Environment, Politics, and Pennsylvania: Schuylkill Center to Hold Green Town Meeting
September 29, 2014
PHILADELPHIA � Join the Schuylkill Center for a "Green Town Meeting" on Thursday, October 9 at 7:30 pm to talk all about the environment and the upcoming gubernatorial campaign. At this free event, we'll enjoy Yards Brewing Company's beer and put our fingers on the pulse of Pennsylvania voters to find out what role the environment is playing in the campaign.
What issues voters do care about? Is the environment in play at all? Is fracking a part of the conversation, or the preservation of state parks and state forests, or wind and solar, or water issues, or smart growth and planning, or endangered species? Why, or why not?
The panel roams the election's environmental landscape, including Michael Krancer, Governor Corbett's first chief of the Department of Environmental Protection, environmental attorney Robert Fox of the law firm , who has been coaching Wolf on environmental policy, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia's Sarah Clark Stuart, and Jamie Gauthier, executive director of the Sustainable Business Network of Philadelphia.
It's truly a town meeting, with you getting many chances to ask questions, and yes, offer your own perspective. The "Green Town Meeting: Corbett, Wolf and the Environment," is co-sponsored by Yards Brewing Company, which will be bringing one of its new seasonal ales, harkening back to Ben Franklin's time when people met in pubs to argue about politics over a strong brew. Franklin, in fact, founded a club he called the Junto, whose members met to discuss moral, political, and scientific topics of the day.
We'll re-create the Junto in an evening of beer, politics, and the environment.
