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• Jan. 31: Sludge Safety Project Event

• Jan. 31: Nowheres Else But Here: Paul Corbit Brown Photo Exhibit

• Feb. 5: The Global Warming Solutions Gallery At Marshall University

• Sign Up Online for End Mountaintop Removal Lobby Week In Washington DC

• Sign Up Online for Powershift 2009

• Mar. 2: Capitol Climate Action - Mass Civil Disobedience

• Hey, What Happened on Jan. 21?

• Most of the Above Part of 100 Days of Action; Please Take Part

 Jan. 31: Sludge Safety Project Event
We hope you can join us this Saturday, Jan. 31 for Sludge Safety Project's Legislative Kickoff event. We begin at 2 p.m. and we meet in the Room 208W, the Senate Judiciary Committee Room, on the second floor, in the West Wing of the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Details here. 

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 Jan. 31: Nowheres Else But Here: Paul Corbit Brown Photo Exhibit
Please stick around after the Legislative Kickoff event. At 6 p.m., head down to Taylor Books at 226 Capitol St., Charleston, W.Va. for a sneak peek of "Nowheres Else But Here," featuring selected photographs by Paul Corbit Brown. There will be light refreshments and wine at this artist's reception. Paul's photos will be on display through February 23 at the Taylor Books Annex Gallery and are selected from a larger project, due to be released later this year, which examines the human costs and the environmental degradation that results from the mining and burning of coal.

A portion of all sales will be donated to the Prenter Water Fund which supplies clean drinking and cooking water to the residents of Prenter, W.Va., where wells apparently have been contaminated by coal mining waste.

"The global energy crisis is not an "us vs. them" situation. It is the challenge and duty of every man, woman and child to actively participate in its solution. The consumption of energy is not a right, it is a responsibility," says Paul Corbit Brown.

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 Feb. 5: The Global Warming Solutions Gallery At Marshall University
As part of the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, Marshall University’s Program for Participation hosts the Global Warming Solutions Gallery on Thursday, Feb. 5. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Marshall University Student Center, Room BE5.

There's a presentation from the Coal River Wind Project at 11 a.m., a green jobs panel at 3 p.m., a showing of Kilowatt Ours at 5 p.m. and much more. For the latest schedule, e-mail callico1@marshall.edu or reply to this e-mail.  

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 Sign Up Online for End Mountaintop Removal Lobby Week In Washington DC
The 4th Annual End Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington, DC runs March 14 - 18. With a new congress and administration, we have a real opportunity to pass the Clean Water Protection Act in the House of Representatives this year. Learn more and register online here.

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 Sign Up Online for Powershift 2009
Youth (and quite a few not-so-youthful types) will converge in DC from Feb. 27 to Mar. 3 for Powershift 2009. Veterans of the movement to end mountaintop removal and climate justice activists will be among the featured speakers. Learn more and register online here.

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 Mar. 2: Capitol Climate Action - Mass Civil Disobedience
Many of the above-mentioned veterans of the movement to end mountaintop removal will be part of a mass civil disobedience on Mar. 2 at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC. Learn more here.

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 Hey, What Happened on Jan. 21?
Thanks oodles to all of you who tried to call the White House on Jan.21 with that clean energy now message. Nary a one of us could get through. Here's info on what happened. We will reschedule the call.

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 Most of the Above Part of 100 Days of Action; Please Take Part
350.org and dozens of community groups around the country, including OVEC, are taking part in the 100 Days of Action (the first 100 days of the Obama Administration), all sorts of events, big and small, that focus attention on the need to move pronto into a cleaner energy future. Check out events you can take part in, create your own event and learn more here.

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