The Brown Bag Green Book lunch and learn series continues this Wednesday, June 10th, Dr. Dana Christensen, P.E., Associate Laboratory Director of the Energy and Engineering Sciences Directorate of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Christensen will discuss the book Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal by Michael Brune. The free series is sponsored by the Knox County Public Library and the City of Knoxville and is being held at noon at the Market House Room of the Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership at #17 Market Square. The public is invited to join the conversation, Participants may bring their own lunch from home or pick up lunch from a downtown restaurant.
In this timely book, Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network, shows how Americans can kick the fossil-fuel habit and pressure policymakers and corporations to change their energy priorities. Overflowing with pragmatic and well-tested advice, Coming Clean is rooted in the author's faith that Americans acting together can create profound change.
The series will continue on Wednesday, July 15, at 12 p.m., with Ben Epperson, Coordinator of Beardsley Community Farm, leading a discussion of the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver in the East Tennessee History Center's auditorium, 601 South Gay Street (across from the Tennessee Theatre). Please note that this is a new location for the series.
Podcasts of the three previous discussions are available from the Library's website at knoxlib.org.
