Living our Environmental Challenge with Tzeporah Berman, William Marsden and Chris Turner

In Person Big Ideas Science

Admission

Free

Saturday

Sep , 2011

7:00pm

Eastern

Knox Presbyterian Church

120 Lisgar Street (at Elgin) • Ottawa

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Living our Environmental Challenge with Tzeporah Berman, William Marsden and Chris Turner

Tzeporah Berman is a modern environmental hero, and this fascinating book shares her exciting history, and the even more exciting thinking that it’s given rise to. If we get out of our ecological woes, she’ll be a big reason.

Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and founder of 350.org

Bringing together three passionate ecological experts, this event is a crucial overview of Earth’s environmental challenge and the road to a sustainable economy. William Marsden is the author of Stupid to the Last Drop and Fools Rule. Chris Turner, one of Canada's leading writers on sustainability and the global cleantech industry, is the author of The Geography of Hope and The Leap. Tzeporah Berman, author of This Crazy Time, is the founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, and is currently Climate and Energy Co-Director of Greenpeace International.

The Authors

Chris Turner

Chris Turner is one of Canada's leading writers and speakers on sustainability and the global cleantech industry. He is the author of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy (Random House 2011). He is also the author of the 2007 bestseller The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House), a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction, the Alberta Literary Award for Nonfiction and the National Business Book Award. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures in Melbourne, Australia, and a 2010 Fleck Fellow at the Banff Centre. Turner's first book was the international bestseller Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation (Random House 2004). His magazine writing has earned seven National Magazine Awards and appeared in Fast Company, Time, Utne Reader, The Walrus, The Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic and many other publications. He is a featured blogger at MNN.com. He lives in Calgary with his wife, the photographer Ashley Bristowe, and their two children.

Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman is a founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, and is currently Greenpeace International Climate and Energy Co-Director. She has been designing and managing environmental campaigns for the past eighteen years. She is known for her role in coordinating the largest civil disobedience in Canada’s history, the logging blockades in the rainforests of Clayoquot Sound in 1993, during which she was arrested and charged with 857 counts of criminal aiding and abetting. She is also known for her work in creating unlikely alliances with the logging industry and major paper and wood consumers that have resulted in the permanent protection of millions of acres of old-growth forests. She was one of the experts in Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary, The 11th Hour. The Royal BC Museum has included her in a permanent exhibition as one of the 150 people who have changed BC’s history. She has been lauded as “Canada’s Queen of Green” in a cover story in Reader’s Digest and was recognized by the Utne Reader as one of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge is her latest book.

William Marsden

William Marsden is author of Stupid to the Last Drop and co-author of the national bestsellers Angels of Death and The Road to Hell. He is a senior investigative reporter for the Gazette in Montréal. Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change is his latest book.