Announcements of Events

League of Women Voters^®
of San Diego

Upcoming Events

January 2012. February 2012.

January 2012

January 9 -14 Units meet to discuss the merger with East San Diego County League and then a discussion of hydraulic fracking and our Energy needs. Times and locations can be found in the January Voter newsletter.

January 19 12:00 noon at the El Cajon Library - Topic: Future of Oil and Gas - Speaker : Roy Davis, retired Dow Chemical researcher.
Topics to be discussed are:
1) conventional oil, the increasing difficulty in producing it and when it is projected to run out
2) the plentiful supply of unconventional oil and gas (examples: the oil sands of Venezuela and Canada, hydraulic fracking of gas containing rock, oil shale, coal bed methane, etc.) and the associated economic, environmental, and social costs
3) the military cost of oil
4) why US oil independence is a myth
5) why one does not want to live and work in a country with low gasoline prices.

January 19 6 PM at the Jacobs Center, Co-sponsor 39th Anniversary Dinner Celebration of Roe v. Wade

January 21 10 am - 2 PM Program Planning at the home of Beryl Flom, members plan for the coming year.

January 26 Tour of Donovan Correctional Facility and "Coming Home to Stay", Advance reservations must be made prior to January 5th.

February 2012

February 2 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Tom Ham's Lighthouse restaurant, Harbor Island, "How Can San Diego Create A Sustainable Energy Future?" Speakers: Rochelle Becker from Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and Andrea C. Cook, from the Center for Sustainable Energy.

February 4 12:00 noon - 2:00 PM, Mission Valley Library, co-sponsor with Common Cause and the American Constitution Society -"Politics, Ethics and the Supreme Court"

February 11 8:30 AM - 12:00 noon , Burnham Center for Civic Engagement, 2501 Historic Decatur Road, "San Diego Government- Is It Meeting Our Needs? " Panelists: Steve Erie, Donna Frye, Vince Hall, Mike Jenkins, Christine Kehoe, Vladimir Kogan, Ron Roberts.

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