Hi all, Next gathering: What a great gathering on Monday at Holly and Charles’ place! The next BCSL meeting, potluck and farm tour will happen at the home of Jeff and Nicole LaChapell on Monday, September 16th at 6:00 pm. Their address is 9700 Bellair Rd., Pilot Grove. Depending on the weather, the potluck may happen outside so please an bring alfresco friendly dish. Contact Nicole at [email protected]. Next public film screening & planning meeting: At the meeting, we agreed to move the screening of Genetic Roulette to Thursday, September 26th. That way, we have more time to plan. Your help on this project would be much appreciated. I propose we have a planning meeting on Monday, September 9th at 6:30 pm at Rose, John & my place (903 Locust St., Boonville). If you can’t attend, but would like to help with the screening, please feel free to contact me. Festival of Lights booth? We’ve been offered a free booth during each Thursday night of September for the Festival of Lights in Boonville. The catch is that we would have to organize a street clean up each Friday morning, following the previous evening’s activities. It would kind of be like Pick-Up Boonville. I personally do not have the time to take this project on. If anybody in the Coalition would like to head this up, please call Roz Gordon of Gordon Jewelers by this coming Monday (8/26) at 660-882-5512. Roz might be able to help round up some folks who owe community service for the trash pickup on those Fridays. Also, a project organizer could call Pattie Snapp with Probation & Parole for more people who need community service hours. By the way, if the Coalition took this on, we’d be considered a sponsor of the festival. If you’re thinking about it but would like more info, please feel free to call me on my cell phone. I for one, would be happy to volunteer but just do not have the time to organize. Announcements & events: Sustainable Living Fair: This annual event will happen on Saturday, Sep. 14th from 10am to 5pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia (2615 Shepard Blvd) and is a free event. Check out their website: slfcolumbia.org/ Holly shared: "I found the link to the carbon footprint reduction with cows story....so here it is. There are 2 videos in this story, and theTED talk we mentioned is at the bottom of this article. smallfootprintfamily/grass-fed-beef-and-global-warming/ Also we watched a powerful movie on netflix called CHASING ICE." Jen’s (my) sharing about the Flanagan South Tar Sands Pipeline under construction in Missouri: Those who were present at Monday night’s meeting asked me to send further information regarding the current construction of the Flanagan South Pipeline that would carry tar sands oil across Missouri, crossing the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers. My views may not necessarily represent all participants of the Boonslick Coalition for Sustainable Living. There has been a severe lack of media coverage and public awareness of the project, compared to the Keystone XL Pipeline. The difference between the two projects is that the Flanagan South project would not cross international borders or require State Department approval, thus fast tracking the project. In fact, construction has already begun in several areas including outside of Marshall. The following is a compilation of information to get you started. I encourage everyone to do their own research. I personally feel strongly that this pipeline must be stopped. Please feel free to contact me directly if you’d like to work together toward this end. The Missouri Coalition for the Environment presents a comprehensive analysis of the risks associated with the Flanagan South pipeline, now under construction in Missouri. They have initiated a lawsuit against the Missouri Corp of Engineers to try to stop it. They also highlight links to more info, including a map of where the pipeline is to be built, articles detailing previous tar sands pipeline leaks, and ways to get involved in helping to stop the project. moenviron.org/index.php/program-areas/clean-water-program/tar-sands-pipeline-enbridge “How Much Will Tar Sands Oil Add to Global Warming?” Jan. 23rd, 2013 by David Biello in Scientific American: scientificamerican/article.cfm?id=tar-sands-and-keystone-xl-pipeline-impact-on-global-warming Here is the website of the group that came to Columbia on the speaking tour I referred at our meeting on Monday. They also have a lot of great information. gptarsandsresistance.org/ In addition to the risk we in the Midwest are facing, there is much social injustice and environmental racism occurring in Canada, where the tar sands are mined. The mining is only possible through vast expanses of deforestation and strip mining in the ancient Boreal forest, much of which belongs to First Nation Peoples. "The INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK CANADIAN INDIGENOUS TAR SANDS CAMPAIGN works with Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters and environmental organizations, social justice organizations and unions for a coordinated and collective response led by concerned First Nations and Métis opposing the expansion of the tar sands": ienearth.org/what-we-do/tar-sands/ Additional articles: “Fresh ExxonMobil Pipeline Spill Hits Missouri” May 3, 2013 by Reuters rt/usa/exxonmobil-pipeline-missouri-spill-697/ “Enbridge Resisting Final Clean-Up of its Michigan Oil Spill” Jan. 28, 2013 by Lisa Song, InsideClimate News: insideclimatenews.org/news/20130128/dilbit-6B-pipeline-kalamazoo-river-enbridge-oil-spill-michigan-keystone-xl-epa “Two Months Later, Arkansas Residents Still Hurting From ExxonMobil Tar Sands Spill” June 3, 2013 by Rocky Kistner, Huffington Post huffingtonpost/rocky-kistner/two-months-later-arkansas_b_3378858.html If anyone would like links, opinions, articles, topics to be shared with the Coalition in future monthly emails, please send them to this email address. In the spirit of right relationship with people & the planet, Jen Davis 660-621-6383 jenniferdavis119@yahoo To be removed from this list, please feel to reply to the email with your request.
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