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This issue will give you entice you to get
involved in the ecological crusade.
We have opportunities galore!

*SUMMER FESTIVALS Project
*EXCITING and EARTHY Opportunity
*Establishing a BIO-ENGINEERING Committee
*SUMMER READING: Link to book review of "The Growth Illusion"

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But first ... another reminder (how could you forget? :)

Chebucto Group is still looking for volunteers to help run our upcoming
election ... this is a great short-term project. RSVP to
chebucto.group@sierraclub.org

And it's not too late to volunteer as a candidate in our election for
Executive Committee (ExCom) members. Please contact John May at (902)
235-2822 if you haven't already.

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*SUMMER FESTIVALS Project
REPLY TO abarker@magma.ca

FESTIVAL SEASON!!!!

Want to attend summer festivals? We have a project for you!!!!

Sierra Club would like to have displays/tables at FESTIVALS across
ONTARIO, QUEBEC, NOVA SCOTIA, NEW BRUNSWICK, PEI, and NEWFOUNDLAND. 

This project is starting from scratch so your involvement would entail-
being or becoming fluent on our Environmental Issues, gathering materials
and finding exciting ways to get people to visit our table.  Maybe
shagadelic lighting or even- a free reusable shopping bag or Sierra Club
pencil... who knows but the possibilities are endless.

INTERESTED?????  contact Andrea Barker - 613-562-0778 or abarker@magma.ca

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*EXCITING and EARTHY Opportunity
REPLY TO eastern-canada.chapter@sierraclub.org

SIERRA CLUB, Eastern Canada Chapter
Now Offering Excellent Volunteer Opportunities

We have a major conservation campaign hitting the media now,
and another one about to begin.
THIS IS THE TIME!

This is the right opportunity for you, if you:
* have an interest in protecting the world around you;
* want great work contacts, skills and experience;
* want to have fun in exciting campaign work;
* want to be a part of one of the world's oldest and most respected
environmental organizations;
* live in Ontario, Quebec or any of the four Atlantic Provinces.

The Conservation Committee is looking for people to fill the following
positions:
* Committee Members: planning of conservation campaigns
* Community Activists: implementation of conservation campaigns
* Legal and Science Consultants
* Writers and Media Liaisons (press releases and conferences, media
events, reports)
* Fund Raising Liaisons

You can work from home or work in person with people in your area.
We have group meetings in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.
People not in those cities connect by phone and e-mail or fax.
We often have committee retreats and conferences throughout the region.

Please contact the Chapter office NOW!
We will put you in touch with a contact in your area.

Sierra Club, Eastern Canada Chapter
517 College Street, Suite 237
Toronto, Ontario M6G 4A2
Phone: 416-960-9606
Fax: 416-960-0020
E-mail: eastern-canada.chaptersierraclub.org

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*Establishing a Bio-engineering Committee
Reply to: Richard Isaac 

The Sustainable Planet Strategy Team (SPST) would like to establish a
committee to work on a range of bio-engineering issues.  Possible issues
for such a committee would be: 1) bio-engineered seeds (such as Monsanto's
"terminator" seeds), that produce sterile plants (forcing farmers to
continually buy their seeds from Monsanto);  2) plants biologically
engineered to be resistant to specific fungi, insecticides, and pesticides
(with the threat that these traits will be passed on through
cross-pollenization to other plant species);  3) human genes placed in
plants to produce human hormones;  4) new species created that are neither
animal nor vegetable;  5)  entire new ecosystems created to replace "less
economic" existing ones.  In the next century, we very well may be facing
a biological revolution, and we need to begin preparing sooner than most
of us in the Club realize. 

Richard Isaac
Sustainable Planet Strategy Team
(H) 973-716-0297

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*SUMMER READING: The Growth Illusion - Review 
REPLY TO: sustain@web.net

                THE GROWTH ILLUSION

        How economic growth has enriched the few,
                impoverished the many,
                    and endangered the planet

www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain/growth.html

        "The growth ideology is extremely attractive politically
        because it offers a solution to poverty without requiring
        the moral disciplines of sharing and population control."
                                Herman Daly

stainability Project - Inviting Debate
P.O. Box 374, Merrickville, Ontario
K0G 1N0
(613) 269-3500
e-mail:  sustain@web.net
http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain

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