Richard Whiteford, Neighbor

Richard Whiteford is an internationally acclaimed public speaker, climate change expert, writer, and environmental activist. He follows current climate science from NOAA, NASA, the National Academies of Science and the United Nations Environmental Program. He was voted on to the board of the United Nation’s World Information Transfer in June, 2015 and served as their delegate at the COP-21 Climate Summit in Paris in 2015.

He has given 307 PowerPoint presentations, to date, about climate change to universities, religious institutions, high schools, academies of sciences, conservation organizations, civic organizations, at the Klimaforum in Copenhagen at the COP-15 Climate Summit and four times at the United Nations’ Annual International Conferences on Health and the Environment.

In 2015 Richard gave the keynote presentation and also taught workshops at the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educator’s conference, the Green Allies Conference, and at the Pennsylvania Green Colleges Conference.

He has written over 600 articles for newspapers and magazines and a book called, Wild Pennsylvania on Voyageur Press, ISBN# 0-76032638- X. He wrote a 3 year series about endangered species for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has conducted many newspaper, radio and television interviews including BBC TV, Korean TV, CN8 TV, WFMZ TV, AccuWeather’s Headline Earth, Northern Deutch Radio, NDR Radio in Germany, Justice Talking on NPR and The Pulse on WHYY, NPR.

He currently serves on the Board of the World Information Transfer, an NGO at the United Nations and is a member of the Climate Reality Project, Citizen’s Climate Lobby and formerly worked for:

Defenders of Wildlife

The National Sierra Club

The Highlands Coalition

Important Mammal Area Project for the National Wildlife Federation

Awards:

The Sierra Club Award for Environmental Activism – 1998

the National Sierra Club Environmental Hero Award – 2006

B.A. Communications St. Joseph’s University 2003.

LinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/richardwhiteford

LinkedIn Publishing: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/richardwhiteford

Facebook URL: www.facebook.com/richard.whiteford.

Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/savebiosphere

Contact: Richard Whiteford – 610-246-7974 – savebiosphere3@gmail.com