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COP27, the major global climate conference is taking place in Cairo from  Sunday Nov 6 to Friday Nov 18.  How can we engage? This talk will use Deuteronomy as a starting point to present a systematic approach to addressing climate change, including strategy, adaptation, mitigation, reporting and opportunity.

Presenters: David M. Saunders and Richard W. Emory, Jr.

David M. Saunders, CC-P*, now retired, wasthe Senior Director of Quality for a human services company with 45,000employees. Before that, David was a consultant specializing in research andtraining on gathering, understanding, and deploying the voice of the customer.

He is the co-author of Four Days with Dr.Deming, Addison-Wesley Press (10th printing).  David earned a BA from Hobart College and anMS from Pratt Institute. He is a member of Beth Am, Baltimore, MD.

* ClimateChange Professional (CC-P), Certified by the Association of Climate ChangeOfficers and the State of Maryland

Richard W. Emory, Jr. was a career environmentalenforcement attorney who retired in 2011 from the United States EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA). He served as our nation’s top lawyer directlyresponsible for all EPA investigations of pollution crime. Then, oftencollaborating with the OECD and UNEP, for 17 years he worked globally in EPAforeign assistance to many other nations also wanting clean air and cleanwater.

He is the author of Fighting Pollution andClimate Change:  An EPA Veteran’s Guide How to Join in Saving Our Life onPlanet Earth (BookLocker, 2020) and technical papers on internationalenvironmental policy and law. Richard holds a BA from Yale University and a JDfrom Harvard Law School. To learn about the author, the book and how to get it,visit http://www.fightingpollutionbook.com/

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Join us as Charles Duff talks about the Beth Am Synagogue building and its architect, Joseph Evans Sperry. Mr. Duff will pay close attention our dome's structural ceramic tile, based on the genius of Raphael Guastavino. There will be opportunity for Q&A.

Charles Duff is a planner, teacher, developer, and historian.  Since 1987, as President ofJubilee Baltimore, he has led the revival of several dozen Baltimoreneighborhoods and built or rebuilt more than 300 buildings. Known as an expertin historic architecture and urban history, he has also pioneered in thedevelopment of residential and commercial buildings for artists and artsorganizations.

A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University, he studied at St. Andrews University in Scotland and has walked every city and neighborhood to which he refers. He is apast President of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation and has served on theboards of many community and professional organizations. He lectures widely andhas taught at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State Universities.

Charles Duff is an engaging speaker and is available for talks in all cities covered in TheNorth Atlantic Cities.

For more information, contact: info@NorthAtlanticCities.com

No RSVP required. Contact Susannah (skolstad@bethambaltimore.org) with any questions.