April 14th - Back to Battery Park!!! 12 Noon

"Here in NYC, I want to fight for better energy efficiency and conservation, to reduce our demand on IP. And, realistically, a very, VERY small percentage of NYC's electricity comes from IP--by mandate a full 80% of the city's PEAK load (the hottest, more energy hungry summer days, that is) must be generated w/in the city. Most of our juice comes from all those natural gas plants scattered around our crusty waterfronts. So I hope that we can, as a city, reduce our demand on IP to a big 0. And I think that's quite possible."
~ Ben Jervey

www.seaofpeople.org

ben@greenappleguide.com

SEA OF PEOPLE

On April 14th, 2007, activists and citizens throughout the country will be gathering for a national day of climate action, a landmark day that might well be the largest environmental activist event since Earth Day 1970. I've been working with friends from Solar One, Transportation Alternatives, the NRDC, the Lower East Side Girls Club, Code Pink, the Church of Stop Shopping, Swear on our Friendship, the artist Eve Mosher, and literal dozens of other amazingly motivated individuals to create an event on scale with our city's size, impact, influence, and creative vitality.

Step It Up 2007 is nationwide campaign that aims to deliver a clear and powerful message to our congressional leadership: CUT GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION BY 80% BY 2050! The campaign will culminate on Saturday, April 14th, a national day of climate action, when Americans, representing voting districts throughout the country, will voice their support for this bold and necessary commitment by gathering together and making their voices heard in hundreds of local Demonstrations.

Sea of People will go down as such:

Rally at 12 noon in the lawn at Battery Park, with brief comments about the importance of climate change legislature from many diverse fields--science, politics, the faith community, youth, business, and a very special address by the revered environmentalist and longtime global warming activist Bill McKibben, he responsible for the entire Step It Up movement!

After the rally, all participants will march north in two lines, connected in Battery Park, along the 10-foot elevation line, or the potential "future sea level" line. We're asking that all attendees WEAR BLUE to help make our SEA OF PEOPLE an even more symbolic and powerful action.

WE STILL NEED PLENTY OF VOLUNTEERS to help make this event the powerful statement it's been conceived as.

If you're interested in helping out, please email us at

volunteers@seaofpeople.org

If you plan on attending (and I do hope you will),

please RSVP here:
http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/103

NRC...DoE...DoD... Back to Square One!

The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change
(Public Management and Change)
by Robert F. Durant

$29.95 Paperback 256 pages
Publishing Date: June 15, 2007
ISBN-10: 1589011538

Georgetown University Press

3240 Prospect Street, NW

Washington, DC 20007

202-687-5889 Fax: 202-687-6340

Publicist - Kimberly Wilson

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Robert F. Durant is professor of public administration and policy at American University. He has received numerous research awards, including the 2000 Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management; the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on U.S. national policy from the American Political Science Association; and the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award given jointly by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.

Dr. Robert F. Durant
American University
School of Public Affairs
Ward Circle Building 345
4400 Mass. Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 885-2509
durant@american.edu

By the Cold War's end, U.S. military bases harbored nearly 20,000 toxic waste sites. All told, cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And yet while progress has been made, efforts to integrate environmental and national security concerns into the military's operations have proven a daunting and intrigue-filled task that has fallen short of professed goals in the post-Cold War era.

In The Greening of the U.S. Military, Robert F. Durant delves into this too-little understood world of defense environmental policy to uncover the epic and ongoing struggle to build an environmentally sensitive culture within the post-Cold War military. Through over 100 interviews and thousands of pages of documents, reports, and trade newsletter accounts, he offers a telling tale of political, bureaucratic, and intergovernmental combat over the pace, scope, and methods of applying environmental and natural resource laws while ensuring military readiness. He then discerns from these clashes over principle, competing values, and narrow self-interest a theoretical framework for studying and understanding organizational change in public organizations.

From Dick Cheney's days as Defense Secretary under President George H. W. Bush to William Cohen's Clinton-era-tenure and on to Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, the battle over "greening" the military has been one with high-stakes consequences for both national defense and public health, safety, and the environment. Durant's polity-centered perspective and arguments will evoke needed scrutiny, debate, and dialogue over these issues in environmental, military, policymaking, and academic circles.

"The Greening of the U.S. Military helps to add energy, depth, and luster to academic studies of policy history, bureaucratic politics, and public management."-Michael Barzelay, professor of public management, London School of Economics and Political Science"For those who may have formed impressions of the Pentagon's progress, or lack thereof, in becoming greener, this highly readable and accessible book is an indispensable resource."
-Kent E. Portney, professor of political science, Tufts University

"A very well-written book describing the attempts to instill a 'beyond compliance' environmental culture in the military and the forces that shape these efforts. In short, no book is as up-to-date and extensive or as theoretical. The scholarship is superior."
-Denise Scheberle, professor of public and environmental affairs, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay"

[A] highly significant contribution to analysis and understanding of organizational change in government."
-Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, The University of Georgia

Table of Contents

1. A World Apart?
2. Greening, National Security, and the Postmodern Military
3. About Face at the Pentagon?
4. Base Cleanups, Sovereign Impunity, and the Expansion of the Beaten Zone
5. Guns, Dogs, Fences, and Base Transfers
6. Missiles, Mayhem, and the Munitions Rule7. Natural Resources Management, Miltary Training, and the Greening of the Drone Zone
8. Safety, Security, and Chemical Weapons Demilitarization
9. Pollution Prevention, Energy Conservation, and the Perils of Châteaux Generalship
10. Avoiding the Harder Right in the Post-Clinton Era?
11. Lessons for Practice and Theory