Pssst:
On the evening of August 29 Bill McKibben will talk about his new book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
In his book, McKibben calls for communities to act together in ways that best work for their own circumstances and to support small farms, as one of the many ways of adapting to life on our changed planet.
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Please mark your calendar now and plan to bring your friends and family to hear McKibben talk at Lexington’s Cary Hall on Sunday, August 29, 7:30pm. Details are here.
The talk is sponsored by the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition and the Lexington Community Farm Coalition (sorry, not by the Arlington First Parish Church as I wrote before, I misinterpreted the above announcement in their newsletter). Come hear Bill McKibben speak and to thank him for writing the book and founding 350.org. Ride your bike!
Eaarth is a devestating and heartbreaking read, to realize how wrong and bad we’ve been, and how bleak the future is for everyone on the planet. But the second half of the book, which I’ve just entered, is about how we can survive and possibly even flourish (by “we” I mean us, literally me and stomv and David and Peter Porcupine, not our grandchildren.)
Has anyone else read “eaarth” yet? I will gladly buy you a copy if you meet me in Harvard Square sometime.
Sure hope everyone finds ways to get there that don’t require fossil fuels. I think I’ll bike! Looking forward to it.