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<big><b><big><big>Solving the Climate Crisis:<br>
The Economic Journey from Greed to Green</big></big></b><br>
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When:</strong> Tuesday,
April 27,
2010, 6:30 PM </big></big></div>
<div class="vent-where""><big> <big><strong>Where: </strong> Coolidge
Corner
Public Library Branch, meeting room<br>
31 Pleasant Street, Brookline </big></big></div>
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<b>< For directions see:
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<big><big><big>Come hear Boston College's Prof. Charles Derber
speak on his hopeful
book, <i>From Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the
Economy.</i></big></big></big></font></p>
<p><big><big><big><font size="1"><big><big><big>Additional climate,
peace, and economic justice
speakers will join this participatory conversation. This will be an
opportunity for activists from these three movements movements to
discuss our interconnecting problems and possible synergy in becoming
more effective.</big></big></big></font></big></big></big></p>
<p><big><big><big><font size="1"><big><big><big>The time bomb of
Global-Warming / capitalist
consumerism can and must be solved through both individual and
institutional change. People have more power than we think. We need to
release ourselves from the bonds of hopelessness and denial, so we can
transform both ourselves and our institutions. <br>
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<p><big><big><big><font size="1"><big><big><big>Below is more
information on the main speaker, Prof.
Charles Derber.</big></big></big></font></big></big></big><br>
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<p>Sponsored by the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="ttp://majorityagendaproject.org%22">Majority
Agenda Project</a> and Mass. Global Action. For more information call:
781-662-7299</p>
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<span style="" 12pt;="" font-family:="" "times="" new=""
roman";=""></span>Charles
Derber is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College who also writes
for general audiences, offering not only sociological critiques but
alternative visions for our development. He feels that if sociologists
have something important to say, then they should write in a clear and
simple way, rather than dress their arguments up in technical jargon.
His op-eds, essays, and interviews have appeared in The Boston Globe,
Newsweek, Business Week, Time, Newsday, and other magazines. He speaks
frequently on National Public Radio, on talk radio, and on television. <br>
<br>
Here are comments on his new book, <big><big><font size="1"><big><big><i>From
Greed to
Green:</i></big></big></font></big></big><br>
<br>
“<i>Charles Derber’s urgent call to action on climate change connects
to
realistically upbeat ways to help resolve our energy, peace, and
employment challenges. To read this book is to react with personal and
social action.</i>"<br>
—<b>Ralph Nader</b><br>
<br>
<i>"There's no way to solve
climate change without also shifting, in profound ways, our idea of
what constitutes success and growth and progress. This is the right
book at the right—and crucial—moment.</i>”<br>
—<b>Bill McKibben</b>, author of <i>The End of Nature</i> and creator
of the student-based "Step It Up" campaign.<br>
<br>
<br>
Charles Derber's books include:<br>
<br>
<i>- Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again, and the Politically
Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good</i> (co-authored with Yale Magrass,
2010).<br>
<i><br>
- The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with
Women's Values</i> (with Katherine Adam, 2008),<br>
<i><br>
- The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream </i>(2010),<br>
<i><br>
- Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy</i> (2005),<br>
<i><br>
- People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big
Money, and Economic Crisis</i> (2003),<br>
<i><br>
- Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over our Lives and
What to Do About It</i> (2000),<br>
<i><br>
- The Pursuit of Attention</i> (2000),<br>
<i><br>
- The Nuclear Seduction</i> (with William Schwartz, 1993),<br>
<i><br>
- Power in the Highest Degree</i> (with William Schwartz and Yale
Magrass, 1990).<br>
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