I’ll be at the University of Michigan telling the stories of the game changers and ordinary people right in our neighborhoods who are tackling waste and replacing it with prosperity, joy and health—and showing the rest of us we can all make a difference.
I’ll be sharing the stories behind Total Garbage during Climate Week at the University of Pennsylvania, where my book is being honored with the annual Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. The event is open to the public but registration is required. See you there!
I’ll be in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to join the celebration of 35 years of recycling there during Zero Waste Week. There will be a public reception at 5:30 at the Center for the Arts, my keynote talk on the stories behind Total Garbage, and a book signing in the lobby with Jackson’s own Valley Bookstore.
Please join me for my writing workshop, The Art of Being There, on the Bound for Adventures Book Club cruise up the Alaska coast. I’ll also be discussing my work, including the eco-stories behind Total Garbage. Check out the growing line-up of other book talks, cocktail parties, wordplay and, of course, the details of the spectacular nature we’ll be exploring. Book now.
I’ll be in Tucson for the annual festival of books on Saturday and Sunday, March 15-16. Details at the link. Come join me!
I’ll be meeting virtually with the CalEPA Sustainability Interest Group CalEPA to discuss Total Garbage and share ways that we can all be less wasteful and more sustainable. I love how these professionals whose job is to protect the environment for all of us are also so passionate about trying to be green in their home lives. (Members only.)
I’ll be in conversation at the Chapman University campus in Orange, Calif., with students and Richelle Tanner, environmental researcher and storyteller. This “Total Garbage” discussion of what we all can do about our environmental crises, from plastic pollution to climate change, is free and open to the public. So please join us.
I’ll be discussing Total Garbage in a virtual meeting of the Climate Reality Project’s San Fernando Valley chapter. Find out more and register to join the conversation here.
Join me for a virtual conversation hosted by Sierra Club California about communities embracing solutions that can help save the planet—not by giving up things we love, but by upgrading to things we’ll love more. The even is free and open to anyone anywhere. Details and signup here.
A virtual interview about the power of reframing—and solving— our big environmental crises as symptoms of waste with IVY.
We’ll be discussing the enormous impact that reducing waste can have on climate and environment at this virtual meeting of Trilogy, a 55+ community in Redmond, Washington.
I’ll be speaking at the Chautauqua Women’s Club in upstate New York, kicking off the summer season at this 135-year-old center for literature, the arts, cultural enrichment and the exchange of new ideas. Details.
Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council will host a Total Garbage evening at its new Eco Hub . Register. Chaucer’s Books will have copies of Total Garbage available.
The Shakespeare Club in Pasadena, one of the oldest women’s clubs in the West, has invited me to speak about Total Garbage! Please note: This is a members only, private event.
We’ll be discussing fixing our waste at the online meeting of US Reduces. You can join the conversation and sign up for the US Reduces newsletter here. Come join as via Zoom at 4pm PT / 7pm ET.
I’ll be delivering a keynote address at the annual conference of the Maine Resource Recovery Association at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine.
I’ll be joining Laura Marston, owner of GoGo Refill zero-waste store in Portland, Maine, to discuss and sign Total Garbage. Details to come. Laura and her tips for wasting less are featured in the book.
Come celebrate Earth Day and join the conversation about Total Garbage at Seattle’s Elliot Bay Book Company, where I’ll share the stage with one of the game changers featured in the book, Ryan Metzger, CEO of Ridwell. C-SPAN will carry the conversation.
I’ll be on KING-5 TV’s Seattle morning show New Day Northwest talking about Total Garbage for Earth Day.
I’ll be discussing Total Garbage at the Earth Day meeting of the Palos Verdes Democrats at the Peninsula Center Library in Rolling Hills Estates.
I’ll be joining three other environmental authors— Rosanna Xia, Jeff Goodell, Dan Egan —and the LA Times’s climate columnist Sammy Roth at the LA Times Festival of Books , where we’ll discuss our very different yet related books on environmental crises and solutions. Come join us at the USC campus. Details and tickets here.
I’ll be joining Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley to talk trash—for real!—at one of the Pacific Northwest’s premiere books and conversations series, Northwest Passages in Spokane. Tickets for the event, hosted at Gonzaga University's Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, are available here.
Mandy Jackson-Beverly and I talk “Total Garbage” on her popular Bookshop Podcast.
Join me for the Los Angeles launch of Total Garbage at Diesel, a Book Store in Brentwood and a lively conversation with LA Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, author of the award-winning book, California Against the Sea. We’ll be signing books after. Seat reservation and preorder information here.
I’ll be at New York City’s 92nd Street Y’s Center for Culture and Arts discussing Total Garbage with Andrew Revkin, longtime New York Times environmental writer now running the Sustain What webcast. The “Trash Your Trash for Earth Day” virtual event starts at 7 pm ET (4 pm PT). Register here.
I’ll be on the True Crime panel at the San Diego Union-Tribute Festival of Books at the University of San Diego Saturday, August 19 to discuss The Forever Witness.
We’ll be discussing The Forever Witness and I’ll be signing copies at the monthly meeting of the American Association of University Women in Huntington Beach.
We’ll be discussing Garbology and sustainability in the lead-up to Earthday at the Chadwick School on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, California.
I’ll be discussing The Forever Witness at the Southern California Genealogical Society’s annual conference in Burbank, an in-person and virtual event. Details and registration here.
I’ll be a keynote speaker and in conversation about my book Garbology with students and faculty at the University of Minnesota-Morris for Self Sustain 2023.
I’ll be joining CeCe Moore at her annual conference in San Diego to discuss The Forever Witness. Details to come. Conference info here.
I’ll be meeting virtually with the Innocence Project of Texas Book Club for a conversation about Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t.
On Day 2 of the Tucson Festival of Books, we’ll be talking about the renaissance in cold case investigations created by the latest DNA magic, genetic genealogy, central to my new book, The Forever Witness. On the panel with me: true-crime authors Paul Holes and Daniel Stashower.
Join me for a true crime conversation, “Analyzing the Criminal Mind,” on Day 1 of the Tucson Festival of Books, where I’ll be discussing and signing The Forever Witness. With me on the panel: true-crime authors Kathleen Hale and Paul Holes.
