fyi, Sierra Club's Southeastern PA Group Lecture Series http://pennsylvania.sierraclub.org/southeastern/#Library
Lectures are held at the Free Library, 19th & Vine Sts., 4th Fl Skyline Rm Admission is free. Tuesday, January 22, 6:45 p.m. Lecture on Environmental Justice Environmental activist Mike Ewall will tell why the city of Chester, Pa. has more than its share of polluting industries, including the incinerator where most of Delaware County¹s waste is burned. Veteran lawyer Jerry Balter will tell how he helped citizens keep a medical waste facility out of Chester in the 1990s. Lisa Baglia. M.D. will discuss environmentally associated health problems she treats at her Chester clinic. Camden, New Jersey will also be discussed. Contact billbrainerd@ gmail.com. Monday, March 10, 6:45 p.m. Coal: Mining and Combustion Phil Coleman, former president of the Pennsylvania Sierra Club, will talk and show films about the severe environmental effects of mountaintop removal, surface, and longwall mining. Landscapes are ruined forever, streams are poisoned, houses collapse and wells dry up. Coal combustion is also bad. It pollutes the air and is the major source of global warming worldwide. Coals not just western Pennsylvania¹s problem. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, April 28, 6:45 p.m. Lecture on Factory Farms and Sustainable Agriculture Animal rights activist David Cantor will describe how factory farms are cruel to animals and harmful to the environment. He says many universities teach efficient but not responsible agriculture. A second speaker will describe how food can be grown humanely, profitably and without lasting damage to the natural world. Contact billbrainerd@ gmail.com. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.