Current Local Actions

ANNUAL MEETING of the Sustainability Action Network w/Special Guest Eileen Horn – please RSVP to paradigm@ixks.com

January 6, 2012
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Sunday, 15 January 2012, 5:30pm  
Panda Garden Restaurant, 1500 West 6th St., Lawrence, KS 66044

The Sustainability Action Network is very pleased to announce, Eileen Horn as the keynote speaker at our 2012 Annual Meeting.  As the Lawrence/Douglas County Kansas Sustainability Coordinator, Eileen has been very effective in the promotion of ideas and policies that make Lawrence and Douglas County Kansas a more resilient sustainable place to call home.  The pleasant atmosphere in Panda Garden’s private dining room will provide a great opportunity to share policy ideas with Ms. Horn for the upcoming year.

Come help us celebrate our 2011 achievements in permaculture, bicycle improvements, community gardens.  And we will elect new officers, ratify new policies, and accept new Board members.

And we have even more exciting programs planned for 2012!  Transition Re-skilling Workshop series; Common Ground Community Gardens; nine-day intensive Permaculture Design Certification course; four month weekly Permaculture Design Certification course; and more.

Since forming in late 2007, the Sustainability Action Network has been bringing to our community local solutions for transition to a sustainable economy. Everyone is welcome, non-members and members alike, so we hope to see you there!

10-10-10

October 12, 2010
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On Sunday, 10-10-10 there were over 7000+ actions all over the globe, congruent with the efforts of the 350.org effort to reduce CO2 emissions from the current levels of 388ppm down to 350ppm… 350ppm being the stated safe level of CO2 parity, and a level we can literally “live with”.

In Lawrence Kansas, we did a reprise screening of “Dirty Business:  “Clean Coal” and The Battle For Our Energy Future.   We had a nice little crowd, despite a storm blowing through right as the screening time approached (thanks for coming out in the rain, folks :) .

Our 10-10-10 action, was to submit comments to the Kansas Dept of Health and Environment (KDHE), in opposition to the rural electric cooperative, Sunflower Electric’s drive to get permitting for a western kansas coal fired power plant before the end of the year.  It’s been an issue going on for a few years in Kansas, and it’s coming down to the wire.

Rather than rehashing the absurdity of building this coal plant, at the end of this post you’ll find links to the excellent Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) website.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Do this. Submit your comments to KDHE. This isn’t an issue of politics… it’s an issue of health and safety, and not throwing good money after bad (Sunflower Electric hasn’t paid back decades old taxpayer funded loans for existing coal plants) for a power plant that gives marginal economic benefits to the state of Kansas, and sends hundreds of millions of dollars out of state in buying dirty coal for fuel… for electric power generation for the state of Colorado.

Learn more about this, and submit comments to the KDHE.

To submit comments to KDHE , click HERE (opens new page on GPACE website)

To go to GPACE and get the facts about this unnecessary coal plant click HERE (opens new page)

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