May 2019 Great Falls Group Cascade
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Significant Events Calendar
May 2
- North County Supervisor Candidate Forum
May 5
- Mother's Day Climate Rally
May 9
- South County Supervisor Candidate Forum
May 13
- Online Supervisors Chair Candidate Forum
May 13
- Composting and Vermiculture
May 18
- Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Rally
June 5
- Supervisor Chair Candidate Forum
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Upcoming Events and Information
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Community-Wide Energy and Climate Action Plan
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In a key success for the Sierra Club Great Falls Group, the
Budget Committee of the
Board of Supervisors voted April 26th to support funding for new staff and contract resources necessary to develop a Community-Wide Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP). This plan is necessary to address the 97% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the County from the private sector and to develop a roadmap to meet the County’s GHG reduction goals.
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On April 2 the Environmental Committee expressed strong support for additional funding of approximately $277,000 for two new staff members to lead the development of the CECAP and for contractor funding of $600,000 to $1.4 million. Support came from all members of the Board, including Budget Committee Chair, Jeff McKay.
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The United Nations is negotiating an historic
Global Ocean Treaty
. And in April 2019, Greenpeace and leading biologists released
30×30: A Blueprint For Ocean Protection
, a groundbreaking study on how to protect more than a third of the world's oceans by 2030.
Photo: © NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
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Board of Supervisors Candidate Forums on the Environment
Related to June 11th Primary Elections
Candidates will discuss their platforms on environmental issues and
answer questions from the audience.
NOTE: The Sierra Club is not supporting or opposing any of the candidates featured at the time of the forums but may be endorsing some of these candidates before the June 11 primary.
May 2 - North County
Dranesville, Hunter Mill, Providence, and Sully Districts.
May 9 - South County
Braddock, Lee, Mason, Mount Vernon, and Springfield Districts.
May 13 - Online Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair
NOTE: The Sierra Club expects to be endorsing a candidate for Board Chair prior to the time of these forums.
June 6 - Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair
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Mother's Day Climate Rally
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WHEN:
Sunday, May 5, 2-3:30 pm
WHERE
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Fairfax City Hall Amphitheater
DETAILS:
Speakers! Music! Kids’ activities! Rally for the Virginia Green New Deal and a safe climate for our kids to grow up in. Our goal is to help to convert Virginia to 100% clean energy by 2050. We fervently believe that the only way to protect our children (and our children’s children, and their children…) is to fight for the future of their planet.
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SPONSORS:
Sierra Club Great Falls Group, 350 Alexandria, 350 Fairfax, 350 Loudoun, CCAN, Climate Reality Project-NoVA Chapter, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions, Food & Water Watch, Greater Prince William Climate Action, Green Muslims, Herndon-Reston Indivisible, Moms Clean Air Force, Mothers Out Front, Network NoVA, Our Revolution, Arlington, Alexandria and NoVA, VA Student Climate Coalition GMU
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Composting 101 and Vermiculture
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WHEN:
Monday, May 13; 6:30-8:30 pm (snacks 6:30, presentation 6:45)
WHERE:
Providence Community Center, 301 Vaden Drive, Fairfax, VA
DETAILS:
Composting is great for your garden and the planet, reducing trash sent to landfills. Come hear the best way to start, what’s best to use, and what’s best to avoid. Our speaker will share the most memorable successes and failures of her ten years of experience in vermiculture composting.
RSVP
SPONSOR: Sierra Club Great Falls Group
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Herring, Stand with Appalachia: No Mountain Valley Pipeline!
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WHEN:
Saturday, May 18, 1-3 pm
WHERE:
Leesburg Courthouse
DETAILS:
Rally with us in the hometown of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and
encourage him to rise above the incompetence, corruption, and climate consequences associated with fracked gas pipelines.
SPONSORS:
POWHR (Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights), Indivisible NoVA West, 350 Loudoun, Great Falls Group Sierra Club, Northern Virginia chapter of the Climate Reality Project, Indivisible Northern Virginia, Fauquier Indivisible, Food and Water Watch.
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Spotlight on Earth Day Cleanup
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Adopt a Highway Cleanup on Earth Day, April 22, 2019
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For our Earth Day Adopt-A-Highway clean-up on Jones Branch in Tysons, some of the uncustomary items we found were a child's sock, a woman's leather glove, part of a car grill, a broken umbrella, and plastic eye protectors.
Rather than buying new, join us at our fall cleanup and find free things on the highway curbs and rights-of-way which you may need! Watch for the announcement for the fall clean-up in August.
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