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Fellow paddlers: This is a rebroadcast of a message I sent a couple of months ago, plus a little more. The first little more is to tell you that GCA now has 44 email contacts of record with the Georgia Envionmental Action Network (GEAN). We need 50 to be a fully accredited voting member of GEAN. Please read below the importance of us becoming voting members. Please read below that relevant minutes from the GEAN Steering Committee meeting I attended on Tuesday in Atlanta. Can six of you please belly up to the bar, log on to www.protectgeorgia. www.protectgeorgia.net Dan MacIntyre Fellow Paddlers: We have an opportunity for the paddling community to obtain a seat a a very important table. We need your help to do that. A principal communication mechanism for the environmental community in Georgia is the Georgia Environmental Action Network (GEAN). GEAN has developed an utilizes very effectively a powerful communications tool. They will send to anyone who subscribes to their service an email alert when an important environmental issue is being decided and your input is needed. The email will include a briefing on the issue and the decision that is about to be made. The email will also include a template of an email you can send to support the pro-environment side of the issue. The magic of this communications mechanism is twofold. First, you can edit the proposed communication in any manner you wish, or delete it entirety and compose your own email from scratch. Secondly and uniquely, GEAN will deliver your email to exactly the person or persons who need to receive it. Since the receiving person will often be your state Senator or Representative, you will need to give GEAN your home address so they can identify who your senator and representative are. Obviously GEAN must also have your email address. GEAN is managed by a steering committee made up or one representative from each member organization. It is this steering committee that determines what issues will be the subject of emails and prepares the briefing on the issue and the proposed communication to the decision maker(s). The Georgia Canoeing Association has been selected to become a member of GEAN and provide a representative to the steering committee. To qualify for this membership, at least 50 individuals must sign up to receive the environmental alert email and identify themselves as members or friends of GCA. If you are not currently a GEAN subscriber, you need to go to www.protectgeorgia. Having done that, continue to follow the directions. You will then become a recipient of the GEAN email alerts and will have this communication mechanism through which to make your views know to the critical decision maker(s) on the issue at hand. You will also have helped GCA be one person closer to having a seat at the table where it is decided what issues are to be the subject of alerts, how those issues will be briefed and what initial proposed message will be prepared. If you are already receiving GEAN alerts, you need to go to www.protectgeorgia. Please help our club and the environment of our state by joining the GEAN alert system. If you have any questions or concerns, I would be glad to discuss them with you by email or telephone. Dan MacIntyre Highlights from 2009 1st Quarter Georgia Environmental Action Network Steering Committee Meeting January 6, 2009 ‧ GEAN includes the following participating organizations: Altamaha Riverkeeper Center for a Sustainable Coast Coosa River Basin Initiative Georgia Canoeing Association Georgia Conservancy Georgia Conservation Voters Georgia Forest Watch Georgia River Network Mothers & Others for Clean Air Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper Savannah Riverkeeper Soque River Watershed Association Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Satilla Riverkeeper Sierra Club, Georgia Chapter Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Georgia Canoeing Association and Soque River Watershed Association are in the process of becoming participating organizations, and will officially be member organizations once they have 50 members signed up in the system. ‧ The most successful GEAN alerts of 2008 were: × Stop ATV drivers from Harming Private Property and Ruining our Streams and Rivers 2009 1st Quarter Priorities (Legislative Priorities) and other Q1 alerts Q1 Priorities: × Accept No Rollbacks <http://www.gavoters extending moratorium on aquifer storage and recovery, Targets: Legislators × Fund Public Transit Choices <http://www.gavoters > , Targets: Legislators × Water efficiency and conservation, Targets: Legislators × Make Our Highways Safe and More Scenic <http://www.gavoters enice.htm> , Targets: Legislators × Create a Climate Action Plan <http://www.gavoters > , Targets: Legislators Other Potential Q1 Alerts × Metro District Comments, Target: MNGWPD public comment email address or MNGWPD members, Author: UCR × WCIP – possible; To be discussed further. × Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) legislation, Target: legislators × Stimulus Package to include green infrastructure, Target: state legislators as well as possible alert targeting Congress. × Coastal Marshland Protection Committee rulemaking, Target: Coastal Marshland Protection Committee members × Protect Jekyll Island Beaches from Development and Renew Coastal Zone Protection × Keep the Chattooga Wild & Scenic |
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