Mike Tidwell\, founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network\, is the author of The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One A merican Street.
\nTidwell&rsquo\;s presentation on the book will be followed by a moderated discussion with Stella Tarnay\, Executive Director of Capital Nature and a Cleveland Park resident. Many of the neighborhood&rsquo\;s trees are faci ng the same challenges as those on Willow Avenue in Takoma Park. The discu ssion will highlight actions that residents can take to respond to climate impacts on our local canopy\, along with other neighborhood-based respons es to climate change.
\nThis event includes an audience Q &\; A a nd book signing. Copies of the book will be available for sale.
\nRe gistration is optional but encouraged to guarantee a seat.
\nDescrip tion of Mike Tidwell's book:
\n"A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street\, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees - all against the national backdrop o f 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and hurricanes. In 2023\, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate \;change on his one urban block righ t on the border with Washington\, DC. A love letter to the magnificent oak s and other trees dying from record heat waves and bizarre rain\, Tidwell' s story depicts the neighborhood's battle to save the trees and combat cli mate change: The midwife who builds a geothermal energy system on the bloc k\, the Congressman who battles cancer and climate change at the same time \, and the Chinese-American climate scientist who wants to bury billions o f the world's dying trees to store their carbon and help stabilize the atm osphere. The story goes beyond ailing trees as Tidwell chronicles people o n his block sick with Lyme disease\, a church struggling with floods\, and young people anguishing over whether to have kids\, all in the same neigh borhood and all against the global backdrop of 2023's record heat domes an d raging wildfires and hurricanes. Then there's Tidwell himself who explor es the ethical and scientific questions surrounding the idea of "geoengine ering" as a last-ditch way to save the world's trees - and human communiti es everywhere - by reflecting sunlight away from the planet. No book has t old the story of climate change this way: hyper local\, full of surprises\ , full of true stories of life and death in one neighborhood. The Lost Tre es of Willow Avenue is a harrowing and hopeful proxy for every street in A merica and every place on Earth."
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