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Retiring Big Coal withVehicletoGrid (V2G)
BY KENT ROWE, SOUTHWIND GROUP CONSERVATION CHAIR
VehicletoGrid utilizes your personal pluginelectric vehicle for transportation AND to poweryour home. The Electromobility initiative forumof the 2018 International Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC/COP24) adopted a three billion USdollar trust fund from the International EnergyAgency. Entitled “driv2e”; this technique providessmart charging to electric vehicles. Learn moreabout V2G technology and how it can benefit ourenvironment below.
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Top Story: Retiring Coal with V2GEarth, Fire & Water LuncheonFriends of the Kaw UpdateEducation Grants
Continuing Story: PFASWaters of US hearing postponedCoal Ash in KansasGroup News & EventsFeatured Waypoint: Mushroom Rock StatePark
news & updates
Let's Do Lunch! Join your Sierra Club friends for 'Earth,
Fire, & Water': A Special Event in Supportof the Kansas Sierra Club.
The Kansas Sierra Club will host aluncheon fundraiser and auction onSaturday, March 23, 2019, 11:301:30(CST), at the Baker University WetlandsDiscovery Center. Featured guest speakerShelly Wiggam will discuss prairie habitatand pollinators.
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Friends of the Kaw Riverbank
Restoration Project Update –
Winter 2018 Have you noticed a change to the
Lawrence River Trail (LRT) this year? Youmay have noticed the poison ivy was less“in your face” or that the honeysuckle wasdisappearing, giving the other plants roomto grow. You’re getting an inside view of anecosystem restoration.
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Great news for Kansas educators!
Grant Application Deadline: April 8, 2019 The Sierra Club Kansas Chapter is now
accepting applications for grants of up to$1,000 for Kansas K12 educators who areteaching their students about climatechange and its impact.
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conservation news
Continuing Story: PFAS in KansasFinished Drinking WaterBY ELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
The midJanuary meeting on PFAS with KDHEwas postponed until the federal governmentreopens, so representatives of EPA can attend.Recent articles in Politico reveal efforts by theDept. of Defense to slow the process ofestablishing PFAS water quality standardsprotective of human health. The most studied ofthe chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, have beenlinked with kidney and testicular cancer,hypertension and other ailments. They aresuspected to be contaminating at least 401military bases across the country where theywere used in firefighting foam, including Ft.Leavenworth.
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EPA “Waters of the U.S.” HearingPostponedBY ELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
EPA postponed the January 23, WOTUS hearingin KC, KS due to the government shutdown. The
formal notice of the proposed change in definitionof jurisdictional “Waters of the U.S.” has not yetbeen published in the Federal Register, which willstart the formal 60day comment period. SierraClub strongly opposes the proposed rule, whichwould put Kansas headwater streams, tributariesand wetlands at risk for pollution and physicaldestruction. Stay tuned for updates. For details onthe process, go to https://www.epa.gov/wotusrule.
Coal Ash Contaminants in KansasBY ELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
Utilities for decades have produced more than 100 million tons of coal burning wastes annually, containing contaminants like selenium, mercury, cadmium and arsenic associated with cancer and other serious health effects. Contamination has been found in 22 states at levels that would require them to prepare groundwater cleanup plans. Included is Westar’s Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Marys, KS, north of the Kansas River, a drinking water source for many communities. More info here:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012019/coal-ash-groundwater-contamination-map-arsenic-power-plant-utility-reports
New KDWPT Secretary NamedBY ELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
Governor Laura Kelly has named Brad Lovelessto be Secretary of the Kansas Department ofWildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), effectiveJanuary 14, 2019. Loveless comes to thedepartment from a 34year career with WestarEnergy where he was most recently the seniordirector of environmental conservation andsustainability. The Chapter looks forward toworking with Secretary Loveless on the KansasNongame Wildlife Advisory Council. Read More
group news & events
kanza group Kansas City and eastern Kansas
Kanza Group Updates: No general meetings are currently scheduled other than April 6 (see
WaterOne below); watch the Kansas Chapter calendar for updates.Members are always welcome to work with the ExCom. The next ExCommeeting is 7:00 pm February 28 and will include a short presentation byMike Armstrong, General Manager of WaterOne (details on calendar).
Kanza Group 2019 Officers:
Chair, Elaine Giessel; Vicechair, Craig Lubow; Conservation Chair, HaroldDraper.
SAVE THE DATE
WaterOne of Johnson County Saturday, April 6 | Atonement Lutheran Church
Sierra Club member Kay Heley was recently elected to the Board ofWaterOne, the independent public water utility that serves Johnson County.Kay has been helping coordinate a program on drinking water with theLeague of Women Voters of Johnson County and Kanza Sierra Club. Thejoint meeting is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, April 6 at AtonementLutheran Church. The panelists will be WaterOne General Manager MikeArmstrong and Kanza Chair Elaine Giessel. Save the date; details to follow.
UPDATES
KC Area “Drawdown” Efforts Saturday, April 6 | Atonement Lutheran Church
The Kanza ExCom has been exploring ways to work with otherorganizations and leaders to implement specific strategies to reverse globalwarming using the Paul Hawken book Drawdown (www.drawdown.org ).
ExCom members Adison Banks and Craig Lubow attended a “Drawdown”meeting in December, where over one hundred thirty area leadersparticipated, led by Roeland Park Mayor Mike Kelly and Shawnee Councilmember Lindsey Constance. Click below to read the full story.
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EcoRadio, KKFI Community Radio, 90.1 FM Every Monday Evening, 6:00 | http://www.kkfi.org/program/ecoradiokc/
Kansas Chapter leaders Craig Lubow and Richard Mabion continue to hostunique Kansas City Community Radio programs on a wide variety ofenvironmental issues for listeners in the KC Metro area. Join the audienceand help support their efforts to educate. Tune in every Monday evening at6:00 pm or listen to podcasts at http://www.kkfi.org/program/ecoradiokc/
southwind group Wichita and southern Kansas
Legislative Update with Zack Pistora Friday, Feb. 8, 6:30 pm | Great Plains Nature Center,
2200, 6232 East 29th St N, Wichita, KS
6:30 – Potluck meal. Bring a dish to share witheveryone. Be sure to bring your own table setting.
7:30 – Zack Pistora, Legislative Director for the KansasChapter Sierra Club, will fill us in on the changes to ourState House and our Senate and help us understandwhat we can do to bring forth the kind of actions we wantto see. Please plan to bring a $5 donation for programexpenses.
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topeka group Topeka
Legislative Update with ZackPistora
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. |Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4775 SW2lst Street, Topeka, Kansas
Zack Pistora, our Kansas Chapter LegislativeDirector, will be our February speaker for theTopeka Group general meeting. Zack will bringus up to date on the happenings at the KansasLegislature and elsewhere in the state. Zack isthe only fulltime lobbyist at the capitol forenvironmental causes, and has been a mostable spokesman for the Kansas Chapter for thelast six years. His program is alwaysinformative. Plan to attend and bring yourquestions for Zack. Questions? ContractDuncan Whittier at 7852493976 or [email protected]
A Winter Hike...continued Saturday, March 2 at 9:00 a.m. | 38.9271000, 95.4359000 Location
Details
Our January hope for a winter hike was put on ice by . . . winter. Undaunted,we will try again on Saturday, March 2 at 9:00 a.m. to explore the GeorgeLatham Trail near Clinton Lake in Lawrence. The George Latham HikingTrail is located on the west end of Clinton Lake in the Woodridge PrimitiveArea and is open only to hikers. The trail is named in honor of GeorgeLatham who was one of the founders of the Kansas Trails Council.
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wakarusa group Lawrence
Winter Vegan (PlantBased)Potluck
Saturday, February 23rd at 5:00 p.m. |Delaware Street Commons, 1222 DelawareStreet, Lawrence, KS 66044
We’ll meet in the large community building atDelaware Street Commons, a cohousingcommunity and cooperative neighborhood inEast Lawrence. Learn more about what it’s liketo live in this residential neighborhood! Plus, ourKansas Chapter Legislative Director, ZackPistora, will be on hand to give us an update onenvironmental issues in the legislature inTopeka. It should be a very interesting andinformative evening!
Please bring a plantbased dish for the potluck,with the recipe included. (The potluck is plantbased, so no meat, dairy, eggs, or honey.)We’re also asking for a $1.00 donation perperson for Delaware Street Commons to helpkeep the heat and lights on. Not up to cooking?Items like fresh fruit, hummus and veggies ortortilla chips are always welcome!
Contact Karin PagelMeiners if you have anyquestions or would like some recipe ideas andalso if you’d like to host a potluck in the future.
featured waypoint
Mushroom Rock State Park
One of the 8 Wonders of KansasGeography, Mushroom Rock is thesmallest, but one of the mostunique, state parks in Kansas. Thepark is only 5 acres but boasts someof the most unusual rock formationsanywhere. The rocks served asmeeting places and landmarks forNative Americans and earlypioneers such as John C. Fremontand Kit Carson.
Show us your favorite Kansasnature or wilderness area!
Submit a small description and aphoto (if possible!) [email protected]
Image credit: Mushroom Rock by Richard Voss
Waypoint submitted by:
Elaine Giessel
Park Address: Directions
Ave K, Brookville, KS 67425 Website
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Waypoints: noun. A stopping place on ajourney; an endpoint of the leg of acourse, especially one whose coordinateshave been generated by a computer.
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