Citizens’ Forum on Environmental Literacy
Link: Citizens' Forum on Environmental Literacy
Public Forum: Citizens’ Forum on Environmental Literacy
Monday, April 25, 2011
6:15 – 8:30 pm
Newark Museum, Billy Johnson Auditorium
Living Responsibly in the 21st Century: Environmental Literacy in the Garden State
* PROGRAM *
6:15 pm
- Music: Kathy Moser, singer/songwriter/environmentalist
- Welcome: Shana Weber, PhD, Sustainability Manager, Princeton University
- Introduction: Tanya Oznowich, Environmental Education Supervisor NJ Department of Environmental Protection
6:30 pm
- Opening Address: Governor Christine Todd Whitman
- Environmental Literacy in the Garden State
- Governor Whitman’s remarks will be followed by a Q & A.
7:00 pm - Living Responsibly in healthy, sustainable 21st century homes
- Robin Dougherty, Executive Director, Greater Newark Conservancy
- Michele Byers, Executive Director, NJ Conservation Foundation
- Fletcher Harper, Executive Director, GreenFaith
- Marian Glenn, PhD, Professor, Seton Hall University, Board of Directors, ANJEC
- Kim Gaddy, Environmental Justice Organizer, NJ Environmental Federation
- Amy Soli, PhD, Director of Science, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
- Jennifer Papa, Founder & CEO, City Green
7:50 pm - Defining BlueGreen / fostering home sustainability and envisioning change in New Jersey
- Dena Mottola Jaborska, Executive Director, Environment New Jersey
- Randall Solomon, Co-Director, Sustainable Jersey at the Center for Municipal Land Use, The College of New Jersey
- Audience response; Q & A; citizen survey/exercise
8:30 pm Conclusion
Co-convened by:
Association of NJ Environmental Commissions, Greater Newark Conservancy,
and Sustainable Jersey