
Documentary on 2008 grassroots international conference in Germany on
the future of agriculture, examing the hunger crisis, climate change,
and the loss of cultural and biological diversity. 45 min. Jean
Grossholtz, professor emeritus at Mt. Holyoke College, will be the
guest speaker. Northampton Media Education Foundation, Masonic Street
behind the Woodstar Cafe.

Friday, July 17, 2009. 10:00 am -
12:00 pm. Watersheds: The Trickle Down Effect-It's not just a river!
This event will happen four Fridays in July. Children gredes K-6
welcome. No charge but registration requested. Call Great Falls
Discovery Center at 413.863.3221.

July 17-19, The 2009 Clamshell Alliance Reunion. World Fellowship Center, near
Conway, NH 603-447-2280

Sundays,
July 19 & July 26, 2009, 1 to 3:30 p.m. LOST AND FOUND: NAVIGATION,
MAPS, AND COMPASS. Gain confidence while increasing your enjoyment of
being in the woods by learning the basics of navigation and map and
compass. Pre-registration is required; please call Hitchcock Center for
the Environment at (413) 256-6006.

Wednesday, July 22, 6pm. Springfield Biomess meeting at the Arise office, 467
State St., Spfld. Call for info: 734-4948

"Meltdown; Voices From Chernobyl" Part of August "Nuclear Free Future Month".
Saturday, July 27 Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Sunday, July 28 Mocha Maya, Shelburne Falls, MA
Thursday, August 27 Northampton, MA
for more info. contact Shantigar: 413 339 2747 (for July dates)  Jeff Napolitano
at AFSC-413-584-8975


That
does it for us....more or less. We'll be back next time looking at a
Nuclear Free Furure. Until then, remember; listen to your Mother!



***************************************

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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i know. meg is more lawyer than webspinner, that's for sure. maybe she needs to
hear this from you.

d.o.



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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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To: savemtholyoke@yahoogroups.com
From: shel@...
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:57:20 -0400
Subject: Re: [savemtholyoke] House Energy Act classifies biomass incinerators as
"clean and green


























       D.O., I fully support the intent of this

petition, but I found the site so clumsy and hard

to use that I can't forward it around. I never

did find the place to paste my letter into Rep.

Neal's site.



>There is 1 message in this issue.

>

>Topics in this digest:

>

>1. House Energy Act classifies biomass incinerators as "clean and green

>     From: Tribal Scribal

>

>

>Message

>__________________________________________________________

>1. House Energy Act classifies biomass incinerators as "clean and green

>     Posted by: "Tribal Scribal" valeoftheoaks@... tribalscribal

>     Date: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:24 pm ((PDT))

>

>

>

>Dear Friends and Colleagues,

>

>The U.S. House of Representatives is voting this week on the American

>Clean Energy and Security (ACES) climate change bill that says burning

>and  incineration of garbage and forests is "clean and green renewable

>energy" and which forces Americans to pay billions to build these

>toxic power plants!

>

>Join activists around the country and contact Congress to stop this

>bill which classifies incinerators as "clean and green"!  Find out

>more on our website:

>

>www.nobiomassburning.org

>

>We can make a difference!

>

>Meg Sheehan/Bill Sammons/and the entire EcoLaw network

>

>Thanks!

>

>

>

>

>

>***************************************

>

>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then

>is a good thing, and as necessary in the

>political world as storms in the physical world."

>

>

>

>- Thomas Jefferson

>

>more rebellion here:

>

>http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

>

>***************************************

>

>CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

>

>Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

>

>Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

>

>Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.

>http://envirosho.blogspot.com

>

>***************************************

>

>

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>

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D.O., I fully support the intent of this
petition, but I found the site so clumsy and hard
to use that I can't forward it around. I never
did find the place to paste my letter into Rep.
Neal's site.

