READY FOR 100% cleaner, cheaper and healthier energy
This year Green Country Sierra Club partnered with Clean Cities-INCOG program to host our first NDEW event. We had a wide array of new EV cars available for test drives and dealer representatives with the cars. We also included many owner-owned EV cars. There is no one more knowledgeable than an experienced electric vehicle owner. The public gathered at Eastside Christian Church parking lot near 15th and Harvard to sit in, drive and have great conversations with the dealers and owners of EV's. Electric vehicles are the transportation of the future including cars, mass transit, buses, school buses and all sizes of trucks up to semi-trailer trucks. Our world is changing for the better!
Oklahoma City and Tulsa regularly have an F rating on the Department of Environmental Quality annual air quality report. Rural areas are much healthier with C and above ratings. We cannot allow our dirty air to continue because it is harming the health of everyone, especially the very young and very old members of our community. We could reduce our carbon pollution in urban areas by 70% if all vehicular travel was electrically operated. When you buy your next vehicle, please check out electric cars and trucks first. No emissions travel is excellent for our community and our people.
MEETINGS
All Green Country Group meetings and events are free and open to the public. Our monthly general meeting is held at 7 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month at the Linnaeus Teaching Gardens, Helmerich Classroom in the red barn behind the Tulsa Garden Center at 2435 S. Peoria Avenue, Tulsa, OK, 74114. (The meeting date is subject to rescheduling because of holidays, so please check our schedule!)
January 2019
Monthly Meeting: January 31, 7:00 pm - Linnaeus Garden Classrom (in the red barn behind the Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S Peoria Ave, Tulsa, OK 74114
We start the New Year 2019 with a kick-off with our focus on renewable energy resources. The Oklahoma Wind Coalition will be our presenters. Mark Yates, Executive Director of the OK Wind Coalition will give us an update of wind energy in Oklahoma. Come with your wind energy questions and learn the latest news in the wind industry in Oklahoma. We are #2 nationally in wind energy production coming right behind Texas.
The Wind Coalition, the leading advocacy organization representing the wind energy industry in Oklahoma and throughout America’s Wind Corridor, announced today the hiring of Mark Yates as Oklahoma Director. Yates will coordinate advocacy, education and community relations efforts across Oklahoma promoting the positive economic benefits that the wind industry is delivering to Oklahoma ratepayers and communities.
Yates said, “Oklahoma can power Oklahoma and I look forward to working with our community leaders and elected officials to build an Oklahoma that is energy independent. With our infinite wind energy and vast natural gas resources, we can end our dependence on imported fuels and deliver cleaner, cheaper electric power to Oklahoma citizens. Wind energy continues to grow in Oklahoma because it provides opportunity in so many ways. For farmers and ranchers, wind provides an opportunity at reliable income from their land. For communities and schools, wind provides needed funding. For every Oklahoma consumer, wind provides cleaner, cheaper ‘Made in Oklahoma’ energy. The future is bright and I am proud to be a part of it.”
- Tuesday, February 5, Legislative Session Begins!! If you follow environmental legislation, sign up for our Legislative Alerts on sierra club.org/oklahoma You also can join our Legislative Committee. Contact Steve Sanders, sjasanders@yahoo.com
- Saturday, February 16, "Plastic Out" Riverside Clean Up, 10-12 pm, Meet at the northeast corner of 31st and Riverside Dr. (just south of The Gathering Place.) Weather permitting and if water level is down. Check our facebook page for the latest news.
- Tuesday, February 19, Monthly ExCom Meeting, 6-7:30pm at Schusterman Benson Library, 3333 E 32nd Place.
- Thursday, February 28, GCSC General Meeting, to be determined. We meet in the Linnaeus Garden Classroom in the red barn behind the Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S. Peoria at 7pm.
- Saturday, March 2, "Plastic Out" Riverside Clean Up, 10-12 pm, Meet at the northeast corner of 31st and Riverside Dr. (just south of The Gathering Place.) Weather permitting and if water level is down. Check our facebook page for the latest news.
- Tuesday, March 19, Monthly ExCom Planning Meeting, 6-7:30pm at Schusterman Benson Library, 3333 E 32nd Place.
- Thursday, March 28, Monthly ExCom Meeting, 6-7:30pm at Schusterman Benson Library, 3333 E 32nd Place. Program to be determined.
The Future of Water in Oklahoma Is Under Attack!
TOUR OF KANSAS, OK
GCSC will be organizing a Saturday or Sunday day trip to take a tour of Kansas, OK to see and smell some of the Poultry Farms. We will coordinate with the community leader, Pam Kingfisher.
If interested, please contact Barbara VanHanken, sophiabkv@aol.com
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! EARTH DAY - SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2019!
EV Earth Day! The plans are coming together for the best, most spectacular Oklahoma Earth Day event in Tulsa.
Sierra Club Executive Director, Michael Brune will be our special guest speaker!
Follow us on facebook and our website to keep updated! It will be on the fabulous Guthrie Green again.
Stay tuned!
Ready for 100% Clean Energy Links:
Sierra Club: Storytelling Livestream with Leaders committed to Clean Energy
Electric car charging stations for Tulsa
"Ready For 100" Good News
Are you interested in seeing your city or town pursue renewable energy? Read up on what Sierra Club is doing, and then reach out to your local Group or Chapter leaders to lend a hand! Here is all the information on the Ready for 100% campaign.
Sierra Club, along with Michael Bloomberg, is fighting to move American beyond coal and focus on renewable energy. Bloomberg recently recommitted to work with Sierra Club. Here are the details. Check out the fantastic news!
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