Library presents Earth Day program on global warming

Warwick - Artist and environmentalist Shawn Dell Joyce will present a slide presentation based on “An Inconvenient Truth” as part of a special Earth Day program hosted by the Albert Wisner Public Library at Warwick Town Hall on Friday, April 20, at 7 p.m. The presentation will emphasize the local impact and local solutions to the climate crisis. Dell Joyce trained to give this slide presentation with the former Vice President Albert Gore at the Climate Project in Nashville. Participants will receive brochures with local contacts for solar, home energy audits and other usable information, a contract to encourage participants to lower their carbon, and a plan for reducing household emissions. Dell Joyce (www.ShawnDellJoyce.com) writes a weekly column called “Sustainable Living” for the Times Herald-Record. She is a visual artist and community activist who teaches about global warming and the need to buy local. She is the founder of the Wallkill River School (www.WallkillRiverSchool.com), Orange County’s first home-grown art movement. Her artwork is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Registration is required; call the library at 986-1047 ext. 3 to do so.