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The AAR is making it easy for members to purchase Renewable Energy Credits when traveling to the Annual Meeting. By simply clicking a box during the registration process, members can choose to give $15 to NativeEnergy.

The AAR’s Sustainability Task Force selected NativeEnergy because of its commitment to reducing greenhouse gases while supporting its sustainability projects. NativeEnergy helps assist Native American, farmer-owned, community-based renewable energy projects that create social, economic, and environmental benefits. These projects displace electricity from fossil fuels and reduce other greenhouse gas emissions.

The AAR and SBL are pleased to have collected a total of $7,560 from 504 participants in this carbon offset program. Along with a $500 donation for the AAR's and SBL's staff travel, we sent NativeEnergy a check in the amount of $8,060. These funds were split between two projects. To learn more about NativeEnergy, visit www.nativeenergy.com.

One project is dedicated to the development of The Indiana School Wind Project, in which three school districts in Northern Indiana are using wind prower to save money and teach students about this important natural resource. NativeEnergy has installed wind turbines that power school buildings and provide hands-on renewable energy training for young people. Every dollar the schools save on energy costs is a dollar they can spend in the classroom.

The second project is The Kenya Clean Water Project. In rural Kenya, waterborne illness is a leading cause of death for young children, and untreated water is dangerous to people of all ages. Wood is used to boil water in Kenya, and burning it contributes to climate change by unlocking the carbon stored in the wood. It also creates significant indoor air pollution. The Hydraid® BioSand water filter is a safe and practical alternative. It uses centuries-old slow sand technology to remove waterborne pathogens with simple gravity. Our donation provides upfront funding for the installation of these water filters — reducing greenhouse gas pollution and bringing clean air and water to families across Kenya.

The AAR and SBL are continuing this sustainability program in 2013. We currently have a 4.72 percent combined participation rate, and we hope to improve on that as more members register in the coming months for the 2013 Annual Meeting. We encourage you to make this inexpensive commitment to helping make our meetings more environmentally friendly!

Thank you to all of our AAR contributors:

