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Summer months often bring seasonal events like blossoming flowers, warmer
weather and longer days.
It also brings another tradition—the hard working PennEnvironment door-to-door representative. You probably remember meeting our spokesperson that came by your home in past summers.
If it’s sunny, rainy, hot or humid they’re out building support and raising the funds it takes to win environmental victories.
And, combined with the support of PennEnvironment members like you, their
hard work often pays off.
Take PennEnvironment’s work on the Growing Greener initiative. Our canvassers helped ensure that the state directed $625 million towards open space protection, family farm preservation and cleaning up polluted waterways.
Our canvassers knocked on doors across Pennsylvania building support for increased environmental funding. Each summer, they talked with over 50,000
concerned citizens.
They raised the funds needed to protect the environment, collected e-mail addresses and phone numbers to build a network of activists, and asked concerned citizens to sign a postcard that would be delivered to their local politician.
As I met with politicians in Harrisburg, I brought this message of broad public
support for increasing environmental funding which was bolstered by the more
than 20,000 postcards, 10,000 e-mails and 5,000 phone calls supporting greater conservation funding from PennEnvironment members and activists—all made possible by our canvassers.
Our hard work paid off. Last summer, the state moved forward with one of the largest increases of environmental funding in Pennsylvania history by passing the Growing Greener initiative. So when a PennEnvironment representative comes to your home this summer, take a minute to listen to the important message that they bring, renew your membership, and thank them for their hard work to protect our environment.
Sincerely,
David Masur
PennEnvironment Director
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