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Chris Turner - The Geography of Hope
Sunday, October 26, 7:00 p.m.
Canmore Senior’s Drop-in Centre, Townside Hall
Free Admission. Free Coffee. Free Inspiration.
Join Calgary author Chris Turner for an inspiring, entertaining slide show and talk on his award-winning new book, The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World we Need. An internationally-acclaimed journalist, Turner spent a year “living optimistically,” as he travelled the world in search of examples of sustainable living. What he found considerably exceeded his expectations, a world of abundance and well-being that “is already here, just waiting for us.” Chris appears as the first speaker in the Biosphere Institute’s fall Sustainability Speaker’s Series.
Chris is a wonderful writer and presenter, and his most recent book gives all of us who are concerned about our planet’s (let alone our community’s) sustainability genuine hope for the future.
Some of you might remember Chris as a former Canmore resident. His first book, Planet Simpson, was written here, and he was married at the Seniors Drop-in Centre, on the coldest day of November, 2006. Please help us welcome him back to the valley!
While most of the world has been spinning in stagnant circles of recrimination and debate on the subject of climate change, paralyzed by visions of apocalypse both natural (if nothing of our way of life changes) and economic (if too much does), Denmark has simply marched off with steadfast resolve into the sustainable future, reaching the zenith of its pioneering trek on the island of Samsø. And so if there’s an encircled star on this patchwork map indicating hope’s modest capital, then it should be properly placed on this island. Perhaps, for the sake of precision, at the geographic centre of Jørgen Tranberg’s dairy farm.
There are, I’m sure, any number of images called to mind by talk of ecological revolution and renewable energy and sustainable living, but I’m pretty certain they don’t generally include a hearty fiftysomething Dane in rubber boots spotted with mud and cow shit. Which is why Samsø’s transformation is not just revolutionary but inspiring, not just a huge change but a tantalizingly attainable one. And it was a change that seemed at its most workaday–near- effortless, no more remarkable than the cool October wind gusting across the island–down on Tranberg’s farm.
—from The Geography of Hope
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