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Finding Middle Ground: Climate Change Conversations Across America
September 17 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
While most Americans think the Earth’s climate is changing, there remains a bitter divide about the causes and what—if anything—to do about it.
Join award-winning climate journalist, Meera Subramanian as she recounts stories of Americans from across the country who are experiencing the effects of climate change against the backdrop of a contentious political divide.
This event is provided in collaboration with The Barnstable Land Trust as part of their Climate Conversations Month.
About Meera:
Barnstable resident Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home, in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis.
Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, and TheNewYorker.com, along with many others. She has been a contributing editor of Orion magazine since 2018.
She is the author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, short-listed for the Orion Book Award in 2015, and teaches creative nonfiction at Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee.
Previously, she was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellow, board president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University.
She was recently awarded the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award for her piece titled “India’s Quest to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms” available now on NewYorker.com.
She’s currently collaborating with illustrator Danica Novgorodoff on A Better World Is Possible, a nonfiction YA graphic novel that reveals the pressing danger of our climate crisis through the inspiring stories of four youth climate activists who demonstrate the potential of teen power.