March/April 2008

• Central Ohio Group Welcomes 2008 ExCom Members, Officers
• Rain Gardens: Greening our Communities and Cleaning our Water
• OSU Students Rally for Sustainable Paper
• Driving Toward Sustainability
• Central Ohio Sustainable Communities
• Action Item: Get Nuclear and Coal OUT of Ohio’s Energy Bill
• WCRS Community Radio Celebrates Eight Months on the Air!
• Calling on Volunteers for the Water Quality Subcommittee!

January/February 2008

• Action Item! Fight Nuclear Power in Ohio’s Energy Bill
• Columbus Wilted in Green Reports
• Clean Water Remains a Priority for Central Ohio Group
• Piketon’s Nukes of Hazard
• Sierra Club’s BEC Program Heats Up Fall with Exciting Programs
• SWACO Opens Permanent Household Hazardous Waste
• Notes from Chair
• Welcome to Brandi Whetstone!

November / December 2007

• Fact Sheet on American Electric Power

• Consider Biking (.org)

• Columbus’ Major Oil Spill into Alum Creek

• News From the Delaware Health Board

• Greetings From the Chair

• Election 2007: Notes From The Political Committee

• Ohio is facing a serious threat to become the nation’s defacto high-level radioactive waste dump

• Ohio Sierra Club Statewide Leadership Training

• Cool Cities, Counties Take-Off Around Ohio

September / October 2007

• COG Executive Committee Welcomes and Farewells

• 2008 Sierra Club Calendars at a 20% Discount

• Cool Cities / BEC Update

• Rocky Anderson to Keynote Green Building Forum

• Charlie Fredrick Joins Sierra Staff

• Columbus Bikeway Master Plan

• Citizens Fight Morrow County Landfill

• Turn On – Tune In: WCRS is on the Air!!

• Oil Depletion and Gasoline Prices

July / August 2007

• Interested in Inner City Outings?

• Candidates Sought For Central Ohio Group Executive Committee

• Sierra Club’s BEC/Cool Cities Initiative Expands to Suburbs

• Westerville Residents Turn Out for Cool Cities Town Hall

• Laura Armstrong wins SWACO Emerald Award

• Aveda Institute Columbus “Earth Jam ‘07” a Big Success

• Sierra Club Position on Columbus Streetcars

• A Call for Action: Ohio Schools of the Deaf and Blind Proposed Merger

• FreeGeek Columbus—It’s Not Just for Geeks!

• AAA “Outed” by Better World Club

May / June 2007

• New Faces & A Farewell

• Building Environmental Community in Action

• Sierra Club Campaign Success: Columbus Becomes a “Cool City”

• Ohio Sierra Club Partners with Aveda for Earth Month

• Lazarus Building Now A Green Columbus Landmark

• Environmental Organizations Must Fight Bush’s Ethanol Surge

• Sierra Club Garage Sale Sat. May 26, 8am - 3pm

March / April 2007

• Election Results—New Leaders Moving Us Forward!

• A Profile of Pat Marida, Outgoing Chair, Central Ohio Sierra Club

• Factory Farm Threatens Darby Watershed! Take Action Now!
• Exposed: Plan to Make Ohio the Nation’s Nuclear Dump
• Scotts Miracle-Gro—Stop Funding Opposition to Environmental Laws
• Radio News—Listen and Participate

January / February 2007

• Central Ohio Sierra Club Works for Water Quality

• Energy Scarcity and Local Solutions

• Water Quality Trading in Ohio

• Wanted: Garage Sale Items

November / December 2006

• Pike County Proposed As Nuclear Reprocessing, Plutonium Reactor Site
• Don’t Let Congress Turn Ohio into a Nuclear Waste Dump
• Support the COTA Levy November 7!
• Gas at $3 a Gallon and Going Up—Time for Mass Transit
• 2007 Sierra Club Calendars at a 13% Discount

September / October 2006

• Support the COTA Levy November 7!
• Gas at $3 a Gallon and Going Up—Time for Mass Transit
• Sierra Club Community Outreach on Sewers
• Volunteer at Stratford Ecological Center!
• Study and Discuss The Great Turning

