Thursday, June 29, 2006

Our new favorite movie - go see it!

Letter to the editor - sent to The Advocate in Baton Rouge.

I am a resident of East Baton Rouge Parish and someone who is concerned about the well being of others and the environment. Because of this I want to encourage everyone to go to the movies this weekend and see "An Inconvenient Truth," the new documentary about global warming featuring former Vice President Al Gore.

Politics aside, this film contains footage from around the world, illustrating different aspects of the science of climate change. A change that, as residents of the Baton Rouge area, we are directly affected by.

The film showcases the damage inflicted on Louisiana by Hurricane Katrina and uses this disaster as a case study for the kind of damage that climate change could continue to unleash. As Louisianans, we need to do our part to reverse the amount of man-made greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. Let’s start the process by seeing this film.

Jeffrey Dubinsky
Co-Chair – Baton Rouge Group of the Sierra Club

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Welcome to the Sierra Club's Delta Chapter blog

Welcome to the blog for the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club. We have initiated this blog as a forum for discussion of the environment, and issues affecting it, in the State of Louisiana. We welcome input on relevant issues and reserve the right to delete posts that stray too far afield from the topic at hand.