The Long Beach Group of the Sierra Club will host a presentation on climate change featuring Dr. Jim Stewart, who earned his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University and has served as co-chair of the Sierra Club California Energy-Climate Committee since 2008 and chair or vice chair of the Angeles Chapter Climate Change Committee since 2006.
A former professor of physics at the University of New Haven, Stewart has served as the executive director of the Connecticut Human Services Reorganization Commission, of the Connecticut United Labor Agency, and of People for Parks of Los Angeles, as well as associate director of the Southern California Council on Environment and Development and organizer of Earth Day Los Angeles.
The program, which will be free and open to the public, will take place Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30pm at the Environmental Services Bureau, 2929 E Willow St.
Stewart will go behind the headlines of rising temperatures to detail the threats climate change is bringing to Southern California. He will outline some of the major actions that residents can take to combat climate change, including halting a major expansion of the natural gas-powered generating plant on Alamitos Bay.
The Long Beach Group is part of the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club. The group has more than 2,500 members and serves Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Long Beach, Los Alamitos, Signal Hill and Seal Beach, according to the organization.
Source: Sierra Club
