Getting to Green, Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution

Date: Tuesday, May 16
Wine Reception: 6:30PM
Presentation: 7:00PM
Cost: Free for members; $15 for guests

Fred Rich P’77 will tell the story of how the American environmental movement lost its way and will explain how it can get back on track. His book, Getting to Green, Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution, contains a rousing call for conservatives to reconnect with their long tradition of support for conservation and for the Green movement to adopt the reforms necessary to restore bipartisan support for the environmental agenda.

Fred Rich studied public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and moral philosophy at King’s College, Cambridge. Rich is a passionate environmentalist who serves as head of the New York State Environmental Leaders Group, Chair of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and Vice Chair of the national Land Trust Alliance and The Battery Conservancy.  He is the winner of the Battery Urban Farmer Award (from The Battery Conservancy, for promotion of urban agriculture, 2012), the Environmental Advocates of New York Advocates Award (for environmental advocacy in New York State, 2011), and the Frances Reese Medal (from Scenic Hudson, for service to the Hudson Valley, 2010).