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The Hoosier Environmental Council will host its Second Annual Green Policy Forum on Saturday, Nov. 14.

The forum will feature presentations on HEC’s legislative priorities for the 2010 session of the Indiana General Assembly, which include: clean energy, public transit, forestry protection, and sustainable agricultur...e. It will also offer participants the opportunity to learn about effective citizen engagement and the legislative process.

The Second Annual Green Policy Forum is open to the public; however, attendees should register in advance at www.hecweb.org in order to participate. The registration fee is $10 per person, which includes lunch. Students with a valid student ID can attend at a discounted rate of $5.
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No mountains in Indianapolis-- but we can help to preserve them in our neighboring states!

The Mountaintop Removal Road Show will be presented on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. in the Indianapolis Art Center's library at 800 E. 67th Street in Indianapolis. Its a free-to-the-public educational forum.

In Virginia, West ...Virginia and eastern Kentucky, coal companies blast as much as 600 feet off the top of the mountains, and then dump the rock and debris into mountain streams. Over 300,000 acres of the most beautiful and productive hardwood forests in America have been turned into barren grasslands. Mountaintop removal coal mining destroys streams, increases flooding, contaminates drinking water supplies, cracks home foundations, and showers towns with dust and noise from blasting.

Learn what we can do to help preserve our common natural heritage. Discover what Indianapolis Power and Light, and other electric utilities, could be doing to encourage conservation and green energy development. Lexington, Kentucky-based environmental activist Dave Cooper will share what its like to live near a mountaintop removal mine as he presents his Mountaintop Removal Road Show, a beautiful and thought-provoking multimedia presentation featuring traditional Appalachian music and culture. Hell also answer questions from the audience about this important issue.

Following Daves presentation, the audience is invited to gather at Union Jack Pub (smoke-free) at 924 Broad Ripple Avenue. (Union Jacks proprietor has been the driving force in creating a much-needed cooperative recycling program among Broad Ripple businesses).

This presentation is sponsored by several local environmental and energy groups

Protect Our Rivers Now!, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter, Green Broad Ripple, and Riverviews.org.Read More

My dad has multiple packs of hydroponic organic grow cubes available:

General Hydroponics CocoTek® 6”x6”x4" Organic Grow Cubes™

$12.75/Pack of 12 plus shipping

The CocoTek® cubes are biodegradable and ready-to-use with perforated holes designed to accept Rapid Rooter rooting plugs. The Drip Cubes are wrapped in plastic to... keep out light and algae, and to hold in moisture. These 6x6x4 Grow Cubes work perfectly with continuous drip or continuous watering applications.

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