>There is 1 message in this issue.
>
>Topics in this digest:
>
>1. House Energy Act classifies biomass incinerators as "clean and green
>     From: Tribal Scribal
>
>
>Message
>________________________________________________________________________
>1. House Energy Act classifies biomass incinerators as "clean and green
>     Posted by: "Tribal Scribal" valeoftheoaks@... tribalscribal
>     Date: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:24 pm ((PDT))
>
>
>
>Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
>The U.S. House of Representatives is voting this week on the American
>Clean Energy and Security (ACES) climate change bill that says burning
>and  incineration of garbage and forests is "clean and green renewable
>energy" and which forces Americans to pay billions to build these
>toxic power plants!
>
>Join activists around the country and contact Congress to stop this
>bill which classifies incinerators as "clean and green"!  Find out
>more on our website:
>
>www.nobiomassburning.org
>
>We can make a difference!
>
>Meg Sheehan/Bill Sammons/and the entire EcoLaw network
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
>***************************************
>
>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then
>is a good thing, and as necessary in the
>political world as storms in the physical world."
>
>
>
>- Thomas Jefferson
>
>more rebellion here:
>
>http://concertobi.blogspot.com/
>
>***************************************
>
>CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!
>
>Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm
>
>Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm
>
>Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
>http://envirosho.blogspot.com
>
>***************************************
>
>
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One Signature at a Time  (please tell your friends)
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The U.S. House of Representatives is voting this week on the American
Clean Energy and Security (ACES) climate change bill that says burning
and  incineration of garbage and forests is "clean and green renewable
energy" and which forces Americans to pay billions to build these
toxic power plants!

Join activists around the country and contact Congress to stop this
bill which classifies incinerators as "clean and green"!  Find out
more on our website:

www.nobiomassburning.org

We can make a difference!

Meg Sheehan/Bill Sammons/and the entire EcoLaw network

Thanks!





***************************************

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

***************************************


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THE CONTINUATION OF THE GREENFIELD ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS ON THE PROPOSED
BIOMESS

Thursday, June 25, 7:00 p.m.

Greenfield High School Cafeteria,

1 Lenox Ave (off Silver Street)

Board members will question developer Matt Wolfe and his team about PRE's
request for a special permit to allow a 47 MW biomass burner to be built on
Butternut Street.  If you signed up to speak at the June 15 meeting and did not
get a chance to do so, you will have a chance to speak on June 25. Even if you
didn't sign up please come and show your concern with your presence. You don't
have to be a Greenfield resident: pollution and clearcuts know no borders!!

more info here: http://www.greenfieldbiomass.info/home.html






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necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

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The Full of Sludge Enviro Show

     Tuesday, June 23, 6:30 - 7:30pm
WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio
Monday, June 29 & July 6, 9pm.
WMCB, 107.9fm, Greenfield
[Blog w/links and YOUR comments at: http://envirosho.blogspot.com
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[Webstreaming  on VFR at:
http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen/web-stream-listening-help/ ]
[Podcasting at: http://www.podomatic.com/profile/enviroshow2009 ]











Greetings
Earthlings! Confirming what some have suspected all along: we're full
of sludge (at least tonight). Catherine Price, author of The Sludge Report
joins us to get into some heavy.....umm...sludge? Naturally, this
provides us with the perfect segway into returning to the subject of
Madera Energy's proposed forest incinerator, given that they plan to
cool it with sewage! We'll hear from Glen on that, we're sure! As
usual, we'll checkout other news of the planet in The Enviro Show Echo
Chamber, hear the Quote of the Week, and maybe even get to the Bus Stop
Billboard, but first it's time for...... Revenge of the Critters! This
time the trees strike back!!


The Enviro show Quote of the week comes from our favorite Founding Father,
Thomas Jefferson:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."


"Try
Not to Breathe" by REM takes us to our E-Valley-uation segment where we
ponder the possibility of breathing sewage in the Valley! Sound crazy?
Well....yeah!


