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In This Issue
Volunteer of the Month
Hetch Hetchy Film Festival
Our New Website
A Letter from a Poet
In the News
 
Santa Barbara Independent

 

SF Proposes Using Recycled Water at Parks

San Francisco Chronicle

 

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Volunteer of the Month 
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Greetings! 

 

It is the harvest season and RHH is seeing several important projects come to fruition this month.  Today we are launching a much improved website that will allow us to communicate our message far more effectively and next month we are re-releasing "Discover Hetch Hetchy with Harrison Ford" an award-winning film originally produced by Environmental Defense Fund.  RHH has re-edited the film and will be premiering it with two other short films about Hetch Hetchy at events in Los Angeles and Berkeley-tickets for both events are on sale now at www.hetchetchy.org.

 

Both of these communication tools will strengthen our hand as we prepare dual political and legal strategies.  RHH is pleased to announce that the international law firm of Hogan Lovells LLC has agreed to represent RHH on a pro bono basis.  Additionally, RHH is pleased to announce that a recent poll conducted among registered voters in San Francisco confirmed that 59% of San Franciscans now support restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley.

 

To the left you'll find several links to news stories about our efforts that effectively make the case for Restoring Hetch Hetchy.  We've also recently added two new board members with strong environmental restoration credentials and marketing experience respectively--we profile one of them in this email. 

 

None of this progress would be possible without your continued support.  We hope you will continue supporting us by asking your friends to check out our new website, join us on Facebook and/or attend one of the Hetch Hetchy Film Festivals that are scheduled.  Restore Hetch Hetchy!

 

Mike Marshall

Executive Director


Hetch Hetchy Film Festival 

Harrison Ford at Hetch Hetchy
What do Harrison Ford and David Brower have in common?  They both narrated films that will be shown at the Hetch Hetchy Film Festival! 

 

Please join us in Los Angeles on November 18th and in Berkeley on December 1st for an evening of wine, film and discussion.  Sample the wines of Muir-Hanna vineyards, a Napa Valley winery owned and operated by the direct descendents of John Muir, view three exciting films advocating for the restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley and learn about new developments in the campaign to bring the Hetch Hetchy Valley back to life.  For more information or to purchase tickets click on the links below.

 

Hetch Hetchy Film Festival in LA

 

Hetch Hetchy Film Festvial in Berkeley

Check out www.hetchhetchy.org
check out our new website

 

A key component of any environmental campaign is the ability to effectively communicate a message.  Thanks to a team of volunteers, Restore Hetch Hetchy has a terrific new site with which to educate the public, recruit volunteers and solicit contributions.  Check it out!

 

RHH would like to give special thanks to the team at Load Bearing Creative in Fresno for the many volunteer hours they put in to develop a new, effective website for RHH.  Load Bearing Creative is a full service marketing and design studio-we encourage our supporters to consider utilizing their talented services.   Special thanks also to RHH board member, Roger Williams, for making it happen.

A Letter From a Poet 
barabara Mossberg

 

Dear Restore Hetch Hetchy:

 

We have reached a new stage of evolution where human history is the agency of hope. The twentieth century brought in a renewed consciousness of preservation of the earth-keeping what is left. Our century's work is restoration. It is imaginative work. It needs the poet and the engineer, the lawyer and business leader. It is up to us now to figure out ways in every river valley to rescue rich soil, every mountain and plain, to be restored. We hear of prairies and watershed and mountains and forests, seabeds, coral reefs, being brought back to life with engineering feats and genius of vision. And this is from Emily Dickinson, engineer of "but God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene, this whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!" If we consider this very earth our own, claim it as we once claimed land to up-end, take down trees and habitat, dam rivers, flood valleys, and see a new kind of power in owning this earth, we can make it once again tremendous, we can move from the role of fools to the divine work of the visionary who believes in what is possible. This is the point at which a thousand years from now, a child will find history a story of redemption. 

 

Barabara Mossberg 2010

 

Dr. Barbara Mossberg is a Professor at California State University, Monterey Bay and an active member of the Restore Hetch Hetchy National Advisory Board.  Dr. Mossberg has written extensively about John Muir, Yosemite and restoring Hetch Hetchy.  To read more of her work visit www.barbaramossberg.com