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Letter from the Editors The Dog Days of August have brought an alarming wake-up call as Europe’s horrible heat wave resulted in the deaths of 10,000 people in France alone while melting its glaciers at record rates. The US and Canada experienced our greatest power failure ever. But will these events move us to look at the underlying causes, including climate and out-moded power structures? New Mexico Governor and former Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson has been on the airwaves saying we must take immediate action to support energy conservation, distributed generation and alternative energy. We’re pleased to feature a wonderful article about one of the most promising alternative, local energy sources – fuel cells -- by Alliance Advisory Board Member and global energy leader Amory Lovins. This issue exposes the toxic surprise inside a McDonald’s Happy Meal, the possible connection between obesity and parks, another Monsanto blunder with genetic engineering, and how Congress, local government and Ford are all headed the wrong direction with our transportation. Back on the positive front, we share about several exciting Alliance projects that can help turn things around, including the Neighborhood Sustainability Conference, Living Green Expo, and a special upcoming Natural Step Framework Seminar. We are continuing our process of modifying our format based on your feedback so please share your thoughts as well as other suggestions and articles. Sustainably, Janelle Jurek and Terry Gips, Co-Editors _______________________________________________________________________ MANNA The E-Newsletter of the Alliance for Sustainability Making sustainability a reality worldwide through support of ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just and humane initiatives on a personal, organizational and planetary level. August 21, 2003 Issue 32 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein In this issue of MANNA... * Alliance Activities - Special Oct 1-2 Natural Step Framework Seminar at Augsburg College - Sustainability Book Club Meeting Sep 10 and Resource of the Month - Want to Get Involved with the 2004 Living Green Expo? Sep 10 Kick-off - Sustainable Minneapolis Initiative – Jan 17 Neighborhood Sustainability Conference * Take Action! Make a Difference - McDonald’s Happy Meals Toys Shouldn’t Be Disposed of in Trash * Personal Sustainability - The Unseen Costs of Obesity on Parks -- Time for a Fat Tax? By Dave Lutz * Organizational Sustainability - Congress to Bikers: Get a Car by Katharine Mieszkowski - Big-Time Subsidies for Driving versus Public Transit - Ford SUV's Use More Gas Than Before by Danny Hakim * Planetary Sustainability - Shattering the Myths of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen by Amory B. Lovins - Genetically Modifying Consumer Rights: Monsanto Sues Dairy - Some Nordic Local Agenda 21 Sustainability Efforts Losing Steam by Alan AtKisson * Events Calendar * You Are Making a Difference - Thank you for your Donations - Thanks to all the Current Alliance Volunteers - How you can Contribute and Our Wish List A Talmudic sage was asked, "Who is a wise person?” His response, “The person who foresees the future consequences of his or her actions.” _______________________________________________________________________ Alliance Activities Special Oct 1-2 Natural Step Framework Seminar at Augsburg College Thanks to the generosity of a just-received grant from the Gegax Family Foundation, the Alliance will be able to offer a nominally priced Natural Step Framework Seminar for government, business and community leaders at Augsburg College’s Christiansen Center, 1-4:30 pm Tuesday and Wednesday, October 1 and 2. For more information and to RSVP please contact the Alliance for Sustainability, iasa@mtn.org or 612-331-1099. An ambitious, visionary monster of a book....the book's reach is phenomenal. It belongs to the galvanizing tradition of Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet and Stewart Brand's The Whole Earth Catalog.” -- Publishers Weekly Sustainability Book Club Meeting Sep 10 and Resource of the Month Our next Sustainability Book Club meeting will be 7:30-9 pm Wednesday, September 10 at the award-winning Ecopolitan Restaurant, 2409 Lyndale Ave S., Minneapolis. We’ll look at Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins. We’ll read the preface and chapters one and two. Not only can the book be downloaded for free, but it’s available either in summary form or full length PDF: www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid5.php In a summary on the Rocky Mountain Institute website (www.rmi.org) they note that “most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn't changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. But now, there's a surplus of people, while natural capital--natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services--is scarce and relatively expensive.” “In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution. Natural Capitalism describes a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which companies can improve their bottom lines, help solve