July / August 2006

• Central Ohio Group Seeks Candidates for Executive Committee!
• Energy Efficiency Lobbying: Turning Up the Heat on Legislators
• Be a Part of Electing Ohio’s Next Governor!
• Sierra Club Community Outreach on Sewers
• Update on the Darby Creek Accord
• Columbus Ranked Last in Sustainability Study
• Composting, Improved Soil Made Easy
• Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE)
• Keep Antibiotics Working: Wendy’s Campaign

May / June 2006

• Population, Health and Environment in the Philippines
• Our Lady of Lake Michigan
• Help Make Columbus the Next “Cool City”
• New Columbus Stormwater Drainage Manual
• Get Your Veggies Fresh from Community Supported Agriculture!
• Sierra Club Garage Sale, 8 am-3 pm Sat. May 27
• Notes on the Political Spectrum
• Preview: Effectiveness of Life-saving Antibiotics at Stake (July 2006)
• Preview: Central Ohio Post Carbon Outpost (July 2006)

March / April 2006

• ’Tis the Season for Energy Efficiency
• COG Election Results: Welcomes and Farewells
• Clean Water News for Central Ohio
• Support the Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign!
• Blue Rock Station, Invitation!
• Peak Oil/Global Warming Group Meets in Columbus
• Nonviolent Communication Founder to Speak in Columbus March 7-9
• Wanted: Garage Sale Items

January / February 2006

• Sierra Club Building Environmental Community Program in Gear for 2006
• COTA Seeking Public Input
• What a Year for Central Ohio Sewers!
• Drinking Water and Water-Associated Disease
• Sierra Club in the Community
• Simply Living Radio Gets FM License
• Don’t Throw Away Printer Cartridges
• Columbus Democracy School
• Healthy Children, Healthy Planet
• Local Foods Focus of Conference
• FLOW Holds Free Online Raffle

November / December 2005

• Sierra Club Sewers Campaign Critical for Columbus
• How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and the World and What You Can Do About It
• Open Cut Trench Across the Olentangy River?
• Update on The Proposed American Centrifuge Plant at Piketon
• Choosing for Nature, Three Times a Day
• News and Notes...

September / October 2005

• Columbus Proposes Sanitary and Storm Sewer Plans
• Sewer and Water Advisory Board Meetings
• If Energy Were Purple
• The Practicality of Photovoltaic Power
• Arctic Alerts
• Offsite Radiation at Piketon Site Confirmed

July / August 2005

• Update on Central Ohio Sewers Campaign Activities
• Wal-Mart Strategy Threatens Green Space In Northwest Columbus
• Preserve the Effectiveness of Antibiotics: Support the Healthy School Lunch Act
• OSU’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
• Sierra Club Meets With Dr. John Powell
• Friends of Big Walnut Creek Conducting Watershed Inventory
• Freecycle Columbus
• Summertime Bike 'N Bus Free in Columbus
• Grant to Fund Native Plants at Otterbein Lake
   

May / June 2005

• Update on Central Ohio Sewers
• Vote NO on Issue 2
• Mosquito Fogging in Columbus: Ask to Have Your Home Exempted
• New COG Environmental Justice Committee Is Up and Running
• We Can Help Central Ohio Step Toward Better Mobility
• Friends of Big Walnut Creek Seeks Public Input For Watershed Action Plan
• The Earth Charter - Creating a Just Community of Life
• Dawes Arboretum

March / April 2005

• Update on Central Ohio Sewers
• Big Walnut Creek’s Watershed Action Plan Underway!
• Action Alert—CAFTA: We Don’t HAFTA
• Community Service Native Landscaping: Whetstone Prairie & Native Habitat Garden
• Dawes Arboretum
• Central Ohio Group News

January / February 2005

• Update on Central Ohio Sewers
• Nuclear Facilities Threaten Southern Ohio
• Friends of Blacklick Creek Appeal Wetland Destruction
• Shelly Asphalt Plant Pollutes Westerville
• FACT Works to Preserve Alum Creek
• Jo Thompson Wins Award for Bonobo Research
• The End of Cheap Oil

November / December 2004

• Sierra Club Supports Columbus Bond Issues for Storm Sewers, Parks
• Bush Administration Shortchanges Columbus
• Ohio EPA Asks Columbus to Fix Combined Sewers
• The Raw Sewage Community Right-to-Know Act
• Columbus Plans for Combined Sewer Remediation
• Friends of the Scioto River Update
• 1000 Friends of Central Ohio

