Food activists might think “sustainable farming” and “eating local” can solve all the problems with our modern food-supply system. But Pierre Desrochers, co-author of The Locavore’s Dilemma, disagrees.
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Pierre Desrochers: Eat Global
Thursday, June 28, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Kevin Bleyer: Me the People
Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Our Constitution promised a More Perfect Union, but the revered document itself, says comedy writer Kevin Bleyer, is one hot mess. So, naturally, he has written a more perfect Constitution.
Kirsten Grind: The Rise and Fall of Washington Mutual
Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Journalist Kirsten Grind traces the rise—and spectacular fall—of Washington Mutual, the largest bank failure in American history.
From Island Press: Jeff Deyette: ‘Cooler Smarter’
Thursday, June 21, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Jeff Deyette, senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Energy program and author of the science-based guide Cooler Smarter, shows the most effective ways to cut our own global-warming emissions by 20 percent or more.
Anthony Swofford: A Marine’s Battles Beyond ‘Jarhead’
Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
In his new memoir Hotels, Hospitals & Jails, Anthony Swofford struggles to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide—after nearly ending it—what his life can and should become.
Samuel Popkin: What it Takes to Win—and Hold—the White House
Monday, June 18, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Samuel Popkin, author of The Candidate, analyzes exactly what it takes to win the next campaign—how challengers get to the White House, how incumbents stay there, and how successors hold power for their party—illuminating the intricacies of presidential campaigns, and what makes one succeed while another fails.
Daniel Duane: How to Cook Like a Man
Thursday, June 14, 2012, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Forget Julie and Julia: Daniel Duane spent eight years cooking his way through all of revolutionary chef Alice Waters’ cookbooks. Duane turned to Chef Waters’ Chez Panisse cookbooks when—as a new father, armed only with pasta and stir-fry—he was desperate for help.
Science: Richard Martin: Thorium, Super Fuel of the Future
Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Richard Martin, one of the first energy experts to promote the development of thorium, tells the untold story of thorium power—and shows how we can wean ourselves off our fossil-fuel addiction, deliver a safe energy source for a millennia, and avert the risk of nuclear meltdown.
Chris Hedges: Reports from the Frontlines of American Poverty
Friday, June 29, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, co-author of the graphic nonfiction book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, traveled to the most depressed areas of the United States to show what happens when a society loses a sense of the sacred and nothing has an intrinsic value beyond monetary values.