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Environmental Issues Book Discussion

a virtual program
2022-04-19 13:30:00 2022-04-19 15:00:00 America/Chicago Environmental Issues Book Discussion Zoom -

Tuesday, April 19
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-04-19 13:30:00 2022-04-19 15:00:00 America/Chicago Environmental Issues Book Discussion Join the Library and Go Green HP to discuss Under a White Sky: The Nature Of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert. Zoom -

Join the Library and Go Green HP to discuss Under a White Sky: The Nature Of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Sixth Extinction "...takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth." (from the publisher)

This program will be held on Zoom, but that may change because...Covid.  Please register for login information or updates about any changes to location.

Questions?  email lskinner@hplibrary.org.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Discussion | Books & Authors |

TAGS: | Virtual Event |

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