BY MELANIE MARTIN A merica’s Redrock Wil- derness is a multi-media slideshow document- ing citizen efforts to designate public lands in southern Utah’s spectacular canyon country as part of the National Wilder- ness Preservation System. This 20-minute journey through re- drock splendor invigorates and motivates viewers to participate in the movement to protect these unique lands. “Wild Utah: America’s Redrock Wilderness” was made possible through the generous donation of photos, music and words from con- cerned Utahns who wish to pass this heritage onto future generations, including narration by Robert Red- ford. The multimedia slideshow will be shown in conjunction with a presen- tation on the status of the Utah wil- derness movement – including the current effort to protect the Greater Canyonlands region – by Jackie Feinberg, National Grassroots Organizer for the Southern Utah Wil- derness Alliance. This in- spirational and informa- tional event is a must see for people wishing to be- come personally involved to make the difference in this tremendous Ameri- can public lands conser- vation effort. Jackie Feinberg fell in love with the American West at the age of 10. After obtaining a degree in Envi- ronmental Studies from Bucknell University and working on pub- lic lands issues for the National Wildlife Federation, she has spent the past four years as the National Grassroots Organizer in the Wash- ington, DC office for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, an or- ganization dedicated since 1983 to protecting the remaining wild public lands in Utah. Suwannee-St. Johns Group Sierra Club Newsletter Published monthly except June and August om Gainesville, Florida VOLUME 41 • NUMBER 9 • November 2011 THE IMPORTANCE OF OUTINGS 2 WHY NOT ZERO WASTE? 4 EXCOM ELECTIONS 6 Wild Utah: America’s Redrock Wilderness Hatch Point. Photo by Tom Till. Gooseneck of the Colorado River. Photo by Jeff Clay/ Clayhaus Photography. GENERAL MEETING Thursday, November 3, 7:30 p.m. Entomology/Nematology Building on the UF campus, ** room 3118 ** (Just east of the Performing Arts Center. Turn south off Hull Road on to Natural Areas Road.) PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS JACKIE FEINBERG NATIONAL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZER FOR THE SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE Natural Area Drive Natural Area Rd. Surge Area Rd.
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BY melanie martin
America’s Redrock Wil-derness is a multi-media slideshow document-
ing citizen efforts to designate public lands in southern Utah’s spectacular canyon country as part of the National Wilder-ness Preservation System. This 20-minute journey through re-drock splendor invigorates and motivates viewers to participate in the movement to protect these unique lands.
“Wild Utah: America’s Redrock Wilderness” was made possible through the generous donation of photos, music and words from con-
cerned Utahns who wish to pass this heritage onto future generations, including narration by Robert Red-ford.
The multimedia slideshow will be shown in conjunction with a presen-tation on the status of the Utah wil-derness movement – including the current effort to protect the Greater
Canyonlands region – by Jackie Feinberg, National Grassroots Organizer for the Southern Utah Wil-derness Alliance. This in-spirational and informa-tional event is a must see for people wishing to be-come personally involved to make the difference in this tremendous Ameri-can public lands conser-vation effort.
Jackie Feinberg fel l in love with the American West at the age of 10. After obtaining a degree in Envi-ronmental Studies from Bucknell University and working on pub-lic lands issues for the National Wildlife Federation, she has spent the past four years as the National Grassroots Organizer in the Wash-ington, DC office for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, an or-ganization dedicated since 1983 to protecting the remaining wild public lands in Utah.
Suwannee-St. Johns Group
Sierra ClubNewsletter
Published monthly except June and August from Gainesville, FloridaVOLUME 41 • NUMBER 9 • November 2011
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BY DaVe WilSOn
A vibrant outings program is fundamental to the political success of Sierra Club because
it creates a knowledge and expertise among our members that can be found nowhere else. As I write this piece, my wife Della and I are on the second of two Trailways buses that are delivering us from State College Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C. While the first bus had a new “green” diesel engine and Wi-Fi, the second is last decade’s de-sign. Our stopover in Harrisburg was notable because of their failed incin-erator project (think GRU biomass!), which has led to a $500 million debt and current bankruptcy dispute be-tween the city council and mayor.
Upon returning to Gainesville, I picked up a copy of the Florida Alligator only to find that our very own Regional Transit System (RTS) had been awarded a $9 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to build a new
bus maintenance facility, which will be located on SE First Street. The main reason for the suc-cess is the 10 million riders in the past fiscal year - the highest per capita in the state. Since several candidates in last March’s city commis-sion election proposed disbanding RTS, there is a touch of irony in this success.
