For anyone feeling powerless and uncertain about our planet’s future, Healthy You/Healthy Earth, at the Library on Tuesday, November 27, at 7 p.m., is the program for you.
Author, researcher, and former UAlbany Professor Maia Boswell-Penc has a message of hope and empowerment, stressing self-care and environmental justice in the face of a changing climate. This talk will discuss the ways that you as an individual can have a positive effect on our climate.
Better Angels Info. Session
If any of the following situations sound familiar, then come to Depolarizing America: Better Angels Information Session, at theLibrary on Thursday, November 29, at 7 pm: Tired of walking on eggshells with your relatives on the other side of the political divide? Annoyed at being called a heartless bigot or an elitist snowflake? Wondering how on earth good, smart people can believe things that seem so wrong to you? And, do you want to do something about the polarization in our country, without giving up your own values and positions?
Then come learn about Better Angels, a national, grass-roots movement to detoxify and heal American political polarization. Its name derives from Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, just before the start of the Civil War. Find out what Better Angels offers, what its members are accomplishing locally and across the country, and how you can get involved.
Light refreshments will be provided. No registration; just come on in.