About me: Friends of Nevada Wilderness is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving all qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness, protecting all present and potential wilderness from ongoing threats, informing the public about the values of and need for wilderness, and restoring and improving the management of wild lands.
Who I'd like to meet: People interested in learning more about wilderness and Nevada's wild places. We are also on the look out for anyone interested in joining us on one of our restoration projects.
Please visit our website www.nevadawilderness.org for a current list of upcoming events and projects.
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Feb. 17, 2009, will be a significant day in television history. That’s the day TV stations will no longer broadcast analog signals. This will allow public safety communications to use that part of the spectrum, but your old TV may no longer work with digital signals — unless you have a converter box (go here to get a coupon to use toward purchasing a converter box). Many old televisions may be thrown out because of the conversion.
Keeping your old set until it gives out is a good green choice, but if you decide to purchase a new one, the best option is to recycle the old TV, which can be complicated. Many old TVs contain a considerable amount of lead, so recycling them is not always a simple or eco-friendly process. To find a recycling option near you, visit Earth911, My Green Electronics or the EPA eCycling index. In addition, some manufacturers have recycling programs in place, and they’ll take back old TVs they’ve manufactured (if you have a brand that doesn’t have a recycling program, you can encourage them to start one). Some retailers also have programs to take old televisions if you buy a new one from them.
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Washoe County voters will be faced with ten ballot questions this election year. The following three are worth considering:
WCSD #1 - Raises the sales and use tax 1/4 cent beginning on July 1, 2009, for the purpose of equipping the Washoe County School District's older schools and making them safer and more modernized.
WC #3 - Amends the the Truckee Meadows Regional Plan and requires that local government development plans be based upon identified and sustainable water resources available within Washoe County.
RTC #5 - Authorizes the Washoe County Board of Commissioners to seek state legislation for the Regional Transportation Commission to obtain additional funding for transportation projects that reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, and repair roads in the Truckee Meadows.
Just as the Do Not Call Registry freed Americans from telemarketers, a Do Not Mail Registry would give us the choice to stop junk mailers from violating our privacy, wasting our time and damaging the environment.
MAY 20TH beginning at 4pm Aliante Library at Aliante Parkway and Deer Springs
MAY 29th beginning at 4pm Centennial Comm. Center 6601 N. Buffalo
You DO NOT have to be there very long. Just enough time to fill out a comment card, look (and maybe draw) on the maps they will have out. You only need to attend ONE meeting, although numbers showing up are impressive so I will be going to both!!!
Please look at the new maps on www. sheepmountainparkway. com When the National Guard complained about this road going over their firing range (as it had been designed several years ago), suddenly the parkway takes some strange turns down to CC215 at Lamb or Pecos!!! Now tell me, if the 215 can handle all of this supposed traffic at those points, why can't the 215 handle it the whole way???
Spread this email to everyone you know please. We need HUGE numbers to show up!!!
Thanks Jill DeStefano
Please sign this petition to preserve an Ice Age Park in Nevada!
I am not big into petitions but this one is to preserve an ice age park in the LasVegas area. There are countless thigs that we can all learn from this land and really we don't need to build anymore in the desert anyway. It would be nice to leave some natural for future generations instead of it being swallowed up by casinos, condos and golf courses.
Thanks, T.H.
On the online petition YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DONATE ANYTHING. Just go to
www. ipetitions. com/petition/iceagepark and after you put your name, email and any comments and click sign petition you will see a page comes up that says...."signature recorded" and a list of amounts. You are done. Just exit the site and no donation required. Anyone in the Country to sign this petition, registered voter or not.
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Together we can change the world! The time is now and if we dont do something, it will be too late. Do it for your children and grandchildren and the future generations, so they dont look back at us and ask us why we didnt do anything when we had the chance to make a change
EarthLab update!: JOIN US FOR THE EARTH DAY (MONTH) CHALLENGE!
EarthLab. com, Office Max, Vespa, National Geographic and many others are joining efforts to drive 1 million people to take the Earth Day Challenge in the month of April.
Take the challenge today (find out your personal carbon footprint by taking our 3 minute survey:)
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex covers more than 1.5 million acres. This is a much-larger-than-Delaware chunk of wild land in Western Montana home to grizzlies, eagles, mountain goats, and much, much more.
Big Salmon Lake
Protected as the crown jewel of America's National Wilderness Preservation System, "the Bob" serves as the prototype for all of the nation's 702 wilderness areas. Yet this priceless area is degrading. A recent Wilderness Watch analysis of 20 years of Forest Service monitoring data documented a chronic decline in wilderness values in the area. We will use our analysis to educate managers, interest groups, and members of Congress on conditions within the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
Our goal with this is to prevent degradation of the wilderness character of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. The management of wilderness in the Northern Rockies often sets the tone for the rest of the nation. In fact, “the Bob” is known as “the flagship wilderness” for that reason. As such, weakening wilderness standards here reverberate through the whole of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Wanted to stop by again and thank you for your support of the EarthLab foundation. We are really working hard here to help people lower their carbon footprint’s and we appreciate all the help we can get.
We can really gain awareness if you put us in your top friends!
Thanks again and don’t forget to tell everyone that has an interest in EarthLab, the environment or global warming to friend us:
Thanks for all your support of EarthLab, and global warming prevention. We totally appreciate your help getting the word out about lowering people’s carbon footprints.
We are still trying to gain friends on MySpace so if you know anyone who is interested in environmental conservation please have them friend us: http://www.myspace.com/earthlabfoundation
We also have the most widely used carbon calculator on the web at our home page.
3. Visit my comprehensive National Park Lover website at www. nationalparklover. com. This site is complete with National Park travel information and tons of photos to show you what you might see when you travel to United States National Parks. The web address is www. nationalparklover. com!
I am not big into petitions but this one is to preserve an ice age park in the LasVegas area. There are countless thigs that we can all learn from this land and really we don't need to build anymore in the desert anyway. It would be nice to leave some natural for future generations instead of it being swallowed up by casinos, condos and golf courses.
Thanks, T.H.
On the online petition YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DONATE ANYTHING. Just go to
www.ipetitions.com/petition/iceagepark and after you put your name, email and any comments and click sign petition you will see a page comes up that says...."signature recorded" and a list of amounts. You are done. Just exit the site and no donation required. Anyone in the Country to sign this petition, registered voter or not.
