TOWN HALL MEETING

... on Climate Change and Green Jobs
Moderated by: Gene Norman
Chief Meteorologist, KHOU Channel 11

WHERE Communications Workers of America, Local 6222
1730 Jefferson Street, Houston, TX 77003

WHEN Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Registration will open at 5:30 p.m. and refreshments will be
provided.

INFO For more information, contact:
Dallas Jones or Brandon Dudley
Office of Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis
713-236-0306
Dallas.Jones@senate.state.tx.us
or
Royce Brooks
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
202-789-3528
rbrooks@jointcenter.org

Co-Sponsors: Congressman Al Green, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, State Sen. Mario Gallegos, Rep. Garnet Coleman, Rep. Sylvester Turner, Rep. Ana Hernandez, Rep. Alma Allen, Rep. Carol Alvarado, City Councilmember Ronald Green, City Councilmember Jolanda Jones, NAACP - Houston Branch, American Association of Blacks in Energy- Houston Chapter, Houston Citizen's Chamber of Commerce, Houston Area Urban League, Public Citizen, Environment Texas, Defense Fund, Sierra Club, Houston ACORN

Upcoming Houston EVENTS

CLEAN is featuring Manufactured Landscapes as part of our 2008 Environmental Film Series.

Manufactured Landscapes is the portrait of one man’s voyage as it follows celebrated still photographer Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia. Burtynsky takes large-format stills of industrial landscapes: factory workers lined up in infinity, giant ships eviscerated, massive recycling dumps, expansive strip mines. His goal is to portray humanity’s relationship to nature as we pursue progress. When Burtynsky speaks, he neither celebrates or condemns but simply explores who were are in relation to our planet. We extract things from the environment to survive, and that is damaging the world.

When: February 20th @ 7 pm
Where: Rice Media Center, Rice University (Entrance #8 located at Stockton and University Blvd.)
Fee: None, however, donations will be accepted at the door.

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More on upcoming film screenings




Land Use in Houston:The Gulf Coast Institute, Blueprint Houston, Houstonians for Responsible Growth, and the Greater Houston Partnership will sponsor a free public forum about land use issues in the City of Houston.
Listen, learn, and help decide Houston’s future.

WHEN: February 26th from 5:30-7 pm
WHERE: George R. Brown Convention Center.
For More information, see invitation

Houston and Nuclear

To follow on a recent GTH post on Nucluear energy I thought I would draw attention to a recent article in CLEAN (The Citizens League for Environmental Action Now):

The Dirt on Nuclear Power
by Vicki Wolf, February 2008

....NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) has applied for the licensing of two new nuclear reactors for the South Texas Project in Matagorda County, near Bay City. Seven more new reactors are proposed for Texas. But these plants don’t need to be built. According to Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., an electrical engineer, specialized in controlled nuclear fusion, there is no need to rely on the dirty energy of nuclear, fossil fuel or biofuels made from food crops for future energy needs. He has systematically analyzed the energy situation and found it is quite possible to have a clean energy future, relying on efficiency, conservation and clean, renewable technology.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE
comments/editorial: Pause for Precaution...

UTNE Magazine had a great article with the pros and cons of nuclear worth a read titled ATOMIC DREAMS.
I thought it was pretty thorough.