environmental problems--and feel better about what they do--all at the same time. Citing hundreds of compelling stories from a wide array of sectors, the book shows how to realize benefits both for today's shareholders and for future generations.” For more information please contact our Book Club Coordinators David Grieder davidegrider@yahoo.com or Brandon Burmeister bburmeister@cuningham.com By firing the ‘unproductive tons, gallons, and kilowatt-hours,’ it's possible to keep the people who will foster the innovation that drives future improvement. – Natural Capitalism Want to Get Involved with the 2004 Living Green Expo? Sep 10 Kick-off The Alliance has been intensely involved in working with state agencies, numerous groups and individuals on plans for the May 1-2, 2004 Living Green Expo at the Minnesota State Fair (see www.livinggreenexpo.org). We are seeking volunteers who are interested in helping to organize and will have a kick-off Open House and Reception in St. Paul 4-6 pm September 10. If you’d like to attend and be involved, please contact Sean Gosiewski sustainability@visi.com or 612-331-1099 x2. Opportunities include: - Site arrangements, equipment, layout, and helping out during the Expo - Recruiting businesses and organizations to exhibit at the Expo - Public relations, advertising, publications, and web site - Grassroots outreach with schools, churches and communities of color - Organizing arts, culture, music and kids activities - Developing Topic Teams, workshops, and individual actions. If Americans unplugged their televisions when they turned them off, they'd save 8.45 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year. That's twice the amount produced by the Hoover Dam. -- National Resource Defense Council and Department of the Interior Sustainable Minneapolis Initiative - Neighborhood Sustainability Conference planned for Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at Augsburg College, Minneapolis Please mark your calendars and tell others in your neighborhood. We are expecting 500 neighborhood volunteers, resource groups, city staff and elected officials from St. Paul, Minneapolis, and other Twin Cities communities to attend the event to explore how we can enhance the long term environmental, economic, and social vitality of our neighborhoods. The purpose of the conference will be to launch implementation of practical sustainability initiatives by resident volunteers and ensure that neighborhood residents strengthen municipal sustainability indicators and initiatives. At the event, neighborhood volunteers will share projects they are working on in the areas of community gardening, tree planting, traffic calming, pedestrian and bike access, transit-oriented development, waste reduction, alternative energy, green buildings, watershed protection, environmental justice, environmental health, and other topics. The previous conference held in January 2002 attracted the participation of more than 450 neighborhood and environmental volunteers. If you have a project that you’d like to share, please contact Sean Gosiewski sustainability@visi.com or 612-331-1099 x1. Nothing is really work unless you would rather do something else. -- Sir James Barrie _______________________________________________________________________ Take Action! Make a Difference McDonald’s Happy Meals Toys Shouldn’t Be Disposed of in Trash By Eric W. Staedicke, Environmental Investigator, City of Tempe, AZ My seven-year-old son is a McDonalds junkie. I am sure I am the only one who has every Happy Meal toy is his house. Sitting in front of me is a Happy Meal toy from the "Finding Nemo" promotion. Marked on the clear plastic bag is a warning to not to dispose of the toy in the trash because it contains MERCURY! I think the Hg is in the button battery, but I have not taken it apart. The bag has writing on it in no less than 32 languages. Great. I wonder how many Million of these are out there. Currently, McDonalds has mini Sega Video games in the Happy Meals. They also have a button battery. No marking on the current item, but who knows? They are made in China after all. I find this rather annoying because I am running some sampling today on Mercury on water that ranges down to 100 pg/l (yes, that is PICO grams - 10 to the negative twelfth power). Here I am worried about Mercury results in the picogram range and McDonalds is covering the world with a zillion little spots of Mercury. Just wonderful. Mercury testing in the picogram range is not cheap and if we find any, there is not much that can be done about it. The word has to get out on this! Most parents immediately open the bag and give to toy to the whining kid and dispose of the bag without ever looking at it. I did. Now I am looking and wondering. I guess we are going to have a special bin just for McDonalds toys at our Household Hazardous Waste facility. McDonalds should consider a recall on these, but it will never work. These are already posted on eBay (Yes, go look!). Hope you enjoy your Un-Happy Meal. Take a minute to let McDonalds know what you think, www.mcdonalds.com/countries/usa/corporate/contacts/comments/social/index.html America is struggling under a huge health burden