Environment Now is hosting a great speaker series once a month. Here is the upcoming schedule sent from EN:
August 10, 2011 5:30-7:30 pm
Please join us in conversation with Wade Graham, Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. The Los Angeles-based landscape architect, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, and other publications. Graham will read from and discuss his recently published book American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are.
Praise for American Eden
“The American garden has found its destined interpreter in Wade Graham, American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literqature, biography, and design theory. Writing in the mode of Lewis Mumford, Van Wyck Brooks, and Alfred Kazinm, Graham achieves a foundational study fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate;The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Bridge
Please RSVP to Email: speakerseries -at- environmentnow.org
Environment Now
2515 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Drinks and light Hors d’oeuvres provided
Next September 14, 2011 5:30-7:30 pm
Matt Ritter will be presenting his new book, A Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us (Heyday Books, 2011), which profiles over 150 types of trees found in the urban environs of California, including both native and cultivated species. Used as a field guide or read with pleasure for the liveliness of the prose, this book enables readers to learn the stories behind the trees that shade our parks, grace our yards, and line our streets. Matt is currently a botany professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and director of the plant conservatory there. To learn more about his book, visit http://www.heydaybooks.com/guides-and-reference/a-californians-guide-to-the-tr.html
