Join the UI’s Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative and Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert for a conversation on climate change, biodiversity loss, and the role of journalism in shaping public understanding of environmental issues.
Kolbert's latest book, Life on a Little Known Planet, was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and is a collection of urgent, thought-provoking essays exploring the climate crisis and the natural world. It chronicles her travels to endangered locations—from melting Greenland ice sheets to carbon-neutral Danish islands—and highlights scientists attempting to save species.
A public reception begins at 6 PM, follows by the program and book signing at 7 PM. This discussion will be moderated by Erin Jordan, associate professor of practice in the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication.