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Time for a new Maker
Of Badges! Requirements are that you get the badges and banners
to the Sierra Club monthly meeting. You will need a computer,
printer, and Microsoft Word to print the badges (using MailMerge).
If you would like to volunteer for this integral position, please
contact Steve at
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Time for a new Maker
Of Badges! Requirements are that you get the badges and banners
to the Sierra Club monthly meeting. You will need a computer,
printer, and Microsoft Word to print the badges (using MailMerge).
If you would like to volunteer for this integral position, please
contact Steve at
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to meet new people? The Membership Committee needs committee
members and/or volunteers. Specific tasks are to "assist
the membership committee" by serving at the membership
tables at general meetings, mailing brochures and newsletters,
helping organize special events for new members, or helping
with special projects. For information contact Robert at 335-7926
or
, or Hilary at 288-9463 or
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is an active and popular part of the Austin Sierra Club. Outings
leaders take members on a variety of outings. The point of the
program is, as John Muir said, to get people out into nature
and to "let the trees speak for themselves."
Check out the current events on the Outings
page. Outings leaders must attend leadership training courses
(taught by the local leadership) and qualify in First Aid and
CPR. If you would like to be a part of this program, contact
Steve at
and plan to attend the
next monthly Outings meeting (see the Meetings Listings on the
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| Join
in helping to maintain trails (and more!) at Wild
Basin Preserve. This is a monthly event on the second Saturday
from 9:00 a.m. to Noon, rain or shine. Contact Wild Basin at
327-7622 or
(Attention: Georganne) at least one week prior to the event
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| Dr.
John Ore at Southwestern University in Georgetown is calling
for volunteers. If you have an interest in learning how to conduct
an energy audit, are fascinated with LEDs or just want to help
the campus lower its carbon footprint, then call John Ore at
512-966-7847. Dr. Ore is starting a research project involving
an impact study using Light-emitting Diode illumination to replace
current incandescent lighting in a rehearsal hall in our fine
arts building. The study will begin this fall semester and hopefully
be completed by the end of summer, 2010. He just started interest
meetings and welcomes folks from the community to attend. |
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needs civic and environmentally conscious volunteers to assist
with programs to acquaint inner city young people with the wonders
of nearby nature. Many of these kids have never seen anything
except concrete, asphalt and dirt lots and their response to
this program is very moving. If this sounds like a program that
you would enjoy contributing to, see the ICO
web page, or contact Kirt at
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 Act
locally, think nationally
Please
volunteer to help us alert our fellow Sierrans in Houston
about an important EPA public hearing there.
Can
you join us Monday, January 25th from 5:30-8:30 at the Austin
Sierra Club office, 1202 San Antonio?
We
will be making calls all week to alert people to this important
meeting. To volunteer, contact Brittany at
or Eva at
. Pizza will be provided!
[Want
to help but tied up next Monday? We will be calling Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday as well. Please join us for as long
or as briefly as you can.]
Brand
new: Now you can sign up for specific volunteer tasks on our
new VolunteerSpot site:
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The
fundraising chair (or co-chairs) are responsible for arranging
(or working with the volunteer coordinator to help arrange)
projects that make money for the Austin Sierra Club. In the
past those projects have included garage sales, Christmas
gift-wrapping at REI and Whole Earth Provision (the volunteer
coordinator usually helps set these up), tabling events where
volunteers ask for donations, booth coordination at Earth
Day and Art Austin (aka Fine Arts Festival) and virtually
any useful project that can be used to raise money for the
Austin Group. You are limited only by your own time and imagination
and commitment. The Fundraising Chair will work closely with
Executive Committee members as well as with the volunteer
coordinator.
If you have any
interest in this volunteer postion, please contact Chris Lehman,
Chair, at
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| Our
newsletter editor, Judith, has asked if anyone with photos from
Sierra Club outings/events, would submit them to her for possible
publication in our monthly newsletter, the Austin Sierran.
Submitted photos should include a description of the activity
and the name of the photographer. The photos should be spares
and not something you need back. We'd like to have a "photos
archive" for future newsletters. Mail to: J Clarkson, 2102
New York, Austin, TX 78702.
Photos do not necessarily have to be of outings either. For
example, when we did the Lake Travis litter cleanup, there
was a photo showing a pallet load of car batteries recovered
from the lake. How frightening!
Also, members do a great job writing columns for our newsletter.
We always need to have articles, letters to the editor, etc.
from any of our members. Send them to Judith in electronic
format (word processor or text) at:
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