Dear Michiganders, The infrastructure of Michigan roads is in the news and everyone knows they are terrible. This has resulted due to a lack of concern and many years of neglect. Citizens of Michigan will potentially have to pay an additional gas tax says “Michigan’s Governor Snyder.” Stuck between a bad economy and higher costs to live we must now make repairs. If this is any indication of how Michigan legislators have dealt with road maintenance then what do you believe will be gas companies intentions when old and non profitable well pads are abandoned. Left behind to obscure the land site, reeking with remnants of carcinogens. We have seen first hand what has happened in the Gulf of Mexico (more…)
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2013
Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan
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Jun
2012
Ecologist Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic documentary film. This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Sandra is not the only one who is on a journey—the chemicals against which she is fighting are also on the move. The film follows these invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America. These chemicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer. Steingraber calls on all of us to be carcinogen abolitionists, where instead of (more…)
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May
2012
Farms without Harm
Introduction: There are dynamic community and radical organizations that have been fighting what we now call the 1% for generations. Gail Philbin has been an advocate to end factory farms in Michigan. Presently Gail is the Assistant Director of the Sierra Club West Michigan Chapter. Summarized Biography: Gail Philbin founded Farms without Harm, a grassroots coalition of small farmers, nonprofits and individuals in Michigan, launched in 2005. That project led to the creation of the West Michigan Co-op, an online farmers market she co-founded in 2006 that connects local consumers with local sustainable farms all year-round. Farms Without Harm is a Michigan-based, non-profit network of concerned citizens, groups and small farmers that support safe, sustainable farming in Michigan. Formed in (more…)
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May
2012
Failure Perpetuates a Destructive Nature
How much do we really know about fracking First and foremost I want to express that I am no geologist, biologist, scientist or for that matter have no degrees that ends in ology. I do have a Master’s Degree of knowledge in what the words pollution, contaminates, and hazardous mean but then again we are all familiar with those terms right? What I know about Fracking, Hydrofracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is very little by comparison to the authoritative studies of professionals. The use of scientific studies of professionals can lead to a punitively and allusive logic, depending much in part on who monetized the study, respectively Government or Corporate sponsors and then you and I, the lack luster contemporaneous majority. (more…)
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May
2012
Hydraulic Fracturing in Michigan
The fracking frontline: a tale of two Pennsylvanias – video In what the Pennsylvania governor says will ‘level the playing field for gas exploration’, a controversial bill has been passed, rendering previous zoning laws void. With the new bill hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, can take place as close as 90 metres (300ft) from residential houses. This film visits Dallas township where the citizens’ engagement has kept the gas exploration at bay – for now guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 February 2012 Hydraulic Fracturing in West Michigan Newaygo, Mecosta, Oceana and Barry Counties An overview of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in Northern and Southern Michigan can be found at Watershed Counsil The Bureau of Land Management Friday issued a proposed rule (more…)
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Apr
2012
Earth Day Origin
Earth Day Mobilize the Earth 2012 Official Earth Week logo that was used as the backdrop for the prime time CBS News Special Report with Walter Cronkite about Earth Day 1970. Earth Day 1970 Part 1: First Broadcast (CBS News with Walter Cronkite) Most people who are aware of Earth Day probably don’t know the great people who rose to the occasion to to protect our Earth. This year the theme of 2012 Earth Day is “Mobilize the Earth” Earth Day is a day early each year on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more (more…)
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Apr
2012
Recycling-Alternatives in Motion
Recycling-Alternatives in Motion Environmental issues has not always been apart of Domestic Clean Up Services behavior. When we started to provide waste management in 1991 we and many waste haulers contributed tons of toxins and recyclables to the Kent County landfills. During the time there was little enforcement or concern about environmental sustainability. Kent County amongst many counties and states allowed for the legal dumping of pollutants. The very dumping of pollutants plague us today such as the two landfills Kent County manages with a shortfall of 48% of $800 thousand dollars annually according to Doug Woods director of Kent County Department of Public Works. It is no surprise to me that in a bad economy and the need to (more…)
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Apr
2012
Exhibiting Models of Success
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Mar
2012
Last Call at the Oasis-Documentary
Title: Last Call at the Oasis Sneak Preview of the film LAST CALL AT THE OASIS New Documentary about the Global Water Crisis features Erin Brockovich and Michigan Chapter’s Lynn Henning Thursday, April 5th @7:00pm at the Grand Valley State University – Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus GVSU Loosemore Auditorium 401 W. Fulton, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 *Featuring* LYNN HENNING MI Sierra Club Water Sentinel This film spotlights Lynn Henning’s Sierra Club work tracking animal factory pollution, which has gained her International recognition, earning her the International Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010 and a spread in November 2011 issue of “O” Magazine. Presented by Sierra Club & GVSU RSVP by April 2nd to the West (more…)
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Mar
2012
Kent County Promotes Earth Day April 22
Earth Day is April 22 Make every Day Earth Day > Commit to protect the environment > Take action > Learn-teach-share = New Generation of Adults that will take us beyond our future. Kent County is challenging teachers and students to actively collect recyclables. Drop the recyclables off at the new Kent County Recycling & Education Center 24/7. Get this if you are one of the top schools you will win a recycled plastic bench for your school!!! How cool is that? Thanks Kent County for your commitment, action, and efforts to educate the next generation of leaders in Kent County. http://www.recyclekent.org/
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