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NYC Committees & Issues of Focus

Sierra Club NYC is concerned about a wide range of environmental and policy issues. Please feel free to contact beyondoilnyc@yahoo.com to request SC NYC support or guidance. We are all volunteers, so we may not have the capacity to take on all the projects that need civic attention. Contact the issue advisor or committee chair listed below: Political Committee – Harold Cohen, 718 998 0805 hcohen5608@earthlink.net. Conservation Committee – Diane Buxbaum, 718.855. 2399, ddbuxbaum@earthlink.net. Conservation issue contact persons: Air Quality: John Culpepper, 212-665-5569 Atlantic Yards Task Force: Lucy Koteen, 718-643-9219, irene.vanslyke@verizon.net Biosolids/Combined Sewer Overflows: Edgar Freud, 212-877-4394, elfreud@aol.com Brooklyn Bridge Task Force: Irene Van Slyke, 718.852.5668, irene.vanslyke@verizon.net Energy: Dan Miner, 917.319.2924, beyondoilnyc@yahoo.com Hudson River Waterfront/Estuary: Jim Lane, 212-697-8942, jamesmlane@aol.com NYC Watershed: Carolyn Zolas, 718 884 8482, zolas@optonline.net Parks: Geoffrey Croft, 212 987 0565, gmcroft@verizon.net Photography: Thelma Fellows, tfellows@earthlink.net Population: Audrey Bernstein, 212-777-8394, uniquenativecrafts@yahoo.com Solid Waste: Shannon Stone, 917-499-3307, shstone82@yahoo.com Transportation: Patrick Centolanzi, 718-268-3280, centolanzi@aol.com Urban Development: Olive Freud, 212-877-4394, elfreud@aol.com Watershed: Frank Eadie, 212-243-2319, eadie2act4water@aol.com Wildlife: Margaret Hays Young, 718-789-0038, hhayshound@aol.com

Energy Committee

Sierra Club NYC Report Prepares City for Higher Fuel Costs

Building on New York City’s PlaNYC 2030, the Sierra Club NYC report, “Sustainable Energy Independence for NYC,” prepares for sharply higher fuel prices, and their local impacts on transportation, heating, shipping and food costs.  Download at www.beyondoilnyc.org, or read an online version with links to all references.  Those wishing to join the list of endorsing organizations, or to arrange a presentation, may contact author Dan Miner, Sierra Club NYC Chair, at beyondoilnyc@yahoo.com.

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Population

A sustainable planet is unattainable unless we address overpopulation both in the United States and abroad. "The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report issued Thursday by the United Nations." (NY Times 10/26/07)

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Watershed

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Transportation

The Transportation Committee meets regularly to discuss transportation-related current events, technology updates, national trends, energy, national fuel security, and air quality, in order to make transportation public policy recommendations to the Executive Committee.  The Transportation Committee has also been involved in the active advocacy of transportation projects and programs across the New York City Metropolitan Region.

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Photography Committee

Read the Latest Issue of the Photography Committee's Newsletter

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Brooklyn Bridge Park Task Force

The Brooklyn waterfront is priceless property. When most of the waterfront industry moved to New Jersey, neighborhood residents realized that they had to come up with a plan to not only preserve open space, but design a vision for a world class waterfront park. Through countless meetings they decided on 13 "Guiding Principles" to develop the land as a public park.

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Atlantic Yards Task Force

The Atlantic Yards Task Force monitors the Atlantic Yards construction project.

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