created by obesity, diabetes, asthma, cancer, and heart disease and stroke. We know that increasing physical activity is an integral part of addressing the obesity epidemic. (Science tells us that) access to trails leads to an increase in physical activity. -- Deputy US Surgeon General Kenneth P. Moritsugu at the East Coast Greenway dedication in Washington, DC _______________________________________________________________________ Personal Sustainability The Unseen Costs of Obesity on Parks -- Time for a Fat Tax? By Dave Lutz, Urban Outdoors No. 94 July 23, 2003 www.treebranch.net When NY State Senator Felix Ortiz proposed a small 1% tax increase on fatty fast foods the tabloid journalists that ride herd on this beefy town [NYC] jumped down his throat faster than a double cheeseburger. They took to the streets, interviewed people that were walking with milkshakes and ice cream cones and quickly came to the conclusion that this tax was a bad idea. Perhaps the Senator's timing was off, but the idea should have been treated more seriously. Obesity does not only endanger the quality of life of those who are obese. The huge costs of medically treating diseases that are the result of poor diet are passed on to all of us in insurance costs and the lack of tax money for the infrastructure for physical activity: our parks and public spaces. That is why changing our diet and activity levels are becoming a Federal priority. Perhaps a "fat tax" should be dedicated to maintenance of playgrounds, ball fields and greenways. The average office worker uses about 10,000 sheets of paper each year. Annual copy paper use in the U.S. consumes enough wood to build nearly 1 million average homes, and releases greenhouse gas pollution equal to over 2 million cars. -- Environmental Defense _______________________________________________________________________ Organizational Sustainability Congress to Bikers: Get a Car -- House Subcommittee Votes to Cut All Funding for Bike Paths and Pollution-Free Transportation By Katharine Mieszkowski from July 23 Salon.com www.salon.com For every bike commuter who proudly pedals to work under the mantra "one less car," Congress has a message for you: Get back on the highway where you belong, burning fossil fuel like a real American. That goes for you, too, you traffic-hazard pedestrians. Fresh out of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and Independent Agencies, a new congressional transportation appropriations bill will entirely eliminate some $600 million worth of annual federal funding for bike paths, walkways and other such transportation niceties in fiscal year 2004. Defenders of the bill argue that, in light of huge federal deficits, something has to go, but for bike activists and environmentalists who have been pushing for decades for alternatives to driving, the cuts are a giant step backward. "The irony of trying to make it easier for people to drive when we're clearly running up against major roadblocks on providing oil for driving is just too much," says Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Under the new bill, which the full Committee on Appropriations is likely to consider this week, before it goes to the House floor for a vote, highways would receive $34.1 billion in fiscal year 2004, which is $2.5 billion more than this year, while the Transportation Enhancements program that funds bike paths and walkways would get nothing. The bill would also significantly reduce funding for everything from Amtrak to reverse-commute transportation programs that connect low-income urban workers to jobs in the suburbs. The bill puts $4.8 billion more into highway projects than President Bush asked for in his 2004 budget. Driving-related subsidies in Minnesota are almost 20 times the subsidies for public transit. -- Study by the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies and the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor Big-Time Subsidies for Driving versus Public Transit From the MN Sustainable Communities Network Update #164 July 24 www.nextstep.state.mn.us from Transit for Livable Communities www.tlcminnesota.org/funding/subsidies.html For those working to expand citizen transportation choices beyond cars and roads, a common barrier is people who think that only those travel modes that 'pay their own way' should be supported, especially in tough economic times. Analysis done by the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies and the MN Office of the Legislative Auditor found that no mode pays its own way, and driving-related subsidies are almost 20 times the subsidies for public transit. Gas revenues, license tab fees, parking charges and transit fares paid for by vehicle drivers and transit riders cover only a percentage of the total costs and the rest of the costs are in fact "subsidized" -- mainly by property taxes, the state general fund and businesses. Key data elements from 1998 are: * Total annual per capita driving-related subsidy: $885 * Total annual per capita public transit subsidy: $47 * Total annual per capita vehicle emission subsidy: 328 If SUVs complied with the same fuel-economy standards as ordinary cars, the US would save one million