Kingsborough Eco-Festival 2012. “Our Earth Community: What is My Role?”

How do the ways we live impact our planet and other species? What choices can we make to preserve, conserve, and sustain our earth community? What kinds of new communities can we form to bring about positive environmental change?

Our planet is made up of many communities, from marine and forest ecosystems to human habitats like villages and cities. Together, these diverse communities make up Planet Earth. Our global human population has grown exponentially, from two billion in 1850 to seven billion today, with grave implications for the capacity of earth to sustain our ways of living on it.

On April 26, Kingsborough is honored to present two speakers who are pioneers and active leaders in protecting our earth community, Bill McKibben and Erich Pica. McKibben is the author of many books, from The End of Nature (1989), the first major book on what was then called the “Greenhouse Effect,” to Deep Economy (2007) and Eaarth (2011). Called by Time Magazine “the planet’s best green journalist,” he is also the creator of 350.org, “a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis.” Pica is president of Friends of the Earth, an environmental advocacy organization. Named by Washington Life Magazine as one of Washington’s “green city leaders,” he is a nationally recognized expert on energy subsidies who for more than a decade has worked to reform U.S. tax and budget policy in ways that reduce pollution and spark a transition to clean energy.

Other highlights of the festival will include faculty and student workshops and panels; our popular Green Trade Fair with exhibits and music; tours of Kingsborough’s Urban Farm; a teach-in on food and the environment; Camp PERRT; and an Afternoon of the Arts that includes a film festival and Eco-Café, a night of music, fashion, and poetry by students. Please join us for this exciting festival!

All events are free and open to the public.