I'm sending a check.
Tom
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I actually had to put in $1,100 of my own money to do what we did this year
and believe me my income is very modest.
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From: tpmc...@stoweaccess.com
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 2:02 PM
To: vermonters-for-sus...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Vermont Environmental Trends Report and other items
Way to go, George!
I'm sending a check.
Tom
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My apologies if you are getting this twice. It looks like it didn’t go
> out the first time but I am not sure and it is too important to risk.
>
> The below press release on our Vermont Environmental Trends: The
> Population Connection report went out a few days ago and is in today’s
> One of the top level staffers in ANR called it a “class act†and a key
> leader in the Vt. Chapter of the Sierra Club said it was a “great
> resource.†It is also receiving national and international attention as
> a model for other states and countries. It would be very helpful If you
> could take a couple of minutes and post a comment to counter balance the
> negative posts that will almost certainly appear.
>
> I want to thank Kim Greenwood of the Vt. Natural Resources Council and
> James Andrews of the Vt. Reptile and Amphibian Atlas for their valuable
> content suggestions. Also great thanks to Dr. Arthur Westing who did a lot
> of editing and Phil Dodd who did the final proofing. About 80% of the
> report was actually written by Eric Garza PhD but because of the other 20%
> I wrote about population he thought it best if I was listed as the author.
> Thank you Eric for your excellent work.
>
> Go to our web site to see the report and while there check out the latest
> commentary on “Solving the Population Problem.†I welcome your
> feedback on both the report and the commentary. We are all volunteers and
> we need your feedback!
>
> We need some money from you. We only paid Eric $1,000 for his work but it
> wiped out our budget. It was worth it and I personally donated a major
> chunk of money to make it happen. If you haven’t already donated this
> year I hope that you will consider doing so. I can’t donate another
> large amount of money and we have ongoing expenses like paying our web
> person. Please help us to keep doing our important work.
>
> Did you watch the program on saving our birds the other night on VPT? One
> of the interviewees mentioned human overpopulation as a primary cause of
> the declining migratory bird population which I have certainly observed
> around here.
>
> And I could hardly believe it when I read the environmental section of the
> Free Press yesterday and there was an article by Secretary of Agriculture
> Chuck Ross in which he strongly talked about the challenges of feeding a
> swelling population. As far as I can remember he is the first state
> official in decades to mention population growth. In an email exchange he
> said that he has been concerned about population growth since the
> 1970’s.