barrels of oil a day, more than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could produce at peak volume. -- New York Times Ford SUV's Use More Gas than Before -- Company Struggles to Survive By Danny Hakim, Edited from July 19 New York Times The average fuel economy of the Ford Motor Company's sport utility vehicles will be worse for the 2003 model year than the previous year, the company said in a report issued on Thursday. Earlier this year, the company said it could not meet a pledge to raise the fuel economy of its sport utility vehicles by 25 percent from 2000 to 2005. But the report indicates that Ford is actually moving backward on fuel economy in its sport utility vehicles. In the 2002 model year, the company's sport utility vehicles were 8.4 percent more efficient than the ones the company made in the 2000 model year. But those produced this year are only 5.2 percent more efficient than those made in the 2000 model year, according to the company's corporate citizenship report. The report pointed to declining fuel economy in the company's Land Rover division and declining sales of its small S.U.V., the Escape. "We were not able to make the investments in the products and technologies needed to meet the goal, nor were some of the technologies as mature as we thought," William Clay Ford Jr., Ford's chairman and chief executive, said in a letter included in the report. "But I do reaffirm our commitment to continue to work toward improving the fuel economy of our S.U.V.'s and, indeed, to cutting greenhouse gas emissions across our entire range of vehicles," he said. The shortfalls in S.U.V. performance were reported today by The Detroit Free Press. "They're going backward, not forward, at a time when Americans are acutely aware of the consequences of gas guzzling," said Daniel Becker, a global warming expert at the Sierra Club. David Friedman, a senior policy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said: "They were gambling on a market shift to smaller S.U.V.'s instead of putting technology to work to make their mainstream products do better. Instead, their mainstream products did worse." Three years ago, Ford's pledge was widely reported and helped burnish the green reputation of Mr. Ford. For more of the article examining the challenges balancing labor and environmental issues, see www.mtn.org/iasa/suv.htm There is no more powerful institution in society than business. I believe it is now more important than ever before for business to assume a moral leadership. -- Anita Roddick, Co-founder of the Body Shop in Business as Unusual ________________________________________________________________ Planetary Sustainability Shattering the Myths of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen By Amory B. Lovins, Co-founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute Edited from July 24 Sustainable Business.com Newsletter that is condensed version of "Twenty Hydrogen Myths" in Rocky Mountain Institute Newsletter (Read the full article) Many diverse authors have criticized hydrogen lately. Some call it a smokescreen to hide White House opposition to raising car efficiency using conventional technology, or fear that working on hydrogen would divert effort from rather than complement renewable energy deployment/adoption. Most reflect errors meriting a tutorial on basic hydrogen facts. 1. Making hydrogen uses more energy than it yields, making it impractical. It would violate the laws of physics to convert any kind of energy into a larger amount of another kind of energy. Converting gasoline from crude oil is generally 75-90% efficient from wellhead to retail pump and electricity from fossil fuel is only about 30-35% efficient from coal to retail meter. Hydrogen is typically converted at efficiencies around 72-85%. But hydrogen's greater end-use efficiency can more than offset its conversion loss. From wellhead to car tank, oil is typically 88% efficient (the lost energy mainly fuels refining and distribution). From car tank to wheels, gasoline is typically 16% efficient. The average contemporary vehicle is thus about 14% efficient well-to-wheels. A hybrid vehicle like the Toyota Prius nearly doubles the gasoline-to-wheels efficiency to 30% and the total to 26%. But an advanced fuel-cell car's 70% natural-gas-well-to-hydrogen-in-the-car-tank efficiency, times 60% tank-to-wheels efficiency, yields 42% - three times higher than the normal gasoline car or one and a half times higher than the gasoline-hybrid-electric car. Thus the energy lost in making hydrogen is more than made up by its extremely efficient use, saving both fuel and money. 2. Delivering hydrogen to users would consume most of the energy it contains. Wrong. Even under conservative assumptions about car design, a good natural-gas reformer that makes hydrogen for a fuel-cell car releases between 40-67 percent less CO2 per mile than burning hydrocarbon fuel in an otherwise identical gasoline-engine car, because the fuel cell is 23 times more efficient than the engine. 