While one can be acquainted with an issue by reading, personal experience provides one with firsthand knowledge that is otherwise dif-ficult to obtain. For example, some 25 years ago, members of our local group organized an outing to the Occidental Petroleum phosphate mine at White Springs (purchased by Potash Corporation in 1996). The size of the drag-lines, hoses and trucks used in the project were gigantic. These tools of modern man had no problem creating a moonscape of the land. It would be difficult to understand the enormity of the project if you had not visited it. While not as large, Sierra also conducted an outing to GRU a few years ago, where we were able to see the coal cars, conveyer belts and operations rooms up close. It takes tons of coal to keep my light bulbs glowing.
While not a Sierra outing, Beazer East, Inc. held an open house at the Cabot-Koppers 170-
acre Superfund site last month. During the tour, the Beazer representative, Mitchel Brour-man, pointed out numerous efforts the com-pany was making to live up to its responsibili-ties as a good corporate citizen. He related that not only had the company repurchased the land to reincur their responsibility, but grass had been planted to control windswept dioxin infested dust and dirt from drifting into neigh-bor’s yards and “hot” water was contained in the surficial aquifer (i.e., between 8 to 27 feet below the surface). He repeated several times that this water is being treated at the rate of 80 gallons/minute. He also pointed to the lo-cations of a number of monitoring wells now in place.
While still under study, a proposed future effort includes a 5,000-foot, 65-foot tall long wall, which hopefully will block the flow of water from the site. A second proposal is re-mediation of soil in neighboring yards. While conceding the Kopper’s site will never be suit-able for residential homes, Brourman could en-vision commercial development in a decade or two. Additional information can be found at the websites of the Alachua County Environ-mental Protection Department and the EPA.
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BY WHiteY marKle
Governor Scott has man-dated the sale of “non-essential” public lands (all
of which would not have been set aside if they weren’t essential). Af-ter careful scientific analysis, the taxpayers bought these lands when the values were high. It doesn’t make sense to sell it now when land value is so low. Whoever sold it to us is the winner. If we sell it, we are the loser.
The Governor says these sales are impor-tant to replenish some “significant revenue deficits” among the Water Management Districts. What did he say? After negotiat-ing, litigating, bargaining, and paying over the course of 40 to 50 years, the people of Florida bought all this land to preserve Flor-ida’s water quality (and quantity), not to sell it for the sake of “jobs.”
“Never should non-recurring revenues be used to fund recurring expenses. It is a fun-damental rule of management that even a freshman legislator should understand,” said Sonny Vergara, former Executive Director of St. Johns River Water Management Dis-trict (SJRWMD), who is well-known for his
frank talk about Florida’s complex dilemma: how to balance the protection of our natural systems with the protection of private prop-erty rights.
One Manatee County Commissioner said, “Don’t eat your seed corn,” when refer-ring to the sale of these properties. “There are a number of valid reasons why any signifi-cant selling of these lands will be just another huge mistake by a clueless administration.”
In other words, if the goal is to protect the resources (next year’s corn), then selling the seed is out of the question.
So-called surplus lands should be identi-fied without political influence. Harty Harr Harr! There is an 8,150-acre parcel on the chopping block in southwest Marion Coun-ty (Halpata Tastanaki Preserve) that borders the Withlacoochee/Rainbow River water-shed.
Obviously this one is a big chunk of cash. Obviously, this is not “surplus.” Obviously, the goal of Gov. Scott is to snag as much money as possible for the Slush Fund (no-body knows where or how the money will be spent).
An alarm needs to be heard by all who care about Florida’s future in all respects, wheth-er it be quality of life, the economy or the state’s natural environment.
UPCOminG iSSUeS
The Clay/Putnam experiment (“Lake Aug-mentation”) will proceed under the direction of SJRWMD. Three schemes are in the mill at this point:
1. Drill the Subflorida aquifer and pump Lakes Brooklyn, Geneva,
Cowpen and Grandin full of seeping water.2. Pipe Black Creek out of Middleburg for
the same purpose.3. Pipe Jacksonville’s “reclaimed” water
into those lakes.The restoration of the Cockaded Wood-
pecker Habitat in the Ocala NationalForest (Federal) is on the table at the mo-
ment. Unfortunately, the restoration of the endangered woodpecker will also destroy the habitat (scrub) for our endangered Florida Scrub Jay. We are composing a letter in op-position. Stay tuned.
Unable to define “significant harm” to the environment, Southwest Florida Water Management District is on track to lower the water in the Chassahowitzka/Homosassa/Crystal River complex’s estuaries, which are winter feeding grounds for the Whooping Cranes.
The Geogia Pacific Refuse Pipeline is still on track to dump into the St. Johns River in Putnam County.
