November 2018 Great Falls Group Cascade
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Calendar of Significant Events
Oct. 29 - Wexton - phone bank
Nov 3 - Wexton - Get Out the Vote
Nov 10 - Sup. Dan Storck's Environment Expo
Nov 10 - GFG Adopt a Highway Cleanup
Nov 10 -
Plant NOVA Natives
storm water forum
Nov 15 - Candidate statements due (elections)
Coming Up
Dec 2018 - GFG Elections
Spring 2020 - Clean Air Advocates
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Upcoming Events and Information
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Sierra Club for Jennifer Wexton
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Sierra Club VA Chapter Phone Bank
WHEN:
Monday 10/29, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Get Out The Vote - Final Weekend
WHEN:
Saturday, November 3. We'll be launching at noon (arrive at 11:45 am) and stay as long as you can!
WHERE:
Oak Hill/Franklin Farms Campaign Staging Location: 2938 Harvest Glen Ct, Herndon, VA 20171
QUESTIONS
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Jennifer Wexton, congressional candidate for Northern Virginia's 10th District
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Great Falls Group Elections
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The Great Falls Group is a local Sierra Club group within the Club’s Virginia Chapter. It is governed by a volunteer leadership group, the Executive Committee (Ex Com).
There are nine positions on the Ex Com, and each year some of these spots come up for election; this year, four of the nine positions are up for election. Group members are eligible to vote in the election.
Ex Com members meet monthly to set the Group's priorities, manage the Group's budget, collaborate with other local environmental organizations, and engage new volunteers. The Ex Com also works with our local government on local environmental issues.
The Great Falls Group covers most of Prince William and Fairfax counties, and all of Loudoun and Fauquier counties.
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Ballots (with candidate statements) and voting instructions will be in the December GFG Cascade.
If you are interested in running for the Ex Com, please send your candidate statement with biography and reasons you want to serve on the Ex Com to
Joe Apple
by November 15th. Also, send any questions you have to Joe Apple.
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Storck's Environment Expo
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Mount Vernon District Supervisor Dan Storck will host his first Environment Expo where we will explore how everyone can help save our planet, with the theme "Saving the Earth One Person at a Time". The morning will feature an Exhibit Hall with a variety of County agencies, service providers and educators, informational and hands-on workshops and screenings of the film "Hometown Habitat".
Join us for the morning to LEARN, ENGAGE and ACT to save our environment!
GFG will be tabling at this event. Contact
Norbert
if you are interested in volunteering.
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Saturday, November 10, 2018
8 a.m. - noon
Walt Whitman Middle School
2500 Parkers Ln., Alexandria, VA 22306
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WHEN:
Saturday, November 10; 9-11 a.m.
WHERE:
Jones Branch Drive between Westpark Drive & International Drive, Tysons Corner, VA
DETAILS:
Sierra Club/Great Falls Group will pick up litter and debris on 1.32 miles of Jones Branch Drive at Tysons Corner (home of McLean Hilton). Come out for great exercise, meet and mingle with other Club members, and help clean up a roadway. If interested, camaraderie may extend to breakfast afterwards!
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CONTACT:
Patricia Leslie at 202-316-0584
SPONSOR:
Sierra Club Great Falls Group
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“
Beautiful Solutions for Storm water Pollution”
Are you having flooding or erosion on your property? Could you be eligible for reduction of your storm water fee? Worried about run-off into our waterways? Come to our
storm water forum!
WHEN:
Saturday, November 10, from 10 a.m. to Noon
WHERE:
Arlington Mill Community and Senior Center, 909 South Dinwiddie Street, Arlington VA 22204
Attendance is limited so please
RSVP
as soon as possible.
Plant NOVA Natives is a joint marketing campaign of over forty private, public, and non-profit organizations and hundreds of individuals. Our mission is to educate the community and to promote the benefits to water quality and natural habitat of planting beautiful Northern Virginia natives.
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Source: plant NOVA Natives
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Native plants...
- Need no fertilizer
- Need no extra watering (once established)
- Need no pesticides
- Need no lawn-mowing!
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Climate Reality Presentation, with VA highlights
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WHEN:
Thursday, November 15; 7-9 p.m.
WHERE:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun, 20460 Gleedsville Rd., Leesburg VA
DETAILS:
Climate Reality Leader Paula Clements will give the slideshow presentation that depicts the urgency for climate action but is really a message of hope.With clean energy solutions like wind and solar getting more affordable, batteries getting better, and buildings becoming more efficient every year, we can see the way forward.
The presentation also will include information about Virginia's proposed new pipeline problems.
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Come learn what you can do to be a part of the solution and help create a future that we can all live with.
SPONSORS:
350 Loudoun, Climate Reality, Sierra Club/Great Falls Group
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There is a lot to like in the Northam Administration’s new Virginia Energy Plan. The
2018 Energy Plan
is all about energy efficiency, solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, clean transportation, and reducing carbon emissions. That’s a refreshing break from the “all of the above” trope that got us into the climate pickle we’re in today. Welcome to the 21st century, Virginia.
But Governor Northam shows no signs of transforming into a rapid-change kind of leader.
The fact that things are guaranteed to get worse before they get better (if they get better) is not a happy thought.
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Vehicle electrification gets a boost under the energy plan.
Source: Ivy Main
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As we celebrate the proposals in his Energy Plan that would begin moving us away from our fossil fuel past, we also have to recognize that none of them go nearly far enough, and missed opportunities abound.
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Creating Clean Air Advocates
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Children are more vulnerable to air pollution than adults. What can children do to protect themselves? A small scale air quality monitoring project is in its early stages. It will culminate in a student-led conference in Spring 2020.
Children with severe enough asthma miss school and fall behind their peers academically. Sometimes the triggers of asthma are environmental and out of the control of these young people. For example, some children live near highways, railroads, ship yards, airports, industry, energy production, incinerators, and other emission threats.
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If you are interested in getting involved technically, academically, financially, or other, please contact Elizabeth Spike at
iamespike@gmail.com
or call her at 713-256-3589.
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Send comments or questions to the
editor
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