Gregory Alles
Elizabeth Allison
Hans Alma
Rebecca Alpert
Ashley Anderson
Elizabeth Angowski
Chara Armon
Ellen T. Armour
Daniel Arnold
Mary Ashley
Emily Askew
Gabeba Baderoon
Sebastien Bakatuinamina
Peter Bauck
Tom Beaudoin
Elisabeth Begemann
Dave Bennett
Zoe Bennett
Stephen Berkwitz
Evan Berry
Sharon Betcher
Bede Benjamin Bidlack
Anna Bigelow
Shira Billet
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Heather Blair
Kathryn Blanchard
Whitney Bodman
Chris Boesel
Thomas Borchert
Donna Bowman
Mark Brocker
David Brown
Sid Brown
Grace G. Burford
Virginia Burrus
Marie Campbell
Eileen Campbell-Reed
Richard Carp
Colleen Carpenter
Christopher Carter
Christopher Chapple
James Childs
Catherine Chin
Min-Ah Cho
Mary Churchill
Shannon Clarkson
Michael Clawson
Barbra Clayton
Francis X. Clooney
David Clough
Aryeh Cohen
William Collinge
Suzanne Crawford O'Brien
Jane Crosthwaite
Frank Crouch
Jenny Daggers
Lisa E. Dahill
Lisle Dalton
Joshua Daniel
Barbara Darling-Smith
Marjorie Davis
Dorothy Dean
David DeCosse
Michael DeLashmutt
Shelley Dennis
Jeanine Diller
Andrew Dole
Jack Downey
Emily Dumler
Carol B. Duncan
John Dunne
Robert Dunston
Jonathan Edelmann
Marvin Ellison
Philip Endean
Bruce Epperly
Priscilla Eppinger
Jacob Erickson
Maud Eriksen
Wendy Farley
Millicent Feske
Martha Finch
Juan Floyd-Thomas
W. Trent Foley
Jason Fout
Sarah Fredericks
Elizabeth Freese
Kjetil Fretheim
Amy Frykholm
Ben Fulford
Constance Furey
Jay Garfield
Lynne Gerber
Mark Godin
Matthew Goff
George Gonzalez
Ari M. Gordon
Roger S. Gottlieb
Marion Grau
Brian Green
Michael Greenwald
Tom Greggs
Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee
Darrell Guder
Kirsten Guidero
Janet Gyatso
Lori Brandt Hale
Charles Hallisey
Erik Hammerstrom
Midori Hartman
Timothy Harvie
Noreen Herzfeld
Rosemary Hicks
Mike Higton
Harvey Hill
Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
Laura Hobgood-Oster
John Hoffmeyer
Michael Hogue
Barbara A. Holdrege
Emily Holmes
Thad Horrell
Anita Houck
Krista Hughes
Erica Hurwitz Andrus
Nan Hutton
Andrew Irvine
Paul Christopher Johnson
Lucas Johnston
Kristin Johnston Largen
Charles B. Jones
Sherry Jordon
Mark Juergensmeyer
Darlene Juschka
Tone Stangeland Kaufman
Stephanie Kaza
Laurel D. Kearns
Felicity Kelcourse
Catherine Keller
Mary Keller
M. Whitney Kelting
Chris Klassen
Anne C. Klein
Stefanie Knauss
Hilda Koster
Pui Lan Kwok
Mark Larrimore
Marilyn Legge
John Leonard
A. David Lewis
Justin Jaron Lewis
Michelle Li
Dawn Llewellyn
Reid Locklin
Rita M Lohmeier
Jeffery D. Long
Merle Longwood
Ivory Lyons
Mary MacDonald
Daisy L. Machado
Robert MacSwain
Shaul Magid
Joanne Maguire Robinson
Lawrence Mamiya
Alice Maung-Mercurio
Elizabeth McAnally
Glenn McCullough
Jeffrey McCurry
Mark Patrick McGuire
Robert McKim
James McLeod
David McMahan
Calvin Meaders
Néstor Medina
Sarah Melcher
Alison Melnick
Nancy Menning
Calvin Mercer
Alan Meyers
Sam Mickey
Jack Miles
Flagg Miller
Merrill Miller
Vincent Miller
Jolyon Mitchell
Kerry Mitchell
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda
Abby Mohaupt
Diane L. Moore
Jonathan Moore
Martha L. Moore-Keish
Ebrahim Moosa
Donna Mote
Michael Motia
Anna Mudd
Rachel Muers
Isabel Mukonyora
Yasaman S. Munro
John Nemec
Robert Neville
Judith Newman
Elizabeth Norcross
Rebecca Sachs Norris
Isabelle C. Noth
Vivian-Lee Nyitray
John  J. O'Keefe
Elaine Padilla
Aristotle Papanikolaou
Tam Parker
Christopher (Patrick) Parr
Thom Parrott-Sheffer
Barbara A. B. Patterson
Laurie Patton
Kusumita Pedersen
Lucy Peppiatt
Michelene Pesantubbee
Karl Peters
Ted Peters
Regina Pfeiffer
Russell Pierson
Tina Pippin
Judith Plaskow
Ellen Posman
Elizabeth Pritchard
Tiffany Puett
Elisa Pulido
Elizabeth Pyne
John Raines
Jill Raitt
Jeremy Rapport
Hussein Rashid
Larry Rasmussen
Kay Read
Jeremy Rehwaldt
David Rensberger
Nelson Reveley
Kenneth Reynhout
Jean Richard
Lauren Rigsby
Mayra Rivera
Tyler Roberts
Emily Ronald
Celeste Rossmiller
Terra Rowe
Genny Rowley
Robert Rozehnal
Nora Rubel
Janet Ruffing
Robert Russell
Elias Sacks
Sarah Sanderson-Doughty
Seán Patrick Sanford
Lamin Sanneh
Anthony Santoro
Carmelo Santos
Monica Schaap Pierce
Jame Schaefer
Muriel Schmid
Simon Schmidt
A. Gregory Schneider
Wolfgang Schuerger
Darla Schumm
J. Barton Scott
Melinda Sharp
Cybelle Shattuck
Miranda Shaw
Ola Sigurdson
Laury Silvers
Alan Smith
Peter Smith
Susanna Snyder
Brent Sockness
Katherine Sonderegger
Michael Spezio
Michelle Stearns
Jeremy Stolow
Jeffrey Stout
Jonathan Strandjord
Mary Streufert
Kenneth Surin
Kathleen Talvacchia
Ann Taves
Barbara Taylor
McComas Taylor
Sarah McFarland Taylor
John Thatamanil
Deanna A. Thompson
John Thompson
James Thrall
Jeanine Thweatt-Bates
Gray Tuttle
Christoph Uehlinger
Mark Unno
Elizabeth Urban
Lane Van Ham
Cristina Vanin
Michael VanZandt Collins
Manuel A. Vasquez
Jessica Vazquez Torres
Aana Vigen
Dirk von der Horst
Klaus von Stosch
Michelle Voss Roberts
Joseph Walser
Oystein Wang
Edwin Waters
Jeffrey Wattles
James Watts
Julia Watts Belser
Earle Waugh
Judith Weisenfeld
Alford T Welch
Tisa Wenger
James Wetzel
Kari Wheeler-Reed
Raymond Whitehead
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Courtney Wilder
Roger Willer
Connor Wood
J. Patrick Woolley
Joan Wooten
Wendy Wright
Michiko Yusa
Simeon Zahl
Homayra Ziad
Mary Ann Zimmer
Yvonne Zimmerman
Geertjan Zuijdwegt

