Many thanks to the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition (LexGWAC) for their public statement of support for LexFarm’s work on Sunday evening at Cary Hall in Lexington prior to the introduction of Bill McKibben. It was gratifying to hear the spontaneous applause when Bill himself mentioned LexFarm’s work to bring a community farm to the town-owned Busa property. And although, as he said,  the climate crisis is not going to be solved “one light bulb or one farm at a time”, the work we are doing is important and will help feed the larger political movement that is necessary if we are to have any hope of slowing climate change.

LexGWAC and The Lexington Community Farm Coalition are pleased to announce that Bill McKibben,  Lexington native and  renowned environmental journalist, will be speaking in Cary Hall on Sunday, August 29 at 7:30pm, about his new book, “Eaarth: Making a Life on  a Tough New Planet”. Admission to the talk is free and open to all.

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature,  McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We’ve created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

Copies of the new book will be for sale and signing at the talk. Please mark your calendars now for this important event.