North Texas Energy and Environment Club
Name: Texas Coal Ash EPA Hearing
Date: Sep 08, 2010, 11:00AM CDT
Status: Open
Come out and voice your concerns about the environmental effects of burning coal; coal ash.
Right now communities across the country are exposed to heavy metals such as arsenic, lead and mercury when hazardous materials from coal ash disposal sites seep into our drinking water. The result-- increased risk of cancer, learning disabilities, birth defects and other illnesses.
You can sign up to voice your concern directly to the EPA at the hearings or show up, learn some, and show support with your presence.
More information on how to sign up and the various events throughout the day can be found at
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=adv_bigpicture_coalash_dallas
North Texas Energy and Environment Club
Name: Green Drinks Dallas Screening of Tapped
Date: Sep 08, 2010, 06:30PM CDT
Status: Open
Dallas Green Drinks, a networking group for eco-minded folks, is screening Tapped at their September meeting. Before the screening a panel of renowned local water experts will be discussing water issues, and after the film local eco-conscious companies and organizations will share information about their work.
The DART Green line can be taken to the event.
About Tapped;
"Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article or commerce? Spephanie Soechtig's debute feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.
From the produces of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resouce that ought never to become a commodity; out water.
From the plasic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, the revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public's right to water."
Tapped