News from the Conservation Chair
On Nov, 5, we will have a Sierra Club outing to the Alachua County Transfer Station on Waldo Road. Directors of the facility, Sally Palmi (who spoke at our general meeting on Sept. 1) and Patrick Irby, will guide us around the site and explain their plan to increase the recycle rate from 43 percent to 75 percent While quite different from a paddle down the Ocklawaha, it should be quite informative. Please join us.
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Why Not Zero Waste?BY DWiGHt aDamS
If you are not for Zero Waste, just how much waste do you want?We produce about 4.5 pounds per person per day
of municipal solid waste (MSW), or about 1 ton per person per year, several times the rate for most European countries that enjoy similar standards of living. (In addition, the production process for the goods that we consume produces 70 pounds for each pound of goods.)
In Alachua County, we now recycle about 40 percent of our waste, and plans are in place to increase this to near the state-mandated 75 percent by the addition of anaerobic digestion of food and other organic waste. Why not go whole-hog and go for zero waste?
Only 1 percent of the “stuff” we buy is still in use after six months (see www.thestoryof-stuff.com). Our economy is built on consum-erism; how can we even approach zero waste?
The two most common management tech-niques for MSW used in the U.S., landfilling and incineration, are both disposal technolo-gies and are not consistent with the zero waste concept. In Florida, we have the indignity that incineration (waste-to-energy - WTE) is written into law as recycling, with a formu-la for calculation of the recycling credit that can lead to the absurdity of “recycling of over 100 percent,” a mathematical impossibility. Counties with WTE facilities are applying the voodoo recycling formula and proudly an-nouncing their new, greatly increased bogus recycling rates.
The Sierra Club rejects the idea that WTE is recycling on several counts. The amount of en-ergy extracted by burning the material (or any form of WTE) is less than 20 percent of what would be saved in recycling the material. The resources are destroyed and no longer available for producing new products, hence new virgin materials must be extracted to replace them.
This extraction process is highly detrimental to the environment and cannot be sustained.
Our system of extraction, processing, trans-portation, consumption and disposal is tied to core contributors of global climate change. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attrib-uted to consumption and waste account for almost 37 percent of total GHG emissions. The zero waste approach to eliminating waste is essential to reduce these GHG emissions.
Already 103 city mayors worldwide have committed to zero waste by 2040. The Eu-ropean Union has adopted zero waste for its 2020 milestone.
The leader among large US cities is San Francisco with a recycling rate of 80 percent, achieved with the addition of organics. Nan-tucket, the island with 10,000 permanent resi-dents, has achieved a 90 percent recycling rate, close enough to say they have zero waste.
Collection of organics is essential for such high diversion rates. These are managed by biological degradation that can be either composting or, preferably, anaerobic diges-tion followed by composting. With anaero-bic digestion, methane fuel is extracted in a closed container. The composted material is a valuable soil amendment that is beneficial for Florida’s sandy soils. It can be used as a pot-ting soil for plants, now Florida’s number one agricultural product.
Pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) fees for collec-tion of waste are an effective technique for reducing waste and increasing recycling that has been used very little in Florida. Under this scheme, fees for the largest 96-gallon trash can are several times those for the minimum size, 20-gallon can, with any amount of recycling material collected at no cost.
The Florida Legislature should delete the recycling credit for WTE and adopt a goal of zero waste by 2030 to augment the goal of 75 percent recycling by 2020.
HEY, IT’S ABOUT TIME I RECEIVED A
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NATIONAL SIERRA CLUB ENDORSES OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENTThe Sierra Club affirms its support for the exercise of political expression through the Occupy Wall Street protests. Corporations
that pollute our air, land and water, that put greed ahead of community good, public health and the nation’s economic well-being must be held fully accountable. In our work around the country, we have seen first-hand how international coal and oil companies have wrecked communities, polluted our environment, and dominated the political process. We stand with Occupy Wall Street pro-testers in saying “enough.” - From a statement published on October 14, 2011 by Sarah Hodgdon, Conservation Director and Dave Scott, Vice President for Conservation, connect.sierraclub.org
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Outing UpdateBY KnOX BaGWell
Thirteen hardy paddlers braved the 40-de-gree morning mist rising from the warmer, spring waters of the Ocklawaha River last
month on the SSJ outing. The day, which started out cool, would give way to a warm day on one of Florida’s most pristine waterways. For much of the scenery, it may have been similar to 17,000 years ago, when the river formed, following an ancient fault line formed millions prior, creating the very unusual high bluff banks on one side and low, river bottom land on the other, supporting a wide variety of large wildlife. Human’s footprints over the centuries limited our sightings to lazy gators, playful otters, sunning turtles and numerous water birds.
