May 29, 2018- New Jersey’s Environment – A Pivotal Moment: An Evening with Jeff Tittel, New Jersey Sierra Club Director 

The Heldrich Hotel, New Brunswick

• This is a pivotal moment for our environment and Jeff Tittel, Director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, will explain what it all means. Plus, he'll be answering your questions.
• Jeff Tittel has served as Director of the New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club for over 20 years, and he has been involved in every major environmental legislation passed in NJ for close to two decades. His environmental achievements include passage of the Highlands Act, New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act, New Jersey’s Fertilizer Law, and NJ’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law. Jeff also helped the passage of the private well testing law and bear feeding ban, as well as the acquisition of Sterling Forest. Jeff served on Gov. Murphy’s transition team, and was named by the Star Ledger as a Most Influential Person in New Jersey. He was also listed on the New Jersey Politics Power List, the only environmentalist to do so.  

March 6, 2018- Dr. David Robinson, New Jersey’s State Climatologist 

Iselin Branch Library, 1081 Greene Street in Iselin

• We hope you’ll join us on March 6 for an important speaking event featuring Dr. David Robinson, New Jersey’s State Climatologist. All New Jersey residents know that something dramatic is happening to our weather. New Jersey has experienced its wettest and warmest years in more than a century of observations. Extreme events like Superstorm Sandy and our increasingly hot summers point to major changes in our climate. Yet our President, Scott Pruitt and others refuse to acknowledge the dangers threatened by a warming climate, including sea-level rise, more vicious storms, droughts and hotter weather. We are particularly vulnerable in New Jersey because of our coastal susceptibility to devastating storms and the harm being done to our acquifers and streams through encroaching salinity and pollution.

•  As state climatologist, Dr. Robinson works with user communities requiring climatological expertise to solve problems. He has experience in the collection and archiving of accurate climate data and is particularly interested in climate change in New Jersey. He also has a keen interest in regional snow cover dynamics and how snow cover interacts with other climate elements. Dr. Robinson also oversees the Rutgers New Jersey Weather Network, a constellation of more than 60 stations that observe weather variables every five minutes. He also sits on numerous state committees and is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists. Dr. Robinson is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.

May 11, 2017- Debbie Young, Sierra Club: "Protecting our National Parks and Monuments"  

The Heldrich Hotel, New Brunswick

• Join Debbie as she talks about our national parks and monuments and the threats they are under from the Trump administration, including sales of pristine public lands and mining and gas exploration.
• Debbie Young, Sierra Club -- Debbie Young is the Utah issues coordinator for the New Jersey Sierra club, and volunteers with multiple public lands activist groups such as Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.  Her passion for America’s public lands and America’s Red Rock Wilderness has turned her focus to spending her time advocating here in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.  Debbie has lobbied in our current and past congresses and has recently had meetings with staffers in DC.  She met with 13 of our 14 New Jersey Congressional and Senate representatives. 

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