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October 19, 2020 Earth Day

Gorilla Golf The Oaks Golf Course at 50 Covington, GA (Flyer is attached.) (The following are excerpts taken from an article in Sierra Magazine, October 25 March/April 2020.) Board meeting 2020 Calendar Place and time TBD The United States had All members are welcome. never experienced Spring 2020 anything like it: On April HoneyBaked Ham November 14 22, 1970, nearly one in 10 gift card sale General Meeting Americans flooded the April 1 - May 31 and Election of new streets and the woods and the seashores to call for board members June 27 an end to the merciless Place and time TBD pollution of the country's General Meeting air, waters, and 9:30 am December 1 landscapes. In the words TechLab Georgia Gives Day of Senator Gaylord All members are welcome. Details TBD Nelson, the Wisconsin

Democrat who conceived July 25 the idea of Earth Day, the Board Meeting goal was to force the Place and time TBD issue of environmental All members are welcome Happy protection "permanently onto the national political September 25 Earth Day agenda" - and in that, the in the Arts effort succeeded. The Inspire Aerial Arts April 22 conservation movement 6:30 - 8:30 PM that existed before 1970 was largely made up of October 2020 white, affluent outdoors- Gingerbreads for people who mostly Redheads focused on the protection of birds and other Haunted Gingerbread wildlife, the preservation Houses of wilderness, and the