September / October 2004

• Identifying, Mobilizing Environmental Voters in 2004
• Mayor Coleman, Get Into Compliance With the Clean Water Act!
• PEER Signature Drive Gets Columbus to Extend Darby Moratorium
• Keep Antibiotics Working: The Campaign to End Antibiotic Overuse
• Sierra Club Representative Needed for MORPC Committees
• Sierra Club Candidate Endorsements, Nov. 2004

July / August 2004

• Sierra Club Executive Director Kicks Off Columbus
  Building Environmental Community Campaign
• Bush Administration Budget Cuts Slow Affordable Housing Efforts in Columbus
• ExCom Welcomes Matthew Baker
• Treasurer’s Report
• ExCom Candidates Sought for 2004-2005
• MORPC/Citizens Advisory Committee Update
• Rehnquist Trip to Columbus on AEP Corporate Jet Questioned
• Coal, Mercury, and AEP
• Development Concerns New Watershed Group, Friends of Hayden Run
• Buckeyes Recycle
• Big River Week Festival
• Rose Run Park Receives Award
• Tongass National Forest Update

May / June 2004

• Almost Level – Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia
• Sierra Club in Action: Fighting Columbus Sewer Violations
• Landscaping With Native Plants
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Help Collect Signatures for Darby Sewer Moratorium
• COG Chair to Receive Two Community Honors
• FLOW Backyard Conservation Program To Start in May
• Building Environmental Community in Columbus

March / April 2004

• Outside Interests Push to Hijack Sierra Club
• PEER Starting New Moratorium Initiative for Darby
• Sierra Club in Action: Fighting Columbus Sewer Violations
• Darby Creek Faces Critical Times
• Otterbein Lake Project in Westerville
• VICTORY! Tire Pyrolysis Won't Come to Columbus
• New Sierra Club Website on Sustainable Consumption
• ExCom Members Elected, Officers Chosen

January / February 2004

• OEPA, Columbus: Improve Planning for Darby
• Help Fight Sewer Violations
• Expert Analyzes Proposed Tire Pyrolysis Plant
• Mason Run Set to Lose Surrounding Woods
• Victory for Mount Vernon/Delano Run Wetlands
• Pickerington Elects Civic-Minded Mayor, Council Members
• Ohio Protesters Greet Miami FTAA
• Humane Wildlife Solutions
• Photo Nuts Photography Club Starting
• Explore Recycling/Columbus with COG!

November / December 2003

• Tire Pyrolysis Facility Proposed for South Columbus
• Pickerington Wastewater Output to Double (or Triple?)
• Landfills Attempting to Locate In Morrow County
• Columbus Sewage Headworks = $100 Million Fiasco
• "Catch 22" Drives Sewage to the Olentangy in Sharon Township
• Help Fight Sewer Violations
• Athens Sierra Club Getting Under Way!
• 2004 Sierra Club Calendars at a 13% Discount

July / August 2003

• Volunteer Monitoring Efforts Improve Olentangy River Watershed
• News From the Darby Creek Association
• Watershed Stewardship: We Can Make a Difference!
• Central Ohio SEWERS Updates
• Help the Sewers Campaign Fund and Committee
• COG Looking to Endorse Good Political Candidates
• US EPA Rejects Columbus’ Water Quality Plan
• Join Sierra Club’s Ohio Action Network Online
• Join the Sierra Club’s Environmental Rights Network
• Ohio Conference on Fair Trade (OCFT)
• The Dalai Lama’s Reflections on Ecological Responsibility
• News from the COG ExCom

• News and Notes from the current newsletter
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Donate to the Sewers Campaign
  • Join the Sewers Campaign Committee

May / June 2003

• Update on the Delano Run Wetland-Floodplain in Mount Vernon
• News From the Darby Creek Association
• IN THE OPEN: Keep Columbus’ Development Open to Public View
• I-70/71 Split--Proposals Have Environmental, Social Impact
• Help the Sewers Campaign Fund and Committee
• Alum Creek Action Plan
• Comfest
• Central Ohio River Pride Week: May 10-17

• News and Notes from the current newsletter
  • COG Garage Sale, Saturday, Memorial Day Weekend, May 24
  • Would Your Organization Like to Hear A Sierra Club Speaker?
  • Join the Sewers Campaign Committee
  • Donate to the Sewers Campaign -- Your donation will be matched!
  • Newsletter Mailing Party
  • What's New on the Website

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