About this Event
Come join us for an educational event on food and the climate crisis with Mark J Easter in conversation with Lisa Gardiner on October 8th, 2024 at 6PM.
Registration includes a signed copy of the book and an opportunity to meet the author.
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Do you really know what’s for dinner? The Blue Plate is the perfect dinner companion for food lovers who also care about the planet.
Ecologist Mark Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth. Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party, including seafood, salad, bread, chicken, steak, potatoes, and fruit pie with ice cream, each chapter examines the food through the lens of the climate crisis. Not a cookbook, but instead, gathered like guests around the table, you will find the stories of these foods: the soil that grew the lettuce, the farmers and ranchers and orchardists who steward the land, the dairy and farm workers and grocers who labor to bring it to the table. Each chapter reveals the causes and effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the social and environmental impact of out-of-season and far-from-home demand.
What can you do to eat more sustainably? Food lovers everywhere will be happy to know that the answer is not necessarily a plant-based diet. For each food group, Easter offers not recipes but low-carbon, in-season alternatives that make your favorite foods not only more sustainable but also more delicious.
The first step, however, is an understanding of how food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped. In stories both personal and entertaining, the author offers a full understanding of what’s for dinner.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark J. Easter is an ecologist and author of The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos (Patagonia, 2024). He has conducted research in academia and private industry since 1988 and has authored and co-authored more than 50 scientific papers and reports related to carbon cycling and the carbon footprint of agriculture, forestry, and other land uses. He contributed analyses to multiple reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and in 2018, was named a fellow of the Colorado State University School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Besides his scientific work, Easter co-founded the organization Save The Poudre and is a founding board member of the organization “Save the Colorado.” He works with these organizations to help restore rivers to healthy conditions and protect rivers from water development.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Lisa S. Gardiner is a writer, geoscientist, and educator. She is the author of the award-winning book, Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change and her writing has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, Science Friday, and other publications. Her second nonfiction book, Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival, will be published in spring 2025 by Princeton University Press.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tattered Cover Colfax, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, United States
USD 36.44 to USD 47.87
