The Festival of Writers in Rensselaerville will open today 7/26 with a panel on fracking that will feature
New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin of the "Dot Earth" blog. Revkin is also the author of the 1990 book,
The Burning Season: The Murder Of Chico Mendes And The Fight For The Amazon Rain Forest, the basis of a 1994 HBO film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Raul Julia.
Other panelists are Stu Gruskin, former Deputy Commissioner of NYSDEC and Dr. Erik Kiviat, Executive Director of Hudsonia. Robert Moore, Executive Director of Environmental Advocates of New York, will moderate.
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Full schedule of events:
http://www.festivalofwriters.org/schedule/
