Few issues manage to stir up passionate debate more than climate change. But undoubtedly, we are already starting to see the effects of climate change in our daily lives. Gardeners know that our region in now considered “Zone 5” instead of “Zone 4”, as the USDA had to shift plant hardiness zones in the past few years as a tangible result of climate change. What are some of the other visible effects of climate change?
http://sierranebraska.org/2012/01/02/climate-change-fact-vs-fiction/

Monday, March 5 at 7 p.m. – MoValley Group Sierra Club ExCom Meeting
Location: Law Office of Mike McClellan, 503 S 36 St, Omaha
Agenda: Forum of Congressional District II Candidates, Strategies on XL-Pipeline and Beyond Coal campaigns, Framing the Debate on Global Warming workshop, etc.
All MoValley Group meetings are open to the public. You are invited to attend!

Thursday, March 8^th – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. – Green Neighborhood Council’s March Community Roundtable
Facilitator: Kristi Wamstad-Evans, Omaha’s Sustainability Coordinator
Location:  Neighborhood Center, 115 S. 49^th Avenue
 Ms. Wamstad-Evans was hired as the City’s first Sustainability Coordinator in September, 2009.  She has established ECO-Omaha, the Office of Sustainable Development in City Hall, has been responsible for managing over $14 million in energy efficiency projects and programs, and has established many new tools to help facilitate and catalyze sustainability in the City of Omaha.  Click here for more Info>>