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establishment of parks election. In December, and preserves. The when Congress passed environmental movement the Clean Air Act with that was born on Earth only one dissenting vote, familiar home, Earth Day Day aspired to something I began to comprehend has the potential to give larger - a multiracial how deeply Earth Day us a new temporal cause, propelled by the had altered the political perspective. I would like same passion that spurred topography. Earthrise, December 24, 1968 Earth Day to be like that: the civil rights and anti- Taken by a pause for consideration, Vietnam War Our immediate outcomes Astronaut William Andes a day unlike other days, a movements, dedicated to included the passage of during Apollo 8 Mission time for thinking about preserving urban the Clean Water Act and time. Some things are environments as well as the Endangered Species Making Time for visible only from a wild ones, and inspired Act, the establishment of Time remove. Let this day be a by the ecological insight the EPA and the National by Jenny Odell porthole through which that our home is the Oceanic and Atmospheric we look out on the whole planet. Administration, the Earthrise, the famous vastness of ecological banning of DDT, the photo of Earth as seen time, laughing in removal of lead from from the moon, was made retrospect at our small- Bigger Than gasoline, and the passage back in 1968, about 16 minded schedules and Earth Day of the Toxic Substances months before the first wondering how we might by Denis Hayes Control Act and the Earth Day. The think and act in different Marine photograph is so familiar ones. If we agreed to do On Wednesday, April 22, Protection Act. Together, that we take it for granted that, I wouldn't be 1970, I had high hopes they transformed modern today, but at the time it surprised if the effects of for the day - the first America more was published, it was a Earth Day cascaded into Earth Day. Organizers fundamentally than any lesson in perspective and all our other days. had sweeping demands other governmental momentary alienation, an for breathable air and action, with the possible opportunity to look back clean rivers as well as exception of the New as our earthly home from An Earth Day For banning DDT, halting Deal. a position outside it. Life On Earth offshore drilling, saving by Jedediah Britton- the whales, and removing Today, the need for a As an artist, I spent many Purdy lead from paint and similar transformation is years working with gasoline. I thought we dire. The 50th satellite imagery - There's no doubt that we would score some anniversary of Earth Day collecting, cutting out, should have Earth Day. victories, but I never - #EarthRise2020 - will and arranging banal The question is, which dreamed how mobilize a grassroots structures like Earth Day? fundamentally Earth Day movement against a swimming pools, parking would alter the political, threat to the planet as lots, and landfills. Today, Earth Day is cultural, and economic great as that posed by Spending those hours almost inevitably about landscape. nuclear weapons at the scrolling across the globe, climate change, because peak of the arms race. I encountered a strange at long last there is a The following morning, face many irony: Although the massive mobilization of the wire services urgent issues today, but satellite view was not a conscience around the estimated total national only the climate crisis human one, it was from crisis. I would guess that participation at 20 million poses an irreversible this perspective that our if you asked people at people. In November, we threat to the habitability built environment looked random about Earth Day, were able to capitalize on of the planet. the most human, in all its they might confuse it with the strength by defeating fragile specificity. the climate strikes. After several anti-environment all, the events look much villains in Congress in the Just as a satellite view the same; people of all first "Dirty Dozen" shocks us with the strange ages, but especially beauty of our seemingly while they continue time when everything that exploiting our resources I do matters." Let's Return Earth the other 364 days of the Day To Its young ones, rallying with year, that's not good. I Revolutionary Past pictures of the planet and fear that the fierce energy A World Worth by Jamie Margolin making pleas for political of the first Earth Day has Fighting For action to stop ecosystem softened into a kind of by Reverend Lennox I hate Earth Day. Or at destruction. green complacency - if Yearwood Jr. least the modern-day, we just recycle more and Hallmark-card Earth Day The environmental buy green products, all The human species is at a I grew up with. People movement, however, is will be well. Or we've crossroads. Today, would talk about not the same as the adopted the young people are creating recycling and being movement to save counternarrative that we new momentum by "nice" to the earth. My civilization. are powerless to change following the science, classroom walls were Environmentalism also the fearsome trajectory. organizing, and speaking plastered with drawings does something else. It Neither story will save us. out - doing everything of the planet with a speaks for the value of they can to fight for their smiley face on it and nonhuman , for There was a time - before existence. cheery slogans about helping ecosystems we knew better - when using fewer paper towels. flourish whether or not we trusted that Can we re-create the they have a human incremental ecological passion of the original It was as if one day a year benefit, and for the ideal action would propel the Earth Day, but also build everyone said, "Let's do of wilderness, which has collective shifts that we an indestructible the absolute bare plenty of problems but is need. The problem is we movement? Yes. minimum for the planet" also precious. don't have time. Earth and then went on with Day as usual, a polite To do this, we need to business as usual, feeling Earth Day should be, exercise of stewardship, integrate the good about themselves, among other things, a is wholly inadequate environmental movement, when I knew that what festival for those who considering the scope and break down the walls that needed to happen to save wish to remind everyone urgency of the climate divide us, and become my future was that we should let other emergency. more diverse and revolutionary, systematic living things be just inclusive. We do this by change. because they are alive, On a recent Earth Day, I empowering frontline and that we should spoke with a beloved communities, ensuring In 2020, it's time to bring preserve places that, to student who was about to that everyone has a seat at back the revolutionary the greatest extent graduate and go into the table, and creating spirit of Earth Day. No possible, have nothing to environmental activism. culturally relevant more greenwashing, no do with us. "I'm sorry," I said, "that platforms to educate, more corporations using you have to still fight organize, and mobilize. the holiday as an excuse these battles. I thought to make a few half-assed we would have this From The Pond We can ignite the passion tweaks here and there and figured out by now." She To The Streets of the original Earth Day pretend that those are responded, "Don't you see by Robin Wall Kimmerer and turn it into a political going to substitute for the that this is the best power necessary to solve radical change actually possible time to be Five decades later, calls the climate crisis before it needed for us to save all alive?" Climate chaos? to "make every day Earth is too late. If we do this, life on Earth. Extinction crisis? I didn't Day" predictably follow we have a fighting change get it. She looked me in every annual tree-planting to prevent climate In fact, the whole notion the eyes and said, "We or trash-pickup event. meltdown and leave of environmentalism has are on the precipice. This is good. But future generations with a to change. No more can When everything hangs corporations using Earth world grounded in justice it be something that in the balance, it matters Day as an occasion to and love - a world worth people take on as an acts where I stand. How "green their brands" living in and fighting for. of charity. True wonderful to live in a environmentalism is your card in electronic about overhauling the form. It's just that simple, systems that caused (The spring flier is climate change in the first attached.) place. It's about holding accountable the As always, ACE corporations responsible encourages everyone to for climate disaster. be responsible Spring for a consumers. HoneyBaked On Earth Day 2020, HoneyBaked Ham turkeys and hams Changes to By- everyone all over the Ham contain no palm oil. Laws Pass world needs to hit the streets in massive by Susan Smith With no dissenting votes numbers. Tens of the January 2020 millions. This Earth Day, We may be celebrating a proposed changes to the we need a mobilization so little differently this year, By-Laws passed and are big that no one can ignore but we can still enjoy now in effect. The us, so big that the world some good food and help changes reflect the theme will literally stop for save the great apes at the of the importance of climate action and same time. ACE is again responsibility and environmental justice. working with participation of all

