Free registration: Contact Brien Palmer at bpalmer@interlinkbusiness.com or 724-733-5007
Energy, Global Warming and the Future
Global warming may be one of the most important and challenging issues of our time. Addressing global warming and creating a new energy future may also be one of our greatest opportunities. How will businesses be affected by these issues? How can businesses best position their companies to respond?
In this session, we will review the predicted consequences of global warming for our world and locally in Pennsylvania as well as for our businesses. Through case examples and group discussion we’ll then examine how we use energy in our own businesses and explore ideas for reducing demands for energy.
Our Speaker: Sharon Pillar is the Global Warming Outreach Coordinator for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (or PennFuture). She works in western Pennsylvania to educate individuals, faith groups, businesses, organizations and politicians about global warming.
Pillar was one of a thousand people trained directly by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore to present the slide show used in An Inconvenient Truth movie, an initiative by The Climate Project. She has spoken about global warming with more than 50 organizations in Pennsylvania.
After 15 years in the pharmaceutical research industry, Pillar decided to pursue a career that better matched her passion. She completed a graduate degree in Earth Literacy with a focus on regional equity and sustainable communities from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. The degree stresses an interdisciplinary approach to environmentalism, realizing that human culture (government, economics, religion, justice, etc.) plays an integral role in the health of our natural world.
Pillar is a member of the Sewickley Borough Planning Commission, and enjoys camping, kayaking and cross-country skiing with her husband and eight-year-old son.
Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (or PennFuture) works to create a just future where nature, communities and the economy thrive. PennFuture is a public policy and advocacy organization that works on the state level to protect Pennsylvania’s air, water, land and economy with focuses on issues of energy, mining, agriculture, land-use policy, transportation and global warming.
In 2007, the PennFuture law staff conducted more than $200 million in pro bono legal services for the environment. The Philadelphia Inquirer has dubbed PennFuture, “Pennsylvania’s most effective environmental organization.” The organization was formed intentionally by the Heinz Endowments and Pew Charitable Trusts in 1999. PennFuture has 22 staff members in Philadelphia, West Chester, northeastern Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh.
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Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Time: Program - 4:00-6:00 PM
Place: Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Monroeville (directions follow)
Sponsor: CoREM (the Council on Realizing Excellence in Management)
Cost: free
Registration: Contact Brien Palmer at bpalmer@interlinkbusiness.com or 724-733-5007.
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Directions to Forbes Road Career & Technology Center
The Center borders Boyce Campus of CCAC. Address: 607 Beatty Road, Monroeville, PA. 412-373-8100
From Downtown Pittsburgh: Go east on Interstate 376 (Parkway East) approximately 15 miles and get off the Parkway in Monroeville at exit 14B (Plum), just past exit 14A (Rt. 48). Proceed north through the intersection with the traffic light to the stop sign at Beatty Road. Van Horn’s Funeral Home will be on the far left corner. Turn right on to Beatty Road and drive to the second stop sign (Community College of Allegheny County--Boyce Campus entrance). Turn right and go approximately 100 feet. Turn left into the Forbes Road Career & Technology Center entrance (Gateway Press building is on the right).
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CoREM is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. All our revenues come from membership dues. If you find our services valuable, please sign up for membership and submit your tax-deductible $35 fee. (Make checks out to “CoREM”.) Give it to our treasurer Dennis Snedden or send it to him at 613 Library Av., Carnegie, PA 15106-2910.
CoREM provides a forum for the critical study of original and effective leadership methods and principles through collaboration and lifelong learning, to benefit individuals, organizations, and our communities.
