OC Global Warming Committee Meeting - Please attend and join in the discussion

We will be joined by a guest speaker, Dr. Thomas English. Dr. English is a Creation Care Educator, a former EPA official and an Orange County member of Citizens Climate Lobby. He will talk about the current climate challenge.

Dr. English is the President of the TESSI Endangered Species Institute, and the Creation Care Educator for the Presbyterian Church's Synod of Southern California and Hawaii. He frequently lectures on Environmental Issues to university, civic, industrial, and church groups. He produced a 50-minute video entitled “Past, Present & Future of Endangered Species,” which has been broadcast many times on the Carlsbad, CA cable television channel. He is Past-President of both the Coalition for Clean Air, and the San Diego Chapter of Reasons to Believe. He is a past Vice Moderator of Presbyterians for Earth Care.

He co-led the campaign to have the Presbyterian Church adopt a new policy “On Preserving Biodiversity and Halting Mass Extinction.” He has directed major environmental programs for IBM, GE, JPL, EPA, and the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group. He led this group’s effort to voluntarily reduce toxic environmental releases by 86%. According to William Reilly, former Administrator of the U.S. EPA, "This reduction led the entire world." His legislative accomplishments include improving the California Clean Air Act, which resulted in savings of several billion dollars.

Dr. English advised President Carter's Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Government of Sweden on high-level nuclear waste disposal. At the U.S. EPA, he directed an $80 million per year Energy & Environment Program; and also directed an epidemiological study of 40,000 people to determine the human health effects of air pollutants. He received a Presidential Award for leading the recovery program to fix the F-111 fighter/bomber after the wings fell off the aircraft.

His academic background includes a postdoctoral MS in environmental engineering, a Ph.D., and a MS in electrical engineering, and a BS in physics. He taught environmental courses at Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, the University of North Carolina, West Coast University, and UC Santa Cruz. He was also an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Dept. at Carnegie-Mellon University and an Adjunct Professor at Palomar College. Dr. English presented a three-day environmental management seminar in Moscow.