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Renowned environmental reporter Elizabeth Kolbert will separate fact from fiction in Mountain View next week.

Renowned environmental reporter Elizabeth Kolbert is coming to Mountain View next week.

Kolbert, a former staff writer for The New York Times, will lecture on lessons learned from her tireless reportage on climate change, focusing on what can be done to save the planet. She is the final speaker in the 2012 Wallace Stegner Lecture series hosted by Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST).

The lecture will detail parallels between modern society and lost civilizations, and break apart the real science behind global warming from the politics that mask public understanding of it. She will also offer practical tips that individuals can use to affect change on a local level.

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Kolbert trekked across the Arctic and spent countless hours with top scientists and policymakers before writing a three-part series in The New Yorker that led to her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change. She won the prestigious Heinz Award in 2010 for highlighting the human and natural causes of global climate change. Her work has also appeared in National Geographic and Mother Jones.

The annual Wallace Stegner Lectures feature writers, artists and thinkers who explore important issues related to land, nature and conservation, according to POST. This is the 19th year for the series, which pays tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Peninsula resident Wallace Stegner.

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The lecture series is sponsored by Jean Lane and Embarcadero Media, and the evening’s event is sponsored by Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo and Pie Ranch.

Proceeds from the lectures help to fund POST’s work protecting open space and parkland in and around Silicon Valley.

The lecture takes place Monday, May 14, and tickets are available here or by calling (650) 903-6000 Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 6:00 p.m.


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