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Choose Clean Water - at home and all the way to the Chesapeake BayThe Choose Clean Water coalition brings together people and more than 130 organizations from Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, working together to help everyone in the region choose clean water.
This vidcast features Ryan Ewing, communications and outreach coordinator for the coalition, detailing the campaign to clean up our water here at home and throughout the region, all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. PennFuture and its Clean Water Starts Here campaigners are excited to be part of this coalition.
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Direct Download: PennFuture7-28-10_sm.movHey legislators â you forgot something!Our podcast this week features State Representative Eugene DePasquale (D-York), the prime sponsor of the Clean Energy and Green Jobs bill (now HB 2405), talking about the need for the legislation at PennFuture’s Clean Energy breakfast, held in York earlier this year. This bill is a major piece of unfinished business for the General Assembly to attend to when the members return in September.
The legislation will help Pennsylvania regain its leadership in the 21st Century green energy economy, by increasing the amount of clean energy – especially solar and wind power – that our utilities must include in our electricity mix. This bill expands and extends our groundbreaking 2004 Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard, which has already created thousands of great green jobs and attracted billions in private investment. This bill will also save Pennsylvania families and businesses more than $2 billion.
Urge your legislator to make passage of the Clean Energy and Green Jobs bill a top priority for the fall. We can’t let the green economy pass us by.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania's environment and economy. Isn't it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you won’t miss any podcasts if you subscribe to them through iTunes.
Direct Download: PennFuture7-8-10.movDr. Michael Mann - A Profile in CourageDr. Michael Mann, internationally respected climate scientist at Penn State University is a true profile in courage. He has endured attacks on his work and on him personally by the minions of the polluters for years. And each set of attacks has resulted in the same thing – his vindication.
PennFuture’s Heather Sage interviewed Dr. Mann this week as the most recent report was published, totally vindicating him. This interview shows that under that mild mannered exterior is a man of steely courage.
Dr. Mann also spoke at PennFuture’s Global Warming Conference this spring. The video of his presentation is well worth a look.
Smeargate – the smear campaign against Dr. Mann and the other Nobel Prize winning climate scientists – is the real scandal. And right-wing apologists for the polluters, like the Commonwealth Foundation, who attempted to discredit these scientists by creating the “Climategate” scandal out of thin air, must be called on their behavior. Matt Brouillette, executive director of the Commonwealth Foundation should “man up” and issue an apology to Dr. Mann.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy. Isn’t it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you can make sure you don't miss any podcasts by subscribing to them through iTunes.
Philly's Year in ReviewGreenworks Philadelphia, the plan to become the greenest city in the nation, is now one year old. June’s Urban Sustainability Forum featured three experts providing a review of exactly how successful that plan has been – PennFuture’s Director of Outreach Christine Knapp, Philadelphia’s Director of Sustainability Katherine Gajewski, and Adam Freed, deputy director of New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability.
This podcast features PennFuture’s Philadelphia Outreach Intern Alyssa Tombler interviewing Gajewski and Freed. Gajewski discusses the plan's original goals, its successes, challenges, and continuing obstacles. Freed reports on the status of PlaNYC, New York City's sustainability plan, which is three years old.
Want to learn even more? See videos of the presentations (including Knapp’s) from PlanPhilly.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy. Isn’t it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you can make sure you don't miss any podcasts by subscribing to them through iTunes.
It's Crunch Time in HarrisburgThings are happening fast and furious here in Harrisburg as the legislature works towards a budget agreement.
And thanks to our supporters, we had a terrific week last week, with the adoption of two new regulations to protect our drinking water and our streams and rivers, and the House passage of new law to require computer and television manufacturers to arrange to have their products recycled.
This podcast features our President and CEO, Jan Jarrett, with an audio message to thank our supporters for their great work in helping achieve last week’s victories – and to talk about what to expect next. We hope it will give you a feel of the work ahead – and how important your supporters are to continuing our winning streak.
So, hang on to your hat, it’s going to be a bumpy ride until the state budget is passed. We’ll be on the Hill 24/7, if necessary. And you’ll be hearing from us a lot, as we move our legislation to protect and promote Pennsylvania’s environment and economy. So please sign up for our alerts, and help us move forward – creating a just future when nature, communities and the economy thrive.
