[Green] Ohio River Media and democracy webinar series

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Thanks, Cindy.

Would Fair Shakes be able to provide us with advice about legal steps we might be able to take if/when the USACE approves the Deep Rock application for the fracking offload facility?


---- Cindy Taylor via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> MOVCA is  promoting this..    Adeline announced at our last business
> meeting.
> 
> https://www.fairshake-els.org/events/community-democracy-webinar-series
> 
> Fair Shake’s Community Democracy Series aims to give people the tools they
> need to participate in the processes that shape their communities. Each
> segment of our FREE 5 part webinar series will be hosted by our staff
> attorneys and dive into important aspects of our local and regional
> democratic processes that are often overlooked. Some examples include urban
> and suburban farming, building communities through zoning, understanding
> the permitting process, protecting your community from lead hazards,
> working together for environmental justice, and community lawyering for a
> better future.
> 
> We will begin this week-long series on August 24th, 2020.
> You can register for the events here:
> https://fairshake-els.salsalabs.org/communitydemocracywebinarseries/index.html
> <https://fairshake-els.salsalabs.org/communitydemocracywebinarseries/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0REXMfElOJukEESipKeXaUamqSEkE5kxXurq2t9ZCuUcCOXxDnvOogrj0>
> 
> 
> In Researching more about Fair Shake-
> 
> Fair Shake incorporated in April 2013 as the nation’s first 501(c)(3)
> nonprofit environmental law firm with the mission to open the doors of
> environmental justice. We provide client-centered legal representation
> regardless of income to level the playing field for people of modest means,
> or no means at all.
> 
> 
> 
> Low-income communities are often left out of the decision-making process
> yet they suffer most from environmental impacts like pollution or
> contaminated water. Our non-profit law firm offers a full range of services
> such as legal counsel, litigation, media relations, communications
> strategy, and community outreach to  give their environmental needs a voice
> and see to it that voice is heard.  I was intrigued to find out more
> https://www.fairshake-els.org
> 
> 
> 
> Marketing director is Josh Eisenfeld, filmmaker!
> 
> I was checking out their news stories which led me to this  GOOD RIVER
> site-  all about the Ohio River Watershed- which I didn't know about!
> Great articles..  Here's an example of one of the articles posted- NEWS
> ARTICLes:
> 
> Belt Magazine
> 
> Dec. 4, 2019 by Sharon Kelly
> 
> “What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for  regional
> communities and beyond”
> 
> https://www.ohiowatershed.org/petrochemical-buildout-along-the-ohio-river-means-for-regional-communities.html
> 
> …
> 
> GOOD RIVER: Stories of the Ohio
> 
> https://www.ohiowatershed.org
> 
> 
> 
> Good River is a series about the environment, economy and culture of the
> Ohio River watershed, produced by seven nonprofit newsrooms spanning five
> of the 15 watershed states. To learn more about the project, read here
> <https://www.ohiowatershed.org/about.html>.
> 
> https://www.ohiowatershed.org/about.html
> 
> Good River: Stories of the Ohio is a collaborative reporting project that
> will draw you closer to the waters and ecosystem that helped to build our
> region and sustain it to this very day. The Ohio River provides drinking
> water for five million people. It’s a thoroughfare of business, supporting
> jobs and communities. But did you know that it’s also commonly cited as the
> most polluted river in the United States?
> 
> 
> 
> Good River is a series about the environment, economy and culture of the
> Ohio River watershed. Journalists in seven nonprofit newsrooms – spanning
> five of the 15 watershed states — worked from May 2019 into early 2020 to
> produce nonpartisan, informative and striking journalism on the Ohio River
> watershed.
> 
> 
> 
> Our journalists will share with you the beauty of the Ohio River and its
> watershed, exemplifying all that could be lost if the threats facing it are
> not addressed. The watershed faces many perils — from industrial polluters
> and agricultural runoff to weakening of the federal Clean Water Act and
> climate change.
> 
> 
> 
> The watershed isn’t an issue for only those on one side of the aisle.
> Drinking water quality, livelihoods supported by the river and its
> tributaries, the health and future of our watershed communities — these
> should not be partisan issues.
> 
> 
> 
> The project launched in November 2019 with a regular publication schedule
> through early February 2019. In spring/early summer 2020, we’ll be finding
> out what watershed-native wildlife graced the cameras set up by a
> photographer we’re working with through the National Geographic Society.
> 
> 
> 
> If you have comments, questions or suggestions about the Good River
> project, please reach out to Halle Stockton at PublicSource by emailing
> halle at publicsource.org or calling 412-515-0065
> 
> 
> CHECK out their stories:
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.ohiowatershed.org/#watershed-stories
> 
> 
> 
> Seems like these organizations might be helpful to sustainability planning
> .
> 
> 
> Cindy

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