Very pleased to have steve as our speaker is going to tell us about John Burroughs, a young man on capitol hill during the civil war introduced the nation to the Natural Beauty of washington and became one of those countries leaving a wellknown nature. I suspect burroughs would appreciate the career path off our speaker for Political Science from duke and masters in International Affairs from columbia. Those led to almost 20 years as a reporter and editor for newspapers here and abroad. This has focused on the local pounding, and how it top restoration project in executive director. This digs deeper into the Natural Resources in the area John Burroughs knew and loved 50 years ago. As a second reason delighted to introduce this topic. Almost 20 years now headed by john francine at the time looking for someone on the one time John Burroughs. Once i asked the owner of the bookstore and he would give a lecture to bring anybody who named ain bookstore would probay know a lot about John Burr
Were going to have a repeat today, but its warmer than yesterday. As we take a look satellite once again similar to yesterday, clouds here and there, but they should melt away, but High Pressure in control. The winds are bouncing around around the region, but not all not that strong him were not pulling a southwesterly flow pronounced and the humidity will stay low. Millville, 58. 6 in philadelphia. 61 in trenton. 68 in sea isle city. Some of these numbers may go down before they start to pop back up. 65 by 6 00. Cool and comfortable in philadelphia. 68 by 8 00. Mainly clear skies, this afternoon, 68 83 i should say by noon. 86 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Well get a high of 87 degrees well probably pop that in around 4 00 p. M. Looks like it is dry and well have fair weather cumulus popping up like yesterday. Karen rogers we have a hot and humid change for the weekend, ill have the numbers coming up. Reporter its bounds to happen. Lets check out the schuylkill expressway. Thats westbound tra
And as the environmental policy director for citizen action. Her previous book, the battle over the future of food and farming in america, was originally published in 2012 and has now been released in paperback, unveiled the corporate control of food in the united states. Her latest book, frackopoly, reports on the history of hydraulic fracturing, arguing that the rush to fracking is dangerous to the environment and human health. Environmentalist and author bill mckibbon praises frackopoly as a truly powerful manifesto about one of the greatest environmental fights on our planet today. And the Huffington Post calls it a comprehensive history of fracking in america. Its well written, timely and very important. Were very pleased to bring the conversation to Harvard Bookstore tonight. Please join me in welcoming wenonah hauter. [applause] and thank you to Harvard Bookstore and all of you for coming this evening. So in the mid 1990s, i worked on a Renewable Energy project called powering t
We have copies of frackopoly available for 20 off at the registers which are the next room. Count is how w we want to say thank you for buying books at the Harvard Book Store your purchase ensures thet end of tenant bookstore. Questioi we are pleased to have cspan here tape in the event. When asking questions during the q a please know youll be recorded a please wait for the microphone to come before asking a question. Please please silence your cell phone for tonights talk. Very pleased to introduce our speaker. And exec winona is the founder and executive director of food and water watch which focuses on corporate and governmentnt accountability relating to food, water and fishing. She has written on food, water and Environmental Issues including director of public citizens of energy and permit program and the environmental policy director for citizen action. Her previous book, food up up late the battle of food andd farming in america published in 2012 and been released in paper bac
Fishing. Bill mckibben praises frackopoly as a truly powerful man manifesto about one of the greatest environmental fights on our planet today from one of its greatest champions. And the Huffington Post calls it a comprehensive history of fracking in america, adding its well written, timely and very important. Were very pleased to bring the conversation to Harvard Bookstore tonight. Please join me in welcoming winona hatter. [applause] and thank you to Harvard Bookstore and all of you for coming this evening. So in the mid 1990s, i worked on a Renewable Energy project called powering the midwest. We knew in the 90s that renewables were ready, that Energy Efficiency was ready, and we really needed to make a transition. So a couple of years ago we had been working on fracking at food and water watch for several years as the First National group to call for a ban on fracking, and i started looking at some of the statistics about how far we had come with Renewables Since the mid 1990s when