HoneyBaked Ham to members: (1)The If we mobilize on the raise funds through the organization philosophy 50th anniversary of this purchase of HoneyBaked is that all members of historic day like we did Ham gift cards. You can ACE have a stake in the for the first Earth Day, call ahead and then pick decisions that the then I will be proud to up your order. organization makes and report that I no longer their impacts; (2)Every hate this annual event. Our fundraiser will run member has the same Half a century after the from April 1 through May rights and responsibilities first Earth Day, it's time 31 to cover celebrations to participate and vote; for us to start acting like for Easter and Mother's and (3)Decisions will be it's zero hour to respond Day. The cards (both made by majority rule of to climate change -- electronic and plastic) can members attending because it is. be purchased in any $5 meetings or responding to

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  needed to take votes. It is We are using the online important for every process to purchase the member to understand the gift cards. All you have need for their to do is go to the participation in all aspects following website of Ape Conservation https://honeybakedfundrai Effort for ACE to sing.com//fundraisers/AC continue to succeed in Eshb and place your supporting non-profit order. You can request groups working to save actual plastic cards (will great apes in the wild. take a few days to deliver to you by mail) or choose Golf Jodi can be found in the Carrigan chair, Susan minutes of the meeting. ACE Members Smith co-chair; If you did not receive a Are To become more Research/Donations copy of the minutes, involved and work on a Gene Todd chair, Barbara please let a board member Interesting committee, please see a Cebula co-chair; know. We want everyone People current board member for Membership/Outreach/ to be up-to-date on ACE more information. Newsletter Jane Barron information. You are Our interesting members chair, Gene Todd co- invited to attend any ACE highlighted in this issue chair; meetings to put in your are Adie Miller and Lisa Advertising/Marketing "two cents." Dempsey.  Lori Kirkland and Jenny

Reineck co-chairs; There was discussion Georgia Gives Day about changing the By- Donna Mayer Todd chair, Laws to have only one We Love Officers and Susan Smith co-chair; category for membership. Bingo for Another item was to do Committee Leslie Martin and Susan away with only a by Adie Miller and Leadership Smith co-chairs; category of members able Lisa Dempsey Magic Night Jane Barron to vote and serve on Chosen at ACE chair, Barbara Cebula co- committees. The Our interest in gorillas chair; presentation was given to began in the late 90s Meeting Website Jenny Reineck voting members who when we met a wonderful chair, Josh Baker co- decided that these were woman on a message Saturday, January 25, chair; proper changes to the By- board for Disney World 2020 ACE held the first Education Lori Kirkland Laws. The new changes enthusiasts. Her name meeting of the new year. chair; were effective was Kathy Sauviac, and Lori Kirkland welcomed Gingerbread for immediately. Anyone she had ALS and lived in everyone, and she said Redheads Jane Barron with questions, please a motorized wheelchair she's fired up for the new chair, Vivienne Ferguson contact a board member. with all her nutrition and year of ACE. co-chair. life support connected. She was an amazing The first order of business There is something for positive spirit who loved was selection of officers. everyone, so look over  gorillas and would post They are President Lori the list and let the chairs about visiting Pangani Kirkland, Vice President know where you want to Trail at Disney's Donna Mayer Todd, serve. With so many Kingdom where Secretary Jane Barron, fundraisers planned for silverback Gus would Treasurer Susan Smith, this year, your help will appear when he heard her and At Large Board be very valuable. chair approach. They had members: Barbara a wonderful Cebula, Leslie Martin, A calendar of ACE events communication. This Gene Todd. was drafted. The fascinated us and we calendar is presented on began to talk to her about Also approved are page 1 of each newsletter. ape characteristics and committee chairs and We hope we can stick to behavior and would co-chairs as follows: this schedule, and we spend time at Animal Fundraising Leslie invite you to pencil in the Kingdom with her. Martin chair, Lori ACE activities on your (Kathy died several years Kirkland and Michele calendar to be sure you later of lung cancer, but Dave co-chairs; are available to attend. before she died she Apes in the Arts Lori lovingly gifted us many Kirkland chair, Josh Additional items of her gorilla Baker co-chair; discussed at the meeting collectibles.) over the years, dedicated people -- When we traveled for particularly with educators, volunteers, various events around the volunteer work on ACE's keepers, animal health country, we would fall fundraiser Gorilla specialists, and gorilla swayed their whole body, include visits to zoos Golf (our 10th is coming enthusiasts -- who work but rhythmic movements where were would study up this year!). We even so hard to make sure all of body parts, such as information about each made donating to DFGFI great apes thrive in this hand clapping or foot zoo's gorillas in advance. our only wedding registry ever-changing world. tapping were also Then usually I would back in 2014. Lisa and I will continue observed," the study strike up a conversation to do our small part to reports. with a volunteer or keeper help in that important to learn more while Lisa effort. troglodytes, to use snapped come terrific the scientific name for pictures. One day, while chimps, is one of our at Zoo Atlanta in June closest evolutionary 2008, we hung out with  ancestors. They have long-time docent Polly previously been known to

