Note: The program is earlier due to new library closing times

Don Hall, a registered professional electrical engineer, will speak. Learn how conserving water in our homes and offices relates to energy and cost savings. Find out how energy production is at the mercy of having abundant fresh water supplies, and how safe water is likewise dependent upon an economical energy supply. Hear ways you can make a difference, and in fact, how you are the only one who can.

Don Hall is president of the locally-owned business Watt Works, located at 1078 Goodale Blvd. Visit their website www.wattworks.com to learn about upcoming seminars on various energy efficiency topics. Products available at Watt Works include LED lighting, cold cathode fluorescent bulbs, radiant heating panels, AC load management systems, alternative energy systems, demand management products, SmartGrid equipment, HVAC products, magnetic window covers and more. Watt Works also performs home and business energy analyses and audits.

For the holiday season we are inviting people to bring a dessert to share

Join us at the Sierra Club’s annual holiday gathering to hear award-winning photographer Bob Studzinski’s take on the current political situation in Bolivia. Bob’s presentation will take us into Bolivia's peaceful revolution that is ending 500 years of apartheid in our hemisphere. This change was signaled by the election of its first indigenous president in this majority indigenous country, but was brought about by an enduring movement of Indians, unions and peasants against an aristocratic, free-market establishment. Bob travelled with Witness for Peace last fall in an investigation that met with all sides in the conflict—including coca growers, the US Drug Enforcement Agency, shamans, secessionists and Maryknolls.

Bob has been documenting the lives and struggles of indigenous and endangered peoples for 30 years. His photos have been exhibited worldwide. He received a Puffin Foundation grant to explore Tarahumara Holy Week traditions in Mexico and has documented Habitat for Humanity’s work in Haiti and Just Coffee’s fair trade partner in East Timor. In 2006 he took part in a Katrina recovery project in Mississippi. His photo stories on the oil industry and reality tourism appeared in the Chicago Daily Herald and at the Rhodes State Office Tower. A retired parole officer, Bob operates a photography business in Columbus.