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Meeting
Sierra Club/Great Falls Group Meeting: Polar Bears and Climate Change

When:

Sep 23, 2008
Refreshments are served at 7 PM and program starts at 7:30. Program ends around 9:00 PM with the door prize drawing.

Details:

Steve Bruckner, Conservation Chair of the Great Falls Group, will talk about energy and environmental issues on Alaska's North Slope and Arctic Seas. Both areas hold extensive oil and gas resources that energy companies and public officials want to exploit to increase energy supplies. These same regions, however, contain globally significant biological hot spots essential to iconic species (such as Polar Bears and migratory bird species) that are threatened not only by oil and gas activities but also by global warming. Learn about these important public policy issues and the competing interests interested in them. 

Contact Information:

Great Falls Group Virginia Chapter Sierra Club
Linda Burchfiel at 703-506-4310 or larva@attglobal.net

Directions:

Meeting Location: Joanne Rose Gallery Room at the Reston Community Center at Lake Anne, 1609 Washington Plaza, N. 

Directions to Lake Anne Community Center: From Rte. 7, take Baron Cameron Ave., from Baron Cameron, turn south (left) onto Village Rd., left onto North Shore, then immediate right into the Village Center parking lot. From Fairfax County Pkwy go east on Sunset Hills Road, left onto Reston Parkway, right on Temporary Rd., left onto North Shore Drive, about 1 mile, right into the Village Center parking lot. (Exxon Station will be on your left.). The Center is also served by the following Fairfax Connector bus routes: RIBS 1, RIBS 3 and 552 please see the Fairfax Connector website or the Linkinfo website for detailed schedules.