Program
meetings and Upcoming meetings
Green Gift Bazaar
Recycling and Disposal Questions/Answers
E-Drive
Dates and Results and
Law
Green
Jobs for America
Newsletters
November 2009
Archived Newsletters
Photos
from past events
River Conferences (2002-2004)
Sprawl
Basics
Illinois
Chapter
National
Sierra Club
Links
to Environmental orgs
Book group
Member Rich Keating is helping to organize a Sierra Club book group, an idea that has surfaced occasionally over the years. Environmental authors could range from Henry David Thoreau to John Muir, Al Gore to William Least Heat-Moon. Talk to Rich about your ideas for readings and meeting times and places. Please contact him directly at: (618) 656-3647.
- Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth
- Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources;
- Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment;
- Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
Cold Weather Preparation Tips
for your homes
7th
Annual Green Gift Bazaar
Saturday, Dec. 12th
10am-8pm
NEW Location!!!
Riverbender.com Community Center (lobby area of former downtown bank); 200 West Third Street; Alton, IL 62002
Free Workshop,
UPDATE: STAR Bonds Floodplain Development
Subsidies
New STAR bonds bill to be introduced next session
Lawmakers negotiating over a bill that would create a new funding option in Illinois and pave the way for a $1 billion development in the metro-east have come up with a new bill two months after Gov. Pat Quinn's amendatory veto of the previous bill.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Tom Holbrook, D-Belleville, said that after meeting and negotiating with other state legislators Wednesday and Thursday, a new bill has been drawn up that would create sales tax and revenue, or STAR, bonds as a another funding resource for developers in the Land of Lincoln. But Holbrook would not reveal the details.
However, he said the new bill will not be introduced during the veto session, which concludes Friday. Rather, the new bill will eventually be released to metro-east municipalities to get feedback. Then, the bill will be introduced in the next session.
WE WILL NEED YOUR HELP TO DEFEAT THE NEW BILL NEXT SESSION!
Our
battle against logging interests in Pere Marquette State Park!! Please
click on this address:
www.illinois.sierraclub.org/
piasapalisades/ll.htm