3. We don't have practical ways to use hydrogen to run cars, so we must use liquid fuels. Wrong. Turning wheels with electric motors has well-known advantages of torque, ruggedness, reliability, simplicity, controllability, quietness, and low cost. Hybrid-electric cars now on the market from Honda and Toyota, and soon from virtually all auto-makers, make the electricity with on-board engine-generators, or recover it from braking. This gives the benefits of electric propulsion without the disadvantages of batteries. Still better will be fuel cells - the most efficient (50-70% from hydrogen to direct-current electricity), clean, and reliable known way to make fuel into electricity. Already, many manufacturers have tens of fuel-cell buses and over 100 fuel-cell cars on the road; a German website reports 156 different kinds of fuel-cell concept cars and 68 demonstration hydrogen filling stations; and Fedex and UPS reportedly plan to introduce fuel-cell trucks by 2008. 4. Hydrogen is too expensive to compete with gasoline. Wrong. Using fuel-cell cars 2.2 times as efficient as gasoline cars, onsite miniature reformers made in quantities of some hundreds each supporting at least a few hundred fuel-cell vehicles and using natural gas at $5.69 per gigajoule or $6 per million British thermal units could deliver hydrogen into cars at well below $2 per kilogram. That's as cheap per mile as U.S. untaxed wholesale gasoline ($0.90 per U.S. gallon or $0.24 per liter). Other countries often pay more for both natural gas and gasoline, so miniature reformers tend to retain their advantage abroad. Mass-produced (around one million units) electrolyzers each serving a few to a few dozen cars could beat taxed U.S. gasoline even using three cent per kilowatt-hour off-peak electricity. 5. Since renewables are currently too costly, hydrogen would have to be made from fossil fuels or nuclear energy. Hydrogen would indeed be made in the short run, as it is now, mainly from natural gas, but when the hydrogen is used in fuel cells, total carbon emissions per mile would be cut by about half using ordinary cars (equipped with fuel cells) or about 80-plus percent using quintupled-efficiency vehicles. The fear of many environmentalists that a hydrogen economy would require the construction of many new nuclear power stations is unfounded. New nuclear plants would deliver electricity at about 23 times the cost of new windpower, 510 times that of new gas-fired cogeneration in industry and buildings, and 1030+ times that of efficient use, so they won't be built with private capital, with or without a hydrogen transition. To read the rest of the condensed version see, www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=993 Every year, 10,000 of the 100 million containers shipped by boat fall overboard. Thirty percent of all cargo shipped by sea is hazardous. -- MSNBC.com, Miguel Llanos, July 23 as reported in www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1319 Genetically Modifying Consumer Rights: Monsanto Sues Dairy Organic Bytes Issue #17 July 16, 2003 www.organicconsumers.org Monsanto is suing Portland, Maine-based Oakhurst Dairy for labeling their milk "Our Farmers' Pledge: No Artificial Growth Hormones." According to Monsanto, manufacturer of the genetically engineered recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (known as rBGH or rBST), Oakhurst Dairy does not have the right to let its customers know whether its milk is laced with genetically engineered hormones. Oakhurst says they've been labeling their products like this for four years, in response to consumer demand. Although rBGH has been banned in every industrialized nation in the world except for the United States, Monsanto continues to claim that rBGH-derived milk is no different from the natural stuff, despite documentation that rBGH milk contains substantially higher levels of a potent cancer tumor promoter called IGF-1. Monsanto sued two dairies and threatened several thousand retailers in 1994 for labeling or advertising milk and dairy products as "rBGH-free." Despite Monsanto's intimidation tactics, more than 10% of U.S. milk is currently labeled as "rBGH-free," while sales of organic milk and dairy products (which prohibit rBGH) are booming. In recent months a Monsanto-funded front group, the Center for Consumer Freedom, has launched a smear campaign against organic dairies, including Organic Valley, claiming they are defrauding consumers. Global sales of organic foods in 2002 peaked at $23 billion, more than a 10% increase from the previous year. -- The Organic Monitor cited in Organic Bytes #17 July 16, 2003 Some Nordic Local Agenda 21 Sustainability Efforts Losing Steam By Alan AtKisson, WaveFront, Issue 2, July 21 www.AtKisson.com and www.edie.net During the 1990s, the Nordic countries led the world in implementing the "Local Agenda 21" (LA21) municipal sustainability movement. But according to researchers from the University of Oslo, in recent years those efforts have experienced a retrenchment in Sweden, Finland and Norway. The researchers noted that LA21is making progress elsewhere: Denmark has maintained its pace, while Iceland has entered the scene as an "enthusiastic newcomer." Launched at 1992's UN Rio Earth Summit, LA21 received the ongoing support of world governments at last year's Johannesburg Summit. From our office in Stockholm, we have