BRATTLEBORO — On Friday, Feb. 10, from 5 to 6 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Festival will host U.K. author and environmentalist Fred Pearce to discuss his book, A Trillion Trees: Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature.
Pearce’s new book is a guide through spectacular forests around the world. Along the way, he charts the extraordinary pace of forest destruction, and explores why some are beginning to recover.
“With vivid, observant reporting,” states a news release, “Pearce transports readers to the remote cloud forests of Ecuador, the remains of a forest civilization in Nigeria, a mystifying mountain peak in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and the boreal forests of western Canada and the United States, where devastating wildfires are linked to suppressing the natural fire cycles of forests and the maintenance practices of Indigenous peoples.”
Pearce is a veteran author and journalist based in the U.K. who has reported from more than 80 countries. A former environmental consultant for New Scientist, he is a regular writer for Yale Environment 360 and contributing writer for many other publications, including The Guardian and The Washington Post. He is also the author of numerous books, including A Trillion Trees, When the Rivers Run Dry, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, and The Land Grabbers.
He will be in conversation with area filmmaker Lisa Merton. Merton has been collaborating with filmmaker Alan Dater at Marlboro Productions since 1988. Their award-winning films focus on the arts, social issues, and education, including two on subjects mentioned in Pearce’s book, Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai about the Green Belt Movement of Kenya, and Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?
Join the conversation online at bit.ly/701-pearce.