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Mission to Expand the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway:
In November 2006, the State DOT will begin dismantling the Outboard Detour Roadway as construction ends on the FDR Drive between 54th and 63rd Streets. Over the past four years, the detour road has floated in the East River and inspired many to envision a permanent biking and walking path along the water there. A coalition of city, state and federal elected officials who represent Midtown East and the Upper East Side have been actively asking that the Mayor investigate the feasibility of retaining the structure and converting it to a critic al link in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. Alternately, the City could construct a new narrower floating or cantilevered path, and thus alleviate the US Coast Guard's concerns that the current detour roadway encroaches on the navigable portion of the East River.

Pledge to see An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore's Global Warming Movie
May 24th in Theaters:
Pledge to see the movie in Theaters on May 24th by clicking the link below
http://www.climatecrisis.net
SYNOPSIS
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb.  If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced- a catastrophe of our own making.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again.  From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, An Inconvenient Truth , which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming and inspire actions to prevent it.  That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change.  In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his “traveling global warming show,” Gore is funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our “planetary emergency” out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point – and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation.  Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective; to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most impassioned cause of his life – convinced that there is still time to make a difference.
With wit, smarts and hope, An Inconvenient Truth ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue – rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization.
An Inconvenient Truth premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and will open in select theaters May 24.

Bike Ride for Climate:
David started in November 2005 and is riding his bicycle from California to southern Argentina. He is using this ride to raise awarness of climate change and how it will affect the Americas . He is visiting schools, publicizing the potential dangers of global warming, and encouraging people to take action. Check out David's site at http://www.rideforclimate.com/

Opposition to NASCAR track in Staten Island:
Along with the many other reasons that local groups believe the NASCAR track on Staten Island is a bad idea, they highlight certain environmental concerns:
"NASCAR is under fire from the EPA for the environmental - damaging leaded fuel used
in their race cars. EPA claimed in a report in 2002 that lead particles from an auto
exhaust on race car using lead gasoline stays aloft for as long as 10 days and travels
miles." Read more about the issue at http://www.defeatnascar.org

More to come very soon.....