Oct. 17 event: Heal the Bay founder Dorothy Green
A Sustainable Water Future for CA
On October 17, the Los Angeles Greens will host guest speaker Dorothy Green, founder of Heal the Bay. Recently, she launched the California Water Impact Network (CWIN), whose goal is to move our state toward a sustainable water future.
Our water resources are over-committed. But if we learn to use the water we have more efficiently, there will be plenty of water in our state to meet all our needs. We can restore the San Francisco Bay Delta, the San Joaquin River, and lost habitats for our endangered species as well.
This is the message contained in Dorothy Green's book, Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California, published by UCPress.
All are invited to attend and hear Ms. Green speak on this vital subject, and learn how to affect sustainable water solutions in our state.
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7pm
Peace Center, 8124 W. Third Street, Los Angeles
http://losangelesgreens.org/
323-651-5539
This event is free; donations are accepted.
Dorothy Green is the Founding President of Heal the Bay. She was also the founding President and now President Emeritus of the Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. As a board member of POWER, Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform, she chairs the most important water policy conference in the state, the California Water Policy Conference, now in its 16h year.
She also serves as the Los Angeles Regional Vice President of the Planning and Conservation League (PCL), which provides lobbying services in Sacramento to both individuals and to organizations without sufficient resources to hire their own lobbyist, and is Secretary of the only non-profit that is devoted solely to statewide water supply issues, the California Water Impact Network (CWIN). This organization has developed the Principles needed for a Sustainable Water Future and is organizing the state around these principles. She also served for 3 ½ years as a Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power Commissioner.
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For more info on the current water crisis looming in our state, and the special session of the legislature to deal with it, check out the Wes Rolley's blog (a Green Party member)
at http://cagreening.blogspot.com
Write letters NOW to your representatives in our state goverment, sample letters here:
http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2007/09/letters-on-dueling-proposals.html
thanks,
Lisa Taylor
LA Greens Volunteer Coordinator
LA City Beat featured this event in their "7 Days in LA" Calendar:
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=6290&IssueNum=227
WEDNESDAY 17
BURST BUBBLES
Now that the Metropolitan Water District has dropped the hammer with a 10 percent rise in Southern California water bills, and possible forced rationing in the near future, maybe people will listen to those who’ve been championing sustainable water solutions for years. They can start with Dorothy Green, founding director of the California Water Impact Network, founding president of Heal the Bay, and author of Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California. Green will be speaking about California’s aquatic future at the Peace Center, courtesy of the Los Angeles Greens. 7 p.m. Free. 8124 W. Third St., L.A., (323) 651-5539. Losangelesgreens.org.
Ms. Green has an op-ed in LA Times, "California has Enough Water, " the key is to manage it more efficiently.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-green23oct23,1,7624342.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=1&cset=true
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