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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Saul Griffith with Laura Fraser / Launch for Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are thrilled to present the launch for Saul Griffith and his book Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future. He’ll be in conversation with Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Electrify here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nAn optimistic—but realistic and feasible—action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. \nClimate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify\, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure\, update our grid\, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars\, but the rest of us\, Griffith says\, will stay and fight for the future. \nGriffith\, an engineer and inventor\, calls for grid neutrality\, ensuring that households\, businesses\, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world\, mobilize industry as we did in World War II\, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big\, not-yet-invented innovations\, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis\, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to 25 million\, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else. \nAbout the authors\nSaul Griffith\, inventor\, entrepreneur\, and engineer\, is founder of Rewiring America\, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything\, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007. \nLaura Fraser is a journalist and author of three books of nonfiction\, including the NYT-bestselling memoir\, An Italian Affair. As founder and editorial director of Shebooks\, she published 75 short ebooks by women before selling the company to Shewrites Press. She lives around the corner from the Booksmith and launched all three of her books here. She’s also interviewed several authors for the Booksmith. Lately\, she has been collaborating with Saul Griffith and Rewiring America\, the organization he founded. So while she is not objective about the material in Saul’s new book\, she is well-acquainted with it. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-saul-griffith-with-laura-fraser-launch-for-electrify-an-optimists-playbook-for-our-clean-energy-future/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Christopher Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 13\, 2021 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n“Post-Freudian Slips: How contemporary psychoanalytic thought can deepen the inner lives of your characters” by Christopher Feliciano Arnold \n\n\nThis craft talk will introduce students to a basic overview of contemporary psychoanalytic thought that can help them instill characters with a deeper level of psychological realism. Building upon the pioneering ideas of Sigmund and Anna Freud\, we will explore how the Post-Freudian thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century can help writers render splintered selves\, fluid identities\, formative relationships\, traumas\, ecstasies and critical experiences like birth\, sex\, violence\, parenthood and death. \nChris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. He has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Outside\, Vice News\, The New York Times and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-afternoon-craft-conversation-with-christopher-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rev. Al Sharpton: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Marcus Books presents: \nReverend Al Sharpton + Greg Bridges \nRise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads \n……………………………………………………………………………………. \n“Reverend Sharpton addresses our nation’s original sin\, explains why we can’t afford to be satisfied with creature comforts while others still suffer\, and offers solutions in the non-violent tradition of my father and others regarding where we go from here.” \n-MARTIN LUTHER KING III \n“Rev. has been about Black Lives Matter from the jump\, also at a time when it was not the most popular or hip thing to be about. I look forward\, standing next to him\, to see\, to witness this new energy\, this new day that is about to be in these United States of America.” -SPIKE LEE \n“This man is a gift from God to the world. This book is a gift from Al Sharpton to us. Let’s appreciate them both.” -MICHAEL ERIC DYSON \nIn what will be his seminal call to action\, RISE UP: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads\, the Reverend Al Sharpton draws on his decades of unique experience as a civil rights leader\, a politician\, and a television and radio host to encourage voters to stand up for what they believe and enact change in their country. \nRev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” and the founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN)\, one of the leading civil rights organization in the world. With over 40 years of experience as a community leader\, politician\, minister and advocate\, the Rev. Al Sharpton is one of America’s most-renowned civil rights leaders. \nGreg Bridges is a radio dj who can be heard over KCSM and KPFA\, where he has a weekly show and is a contributor to  KPFA’s Hip Hop and social affairs show HardKnock Radio. Greg has written for various publications including Jazz Now Magazine and Bayshore Magazine. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/erev-al-sharpton-greg-bridges-rise-up-confronting-a-country-at-crossroads-tickets-164239814707
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SUMMARY:Nikki Giovanni: Make Me Rain
DESCRIPTION:Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Marcus Books \nHosted by Nina Serrano \nNikki Giovanni’s poetry has inspired\, enlightened\, and captivated generations of readers. She is cherished by the nation and revered in the African-American community as a potent and affirming siren of culture\, tradition\, and the issues of our time. In MAKE ME RAIN Giovanni is as sharp and outspoken as ever\, bringing profound and timely poems that call attention to injustice and give readers an unfiltered look into the more guarded regions of her heart. \nIn MAKE ME RAIN Giovanni celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage\, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. With this compendium she reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as\, “I Come from Athletes\,” and “Rainy Days\,” which call out segregation and Donald Trump; “Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)\,” and “When I Could No Longer\,” a personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive childhood home. \nThe poet recently trended on Twitter after thousands logged on to hear her chat virtually with activist Angela Davis.  From the records she released in the 1970’s\, to her devout tribute of a “thug life” tattoo to honor rapper Tupac Shakur\, Giovanni is recognized by younger generations for her insight\, connectedness\, and the comforting familiarity of her voice.  She is the admired elder stateswoman of African American letters\, and final representative of an extraordinary cohort that once included her dear friends\, writers Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. \nWith MAKE ME RAIN\, a beloved American poet challenges us with a powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. Stirring\, provocative\, and poignant\, these poems pierce the heart and nourish the soul. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/nikki-giovanni-make-me-rain-tickets-170040590985
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