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Special Event: Reading and Booksigning Thursday, August 13, 7:30 p.m. Pre-Event: 5:30-7:30 p.m. - Join Howard Wilshire and CGF at Oak City Bar & Grill (across the street from Kepler's) for no- host drinks, appetizers, or dinner Eat, drink, and be generous! Oak City Bar and Grill will donate a percentage of pre-event proceeds to the Committee for Green Foothills. Oak City Bar & Grill Kepler's Books Click here to purchase from Kepler's online. Use this link or mention Committee for Green Foothills when purchasing any book from Kepler's, and Kepler's will donate 10% of your entire purchase to CGF! Bibliophilia has its rewards ... About The American West at RiskThe American West at Risk: Science Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery, speaks to rising public concerns over environmental calamities echoed in our national headlines, and offers ways to combat the damages. The text illuminates how the western United States has reached a state of resource depletion, along with extensive land, water and air pollution. Especially in the Western U.S., land misuses and overuses have created a serious crisis. This timely book is science-based, but explains in layman's language the convergent threats that the West, our country, and the world currently face. The authors address such current issues as America's fossil fuel depletion, increased greenhouse gas emissions, tightening water supply, the problems of expanding nuclear power plants, and the polluting effects of urban and industrial wastes, especially from military weapons development and testing. They also explain how misuse of the land has impaired the natural functions that once produced clean air and water with no energy or monetary costs, and have threatened or extinguished many native species, while enhancing the spread of pollution. Amazon’s board of editors selected The American West at Risk among its best books of 2008, and ranked it in the top 10 of its Outdoors and Nature category. Check it out: www.theamericanwestatrisk.com Howard Wilshire earned a BS degree in geology from the University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the U.S. Geological Survey as a research geologist after 5 years of teaching geology at Sydney University and research at the Australian National University. His 35-year USGS career included studies of processes operating in the earth's upper mantle and lower crust, and broad-ranging studies on geologic processes at the land surface, focused on environmental impacts of human activities in arid lands. A long-time member of the Committee for Green Foothills, Howard served as president of CGF during its 20th year. He is Board Chairman of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). |
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"The American West at Risk: Science, Myths and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery"