2008 FCWC Annual Meeting June 19th, 2008

Bill Lawyer and Swiss Re to Receive Green Seal Awards from FCWC

Bill Lawyer, a long time Rye resident, and recently retired Executive Director of the Greenburgh Nature Center (GNC), will receive a Green Seal Award from Federated Conservationists of Westchester County at our 43rd Annual Meeting on June 19, 2008. He will be honored for his 30 years of outstanding environmental efforts at the GNC and as an active 10-year board member and past president of FCWC. Bill will deliver brief remarks entitled “Looking Backward and Forward” at the meeting.

Swiss Re of Ardsley, was an active participant in the County’s Global Warming Task Force this year and has enacted programs at its Westchester headquarters that include an energy protection plan, proposals to reduce and/or offset the carbon emissions generated by its operations and business travel, subsidies for employees towards purchase of hybrid cars or other energy saving devices, and natural (without pesticides and herbicides) lawn care at its Armonk headquarters, among other initiatives.

FCWC is a county wide non-profit coalition of individual and organizational members working to protect the County’s environment.