In The Enviro Show Echo Chamber Grist tells us the cure for the population bomb
has finally been found by the father of the Gaia Hypothesis. Also this: Is it
Bush Redux in the Obama White House?. Say it ain't so, O! And, as we close in on
the House vote for the VERY compromised Waxman-Markey Climate/Energy Bill: Will
Cap & Trade cause another market meltdown?. For The Enviro Show Blog Bonus
Special we offer you the mind-bending film "Home". It's REALLY worth watching
(unlike YouTube ditties of brain-addled tweens performing in front of their
webcams).



Next is our interview with Catherine which was partly inspired by her piece in
Grist's Poop Series. We'll avoid the s-word on the air (it's illegal, after
all!) but no such shit to worry about here!


On the Bus Stop Billboard:


Wednesday,
June 24, 6pm. Public "listening sessions" to receive feedback on the
potential for wind power development on state-owned lands. Beacon Hill
sees potential for large-scale wind installations in some regions of
the state, particularly coastal areas and ridge tops in Western
Massachusetts. Berkshire Community College, Main campus, K111 Theater,
1350 West Street, Pittsfield. BEWARE the Wind Energy Siting Reform Act!

Wednesday
June 24, 5:30 - 7:30 WESTERN MASS GREEN ECONOMY WORKING GROUP. Pioneer
Valley AFL-CIO Hall, 640 Page Boulevard, Springfield (732-7970). This
Working Group consists of advocates for a Green Economy which serves
local communities; guarantees workers' rights to organize; and promotes
community-owned sustainable projects. Info: Jon Weissman, 827-0301

FRIDAY,
JUNE 26th at the Massage School, 1 Northampton St., Easthampton. There
are still openings available for a relaxing one-hour massage. Proceeds
will benefit the Manhan Rail Trail sinkhole repair fund. Please call
529-2900 to make your reservation.

Sunday, June 28, 2009, 1 to 4
p.m. WHAT DOES NATURE DO? A BIOMIMICRY WALK. Hitchcock Center for the
Environment, 525 South Pleasant Street, Amherst. Pre-registration is
required; please call (413) 256-6006.

Saturday, July 4th. Join
CAN for a 4th of July Parade in Brattleboro. We are ready for a change
to renewable energy. It's our choice! Wear your Solar Roller T shirt or
a sign for how We CAN Replace VY! Hopefully there will be 3 groups
represented this yr! Contact cchang@...




Tom
Neilson's "Outhouse Blues", with words by Wanita Nelson takes us out.
Next time Jana Chicoine returns to the studio for more biomess bashing.
Tune in! And remember: listen to your Mother!



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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

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CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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*June 16 Public Forum: Dangers of Wood Burning Electrical Plants (Biomass
Incinerators) in Greater Springfield and Western Massachusetts*


*What: The Springfield-Area Sustainable Energy Association (SASEA) will be
holding a press conference and public forum with a panel of experts speaking
about the three biomass power plants proposed in the Pioneer Valley. This
event is free and open to the public.*

*When: Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 PRESS CONFERENCE is at 5:00, PUBLIC FORUM is
at 6:00. *SPECIAL* Outdoor Press Conference Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 5:00
pm.  The Press Conference will be held outside at the WNEC Sleith Hall
School of Engineering Entrance. Public Forum follows indoors from
6:00-8:00pm *

*Where:* *The 5:00pm Press Conference will be held outside at the *Western
New England College (WNEC), * Sleith Hall School of Engineering Entrance.
The Public Forum will be held at 6:00pm in *Western New England College
(WNEC), Sleith Hall, Rm S111, 1215 Wilbraham Rd, Springfield, MA 01119
Online directions are available at
http://www1.wnec.edu/visiting/index.cfm?selection=doc.1198  or www.sasea.org
then go to Files and choose “Directions-Map…”



*Press Contact:* John Kontekakis, SASEA Secretary: 413-785-5627,
john@...

