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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Our Last, Best Hope For a Future on Earth: Alan Weisman on Population Growth Thursday, April 17, 2014 Investigative and award-winning journalist Alan Weisman, author of the bestselling The World Without Us, will join us for a lecture on overpopulation and his latest book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope For a Future on Earth, which covers balancing population growth with the health of our planet. To investigate this problem, Weisman travels around the world to understand and describe population issues as well as explore possible solutions. He looks at how different cultures and religions might adopt new behaviors in order to better manage the earth's population and our species ultimate survival. Open to the public.Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including The World Without Us: an international best-seller translated in 34 languages, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China. His work has been selected for many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing. An award-winning journalist, his reports have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Vanity Fair, Wilson Quarterly, Mother Jones, and Orion, and on NPR. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions. He lives in western Massachusetts. Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsor: Bard Center for Environmental Policy Contact: Molly Williams. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7071 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: PUT WEBPAGE LINK HERE THAT WILL BE VIEWED FOR MORE INFO (link will appear in emial)