 

Gregory Alles

Elizabeth Allison

Hans Alma

Rebecca Alpert

Ashley Anderson

Elizabeth Angowski

Chara Armon

Ellen T. Armour

Daniel Arnold

Mary Ashley

Emily Askew

Gabeba Baderoon

Sebastien Bakatuinamina

Peter Bauck

Tom Beaudoin

Elisabeth Begemann

Dave Bennett

Zoe Bennett

Stephen Berkwitz

Evan Berry

Sharon Betcher

Bede Benjamin Bidlack

Anna Bigelow

Shira Billet

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

Heather Blair

Kathryn Blanchard

Whitney Bodman

Chris Boesel

Thomas Borchert

Donna Bowman

Mark Brocker

David Brown

Sid Brown

Grace G. Burford

Virginia Burrus

Marie Campbell

Eileen Campbell-Reed

Richard Carp

Colleen Carpenter

Christopher Carter

Christopher Chapple

James Childs

Catherine Chin

Min-Ah Cho

Mary Churchill

Shannon Clarkson

Michael Clawson

Barbra Clayton

Francis X. Clooney

David Clough

Aryeh Cohen

William Collinge

Suzanne Crawford O'Brien

Jane Crosthwaite

Frank Crouch

Jenny Daggers

Lisa E. Dahill

Lisle Dalton

Joshua Daniel

Barbara Darling-Smith

Marjorie Davis

Dorothy Dean

David DeCosse

Michael DeLashmutt

Shelley Dennis

Jeanine Diller

Andrew Dole

Jack Downey

Emily Dumler

Carol B. Duncan

John Dunne

Robert Dunston

Jonathan Edelmann

Marvin Ellison

Philip Endean

Bruce Epperly

Priscilla Eppinger

Jacob Erickson

Maud Eriksen

Wendy Farley

Millicent Feske

Martha Finch

Juan Floyd-Thomas

W. Trent Foley

Jason Fout

Sarah Fredericks

Elizabeth Freese

Kjetil Fretheim

Amy Frykholm

Ben Fulford

Constance Furey

Jay Garfield

Lynne Gerber

Mark Godin

Matthew Goff

George Gonzalez

Ari M. Gordon

Roger S. Gottlieb

Marion Grau

Brian Green

Michael Greenwald

Tom Greggs

Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee

Darrell Guder

Kirsten Guidero

Janet Gyatso

Lori Brandt Hale

Charles Hallisey

Erik Hammerstrom

Midori Hartman

Timothy Harvie

Noreen Herzfeld

Rosemary Hicks

Mike Higton

Harvey Hill

 

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