Direct Download: 6-21update.mp3Stay awake - this is important!Sometimes the most mundane things can have the biggest impact on our lives. Take building codes and zoning. Please. (Ba da bum)
But seriously, folks. Building and zoning laws can mean the difference between life and death in earthquake and flood zones; between a peaceful or a hostile atmosphere in mixed use neighborhoods; and between energy efficient, non-toxic homes and businesses or wasteful and unhealthy buildings.
To reach its goal of making Philadelphia the greenest city in the nation, the Urban Sustainability Forum held its March meeting, Cracking the Code: How 21st Century Building and Zoning Codes Will Make or Break Our Communities. This podcast features interviews by PennFuture’s Philadelphia outreach coordinator, Rachel Vassar, with Don Elliott, Senior Consultant, Clarion Associates, and Fran Burns, Commissioner, Department of Licenses and Inspections for the City of Philadelphia, who detail the zoning and building code changes that can help turn Philadelphia green.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania's environment and economy. Isn't it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you won’t miss any podcasts if you subscribe to them through iTunes.
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Global Warming - The folks suffering aren't the ones causing the problemIt was an incredible honor to have Dr. Robert Bullard as featured speaker at PennFuture's Global Warming Conference on May 2 in Pittsburgh. This video podcast demonstrates why Dr. Bullard is so respected across the globe as the Father of Environmental Justice. He clearly lays out the case for fighting global warming as a justice issue, outlining how intertwined the drive for social equity is with environmental protection, and how urgently we must act.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy. Isn’t it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you can make sure you don't miss any podcasts by subscribing to them through iTunes.
Direct Download: Dr_Bullard_Climate_Change_05_02_2010.mp4Global Warming - Straight talk from the expertOne of the highlights of our Pittsburgh Global Warming Conference on May 2 was the presentation by one of the world’s premiere climate change experts – Dr. Michael Mann. PennFuture was delighted that Dr. Mann agreed to present his research.
Unfortunately, people identified with the tea party tried to stop that presentation. They demanded that we stop educating other Pennsylvanians about global warming, and that we stop advocating action to slow, and eventually reverse, global climate change. Claiming their beliefs are superior to science, they wanted to disrupt our conference, had we let them. With their blogs full of violence, vitriol and racism, we were forced to enhance our security to protect Dr. Mann’s safety and preserve his right to speak the truth.
This video podcast shows how right we were to invite Dr. Mann to our conference. After his introduction by Jan Jarrett, PennFuture’s president and CEO, he clearly outlines the science on global warming, and how urgently we must act.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy. Isn’t it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you can make sure you don't miss any podcasts by subscribing to them through iTunes.
Attacking Global Warming - Good for the environment, economy and great green jobsLast Sunday (May 2), PennFuture held its annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Global Warming Conference in Pittsburgh. Two experts and heroes of the environmental movement – Dr. Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice, and Dr. Michael Mann, one of the world’s preeminent climate scientists, were the keynote speakers. (Stay tuned for videos of their presentations.)
This podcast features a panel discussion on global warming policies that are great for the environment, the economy, and create great green jobs. The panelists are John Hanger, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Jan Jarrett, president and CEO of PennFuture; and Heather Sage, PennFuture’s vice president.
PennFuture works every day to make a difference for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy. Isn’t it time to join us and make a difference yourself? Go to our secure website to join PennFuture, and make sure you sign up for our publications. And remember, you can make sure you don't miss any podcasts by subscribing to them through iTunes.
Direct Download: PennFuture5-6-10.mp3Many of the presentations so far could be depressing, as speakers detailed the chemical and pollution soupd we are constantly bathed in.
But this session is all about hope, and what action we can take to make a difference.
Listen to the panel here, which includes:
Will Allen
Founder & CEO, Growing Power
Kenneth Cook
President, Environmental Working Group
Alan Greene, MD
Author “Feeding Baby Green” and “Raising Baby Green”
Founder of drgreene.com
Jeanne Rizzo, RN
President and CEO, Breast Cancer Fund
I think I'll get some worms for my kitchen!
Category: Health & the Environment
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