Board Members

Our Board of Directors

Bryan Hutchinson  President           (bghutchinson@comcast.net)

Chair:  Fundraising, Name Recognition & Website Committees

Bryan Hutchinson is currently pursuing opportunities to combine over 25 years of accounting/financial management experience with his lifelong passion for energy conservation, efficiency and sustainability.  Bryan wants to participate on the Board because he strongly believes in the mission and values of 4CP.   Bryan is on the board of the Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. 

Bruce Arnold, Treasurer            (BruceArnld@aol.com)

Bruce Arnold was an employee of Scott Paper Co. for 35-years in roles in technology and manufacturing.  Subsequently, he operated his own consulting business for an additional 11-years.  He is a member of the national steering committee of 25x’25: America’s Energy Future (www.25×25.org) and has been engaged in several other national and regional renewable energy initiatives.  He believes that climate change poses such a serious future risk for his own children and grandchildren and for the citizens of the world that it is critically important that society moves as quickly as possible away from fossil fuel energy to the full array of renewable resources available, while continually improving energy efficiency.  Moving to renewable energy will improve national energy security and add countless new jobs to the American economy.

Janet Cleaver, Secretary         (j.cleaver@att.net)

Bill Haaf, Chair of Education & Communication Committee (billhaaf@verizon.net)

Bill Haaf :  Worked 38 yrs at DuPont.  First as a polymer chemist at several locations;  then practiced as a Certified Industrial Hygienist ;  the  last 16 yrs at DuPont served as Corporate Manager of Product Stewardship. A Responsible Care Code.   Bill has been involved with the science of climate change (CC) since 1995.   The data and the consensus have just grown stronger and the risks more alarming.  Bill believes the risk from CC to be greater than that from radical terrorists. Bill also tutors high school students  at the Garage in Kennett Sq. and writes a Blog for the Daily Local News.

Susan Carty           (sc51446@aol.com)

Susan Carty was a trained Life Underwriter who changed careers midlife and became a science teacher for the WCASD for 18 years.  During her teaching career she was granted a life altering opportunity to pilot Project Teacher at Sea for NOAA in 2001. The International project titled ACE-ASIA involved atmospheric aerosol collections and experimentation’s while crossing the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to Japan. Her experience was a first hand view of the impacts of air pollution on the ocean and the atmosphere. A“believer” she became.  “The climate of some places is so bad that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere” No action and slow action will lead us to nowhere.  Susan is also on the board of the League of Women Voters Chester County and a member of the East Goshen Planning Commission.

Al Wright (alfred_wright@comcast.net)

Al is a civil engineering professional who has practiced municipal engineering and stormwater management design and permitting over his 24 year career in the tri-state area.  Part of that career was spent as a senior engineer for the Chester County Water Resources Authority.  A native of New Jersey, he has a bachelors’ degree from Rutgers University and began his career in the environmental remediation business where he saw firsthand the damage we can do to the planet in the name of profit. He has a lifelong passion for environmental stewardship of our land, air and water. He is an avid recycler.  Al joined 4CP to aspire to get the public better informed on Climate Change issues. According to Al “Climate Change is the number one issue facing humanity in the 21st century.  Most of the problems we face today have some connection to the anthropogenic degradation perpetrated on the planet.” Al lives in western Chester County with his wife, two children, two dogs and two cats. He enjoys gardening, bird watching and cooking. Al is active in his local Methodist Church where he has lead study groups on creation care and the biblical connection to being good stewards of all that God provides.