July 14: Author event with Jason Dove Mark

[Stonebrook, Shelley J]

AUTHOR EVENT WITH JASON DOVE MARK: July 14, 6 p.m., at Grass Roots Bookstore

As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome,” and they warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.

Join us to celebrate a new book by environmental advocate and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark that offers antidotes that everyone can use to resist ecological amnesia and make lasting progress to repair and revive a livable planet. In The Earth Said Remember Me, he puts forth four simple but powerful rules for a life lived in communion with the Earth: Go outside. Bear witness. Make a record. Pass it on.

 

From the mountains of California to the lakes of Wisconsin and across the lush forests of his beloved Pacific Northwest, Mark shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen who are putting these remedies into practice. And he makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. This inspiring manifesto  is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.

During the event, Mark will be in conversation with local author and poet Charles Goodrich. This event is sponsored by Grass Roots Books and the Spring Creek Project. Free and open to all.