Dan Sitarz, Executive Director of  Seniors for Climate Action, is an attorney, author, lecturer, educator, and business entrepreneur. In 1992, in cooperation with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, he wrote and edited the popular abridged version of the central agreement of the Earth Summit: Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save our Planet. In cooperation with the President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, in 1997, Sitarz wrote, edited, and abridged the Council’s voluminous reports into a concise book for the general public: Sustainable America: America’s Environment, Economy, and Society in the 21st Century; (with foreword by then-Vice President Al Gore). From 1999 to 2009, he taught and lectured widely as guest lecturer on sustainability and environmental issues with the Environmental Studies Program and the Environmental Resources and Policy PhD Program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale Illinois [SIUC]. He also served as project advisor for the first detailed sustainability assessment of the University in 2000 and was instrumental in the University’s signing of the Talloires Declaration on Sustainability in Higher Education. He was also one of the initial founders and a director of Southern Sustainability which became the SIUC Sustainability Council.  In cooperation with the Smart Business Forum and the Partnership for Sustainability, Sitarz helped develop the Sustainable Enterprise Action Tool [SEAT]. In 2008, Mr. Sitarz wrote the award-winning book: Greening Your Business: The Hands-on Guide to Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business. He is a also member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Climate CoLab and, in 2021, was a participant in the Agenda 2030 Compass CoLab project, a collaboration between MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence and the Stockholm Environment Institute.  He has assisted numerous organizations and businesses seeking to further sustainability goals, including inventor Dean Kamen’s FIRST organization [For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology], Business for Good, The Smart Business Forum, The Partnership for Sustainability, The Land for Learning Institute, The Center for Neo-Tropical Conservation, Common Greens, and many others.

Janet Sitarz, Secretary/Treasurer of Seniors for Climate  Action, previously served as CFO of Nova Publishing Company and its subsidiary, EarthPress, for over 30 years. She has also been active in environmental and political issues affecting local, national, and global issues for many years.

Both are proud grandparents and senior citizens.