Upcoming Portage Trail Group Program and Discussion Meetings

Posted on November 6, 2014 by akronguy

The second Tuesday of each month, at 7 pm, we host a zoom meeting.
        You are welcome to join an ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSION.
        We get together on zoom, . . . and talk about the environment.   It’s worth it!
The third Tuesday of most months, we host a PROGRAM MEETING.
        Most program meetings begin at 7 pm (but not picnics or EV shows)
        Since covid, most of these program meetings have been available on Zoom.
        In the last two years, some of these meetings have been in person.
        Some meetings are “hybrid” – both in person and online.
        Our July picnic and our September electric vehicle show each start at 6 pm,
        and are in person only.
        We have traditionally NOT had a program meeting in December.
        So please, stay tuned, . . . and join in.

Here’s a list of meetings through 2026, . . . and into 2027:
Tuesday, August 18   7 pm – “Why Participate in the Sierra Club?”
            led by . . . Dick Beck, our volunteer chair   by ZOOM
Tuesday, September  8   7 pm – Environmental Discussion   by ZOOM
Tuesday, September 15   6 pm – Electric Vehicle Show   in person only
            in the parking lot of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Akron,
            3300 Morewood Road, Akron OH  44333
Tuesday, October 13   7 pm – Environmental Discussion   by ZOOM
Tuesday, October 20  –   PROGRAM to be announced
Tuesday, November 10   7 pm – Environmental Discussion   by ZOOM
Tuesday, November 17   7 pm – Member Presentations
            This began years ago to allow members to present environmental travelogues,
            Now you may present what you wish . . . about the environment
            using PowerPoint or other methods to communicate with us.
Tuesday, December 8   7 pm – Environmental Discussion   by ZOOM
The Rest of December – HAPPY HOLIDAYS   (No PTGSC programs)
Tuesday, January 12, 2027  7 pm – Environmental Discussion   by ZOOM
Tuesday, January 19, 2027  7 pm – Green Burial at the Wilderness Center, Wilmot OH
            led on zoom by Barb, the director of the Wilderness Center’s Foxfield Preserve.

And here’s a save-the-date from The Ohio Chapter of The Sierra Club:

Saturday, September 26, our Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club is planning an OUTING to help clean up the Cuyahoga River, in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.   We’re planning possible overnights for people who wish to camp or rent a motel.

Stay tuned, by checking the Ohio Chapter outings on Campfire.

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June 16th Meeting Slides

Posted on June 19, 2026 by akronguy

Here’s a link to the PowerPoint slides Steve Blazey presented:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WnJPVLM2W2Wp4K03rIGEE-3qN5sCSpnN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108390592037789531027&rtpof=true&sd=true
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August 2026 Signal Tree Newsletter

Posted on February 14, 2025 by akronguy

Click here to read the latest electronic version of our Signal Tree newsletter.

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Election Message

Posted on November 14, 2024 by akronguy

We environmentalists are generally discouraged and depressed at most of the recent election results in Ohio.   Some of us are having trouble sleeping.  We feel that we do not belong in Ohio or in the USA.  We’re having trouble motivating ourselves at times.

    Here are some of my thoughts about the next 4 years and beyond:

We lost this election.  The earth IS in more peril, and at risk of going over more tipping points that could lead to the destruction of human life on earth.

 As a Christian pastor, I know that some people say that God will never let humans destroy human life on earth.   I don’t read the Bible that way.   So, we need to keep talking honestly and sincerely about the dangers we see.   More about that another day.

 As our national Sierra Club president Ben Jealous said Wednesday November 6, “Get out on the trails.  Get out on the water.”   In other words, keep your sanity by enjoying and exploring the earth.

 The new president elect says he has mandates.   I agree with David Sassoon, founder & publisher of “Inside Climate News” that it’s unlikely that Americans wanted to give “him a mandate to speed up the destruction of the natural world.”   In other words, many people who voted against the environment didn’t mean to do that!!!

So . . . . we need to keep talking sincerely and honestly — especially to people on the other side, or in the middle — about the dangers we see.   I hope to do that more here, perhaps at least weekly.

I’ll appreciate your sincere responses.  I do NOT appreciate false campaign “talking points” on any side of an issue.   I realize that those words are the only words some people use these days, but I’d like to stay away from them, for either “side.”

   Thanks for all you do to “enjoy, explore and protect the earth.” 

   That’s the motto of the Sierra Club.

            Dick Beck   2024 chair, Portage Trail Group of the Sierra Club

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