Experiencing this environmental wonder firsthand hopefully encourages all to be an active partner in pre-serving it for future generations. Unfortunately the St. Johns River Water Management District is proposing to pump from the Silver Springs area to surrounding coun-ties that currently have very minimal water conservation measures in place, all the while the average outflow from the spring is down almost 50 percent over the last 50 years. For your grandchildren’s sake, become involved in the local water conservation issues.
Photo by Knox Bagwell.
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ICO: Connecting Children with Nature
BY marYVOnne DeVenSKY
Because November is the Thanksgiving month, I want to give many thanks to all volunteers who participate in the ICO pro-gram, whether as SSJ outing leaders, UF TriP student leaders,
treasurer ,etc. Whatever your role, you are the foundation of the pro-gram. Seeing Richard Louv at Prairie Creek Lodge and then watching the film “Play Again” sponsored by Cinema Verde, I know that taking children in nature is vital to their development (physical, mental, spiri-tual, intellectual), and vital to any conservation movement Sierra Club wants to promote. So thank you!
YOUtH SUmmitOn October 8, SSJ Sierra/ICO participated in the second annual Youth
Summit. It was a successful event where several dynamic students engaged others in doing what is right for the environment. SSJ Sierra promoted its plastic “Bottle Battle” campaign, and several students signed up to complete projects by February 1, 2012. Let us know if you are interested in volunteer-ing to judge their projects. This will not take much of your time, but I feel it would be great to have some new members participate in this project.
SPeCial iCO OUtinG WitH larS anDerSOn – Date HaS CHanGeD tO SatUrDaY, nOVemBer 12.
We will meet at Lars Anderson’s outfitter shop in High Springs around 9:00a.m. Then we will go canoeing on the Santa Fe River down to Rum Island for two hours. We will take about 10 to 14 elementary school and high school students down the river and have a picnic afterwards. The outing will be an easy paddle, and we should be finished by 1:00p.m.
SPeCial BlUeBerrY PanCaKe BreaKFaSt iCO FUnDraiSer at laKe FOreSt elementarY, 8:30-11:30a.m., SatUrDaY, nOVemBer 19
You are all invited to this special event where I would love our members to meet ICO students. The school is at 4401 SE 4th Ave. in Gainesville. Tickets are $3.00, but donations of any amount are gratefully accepted. This is our first fundraiser, and we would like it to be a success, as well as a fun event.
Joined 1982, motivated by James Watt. Conservation Committee first year, CC chair next year, then Group Chair two years, Excom through present. Worked on solid waste & recycling at local, state, and national level (national commit-tee chair two years) and growth manage-ment. Leading role in Alachua County comp plan “battles” for 20 years, Liaison in various cases. Florida Wildlife Federa-tion “Land Conservationist of Year” award for stopping massive RV camping site on Suwannee. Founding chair SSJ Global Warming Committee. Sierra Club Flor-ida legislative committee, conservation advisory team, chair waste minimization campaign, 75% recycling.
I joined the Sierra Club to go on out-ings in 1997, when I lived in Palm Beach County. There I became a member of the Loxahatchee Excom group in 1999. In the last 10 years, I have been Outing Leader, Education chair, and Group chair. After moving to Gainesville in 2007, I helped start the Gainesville Inner City Outing program because I think being outside, exploring and enjoying nature should be part of every child life. I want to continue serving on the SSJ Excom.
A native of Gainesville since 1988, Daniel is currently an Environmental Sci-ence student at Santa Fe College. Daniel is employed as a Vet-Tech at the Alachua County Humane Society and also as Santa Fe College’s Student Government Sustain-ability Director. Daniel is the acting Presi-dent of “Saints for Sustainability” and the Executive-Vice President of Santa Fe Col-lege’s “Circle-K International” Club. As a member of the Sierra Club, Daniel hopes to help preserve and protect of the lakes,
rivers and streams that he grew up around, while encouraging others to join the fight for the environment as well.
Having lived in Gainesville for 16 years, I have watched with deep sadness as our city has become less of what we used to be known as: “the tree city.” As a local busi-ness owner and strong advocate for the en-vironment, my first priority is to be certain that my business model supports the ideals of sustainability. I was a board member and Treasurer for the Coalition for Responsible Growth which successfully stopped the Springhills Development. I am currently serve on SSJ’s Excom as Programs Chair.
