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Author Archives: Martin
Town Hall Wall 4-21-13
Comments posted (almost all are by other exhibiting groups) on the Town Hall Wall featured at the Alliance’s info table, Earth Day on the Greenway, SouthSide Bethlehem, 4-21-13, in response to question: “What Goals Would You Include in a Sustainability … more
Town Hall Wall 4-19-13
Comments posted (almost all are by other exhibiting groups) on the Town Hall Wall featured at the Alliance’s info table, Muhlenberg College, Earth Day, 4-19-13, in response to question: “What Goals Would You Include in a Sustainability Blueprint for the Lehigh … more
Posted in Sustainable Living
April 18, 2013 – Sustainability Doings – “¡Presente!”
Honoring life on Earth Day and Every Day. Perhaps a sobering starting point for us as we begin each day would be to think of the thousands and thousands – millions? – of innocents killed by those carrying out senseless, sadistic … more
Allentown
Clean Air Ordinance vs. Waste-to-Energy Incineration 4/15/13 – From Mike Ewall: WE DID IT!! 1, 487 new signatures to be filed tomorrow We collected and got notarized 1,487 signatures by today’s deadline, and will be filing them with the city tomorrow … more
PA Judge: Corporations Are Not “Persons”
A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control Pennsylvania judge holds that corporations are not “persons” under the Pennsylvania Constitution By Thomas Alan Linzey, Esq., Executive Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund March 28, 2013—To protect small … more
Posted in Community – Government & Rights, Community Rights, Corporate Personhood, Democracy, Environment & Ecosystems, Environmental Health, Justice System, Resource Extraction, Rights of Nature | Mother Earth, Shale gas, Water & Watersheds
Tagged CELDF, civil disobedience, Community Bill of Rights, community rights, fracking, rights of nature, Shale gas, toxic waste
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“We believe a sustainable world is predicated on transforming economic, social, and political relationships that have been based on systems of conquest toward systems based on just relationships with each other and with the natural world. As our mission states, … more
Posted in Rights of Nature | Mother Earth
PA DEP cancels meeting re: water testing report deficiencies
From Karen Feridun, Berks Gas Truth, 2/4/13, re: DEP Secretary cancels meeting with environmental organizations Berks Gas Truth was one of 12 organizations scheduled to meet with water testing specialists at the invitation of Secretary Michael Krancer. The invitation came in … more
Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Community Rights, Fossil Fuels, Shale gas, Unsustainable Energy, Water & Watersheds
Tagged fracking, Marcellus Shale, Shale gas, well water
Organizational Meetings
Quasi-staff meetings to support the work of the Alliance are held weekly at Joris Rosse’s Morning Star Center, Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30pm: Meetings are open to all. The Alliance Tuesdays Schedule – NO meetings on holidays: First Tuesdays: Alliance Organizational Meeting: Outreach to Individuals … more
Community Bill of Rights Strategy
From CELDF, 11/8/12: Three communities banned shale gas drilling and fracking on Election Day, Nov 6, 2012, adopting Community Bill of Rights charter amendments. Mansfield and Broadview Heights, OH, and Ferguson Township, PA, asserted their rights to clean air and … more
Boksenbaum: ‘The Electoral Tsunami vs Third Parties Options’
With the media-hyped Obama-Romney presidential tsunami washing away everything in its path, it’s hard to know that there are other presidential candidates (there are) whose platforms address vital issues and perspectives, missing from the blitz, that serve well the various … more