Welcome to WebWatch, a short, monthly roundup of features posted on the
Sierra Club website during the past month. We'll also give updates on any
new technical changes we've made on the site, and fill you in on upcoming
features we've got in the works. In the future, WebWatch will be posted on
the last day of each month. Your feedback is welcome! Please send it to:
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JANUARY HIGHLIGHTS
Based on an exchange between Oregon firefighter Ed Hall and President Bush,
we posed the question, "If you had five seconds of face time with the
president, what would you say?" Visitors can submit an answer, read an
interview with Ed Hall, and learn more about the Arctic and Bush's energy
plan.
http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/facetime/
The new Take Action system launched in mid-December 2001 has generated lots
of online activism! In fact, as of Jan. 31 there were 5,442 members of the
Action Network. Of those, 3,242 signed up after getting an email from the
Club that asked them to do so; 127 signed up as a result of the "tell a
friend" option; and 2,073 signed up while surfing the web, or when they
realized that, though they were a member of the old action alert system,
they needed re-up on the new system.
Thousands of faxes and emails have been sent on topics ranging from factory
farms to the Bush energy bill to human rights. The index page is
http://whistler.sierraclub.org/action/actionindex.jsp
A Sierra Club legal victory forces the state of Michigan to obey the Clean
Water Act and issue pollution-protection permits for animal factories.
http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/water_permits.asp
Reacting to dogged efforts by the Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition,
of which the Sierra Club's Atlantic Chapter is a founding member, New
York Gov. George Pataki took action to protect the city's drinking water
supply. http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/cleanwater.asp
We featured success stories for the year 2001 from nine states: Arkansas,
Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, West
Virginia, Wyoming. http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/states.asp
Caring for Creation is the first joint project by the Sierra Club and
National Council of Churches. The web page includes a history of the
Christian enviromental movement. Ads were run in Georgia, Arizona, North
Dakota, Indiana, Missouri and Delaware.
http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/caring_creation.asp
We announced the Sierra Club's lawsuit against the Vice President Cheney's
Energy Task Force http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/enron.asp and we
responded to
the administration claim that the Bush Energy Plan and the Sierra Club plan
were the same on 11 of 12 points.
http://www.sierraclub.org/currents/math.asp
Something new: A directory for Sierra Singles groups around the country.
Send us your chapter/group link!
http://www.sierraclub.org/singles/index.asp. We'll be also be creating a
directory for Gay and Lesbian Sierrans, so send us your links to those
pages, too. Mailto:[log in to unmask]
In February:
Road trip #1: From Feb. 4-8, two Florida staffers -- Darden Rice and Joe
Murphy -- are driving around their state, one in a hybrid car and the other
in an SUV, to call attention to promote "driving clean." We're posting
daily updates from the duo. http://www.sierraclub.org/roadtrip/
Road trip #2: Later in the month we'll highlight updates from Ken Midkiff
-- the Club's key staffer on animal factory issues -- as he cruises through
Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, and California, sniffing out
bad actors and organizing activists.
Olympics: Watch this week for coverage of our Salt Lake City campaign to
"Let clean air be our Olympic legacy." It starts on the home page
http://www.sierraclub.org/
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Erin Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868
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