Since joining the SSJ Group, I have worked on several important regional is-sues: The Ocklawaha River and Airboat Noise. I am on the steering committee for the Smart Growth Coalition in Marion County, I’ve attended membership and Fundraising training in San Francisco, multiple Water-related workshops, and association meetings in Putnam, Mari-on, Alachua, and Levy Counties (PCEC, SGC, SJRWMD, and W.A.R.), I’ve also been successful in my efforts to curb Air-boat noise. If re-elected, I’ll continue our efforts to save and preserve the resources in North Central Florida. Please re-elect me.
I was born in Gainesville where I grew up appreciating the natural Florida. I graduated from UF in 2003 and ASU in 2006 with a Masters in Architecture. I proceeded onwards to Seattle where I prac-ticed architecture for a small firm before joining with a sustainable consulting firm until the economy tanked. There I met my fiancé and her 14 year old daughter.
We moved back here to be closer to fam-ily. Currently I am a substitute teacher. I am interested in learning more about my home and protecting what I love here for future generations to enjoy.
Growing up in the Florida Keys, I was in-volved in number of activities that taught me the necessity of conserving & protect-ing our valuable natural resources and the environments that encompass them. These experiences also lead to me finding my true calling in life and pursuing my B.S. in Natural Resources (will graduate in sum-mer 2012). I have been writing a monthly nature article for the SSJ Sierra Club news-letter for over a year and feel that I could also serve as a good fundraiser to help raise funds and awareness for our community.
Special education teacher for Levy County homebound handicapped stu-dents. Worked on campaign against the Newberry cement plant; on Charter One Amendment to allow Alachua County to have stricter environmental regulations than the state; to elect environmental can-didates to the Alachua County Commis-sion, including Mike Byerly; on campaigns to prevent major industrial development, including those of Robbins and Kosman-Rothseiden. Worked to support the Co-alition for Responsible Growth in their fight to prevent the Spring Hills develop-ment. Served on EXCOM for ten years: Political, Newsletter Folding and Nomi-nating Committees and newsletter editing. For the past eight years, serving as Events Coordinator.
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SUWANNEE ST. JOHNS GROUP SIERRA CLUB ELECTION FOR
2012-2013 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Each year, the Suwannee-St. Johns Group Sierra Club holds elections for Executive Committee (ExCom) members. The ExCom makes decisions concerning the Group’s policy and direction and it represents the Group on a local level. We have a total of 15 ExCom officers serving staggered 2-year terms. This year we will be electing 8 officers. We do not elect members for particular positions, only as members at-large. Then the new executive committee appoints its members to the various positions (eg Chair, Conservation Chair, Secretary, etc).
Voting Instructions: Indicate your choices by checking the line in front of the names of the candidates.
Each member may cast one ballot, voting for no more than eight (8) persons. Joint memberships (as indicated by a “J” after the 3305 on the top line of your address label on the back of this page) are entitled to 2 votes. The second column on the ballot is provided for this. Do not vote twice if you do not have a joint membership.
Mailing Instructions: Remove this page from the newsletter and fold the ballot so that your
membership label appears on the outside. Place the ballot in an envelope and mail to: Sierra Club Election Committee, C/O Roberta Gastmeyer, 4118 NW 69th St, Gainesville FL 32606.
Ballots must be received by December 3, 2011. Please be sure to mail your ballot in time to allow
delivery by that date. If you have any questions about this procedure, contact Roberta Gastmeyer at 352-336-2404 or [email protected].
To protect your confidentiality, after confirming your membership, election committee members will
remove the label portion before opening the rest of the ballot.
Ballots will be counted on December 6th at 5:00pm at Roberta Gastmeyer’s house at 4118 NW 69th St, Gainesville. This meeting is open to all Sierra Club members. You may call Roberta at 336-2404 for directions.
Use this column for single memberships or the 1st voter in joint membership households.
*Vote for up to, but no more than, 8 candidates*
Use this column only for 2nd voter in joint membership households.
NOV. 3—SSJ Sierra Club Group general meeting, Thursday, 7:30pm, in the Entomol-ogy/Nematology Building on the UF campus, room 3118. See Pg. 1 for details. NOV. 5—SSJ Outing, Transfer Station, Saturday, 9:00am to 10:00am, Leveda Brown Environmental Park. See Pg. 7. NOV. 10—SSJ Sierra Club Executive Committee meeting, Thursday, 7pm, at the Santa Fe College Downtown Gainesville Campus Board meeting room.
NOV. 12—ICO Outing with Lars Anderson. See page 5 for more details.
NOV. 12 & 13—30th Annual Downtown Community Arts Festival in downtown Gaines-ville.
NOV. 19—ICO Pancake breakfast fundraiser at Lake Forest Elementary. See page 5 for more details.NOV. 25—7PM, Folding Party for the December newsletter at Dave Wilson’s home. 905 NW 7th Lane. Call 377-5250 for directions
