Climate Action Sarnia-Lambton will be hosting its speaker series once again starting this month.
The first event will be held Tuesday and will be about the recovery of the St. Clair River.
Brenda Lorenz and Ken Hall will be describing the efforts to improve water quality and restore natural habitat.
Climate Action Sarnia-Lambton member Allan McKeown said there is a lot to expect during the presentations.
"(The public) can expect to be motivated, they can expect to be better informed about climate change and other environmental issues," he said.
McKeown added that there will be some positives about the speaker series as well.
"There will be a lot of good news. It's not all doom and gloom. We want people to come out and become better informed about climate change and environmental issues, and help celebrate the successes that have occurred," he said.
This is not the first time Climate Action Sarnia- Lambton has hosted a speaker series, last year similar events happened at the Sarnia library theatre.
"They were quite well attended. We had between 50 and 100 people at the presentations," McKeown said.
He added that the successes from last year are part of the reason why the speaker series is being held this year.
The group is not new in the county. It started in 2018 and so far have had some successes.
They were able to get the City of Sarnia to declare a climate emergency, which was done in 2019 and to help with tree planting.
McKeown said while the city has been a major partner there is still more work to be done.
"We have to encourage the city and the province and the country to take stronger action on climate change because the majority of Canadians do not think that enough action is being taken at the moment," he explained.
Other topics to be discussed will be local action on climate change which will be hosted by Bill Sutton, how to tackle climate change on Lake Huron, hosted by Patrick Donnelly and eternally green-choose natural burial by Mark Richardson.
The series will be held on the second Tuesday of the month until April starting at 7 p.m. and the doors opening at 6:30 p.m at the Sarnia Public Library Auditorium on Christina St S.
Admission is free for the series.
"Hopefully it will be uplifting for (the public) and encourage them to take some action in their own lives," McKeown said.