Heyward and later that Photo by Lisa Dempsey bang rhythmically on tree day Jodi Carrigan, a What a great experience! Humans and trunks and to hoot and Keeper 2 at the time, call to each other in a way came out to do a talk and Our interest in apes has Other Dancing that sounds like call-and- feeding at the bachelor increased and led to Animals response singing. But the group. We struck up a becoming docents at Zoo observation that chimps friendship that day, and Miami, were we have can move their bodies in ended up traveling with gorillas, , by Susan Pinker time to music is new. It Wall Street Journal, Jodi and three others to chimps, siamangs and January 25-26, 2020 suggests that dancing has in September . We have to existed in higher-level 2008 to have the "what laugh that we are known Most of us have heard of - a group that we thought at the time" among the other dancing bears or dogs that would include us humans was the trip of a lifetime volunteers as "The can do the samba, but - for at least six million to see mountain gorillas. Gorilla Girls." Our those animals are trained years. That's roughly Since then we have favorite volunteer job is to perform: none of our how long ago humans returned four times! The to talk to the public about animals friends can split off from other higher 2010 trip is one of my these amazing animals spontaneously cut a rug. apes, like chimps. favorites, because it and to help transmit a Or so I thought. included several members message of conservation. The authors of the new of ACE who eventually Our goal is to visit every Now a study published in study - Yuko Hattori, a became good friends. zoo in the US and Canada Proceedings of the researcher at the Kyoto that houses gorillas, (I National Academy of University think we have 12 more to Sciences shows that Research Institute, and go) and to continue to exposed to Masaki Tomonaga, a expand our knowledge by electronic music will professor of language and attending as many sway along with the beat. intelligence there - conferences as possible. Like us, they are better at discovered this rhythmic It was an honor to be able matching their moves to ability by playing two- to help with the the music when they are minute audio clips to photo by Lisa Dempsey International Gorilla standing, as opposed to seven chimps in their lab. Lisa and Adie sitting with Workshop hosted by Zoo sitting or crouching on all The music sounds like a gorillas in Rwanda Atlanta in 2014, and we fours. But make no series of thrumming bass

plan to work on one in mistake, these chimps chords played on an Subsequently, our efforts 2022 in Chicago hosted move in a way that looks electronic piano. The at fundraising for the by Lincoln Park Zoo. an awful lot like dancing. cadence and tempo of the Gorilla Fund The greatest honor is to "The chimpanzees mostly recordings changed at International took shape have met so many truly regular intervals so that fact, members of the parrot family, like budgies and cockatoos, the researchers could are even better at syncing assess whether the their movements to a beat chimpanzees could sync than chimpanzees are, their movements to what wrote Dr. Hattori. they were hearing. Take Snowball, the cockatoo, whose fancy 2020 Gorilla Golf footwork, timed to Queen's Another One Gorilla Golf will be held Bites the Dust," has on Monday, October 19, become clickbait. After 2020. Attached is the Gingerbreads for Harvard psychologist flyer with information Aniruddh Patel saw Please help us spread the Redheads Will videos of Snowball on word and invite your Be in October YouTube, he decided to friends who are golfers.

