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- American Casino Film Screening...
Highland Center for the Arts
Sunday, March 14 at 3:00pm
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Lauren Brittany
Hi! I'm
entering a competition called "Host our Coast". It's part of Dlite, a
low impact tourism company working throughout the Virginia, Maryland,
and Delaware region. I'm asking small non-profit organizations in the
area if they could help me get votes. The winner of the Host our Coast
wins a large sum of prize money and ...I'm offering $1,000 to the
organization that helps me receive the most votes if I win. I will be
making a separate website that will allow people to click on which
organization they heard about me through so I can keep track of where
the votes are coming from. The voting doesn't start until March 16th,
but you can view my video submission portion in the link provided. If
you are interested, please let me know and I will give you more
information. Thank you,LC
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Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News: Comp Plan Conflict with Loudoun Power Plant?
www.citizen-networks.org
"At it's final public hearing before being reviewed by supervisors and prepared for an up or down vote, plans for a hybrid energy plant received support from residents, although many questioned whether ...
Piedmont Environmental Council
Come out this Sunday, March 14, for a private screening of the film American Casino --a critically acclaimed movie that rocked the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
"A terrific documentary chronicling the subprime-mortgage mess and the financial collapse of the past two years... a lucid and comprehensive picture of a rott...en system."
-David Denby, The New Yorker
Produced by PEC board member and Rappahannock resident Leslie Cockburn, American Casino details the perverse incentives banks and mortgage brokers were under to issue unsustainable loans during the recent real estate boom.
Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased in advance online at http://pec.citizen-networks.org/site/Cal
All proceeds from ticket sales benefit PEC.
Time:3:00PM Sunday, March 14th
Location:Highland Center for the Arts
Piedmont Environmental Council
Check out the trailer below for American Casino--a film that rocked the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and is being shown this Sunday, March 14th to benefit PEC at the Highland Center for the Arts in Warrenton. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at http://pec.citizen-networks.org/site/Cal
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Piedmont Environmental Council The General Assembly session is almost over, but that doesn't stop bad bills from being brought up. Check out this email we sent out last night about HB 1395. This bill would have tax revenues pay bonuses to private road developers. Email your Senators and Delegates (action link included in our email) and ask them to vote it down.
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HB 1395 was introduced a little over a week ago at the request of the Governor. This last-minute bill would give the Secretary of Transportation the power to hand out "performance payments" to private developers based on claimed growth in tax revenues attributed to a transportation project. ...
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News: Challenges to Stormwater Rules
www.citizen-networks.org
"State efforts to reduce stormwater runoff from development sites in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania are facing an onslaught of questions and challenges that conservationists worry could weaken water quality protection in the Chesapeake region. "
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News: Green Jobs Growing in Charlottesville Area
www.citizen-networks.org
"For a lot of people, the eco-friendly movement is a nice idea, although not always practical. But it is starting to pay-off around Central Virginia with jobs as new ideas are turning into even newer business opportunities and steady paychecks for working men and women."
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News: Suburban Renewal Meets Recession
www.citizen-networks.org
"When Rockville Town Square opened in summer 2007, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) praised the 12 acres of shops, restaurants and condominiums as a way to revive the aging suburb. Officials visualized ...
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News Top Stories: Spring Seeds, Madison Farm to Table
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"Engineers with a Lynchburg-based firm have determined that a planned pipeline to connect the South Fork and Ragged Mountain reservoirs is feasible and that the $63 million cost estimate for the project is “reasonable.”"
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News: New Park on the Potomac?
www.citizen-networks.org
"The Planning Commission voted 8-1 last week to recommend approval of plans to develop a new regional park along the Potomac River despite vehement opposition from neighbors. Commissioner Gigi Robinson (Leesburg) cast the lone vote in opposition. ...
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News: Heirloom Seeds for Spring
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"...Southern Exposure is a different sort of operation for a number of reasons, including that it specializes in open-pollinated and so-called heirloom seeds that have a history of being passed down through ...
Antigone Ambrose Come out to take concrete action on a clean energy jobs bill!
Location:Virginia State Capitol, 10th and Bank Streets, Richmond VA
Time:10:00AM Saturday, February 27th
Piedmont Environmental Council
Fauquier Residents: Ask the Board of Supervisors to fully fund the Purchase of Development Rights program. This
voluntary program pays farmers for eliminating development rights on their land,
reducing the need for expensive county services in the rural area.
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With the current economic downturn, Fauquier County is being asked to make some tough choices. One of the proposals they may consider would cut all funding from the highly successful Purchase of Development Rights program.
Piedmont Environmental Council PEC News Top Stories: Hazel River Workshop, Yes on Limestone District
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Piedmont Environmental Council Leesburg Today has an article about the newly approved Limestone Overlay District. Thanks to those who voiced their support, this measure will help protect the safety of Loudoun residents!
www.leesburg2day.com
Seven members of the Board of Supervisors voted in favor of creating a Limestone Overlay District, which is intended to better protect groundwater and residents in the Rt. 15 corridor north of Leesburg. ...
