NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 26.
PORT TOWNSEND — A salon with Eileen Quigley, deputy director of Climate Solutions of Seattle, will begin at 1:45 p.m. today at Port Townsend High School as one of the final activities of the monthlong Community Read program.
“Climate Solutions: The Path to a Clean Energy Future” will be in the auditorium at the high school at 1500 Van Ness St.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is this year’s selection for the Community Read program sponsored by the Port Townsend Library.
The 466-page book by Canadian author Naomi Klein examines the question of whether climate change can be reversed without a shift from capitalism.
In Community Read programs, everyone in East Jefferson County is invited to read one book and participate in discussions and activities.
Quigley is a print journalist and nonprofit manager who speaks and blogs about how the Northwest is accelerating the clean energy economy, according to the group’s website at www.climatesolutions.org.
She co-authored Powering the New Energy Future from the Ground Up: Priorities in City-Led Energy Innovation, a report on 34 American cities with fewer than 250,000 residents that are reducing their dependence upon fossil fuels for energy.
She also co-authored Natural Infrastructure: A Climate-Smart Solution and edits and contributes to “ClimateCast,” Climate Solutions’ weekly roundup of the climate and clean energy news.
Discussion group
Also coming up is the last discussion group of the month.
The discussion at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave, Port Hadlock, will be from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
It will deal with the last half of Klein’s book.
Throughout the month, “Radical Change: A Juried Art Show” is on display at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
Taming Bigfoot
On the last day of the month — next Thursday — will be “Taming Bigfoot and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint” at 7 p.m. in the Carnegie Reading Room at the library at 1220 Lawrence St., Port Townsend.
Bob Bindschadler, retired NASA glaciologist, will discuss the contest organized by the Local 20/20 Climate Change Outreach Group, which is connected to the Climate Action Committee formed by the city of Port Townsend and Jefferson County to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a point that is 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
In the contest, which began Jan. 11, teams compete to see how much they can reduce their carbon footprints.
The competition will end April 14. Announcements of prize winners is planned for Earth Day on April 22.
For more information, go to http://tinyurl.com/PDN-Taming.
Klein, 45, is a journalist, syndicated columnist and author of New York Times and international best-seller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Her first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was also an international best-seller.
Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone and writes a syndicated column for The Nation and The Guardian.
She is a member of the board of directors of 350.org, a global climate change movement; a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute; and a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics.
For more information, phone the library at 360-385-3181 or see www.ptpubliclibrary.org.
