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

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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]