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This month's featured Waypoint is the Cedar Cove Feline Conservatory & Education Center
Now is the Time forUtility Wind and SolarBY DAN WANCURA
Though our current political environment maypaint a picture of not-much-happening inrenewables, for utility-based infrastructure, it’sactually looking very encouraging.
Most people think of rooftop solar on theirhomes when they think of renewables, and thechallenges there, at least in Kansas, are stillpresent with the current demand charge. Butlet’s take a look at what is going on at the utilityscale, the power that runs through the grid.
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Now is the time for Utility Wind, SolarPlastic Bag Battle in KansasEconomic Benefits of KS Wind FarmsBiennial Conference 3/28
March Donations Matched!Zack's Legislative UpdateConservation NewsGroup News & EventsFeatured Waypoint: Kansas WetlandsEducation Center
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Boost awareness! The SouthwindGroup will be screening the Bag Itdocumentary about plastic bag use inAmerica on March 11. All groups arewelcome to host their own screenings,as the chapter has sponsored thepurchase of the film.
Plastic Bag Battle in KansasERIN DEGROOT, SOUTHWIND GROUP SECRETARY
February was tumultuous time for plasticbags and our cities' rights. The Kansas Houselooked to strip cities and counties of theirability to control plastic bags and single-useplastic waste via HB 2625, a bill establishedby Walmart lobbyists. As of 2/28, the bill isexempt from deadlines and will be heardsometime in March. We encourage all SierraClub members to contact your legislatorsnow and tell them to Vote NO on HB 2625.
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USA Today Article CitesEconomic Benefits of KansasWind FarmsCRAIG VOLLAND, AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE CHAIR
A USA Today story cites economic benefits ofwind farms to rural Kansas but notes thatthese benefits are not evenly spread amongthe local population.
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‘Growing a Better World’: The
2020 Kansas Sierra ClubBiennial ConferenceReserve your place now! The Kansas SierraClub will host its Fourth Biennial StatewideConference on Saturday, March 28, 2020, atthe Baker Wetlands Discovery Center inLawrence. Carey Gillam, author of the award-winning book, Whitewash: The Story of aWeed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption ofScience, will give the keynote address.
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TWO much of a good thing iswonderful!With the Kansas Sierra Club’s annual MarchAppeal underway, a generous donor willmatch your gift in support of the KansasChapter dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000! Don’tlet this chance to double your money for theenvironment slip away.
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► Download the printableflyer to post at your schoolor office!
Kansas Sierra Club Grants forKansas EducatorsPlease spread the word! The Sierra Club-Kansas Chapter offers a limited number ofgrants of up to $1,000 to K-12 teachers whoundertake projects, activities, and lessons toenhance student understanding of the climatecrisis, environmental jeopardy, and thesocietal impacts of climate injustice. Deadlinefor applications: April 6, 2020.
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kansas sierra clubLEGISLATIVE NEWS
The March legisla�ve update didn'tmake it in �me for send, but check backsoon---the page below will be updatedshortly!
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Rep. Sharice Davids Hosts Panel onClimate Change/Transportation andInfrastructureELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
Several Kanza Group leaders attended anexcellent round table discussion on ClimateChange/Transportation and Infrastructure atJohnson Co. Community College on February 19.Note Rep. Davids reference to climate actionsdescribed in the Climate Action KC “Playbook.” Thank you, Congresswoman Davids. We hope tosee more of this kind of event.
Sen. Roberts Cosponsors CriticalLands BillsELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
Sen. Pat Roberts has agreed to cosponsor twoimportant lands bills of high priority to Sierra Club:Permanent Funding for the Land & WaterConservation Fund (Senate Bill 1081) and theRestore Our Parks bill. He deserves thanks forboth bills, which address funding for public lands.It’s time for Sen. Moran to follow suit andcosponsor both bills also.
Kansas Bill Threatens StateEndangered Species ActELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
If enacted as introduced, HB 2669 wouldeliminate the locally-driven petition process forlisting state threatened or endangered species. Itwould also eliminate the emergency petitionprocess that currently allows the secretary ofKDWPT to quickly provide protections for speciesunder immediate threat of extirpation or extinctionin Kansas. The hearing was Tuesday, Feb. 18and we'll follow up soon.
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group news & eventskanza groupKansas City and eastern Kansas
Pizza, Politics & PistoraMarch 10, 2020 at 6:30 pm | UCC Colonial Church, 7039Mission, Prairie VIllage
Kansas Sierra Club’s lobbyist Zack Pistora will provideus with a legislative update in this very importantelection year. Plan on pizza at 6:30 pm with theprogram at 7:00 pm. Details available on the Chaptercalendar.
