Happy Earth Day! We're highlighting these speakers who offer fresh perspectives on the environment, sustainability, and climate change.
Eliza Griswold is the author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how fracking shattered one Pennsylvania town and how one resident brought it to light. She has held fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University. Eliza speaks grippingly about the social costs of natural resource development, corporate greed, and the disenfranchisement of rural Americans.
Called the “real life Lorax” by National Geographic and the “Einstein of the treetops” by The Wall Street Journal, Meg Lowman climbs trees for a living and has devoted over 4 decades to exploring forest canopies. As one of the first pioneers in the field of treetop science, Meg’s speech topics vary from personal anecdotes about being a woman in STEM, to deforestation, to the food chains of rainforest canopies.
Carole Lindstrom is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of We Are Water Protectors, a picture book inspired by Standing Rock and all Indigenous Peoples fighting for clean water. Lindstrom has spoken to both children and adult audiences on topics ranging from environmental justice to the importance of Native representation in children’s books.
Nathaniel Rich is the esteemed novelist and essayist whose novel, Odds Against Tomorrow, was hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first great climate-change novel,” and he has since written many more. Rich speaks widely about global warming and the call to combat climate change, addressing topical recent developments such as the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal.
Ben Rawlence is a former researcher for Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa. His book, The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth , is a powerfully written story of what might soon be the last forest left and what that means for the future of all life on earth. Drawing on his tour of the latest science and up close personal view of the massive earth system changes underway, Ben speaks with authority and clarity on what this new era means for individuals, communities, businesses, and institutions.
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