Climate Optimism with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Frenchman Bay Conservancy is excited to host climate activist, marine biologist, educator, and New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson for an evening of Climate Optimism!
Join Frenchman Bay Conservancy, in partnership with Rêve En Vert, at Swan Song Saltwater Farm for a live podcast discussion of Dr. Johnson’s bestselling book, What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures. Reve en Vert co-founder and FBC board member, Cora Hilts, will welcome us to a taping of her inspirational podcast on sustainable living, REV On Air. This live podcast will be available for streaming on the Rêve En Vert podcast, REV On Air. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music!
The live podcast taping will be followed by a cocktail hour featuring a soft bar and a book signing with Dr. Johnson.
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Tickets: Tickets are required for this event. A copy of Dr. Johnson’s book, What If We Get It Right?, soft bar cocktail hour, meet & greet with Dr. Johnson, and a book signing are included with the purchase of a ticket.
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Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
About the Author
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. She is co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. Ayana authored The New York Times bestseller What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, work that is carried on with her newsletter and podcast of the same name. Previously, she co-edited the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, co-created and co-hosted the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet, and co-authored the Blue New Deal, a roadmap for including the ocean in climate policy. Ayana earned a BA in environmental science and public policy from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She serves on the board of directors for Patagonia and GreenWave, on the advisory board of Environmental Voter Project, and is a recipient of the Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Communication and the TIME Earth Award. Above all: Ayana is in love with climate solutions.
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
About the book: Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This is a provocative and joyous collection of clear-eyed essays, 20 vibrant interviews, data, poetry, and art that map an inspiring landscape of solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. The book conjures a transformed, replenished, and loving world—and shows us that it is worth the effort, the overhaul, to get there, together.