Andy has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He leads a chapter for the non-profit and non-partisan Citizens’ Climate Education making presentations and educating the public on effective solutions to the climate change issue. His audiences have included Universities, High Schools, Alumni associations, Libraries, Churches, Non-profit organizations, and political leaders.
He’s been engaged in environmental advocacy efforts for more than two decades, with a focus over the last 15 years on climate. He’s spent the last seven years working with lobbying groups pushing Congress for action on climate change.
He is trained on the MIT/Sloan En-ROADS climate simulator, attaining the status of Climate Ambassador, and periodically utilizes this powerful visual tool in interactive discussions during presentations with the public and with Congressional Representatives.
His engaging presentations are primarily to secular audiences, but he also works closely with the Archdiocese of Chicago and parishes around the country educating parishioners on the Catholic Church position on climate change, and Catholic Church supported solutions.
Andy spent most of his career with Fortune 500 companies as a product development and innovation expert, with a focus on how to produce products that generate less waste, higher performance, and reduced landfill impact.
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Here’s an opportunity to engage your audience in a fun way to learn more about the climate change issue, solutions, and the relative effectiveness of those solutions. As part of the exercise, we discuss various actions that can be taken. The audience is engaged to offer suggested solutions to slow climate change.
Our trained facilitator will show the group how each suggested action(s) will impact climate change on a MIT/Sloan simulator that will model their proposed solution(s) instantly in “real-time”. This stimulates discussions as to why an action may or may not be as effective a course of action as expected. We’ll also share bipartisan actions that Congress is considering and evaluate what impact those actions have on climate change.
Participants leave the discussion with new insights on how the problem should be addressed.
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