St. Mark’s Episcopal Church will host an environmental lecture given by St. Mark’s parishioner G. Warfield “Skip” Hobbs on April 22 at 9AM in Morrill Hall. The lecture is free and all are welcome. Hobbs will give two lectures in honor of Saint Francis, the patron saint of the environmental movement, and to mark Earth Day 2018. St. Francis is the subject of St. Mark’s Parish Program this year. Francis extolled Brother Sun, Sister Moon and the Stars, Brother Wind, Sister Water, Brother Fire, and Mother Earth, and urged us to “Praise the Lord for our Mother Earth, who sustains us and keeps us.”

On April 22 (Earth Day) he will present The Importance of Natural Resource Sustainability in a Very Connected Biosphere; Do We have a Christian Responsibility to Try to Save the Planet? G. Warfield “Skip” Hobbs is a geologist, and founder and Managing Partner of Ammonite Resources, a firm of international petroleum, mining, geothermal technical, and business consultants which has been headquartered in New Canaan since 1982. Hobbs holds a B.Sc. Degree in Geology from Yale College and a M.Sc. Degree in Petroleum Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London.