SEEDS: A live documentary performance7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | Polsky Theatre,Johnson County Community College
Witness the legal battle between a Canadian farmerand Monsanto Inc. in this documentary play,which leads us through a suspenseful labyrinth of legalconflicts around patent rights, scientific debates aboutgenetically modified food, and property clashesbetween farmers and the biotech industry. MORE INFO
The Climate Action Plan CommunityWorkshop
Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 8:00 a.m. Registration; 8:30a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Program | KC, MO Convention Center,301 West 13th Street, Lobby 2100, Bartle Room 2103
MARC and Climate Action KC invite you to helpdevelop a unified plan to advance climate resilience inour region. Participants will learn about regional climaterisks, vulnerabilities and greenhouse gasemissions. FULL STORY
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4/18-19 - Outings Leader Training4/22 TBA - 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22
southwind groupWichita and southern Kansas
Learn to Install & Repair SolarFriday, March 13th, 6:30 pm | Great Plains NatureCenter, 6232 E. 29th St. N, Wichita
Instructor Andrew Clark from Cloud County Collegeis coming to give us all the details on the school’sprogram to get you an associates degree to work inthe field of Solar Energy. If you are interested instarting a new career or just learning how theprogram works, you need to be here. For more infoon the program go HERE. As always, bring a dishto share and bring your own table service. We eatat 6:30 and Andy will speak at 7:30.
Film Screening | Bag It: is your life tooplastic?Wednesday, March 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | WichitaAdvanced Learning Library, 711 W 2nd, Wichita,Kansas 67203 - FREE!
Join us for a screening of “Bag It: Is Your Life TooPlastic?” What starts as a film about plastic bagsevolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic’seffects on our oceans, environment, and bodies.We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finallycaught up to us…and what we can do about it. If
your Group would like to have a showing,contact Lori as Kansas Sierra Club has purchasedthe DVD for all of us. MORE INFO
Kansas Bird Populations andDistribution – An Ever ChangingMosaicTuesday, March 10, 6pm |Watermark Books, 4701 EDouglas Ave
In late summer 2019 a report was released thatstated that the US and Canada had lost 1 out ofevery 4 breeding birds since 1970. This amountedto nearly 3 billion fewer breeding birds north ofMexico. Otte will discuss the report, look at someKansas species that are expanding their range andalso losing population numbers and then discusssome of the causes of the decline and what can bedone. MORE INFO
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topeka groupTopeka
The Kaw…The People’s RiverMarch 10, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.| Unitarian UniversalistFellowship, 4775 SW 21st Street, Topeka, Kansas
Join Dawn Buehler, Kansas Riverkeeper andExecutive Director of Friends of the Kaw to learnabout their work to protect and preserve the KansasRiver. For over 29 years, FOK and their volunteersand members have protected the Kaw, advocatedfor its wildlife and environs, helped Kansansdiscover the river and educate about itsvalue. MORE INFO
wakarusa groupLawrence
Climate Change, Oceans and SeaTurtlesSaturday, March 7, 2020, 2:00 p.m. | LawrencePublic Library, Meeting Room C, 707 Vermont St,Lawrence, KS 66044
This special program on sea turtles and climatechange will be presented by Olivia Miller, BlueValley North student and Kansas Chapter grantrecipient. Elaine Giessel, marine biologist andKanza Group chair will give an openingpresentation on how our oceans are affecting ourclimate.
Social and Feeding Ecology of Whalesand DolphinsTuesday, March 17, 2020, 7:00 p.m. | LawrencePublic Library, Meeting Room C, 707 Vermont St,Lawrence, KS 66044
KU Department of Ecology and EvolutionaryBiology Professor Raymond Pierotti’s lecture on the“Social and Feeding Ecology of Whales andDolphins” will round off Wakarusa’s “mini-series” onsea life, climate change, andpollution. https://eeb.ku.edu/raymond-pierotti
In case you missed it: Origami WhalesProject
If you missed our program on the Origami WhalesProject you can make more whales on your ownand bring them to one of the upcoming sea lifeevents. Here’s the link with instructions for makingthe whales. For the paper you can use envelopesthat have that safety feature on the inside. Justmake a diagonal fold and cut out to make a square.If you missed the concert in conjunction with theOrigami Whale Project, here it is on facebook .(Sierra Club got a shout out!).
MORE WAKARUSA EVENTS | VIEW ALL
4/18 - Earth Day CelebrationFridays, noon - Fridays for the Future Climate Strikes
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Cedar Cove Feline Conservatory & EducationCenter
For a fun family experience thisspring, check out Cedar Cove, anon-profit sanctuary and educationalcenter committed to the care andpreservation of endangered predatorspecies. They provide guided toursso the public can see big cats upclose and learn the importance ofpreserving their natural ecosystemsand the impending dangers of theirextinction. Keepers are educatedand trained in the care of LargeExotic Felines and their goal is toensure that all the animals at thefacility are maintained in a stress-free environment and are notexploited.
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Cedar Cove is located just outsideLouisburg, KS, approximately 20 miles southof Kansas City.
3783 K68 HighwayLouisburg, Kansas, 66053Phone: (913) 837-5515
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