Book talk - Our Time: Finding hope in the climate crisis

Thu Apr 16 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm UTC+01:00

Edinburgh Climate Change Institute | Edinburgh

Edinburgh Earth Initiative
Publisher/HostEdinburgh Earth Initiative
Book talk - Our Time: Finding hope in the climate crisis
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Join Edinburgh alum and Professor of Geochemistry at Stockholm University, Alasdair Skelton, for a special event celebrating his new book.
About this Event

Join author Alasdair Skelton and former University writer-in-residence Tracey S. Rosenberg for a special event celebrating Alasdair's new book: Our Time: Finding Hope in a Climate Crisis.

Our Time is about a four-billion-year journey to a single moment in time, when one species gets to decide to protect all that it cherishes, or to stand by and watch as the climate crisis engulfs it all.

Alasdair Skelton is the storyteller. He is Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology at Stockholm University, where he was Director of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research for 9 years and completed his PhD at the Grant Institute, University of Edinbrugh from 1989 – 1992.

He tells this story as a geologist who was awoken to climate activism by the voices of his own students.

Copies will be available for purchasing at the event. If you can’t come, but would still like to read the book, it can be purchased from Bloomsbury UK.

Light refreshments willl be available.

https://takingontheclimatecrisis.substack.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alasdair-skelton/

https://alasdairskelton.com/


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Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, High School Yards, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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