Only a week after the well-attended screening of Coal Country in downtown Baltimore, over 20 people turned out for the inaugural meeting of the new Baltimore Beyond Coal Team! After enjoying a delicious potluck lunch, attendees learned more about Sierra Club's campaign to clean up the air-polluting Crane and Wagner coal-fired power plants and brainstormed ideas about how to engage more people in advocating for healthier air in our communities. We discussed tabling at farmers markets and festivals, hosting more Coal Country screenings and other programs around the city, planning a rally for clean air, and much more!
Now it's time to take our ideas and turn them into action so that we can show Governor O'Malley how important clean air and clean energy really is to Baltimoreans!
Will you join us at one of our upcoming events? Please send an email to Seth (Seth.Bush@sierraclub.org) to join our email list and learn more about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities.
Here's the rundown:
Baltimore Beyond Coal Team Meeting
Saturday, April 5th at 10am
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, University of Baltimore, 1401 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD
We will be distilling our brainstorm ideas into an action plan and timeline that we can work on together over the next three months.
Coal Country Screening -- Dundalk
Thursday, April 24th at 7 PM
Community College of Baltimore County - Dundalk Campus
Coal Country is an acclaimed documentary film that looks at the struggles for environmental and social justice brought to Central Appalachia by the devastating extractive industry of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Following the screening (84 min.), take part in a conversation about how Baltimoreans are organizing to clean up coal-fired power plants in Greater Baltimore and make our air more breathable.
Baltimore Ecofest
Saturday, April 26th at 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Druid Hill Park
Join the Baltimore Beyond Coal Team for a fun afternoon at our Ecofest table in Druid Hill Park where we'll be engaging hundreds of people in our campaign for clean air and clean energy in Baltimore!
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And there will be many more on the calendar soon! Please send an email to Seth (Seth.Bush@sierraclub.org) to join our email list and learn more about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities.