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Public Forum on Climate Change at Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center
On Wednesday, January 30, from 7-10pm, NYS DEC's Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center will host, in partnership with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a special public forum on the most urgent environmental challenge of our time, global climate change. The forum will be held at Stony Kill's new geothermally heated Learning Center. Arrive early: seating is limited, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Pete Seeger, famed folk singer and environmental activist, will join a panel of Hudson valley environmentalists and scholars at the event, and will kick things off at 7pm by leading us all in song. A web cast, called "The 2% Solution" focusing on what individual citizens can do, will be aired at 8pm. Each of the panelists will make a brief presentation before the webcast, and there will be a discussion and questionand answer session following it, at 9pm. The panel will also include: - Kristin Marcell, NYS DEC Region 3, Hudson River Estuary Program, Coordinator of the Hudson Valley Climate Change Network - Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director of Clearwater and an environmental leader in the Hudson Valley for many years. -Les Hulcoop of Dutchess Co. Cooperative Extension, who currently works with farmers to produce biomass crops to be used for heat and power - Prof. Lucy Johnson, environmental archeologist and sustainability coordinator at Vassar college
Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center is located on state route 9D, about 2 miles north of the Beacon - Newburgh bridge, south of the village of Wappingers Falls. Call Stony Kill at 845-831- 8780, ext. 302 for more information about this and other environmental education programs.
This program is part of a national teach-in, the largest in U.S. history, which will help to prepare millions of students to become leaders in the largest civilizational challenge any generation has faced. For more information, please visit www.focusthenation.org.
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