*Interview Opportunities:* Telephone contact to interview speakers will be
provided upon request. Please contact SASEA Secretary John Kontekakis for
speaker contact information.

*Guest Speakers: *

*-Ellen Moyer, Ph.D., P.E., Principal, Greenvironment*

*-Margaret E. Sheehan,* attorney* *specializing in environmental law in
Williamstown, MA**

*-Chris Matera, P.E., *Founder,* Massachusetts Forest Watch (**
www.maforests.org* <http://www.maforests.org/>*)*

*-Jana Chicoine, Spokesperson, Concerned Citizens of Russell, (
www.concernedcitizensofrussell.org)*

*-Sean Jeffords, *Owner,* Beyond Green Construction *and* Western Mass Green
Consortium*

*-Doug Snyder, *Principal,* DS Greenbuild* and *Western Mass Green
Consortium *



*More Details: Topic: “**Dangers of Wood Burning Electrical Plants (Biomass
Incinerators) in Greater Springfield and Western Massachusetts”*



On June 16, SASEA has invited experts from across Massachusetts to speak
about the proposals for large-scale biomass power plants in Springfield,
Russell, Greenfield, and Pittsfield. Two of these facilities would burn
about a ton of wood a minute, and the Springfield facility proposed burning
construction and demolition debris. *Dr. Ellen Moyer, Ph.D., P.E.*, is one
of the top experts in Massachusetts on the hazards of burning construction
and demolition debris or ‘C&D.’ Dr. Moyer has also studied the environmental
impacts of burning C&D in biomass plants in Maine. *“C&D wood contains
hazardous chemicals and the last thing people in Springfield should want is
to burn it in their neighborhoods.”* said Dr. Moyer.



*Attorney Meg Sheehan* is examining the fuzzy logic of laws that allow
greenhouse gases emitted from burning wood in power plants to be free from
government regulation.  *“These proposed power plants emit fifty percent
more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal plants do. * Carbon dioxide
is the most prevalent greenhouse gas, and U.S. EPA says the carbon will not
be reabsorbed for hundreds to thousands of years. I want to know why our
government is saying burning is “clean and green” when it emits greenhouse
gases and makes global warming worse.”



Registered Professional *Engineer* *Chris Matera* of Massachusetts Forest
Watch has documented devastating clearcuts on public land with ground and
aerial photography, and has written a detailed 50-page report on the
      (continued) aggressive clear-cutting that has been occurring in public
parks and forests, with a supplemental report projecting the impacts to
forests if these biomass incinerators reach construction. (See
www.maforests.org) *“Our public forests are targeted for a ten-fold increase
in logging to supply wood fuel for these forest incinerators.*  I hope that
people understand that this industry would change beautiful western
Massachusetts forever, and not for the better. Imagine the pain of having
only patchwork fall foliage, or of not being able to go for a weekend visit
to a state park without checking to see if they are logging there.”



*Sean Jeffords* and *Doug Snyder* are two members of a consortium in Western
Mass consisting of businesses, organizations, homeowners, and individuals
calling for urgent action to retrofit our existing housing stock for optimal
energy efficiency (a.k.a. “deep energy retrofits”). Residential dwellings
account for 21 percent of U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse gas
emissions. Therefore, any sincere effort to reduce our nation’s dependency
on foreign energy and lower greenhouse gas emissions must include a
concerted strategy to reduce home energy consumption. This conservation
effort can eclipse any energy produced by Biomass Plants and produce many
more employment opportunities for the broader population.**

* *

*More detailed information on the dangers of Biomass Plants in MA can be
found at www.massenvironmentalenergy.org *




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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."


- Thomas Jefferson

more rebellion here:

http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

***************************************

CAPE WIND: RIGHT PROJECT/WRONG PLACE!!

Checkout The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm

Northampton, MA, Tuesdays, 6:30pm

Also on WMCB, 107.9, Mondays at 9pm.
http://envirosho.blogspot.com

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