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  • Wednesday, September 18, 7:00 pm – We Are The Weather

    Join Porter Square Books at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School’s Fitzgerald Theater, 459 Broadway in Cambridge on September 18 at 7 pm to hear bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer in conversation with renowned author and environmental advocate Frances Moore Lappé, discussing Safran Foer’s newest book, We are The Weather. A signing will follow the talk.

    Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?

    In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves—with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast.

    Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

    Frances Moore Lappé is the co-founder of Food First, the Institute for Food and Development Policy, and the Small Planet Institute. She is the author of nineteen books, including the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet and, most recently, World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored with Joseph Collins. Lappé has received eighteen honorary doctorates, as well as the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel,” and the James Beard Foundation’s “Humanitarian of the Year” award. Gourmet Magazine chose her among twenty-five people whose work has changed the way America eats. Lappé has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.

    Tickets are $25, and you may register at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/jonathan-safran-foer-frances-moore-lapp%C3%A9-we-are-weather

  • Friday, March 14, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Climate Solutions: Meeting the Challenge

    Spend an evening with Frances Moore Lapp̩ on Friday, March 14, from 7 Р9 at the Trinitarian Congregational Church, 54 Walden Street in Concord, when she discusses Climate Solutions: Meeting the Challenge, Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want. Frances Moore Lapp̩ is the author of the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Her most recent work, Eco-Mind, released by Nation Books in September 2013, is the winner of a silver medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. She brings her capacity for brilliant and original thinking to address the question of how best to approach the climate crisis.

    In her Concord appearance on March 14, she will assure us “that solutions to global crises are right in front of our noses, and our real challenge is to free ourselves from self-defeating thought traps that keep us from bringing these solutions to life.”

    In keeping with her upbeat message, the event will open with the lively music of local singer-guitarist, Tom Yates. There will be a book signing and reception at the conclusion of her remarks. Details: Go to www.concordcan.org. The “Climate Solutions” speaker series is remarkable because it is co-sponsored by six different local organizations, joining their voices in a call for large scale, effective action on climate change. What all of these organizations and groups have in common is a deep concern about what is happening to our planet —and they are providing funds, as well as ideas and support to this speaker series.

    Scientists describe a natural world in turmoil later this century if we do not take steps to reduce our carbon footprint. Gardeners and farmers see the change in blossoming time, and the impact of extreme temperatures on plants, insects and animals.

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