Wissahickon Growing Greener

Let's Promote and Educate RESIDENTS about a Sustainable Future for OUR Area 

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Oct 28th, 6:45pm-8:30pm. Climate Change and How it Relates to Montgomery County, PA. 

See: Wissahickon Growing Greener hosts climate change workshop for Mongomery News Media's report on the evening.

Plant and animal species and the habitats in which they live are already beginning to adapt and migrate in response to climate change. As a consequence, people who care about the natural world need to adapt the way we think about and practice conservation. This workshop, given by Andy Pitz, from the Natural Lands Trust, will examine what the science is telling us and explore, through extensive case studies, the many ways conservation organizations are developing new strategies, taking action and preparing for their important role going forward. We will also briefly review the changing policy situation in Washington and how the American Clean Energy Security Act, if passed in the Senate, is likely to affect the work of land and water conservation. Sponsored by Wissahickon Growing Greener (WGG). Free and open to the public, Wissahickon Valley Public Library Blue Bell Branch, 650 Skippack Pike (Rte.73), Blue Bell. Please RSVP to WissahickonGrowingGreener@gmail.com or 215-542-8849.
We will be giving away a WGG rain barrel!

Speaker Bio:
D. Andrew Pitz, a Registered Landscape Architect, is Vice President of Strategic Policy and Planning for the Natural Lands Trust (NLT). Pitz has dedicated over 20 years to NLT, where he has overseen the preparation and execution of strategic plans, protection programs, and stewardship plans for hundreds of projects. Before joining NLT, Pitz was a project manager in a consulting design firm, and a landscape architect with the U.S. Forest Service.

In addition to his work at NLT, Pitz was President and Founding Board Member of the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association. He has also been a member of the Pennsylvania Greenways Partnership Commission and the National Land Trust Council of the Land Trust Alliance. He is frequently asked to speak on conservation and climate topics at professional conferences and seminars.

Concerned about the impact of climate change on the conservation movement, Pitz has been researching the relationship between the land and climate change for the past several years. In January 2007, he received intensive training conducted by The Climate Project and subsequently has given over 45 climate lectures. He is currently working with the  Pennsylvania Land Trust Association and the Land Trust Alliance and other colleagues to develop a training curriculum on Climate Change for land trusts.

Pitz received an A.B. in Government in 1973 from Cornell University and his M.L.A. from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry in 1977. He resides in Paoli in eastern Chester County.