Texas

State Coordinator:

Anna Pierce
(214) 212-1033
anna.pierce@ssc.org

also
Christina Billingsley
(214) 929-5995
christina.billingsley@ssc.org

News

• Expose Victoria's Dirty Secret at SMU! Contact Joseph Grinnell on latest campaign actions taking place on SMU campus in Dallas. Email:jl_grinnell@yahoo.com. Check their website for updates: http://www.sbs.earthic.net
• The Texas-Size Environmental Roadshow- A Texas-Size Success This past semester, the SSC toured the Lone Star State with a "Texas Size  Environmental Roadshow" organized by two Dallas-based activists.
  
  
  
  Riding on a bio-diesel powered school bus, SSC activists Christina Billingsley and Anna Pierce launched the first-ever SSC training roadshow to hit the state.
  
  
  
  They stopped through Rice University in Houston, Pascal High School in Ft. Worth, TAG Magnet School in Dallas, and also a mixed college-high school group in Dallas providing SSC grassroots organizing workshops to student environmental groups. "We focused our trainings on clean energy issues at each school. In Ft. Worth and Houston, they're working to bring bio-diesel to all campus vehicles, in Corpus Christi a group wants to bring 20% clean energy to campus, so we're trying to work with each local group and adjust each training to fit their needs." said Christina Billingsley. The Roadshow will continue and has plans to visit schools in Corpus Christi, Nacogdoches, and Austin by the end of the school year.
  
  
  
  If you want to be a stop on the "Texas Size Environmental Roadshow" and receive genuine 100% authentic SSC organizing training, email Anna at anna.pierce@ssc.org.
  
  
  
  Photos of the Roadshow will be on the website soon. Special thanks to the Lone Star Chapter, Dallas Group, and Houston Group Sierra Clubs!

Groups

Check out all these active environmental groups! Send an email to Christina if you want to add your group to the network or want specific group information.

University of Texas- Austin
UT- Arlington
Cedar Valley Community College, Cedar Valley
Richland Community College, Dallas
Highland Park High School, Dallas
Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Booker T. Washington Arts Magnet, Dallas
St. Marks School of Texas, Dallas
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
University of North Texas, Denton
Pascal High School, Ft. Worth
Rice University, Houston
University of Houston
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches

Links

Dallas Sierra Club

Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club

Texas Comission on Environmental Quality

Texas Watch Water Monitoring and Environmental Education

Texas Campaign for the Environment

Earth 911: You can recycle almost anything, just look at this website for a recycle center near you. For example, did you know you can recycle video cassettes, ink cartridges, lightbulbs, and concrete? There's much more, just look.

Blue Skies Alliance for North Texas

Issues

Save our Springs!
Protect the Edwards Aquifer, its springs and contributing streams, and the natural and cultural heritage of its Hill Country watersheds, with special emphasis on the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer. Boycott Lowe's Home Improvement Store for plans to build a 160,000 square foot "Big Box" store on Brodie Lane, over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone -- the source of waters of Barton Springs and sole source of drinking water for over 50,000 Central Texans. Take action today! Check out www.sosalliance.org for more information.

El Paso's Toxic Legacy?
Contact Leon Kababie to get involved and learn about the issue with this intriguing article in the Texas Observer.

Dallas SSC Bhopal Campaign!
On December 3rd 1984, over 40 tons of highly poisonous gas leaked out of the pesticide factory of Union Carbide in Bhopal,India. An estimated half-million people were poisoned, and the health impacts continue to this day. The death toll is more than 20,000. It is estimated that 10-15 are dying every month. Union Carbide fled India, leaving behind huge rusting vats of toxic waste, which are leaking into the ground water today. Dow Chemical has since purchased 100% of Union Carbide, and the survivors of Bhopal are joined by an international network of environmental, labor, and human rights groups in demanding that Dow clean up the mess and provide medical care for those injured by Union Carbide's negligence.December 3, 2004 is the 20th anniversary of the worst industrial disaster in history. For information on how to help, visit the campaign website: www.studentsforbhopal.org

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