WHEELER LIBRARY CONTINUES CLIMATE CHANGE SERIES TONIGHT
North Stonington — The library will host a talk titled “Climate Change in the American Mind” at 7 p.m. today.
Jenn Marlon, an associate research scientist at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, will speak about the different ways Americans process and interpret climate change.
An interactive mapping tool called “Yale Climate Opinion Maps” (YCOM) will allow the audience to look at the different responses to climate change across the country and what this means for the United States’ ability to address the sources of the problem as well as the impact.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of Wheeler Library as part of its monthlong “Climate Change Open House.”
The next event, discussing collaborative approaches to buying solar power, will take place on April 12. information on criminal law, divorce, custody issues, child support, personal injury, small claims, immigration, landlord/ tenant law and juvenile court.
The program will run from 6:15 to 8 p.m., and participants will be able to attend two 45-minute classes. Refreshments will be served and child care is available.
The volunteer teachers include staff from Bennie Dover, Superior Court Judge Kenneth L. Shluger and attorneys Lonnie Braxton, Paige Quilliam, Robert Tukey, Erica Rodriguez, Jason Burdick, Marcia Escobedo, Michael Doyle and Karen Sears.
The organizers are asking participants to use the Waller Street entrance to the school.
For more information, email Barbara Neff at bjneff1369@ sbcglobal.net. and run through November. Construction in the fall will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., and alternate routes will be advised.