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Tim Toben, clean energy proponent, to speak at Jewish Shabbat service in Greensboro

Tim Toben, a Greensboro native and clean energy proponent, will speak at Temple Emanuel at 6:30 p.m. on Friday as part of the synagogue's observance of Shabbat Noach. The event is open to the public.

Shabbat Noach, a time when Jews around the world read the Torah portion about the Flood, Noah, the Ark, and the Rainbow, occurs on Oct. 23-24, the same weekend that people all over the world will rally in support of reducing carbon emissions as part of the International Day for Climate Action. (Interestingly, members of Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem are holding related events that weekend.)

Toben will speak on climate change, North Carolina's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and it's current environmental challenges, and opportunities for mitigation and advocacy.

Toben is a principal in the Greenbridge development in Chapel Hill as well as chairman of the N.C. Energy Policy Council and member of the N.C. Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change. He is also chairman of the Board of Visitors at the UNC-CH Institute for the Environment. Toben is the son of Carolyn Toben, who co-directs the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World in Whitsett. He and his wife also own and operate an Orange County organic vegetable farm that operates on a hybrid solar and wind renewable energy system.