April 13, 2009 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Featuring: Senator Arlen Specter
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Where: Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Enterprise Center
3120 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 
Agenda:
2:00pm Welcome
2:05pm Town Hall with Senator Specter
2:15pm Keynote by Audrey Zibelman, CEO Viridity, LLC
2:30pm Panel Discussion on the Clean Energy Economy
Featuring:
Audrey Zibelman, CEO Viridity, LLC
Scott Edward Anderson, Mid Atlantic Renewable Energy Business Network
PA State Rep Kenyatta Johnson, (D-PA)
Kate Houstoun, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia
3:20pm Closing Remarks
3:30pm Closed Door Session with
James Decker, Energy Staffer for Senator Specter
Questions? Contact Nathan DrexelSierraClub@gmail.com
Hosted By:
Bios:
Scott Edward Anderson is the founder of the popular
blog, the green skeptic: blogging
the new green economy™ , co-lead/founder of the Renewable Energy Business
Network’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter, and is currently developing a green energy
investing group. He has been a vice president with Ashoka, the global
association of leading social entrepreneurs, and for 15 years served in a
variety of management positions with The Nature Conservancy, where he was a
member of its global Climate Change and Marine Habitat strategy teams and the
Philanthropy Cabinet. He was part of the first cohort of John
Sawhill Conservation Leadership Fellows, is currently a Senior Fellow with the
Environmental Leadership Program, served on the advisory board of Green
Microfinance, LLC, and is an award-winning poet. As a public speaker he has been featured at
such venues as the Aspen Environment Forum, the Salzburg Seminar, the Globe
Forum, and the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California,
Irvine. [back to top]
Kate Houstoun joined the Sustainable Business
Network earlier this year to lead the development of Philadelphia’s
Green Job Corps, Green Business Council, and to staff the Green Economy
Task Force, a network of over 130 stakeholder groups representing
business, labor, government, policy, and job training. Prior to her
position at the Sustainable Business Network, Ms. Houstoun worked in
workforce development, specifically with formerly incarcerated and
homeless adults at Ready, Willing & Able, and before that in
community development and volunteer recruitment at American Friends
Service Committee. She is a Board Member of the Mayor’s Office of
Community Services and an Advisory Board Member of Philadelphia Green.
Kate was recently accepted to Green For All Academy, a national
fellowship program to train green economy leadership, launched last
year by Van Jones and Green For All in Oakland, California. [back to top]
