New Jersey Friends of Clearwater
New Jersey Friends of Clearwater (NJFC) is a grass roots organization, fully non-profit, volunteer-run and staffed. Since 1974, this organization has been actively trying to educate children and adults on the importance of clean clear water and to urge citizens to be responsible custodians of our domain: the estuaries of Hudson, the Raritan, Delaware, and other NJ Rivers, the Jersey Shore coastline, its inland waterways, and the land of New Jersey.
Over 40 years ago, Pete Seeger realized a dream by getting the 106' Sloop Clearwater launched and spreading the word for a cleaner environment by word, music and action. A seed from that endeavor took root in the form of Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater when popular folksinger Bob Killian brought the idea to Monmouth County over 35 years ago. NJFC will continue its close affiliation with Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., as a Clearwater Sloop Club. Our new name NJFC reflects our goals, growth and outreach in this new Millennium.
Our credo: It is the aim of New Jersey Friends of Clearwater that each member in their own way touch the people immediately surrounding them and in their community, and by word or deed convey the importance of conservation and reparation of the earth.
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January 23 Joint Membership Meeting:
How Political Assaults May Affect Environment Regulation
03 Jan 2012
by George Moffatt
Jeff Tittel, Director of the N.J. Chapter of the Sierra Club, will discuss the systematic political assault on both the state and nation's environmental rules and regulations by radical conservative politicians.
Combined general membership meetings of the Jersey Shore (Monmouth) Group of Sierra and the N.J. Friends of Clearwater are held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. These combined meetings, open to the public, are hosted by the BCC Science Field Station at Sandy Hook in a successful effort to provide our speakers a larger environmental audience, including concerned college students. At the Jan. 23 meeting at Lincroft, a cash buffet will be available at 6:00 p.m. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. NJFC will hold their breakout monthly meeting at 7:30pm in a room TBD.
Since the radicals captured the U.S. House of Representatives, there have been about 190 votes against environmental regulations on the House floor, and about 85 of them have targeted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More assaults can be expected. Closer to home in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie has opposed many environmental bills, while his environmental commissioner insists that any evaluation of new regulations must be balanced by their impact on economic growth. Jeff will also explain how pro-development opponents to environmental controls falsely blame them for the nation's economic stagnation. All is not bleak, however. Jeff will close by considering the rays of hope on the horizon.
To get to Brookdale, take Parkway Exit 109 to Route 520 West (Newman Springs Road, which becomes E. Main Street at the Lincroft campus). Take the traffic circle into the campus and follow the signs to the Warner Student Life Center (SLC), where the meeting will be in the Twin Lights Rooms 1 and 2. Use parking lot 7. As you walk eastward towards the building complex, Warner will be on your left. If lot 7 is full, use parking lots 5 or 6.