observed this overall 'retrenchment' directly, in terms of budget and personnel cuts, and a slowdown in innovation. But some municipalities have acted counter to the trend. They do that by expanding LA21's traditional focus on environmental goals to integrate social, health and economic development issues more meaningfully. Our true home is in the present moment To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master _______________________________________________________________________ Events Calendar Aug 28 10 am Earth Smart Consumer on KARE-TV (Ch11) with Kim Carlson: “What's Green at the State Fair” – Show every other Thurs. www.earthsmartconsumer.com Sep 4-7 The Water of Life -- 3rd Annual Century of the Environment Conference at Omega Institute, Rhineback, NY www.eomega.org/omega/workshops/ Sep 4-7 Natural Products Expo East Washington, DC www.expoeast.com Sep 10 Living Green Expo Kick-off Event, St. Paul - RSVP with Alliance Sep 10 6 pm Twin Cities Green Drinks, Birchwood Café, Mpls www.greendrinks.org Sep 10 7:30-9 pm Alliance Sustainability Book Club, Ecopolitan Restaurant, Mpls Sep 14 5 pm Standing on Holy Ground: Worship & Living in a Sacred Earth with Dr. Gordon Lathrop, St. Louis Park, MN Contact the New Earth Partnership, 952-929-0439 Oct 1-2 1-4:30 pm Natural Step Framework Seminar, Augsburg College, Mpls Oct 2 Gandhi's B-Day and World Farm Animals Day www.wfad.org Oct 5 9:30 am Intro to the Natural Step Framework, First Presbyterian Church, White Bear Lake, MN Contact: Louise Pardee pardeelm@msn.com Oct 8 7:30-9 Alliance Sustainability Book Club, Ecopolitan Restaurant, Mpls Oct 9 SNS Higher Education Webcast with Ray Anderson of Interface, 734-998-6967 Oct 10 Possible Natural Step Framework Seminar, Austin, TX Contact Alliance Oct 11-12 Green Festival, including Natural Step Framework Intro by Terry Gips, Austin, Texas Convention Center www.greenfestivals.com Oct 11-12 Earth Charter Summit, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul Jan 17, 2004 Neighborhood Sustainability Conference, Augsburg College, Mpls – Contact Alliance for Sustainability, iasa@mtn.org May 1-2, 2004 Living Green Expo, MN State Fair, St. Paul www.livinggreenexpo.org The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________________________________ You Are Making a Difference Thank You for Your Donations We’d like to say a special thank you to the Gegax Family Foundation for their generous grant to the Alliance in support of the Sustainable Sweden Book and a Natural Step Framework Seminar. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to light a 100-watt light bulb for 3.5 hours. -- Can Manufacturers Institute Thanks to all the Current Alliance Volunteers Interns – Kate Lyon, Derek Richard, and Lisa Grunwald Center for Spirituality and Sustainability - Cathy Haskins and Robin Linde Book Club - David Grieder and Brandon Burmeister Ideation project volunteers - Wendy Jedlicka and Holly Robbins Development of Train-the-Trainer Program – Ellen Smilanich and Terry Gips Manna – Janelle Jurek and Terry Gips Board members - Terry Gips, Marci Heerman, Wendy Jedlicka, Laurie Savran, Ken Seguine, and Steve Weinberg We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. -- George Bernard Shaw How You Can Contribute We'd like your support: Your tax-deductible donations to the Alliance will provide much-needed support for our office and important collaborative projects, including Natural Step Framework Seminars, Sustainable City Initiative, Junk Mail Tree Project, Living Green Expo, and our Centers for Spirituality and Sustainability and Judaism and Sustainability. Our on-line membership form is available at www.mtn.org/iasa/join.htm. You may also contact Sean Gosiewski at iasa@mtn.org or mail your contribution to the Alliance, 1521 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. We also hope you'll support our efforts by sharing this with others. Our Wish List: A great way to help us out is to donate new or used resources needed by the Alliance, including a Powerpoint Projector, Digital camera, TV/VCR and cart, Kodak slide projector, Screen, Ergonomic office chairs, Computer table, Houseplants, Two-line office phone, and Current version of Filemaker Pro. These contributions are also tax deductible: iasa@mtn.org or 612-331-1099. Your Experiences with Sustainability and Favorite Quotes, Factoids or Articles We love to include your comments, articles, quotes and factoids in MANNA. Also, let us know any steps you have taken to bring about sustainability in your personal life, workplace or community that you would like to share with others: iasa@mtn.org. _______________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2003 Alliance for Sustainability Information can be copied or shared with proper attribution to the author and "MANNA, the newsletter of the Alliance for Sustainability www.allianceforsustainability.net". Please send submissions, comments, questions and requests to be removed to: Alliance for Sustainability, 1521 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 or iasa@mtn.org or 612-331-1099. Editors: Janelle Jurek and Terry Gips _______________________________________________________________________ |