Climate Change Speech/Book Signing with Author Devi Lockwood - Alvernia University

Climate Change Speech/Book Signing with Author Devi Lockwood | Alvernia University

Given the urgent nature of climate change, now is an opportune moment to engage in a meaningful and timely discussion about its implications. Alvernia University is excited to be able to provide students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community with an opportunity to hear from Devi Lockwood, the author of "1,001 Voices on Climate Change," to campus for a speech and book signing sponsored by Berks Nature and Alvernia's First Year Program.

Lockwood will speak at 2 p.m. at the Alvernia PLEX, 465 Saint Bernardine St. She will sign books until 4 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Parking will be available at the PLEX and surrounding campus buildings. Free registration is required.

In "1,001 Voices on Climate Change," Lockwood travels the world, often by bicycle, collecting first-person accounts of climate change. She frequently carried with her a simple cardboard sign reading, “Tell me a story about climate change.” From the book description:

"She talks to Indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the U.N. climate conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. She rides through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to listen to marionette puppeteers and novice Buddhist monks. From Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Arctic, and the Peruvian Amazon, she finds that ordinary people sharing their stories does far more to advance understanding and empathy than even the most alarming statistics and studies. This book is a hopeful global listening tour for climate change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed the future to help us avoid the worst."