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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.
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