Tar Sands - Keystone XL Pipeline Activist Resources

Tar Sands Activist Resources

TABLE OF CONTENTS

How to Get Involved
Resources & Links
Movies (on Tar Sands & Keystone XL)
Dec 6th Event Booths Participant/Community Partners
Sponsors

How To Get Involved

1. Attend our February 4th Rally at the Obama for America Los Angeles Headquarters. Scheduled for Noon on Saturday February 4th, we will follow up with details.

2. Write or Email President Obama or your local Congress Member. President Obama’s campaign website is:(http://www.barackobama.com/contact-us/). Click on “other” at the bottom of the page and submit your comment. To find your congressmember check the following: (www.contactingthecongress.org) Share with them your concerns.

3. Call President Obama and tell him to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. The White House number is 202 456 1111.

4. Sign the Petition – Go to www.tarsandsaction.org and click on the “Take Action” tab to sign the nationwide petition.

5. Stay Up to Date in Southern California - Befriend “Tar Sands Action SoCal” on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TarSandsActionLA)

6. Set up a screening and discussion of one of the films listed in the “Movies” section below.

7. Befriend/Follow updates from the organizations listed in the “Resources” section below.

Resources & Links

Articles and Papers:

Pipeline Delay: Sustainability Threat from Tar Sands Oil Remains http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/tar-sands/pipeline-delay-sustainability-threat-from-tar-sands-oil-remains/

Keystone Talking Points: http://mediamattersaction.org/message/

NRDC: Pipeline And Tanker Trouble – The Impact To British Columbia’s Communities, Rivers, And Pacific Coastline From Tar Sands Oil Transport: http://dirtyoilsands.org/files/NRDC_Pipeline_Tanker_Trouble_Web.pdf

Sierra Club Papers: http://www.sierraclub.org/dirtyfuels/tar-sands/reports.aspx

Tar Sands 101: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-101

Organizations with Tar Sands/Keystone XL Campaigns:

(See their websites, join their mailing lists, and befriend their Facebook pages)

All Against The Haul: http://allagainstthehaul.org/

Canadian Boreal Initiative: http://www.borealcanada.ca/index-e.php

Dirty Oil Sands: http://www.dirtyoilsands.org/

Forest Ethics: http://forestethics.org/tar-sands

Friends of The Earth: overview, resources, and media: http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline

Greenpeace Canada: http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/tarsands/

Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/

National Wildlife Federation: http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Policy-Solutions/Drilling-and-Mining/Tar-Sands.aspx

Natural Resources Defense Council: http://www.nrdc.org/energy/dirtyfuels_tar.asp

Oil Sands Truth: http://oilsandstruth.org/

Pacific Wild http://www.pacificwild.org/

Rising Tide North America: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/

Tar Sands Action – Los Angeles: https://www.facebook.com/TarSandsActionLA

Tar Sands Action: http://www.tarsandsaction.org/

350.org: http://www.350.org/

Alternatives and Answers:

Amory Lovins: Efficiency and Renewable Energy will Reinvent Fire http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/amory-lovins-efficiency-and-renewable-energy-will-reinvent-fire/

Sierra Club – Green Transportation Initiative: http://www.sierraclub.org/transportation/

Union of Concerned Scientists – Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions http://www.ucsusa.org/ http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/climate-2030-national-blueprint-for-clean-energy-economy/

Time Banks – California Directory: http://cafederationoftimebanks.com/staff_type/directory/

Transition Towns in LA Area https://sites.google.com/site/transitionlosangeles/calendar/calendars-by-local-group

Movies on Tar Sands & Keystone XL Pipeline

For copies of or screening rights for the following films please investigate the corresponding links for contact information.

Tipping Point (the screened film) by Niobe Thompson & Tom Radford http://tippingpointdoc.ca/
All film requests must be sent to the Clear Water Media at info@clearwatermedia.com. Be sure to tell them you heard about the film from the Dec 6th screening in Pasadena

Order/Stream the film online: http://www.journeyman.tv/62790/documentaries/tipping-point-the-end-of-oil-hd.html

Pipe Dreams (the screened trailer) by Leslie Iwerks http://pipedreamsdoc.com/

Dirty Oil by Leslie Iwerks http://dirtyoil.co.uk/

Downstream by Leslie Iwerks http://downstreamdoc.com/

H2Oil by Shannon Walsh http://h2oildoc.com/home/action

Petropolis – Aerial perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands by Peter Mettler http://www.petropolis-film.com/#

SpOil by Trip Jennings and Andy Maser http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/wildlife/spoil-tar-sands-pipelines-threaten-great-bear-rainforest/

White Water, Black Gold by David Lavallee http://www.videoproject.com/whwablgo.html

http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/tar-sands-documentary-white-water-black-gold/

December 6th “Tipping Point” Event

Speakers and Bios

Tantoo Cardinal, First Nations Actress and International Activist
Rae Breaux, National Organizer of Tar Sands Action
Jack Eidt, Editor, Wilder Utopia

For complete Bios See: http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/tar-sands/la-screening-tipping-point-the-end-of-oil/

Booths Participants/Community Partners

Altadena Urban Farmers’ Market https://www.facebook.com/AltadenaUrbanFarmersMarket

Arroyo Time Bank https://www.facebook.com/arroyotimebank

Biodiesel Co-op of Los Angeles http://www.biodieselcoopla.com

Project Butterfly www.projectbutterfly.org

Sustain LA www.sustainla.com

Tar Sands Action – Los Angeles https://www.facebook.com/TarSandsActionLA

Transition San Fernando Valley http://transitionsfv.org (Find a Transition town near you http://transitionla.org/calendar.htm)

Transition To Green www.Transitiontogreen.org

For a LA County list of Sustainable Community Resources please see http://www.wilderutopia.com/sustainability/sustainability-in-los-angeles-who-what-where/

“As the sun rose above the eastern horizon,
the Chumash Bear Dancer pointed his hand-held staff at it,
and sang,
‘Darkness goes blind,
Like a blind man.
Then light bumps into it,
And light will last forever.’“
- Fernando Librado Kinsepawit

BROUGHT TO YOU BY….

Burbank Green Alliance
Jessica Aldridge, Executive Director
www.burbankgreenalliance.org
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