SVRR Speaker Series: Joyce Mercado, Author of Save the Planet in Your Spare Time

Name: SVRR Speaker Series: Joyce Mercado, Author of Save the Planet in Your Spare Time
Start: 2025-11-05T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-05T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center

Schedule

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center | San Jose, CA

Topic Information
On Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Silicon Valley Rainbow Rotary is pleased to host Joyce Mercado (she/her) who will talk about her Climate Protection Handbook, Save the Planet in Your Spare Time.
About the Speaker
Joyce Mercado has been an effective climate activist in her community of Alameda for the last twenty years even while holding a full-time job as a Technical Sales Manager for IBM and raising two children with her husband David. Joyce is a monthly climate protection columnist for the local press, an Al Gore program-trained Climate Reality Project Leader who has given dozens of presentations on climate protection, creator of the Alameda Climate Protection Checklist and Resource List with 70 actions individuals can take, and has been recognized by the City of Alameda for her climate protection leadership.
The climate emergency prompted her to write Save the Planet in Your Spare Time – A Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person, when she retired, so others could learn from her experience to become climate leaders in their communities. Joyce is a proud Rotarian, having served as Community Service Chair and President of the Rotary Club of Alameda twice. Joyce has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Joyce went to graduate school at Princeton University to study plasma (electrically charged gas) physics for two years.
Do you want to do more to protect the climate, but are unsure how to proceed given your busy schedule? If so, Save the Planet in Your Spare Time – A Climate Protection Handbook is for you! It chronicles the author’s journey to becoming a climate protection leader in Alameda with the goal that others can learn from her experience. Leaders influencing others in their communities to protect the climate, community by community, is an essential element in fighting climate change. You can be an effective part of the solution to the climate crisis with the guidance given in this presentation. Anyone can be such a leader, even if you have a busy lifestyle. We need thousands of leaders like you in communities nationwide and worldwide to solve the climate crisis. Together we can make a difference!
How to Join this Event
Our general meetings are hybrid:
- Join us in person in the upstairs conference room at the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center located at 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126.
- Join us via Zoom by send an email to [email protected] and we’ll provide the Zoom meeting link.