investigate. Given that All the golfers have told Haunted gingerbread parrots are superb us what a fun day this is houses will be decorated mimics, could Snowball every year. for Halloween at a new have been imitating October fundraiser. Though the chimps in this someone outside the We have begun collecting (Date, time and place will study seemed like they frame? Or was he trained items we can use as raffle be announced later.) We were grooving to the beat, to dance? prizes and include in will be using reusable not all primatologists golfer goodie bags. If plastic gingerbread would call that dancing. The answer to both you have anything to houses. So you can "It depends on what is questions was no: donate, please see Susan decorate and enjoy your meant by dancing," Snowball was Smith. haunted house throughout according to Richards independently bobbing Wrangham, a Harvard his head and high- Halloween, and then University anthropologist stepping to the song. wash off, and decorate it who is an authority on Like Akira, the best again for Christmas. chimpanzees. "Jane dancer in the Goodall called the male study, his brain seems We are excited to have a group displays given at wired for music. Clearly, new fundraiser that will the onset of rain or heavy our human brains also photo by Jodi Carrigan include children and wind 'rain dances,' but have evolved to sway, 2019 Gorilla Golf golfers adults, recycling, a palm that seems an exaggerated shimmy and shake our are ready for 2020! oil message, and a lot of use of the term," he told bodies along to music. fun. If you would like to me in an email. "I have But so far, anyway we're work on the committee, seen horses and the only ones who know  please let Vivienne hartebeest respond to the words and can sign Ferguson or Jane Barron heavy rain by galloping along. know. about. The more conservative view that I prefer is that the capacity  for dancing is more than six million years old."

That capacity has been observed in other species too, like sea lions, bonobos and parrots. In

Police and firefighters Apes, monkeys received the first emergency calls at 12:38 a.m. 2020 ACE Board among 30

Did you know? animals killed in The zoo near the Dutch President - Lori Kirkland Vice President - Donna border said its entire ape German zoo fire Mayer Todd house burned down and more than 30 animals - Secretary - Jane Barron She Walks With January 2, 2020, AJC Treasurer - Susan Smith A fire raced through a including five orangutans, Apes two gorillas, a zoo in western Germany Board Members At in the first few minutes of chimpanzee, and several monkey - were killed as Large: Premiering April 22 the new year, killing Barbara Cebula at 9 PM on BBC more than 20 animals, well as fruit bats and birds. Leslie Martin American Cable TV including apes, monkeys, Gene Todd bats and birds, authorities  said. Police said paper This documentary Primary contact: sky lanterns launched profiles pioneering info@apeconservationeff nearby to celebrate the primatologists Jane ort.org arrival of 2020 were Goodall, Dian Fossey and probably to blame. Biruté Galdikas, dubbed Digital art project the Trimates. They went contact: Several witnesses saw to live among, president@apeconservati cylindrical paper lanterns respectively chimpanzees, oneffort.org with little fires inside gorillas, and orangutans flying in the night sky to better understand our Fundraising events: shortly after midnight closet genetic relatives - fundraising@apeconserva Wednesday near the and witness a different tioneffort.org Krefeld Zoo, Gerd kind of swingin' '60s. Hoppmann, the city's TV Guide Primary contact: head of criminal police, John Hogan info@apeconservationeff told reporters. ort.org

"People reported seeing Fundraising events: those sky lanterns flying fundraising@apeconserva at low altitude near the tioneffort.org zoo, and then it started

burning, " Hoppmann

said. Dian Fossey,

and Biruté Galdikas He said investigators also

found used lanterns on

the ground that hadn't

burned entirely. They

were over 13 inches long,

made out of white paper

with an opening at the

bottom where a small fire

would be suspended. The

first heats the air inside,

making them fly and

shine at night.