LI Sound Citizens Summit Set for Friday in New Rochelle

The 22nd annual Long Island Sound Watershed Alliance Citizens Summit is this Friday at Iona College in New Rochelle. The topic is Superstorm Sandy and the New Normal, and there will be a day’s worth of discussions about how our coastal areas – the built-up areas and natural habitats – might hold up under the next storm, and what we can do to improve things.

At lunchtime, instead of the customary keynote address, I will be conducting a question and answer session with the event’s featured speaker, Andrew C. Revkin. Andy is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University’s Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and writes the award-winning Dot Earth blog for the Op-Ed section of The New York Times.

It promises to be an interesting day. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and the conference ends at 3:15. For information or to register, click here. — Tom Andersen, director of communications and community outreach