The Rockfall Foundation is hosting a presentation by author and
researcher, Joe Roman, featuring his most recent book, Listed: Dispatches from America’s
Endangered Species Act. on April 24, 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm at the deKoven House Community
Center . The evening will feature a talk, audience
conversation and informal reception.
Joe
Roman is a conservation biologist,
author, and researcher at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont . Dr. Roman came to the Gund
Institute as an Environmental Policy Fellow with the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and helped start an interdisciplinary program on
Biodiversity and Human Health at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He is
the author of the cultural history Whale (Reaktion 2006) as
well as Listed (Harvard University Press.) His science and nature
writing has appeared in The New York Times, New Scientist, Audubon,
Conservation, and other venues. His research has been covered by the
Associated Press, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The Washington
Post, and other outlets. More information can be found here.
Dr. Roman is also
“Editor in chef” for the website Eattheinvaders.org , “Fighting Invasive
Species One Bite at a Time,” which promotes ways to eradicate destructive
invasives from our local ecosystems while adding more diversity to our
diets: “This spring, instead of dressing your lawn with herbicides,
consider balsamic vinaigrette...” For more information www.eattheinvaders.org
Suggested donation: $20 per guest. For information:
Call Tony at (860)347-0340; or email tmarino@rockfallfoundation.org.
The deKoven House
Community Center is located at 27 Washington Street
in Middletown .
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