Environmental Events of Interest

Good Morning Neighbor:

I hope everyone is surviving this extremely warm week here in Georgia.  I also hope that everyone is surviving these unbelievable gas prices.  We are going to need a public campaign in the very, very near future to see what can be done in this arena - there will have to be an uprising of the citizens to say enough is enough.  I am wondering what our boiling point is going to be - $4.00, $5.00 or $6.00?   You can be sure it will be extremely high on my agenda in the State House.

Please see the Forum below that our Environmental Institute of Georgia is co-sponsoring in the coming week.  This is a free event and I encourage you to attend - we have got to start thinking as a community as to how to tackle this crisis.

Also, please see an attached flyer for an Environmental Camp for High Schoolers that EIOG is also sponsoring.  Our young people are going to have the opportunity to learn so much -  please encourage their attendance.  

Your neighbor,

Connie

WINNING OUR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

An Energy Insider Shows How

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

441 Freedom Parkway | Atlanta | 404-865-7100

Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 7:00 p.m.

SPECIAL FREE EVENT

S. David Freeman, legendary energy guru known as the "Green Cowboy," talks

about his must-read book that tells the American people the truth about U.S.

dependence on the "Three Poisons" -- foreign oil, dirty coal and dangerous

nuclear power. Speaking from a half-century's experience as an energy

industry and policy insider, Freeman asserts we have all the renewable

energy we need to wean ourselves from the Three Poisons and create a

sustainable future for our planet.

Trained as both a lawyer and engineer, Freeman helped form the Environmental

Protection Agency under Nixon and was key advisor to President Jimmy

Carter's landmark national energy policy. As Carter's appointment to the

Tennessee Valley Authority, Freeman cancelled nine nuclear plants that were

under construction and on order. Later Freeman headed Sacramento Municipal

Utility District, New York Power Authority and Los Angeles Department of

Water and Power and is currently cleaning up the Port of Los Angeles.

Q&A and book signing follow the talk.

Read more about Dave Freeman at www.thegreencowboy.com and

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS SPECIAL FREE EVENT ON JUNE 11!

Nuclear Watch South and Atlanta WAND host with cosponsors:

Altamaha Riverkeeper

Citizens for Environmental Justice

ECO-Action

Environmental Institute of Georgia

Foundation for Global Community

Friends of the Earth

Georgia Conservancy

Georgia Interfaith Power & Light

Georgia Rural Urban Summit

GreenLaw

Nuclear Information & Resource Service

Physicians for Social Responsibility/Atlanta

Savannah Riverkeeper

Sierra Club/Georgia Chapter

Southface Energy Institute

Sopobikes.org

Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Sustainable Energy Tribe

United Nations Association/Atlanta

Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper