Grassroots Rising: Climate, Food, & a Green New Deal
When:
Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 6:30p -
8:30p
Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 6:30p -
8:30p
Where:
Cambridge Public Library, Central Square Branch
45 Pearl St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grassroots-rising-climate-food-a-green-new-deal-w-loe-tickets-88570782595
Join the nationally-syndicated radio show & podcast Living on Earth and activist Ronnie Cummins for a live interview about his new book, Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal.
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Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive―and thrive―in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse.
This book offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots Regeneration Movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance―embodied most recently by the proposed Green New Deal in the US. Cummins asserts that the solution lies right beneath our feet and at the end of our forks through the transformation of our broken food system. Using regenerative agriculture practices that restore our agricultural and grazing lands, we can sequester massive amounts of carbon in the soil. Coupled with an aggressive transition toward renewables, he argues that we have the power to not only mitigate and slow down climate change, but actually reverse global warming.
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About the guest:
Ronnie Cummins is founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, US-based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and commerce. Cummins also serves on the steering committee of Regeneration International and OCA’s Mexican affiliate, Vía Organic.
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This event is part of Good Reads on Earth, a series of events where public radio program Living on Earth holds live radio interviews with authors of the latest environmental books. To learn more about Living on Earth, please visit loe.org.
This event is sponsored by Living on Earth, The Cambridge Public Library, the UMass Boston School for the Environment, & the UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School.
This is a free event open to the public.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
