Book signing with Bracken Hendricks, author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
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When: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Building 35 (Sloan Laboratory), Room 225, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost: Free and open to the public
Online registration is closed but door registration is welcomed
"The kind of leadership that put men on the moon in 1969 is the kind of leadership we
need today to free ourselves from our fossil fuel dependency."
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Event Description:
Bracken Hendricks will be in Boston for a reading & signing of the book he co-authored with U.S. Representative Jay Inslee, “Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy” (Island Press). Following the reading will be a question and answer session and a book signing. This is also a great opportunity to come and hear about the work of the co-sponsoring environmental organizations.
Mr. Hendricks is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress and former executive director of the Apollo Alliance, an organization of environmental organizations, businesses, and labor organizations dedicated to building a new energy future for America. Mr. Hendricks formerly served as Special Assistant to the Office of Vice President Al Gore and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration where he worked on the Interagency Climate Change Working Group. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
This event is cosponsored by The Green Roundtable, Ceres, Boston Climate Action Network,
the Environmental Leadership Program, and The Union of Concerned Scientists.
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