Be the Change with Tim Ward and Tzeporah Berman

Hosted by Stephen Brockwell

In Person Big Ideas

Admission

Free

Saturday

Oct , 2012

8:30pm

Eastern

Knox Presbyterian Church

120 Lisgar st. (at Elgin) • Ottawa

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Be the Change with Tim Ward and Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman is one of the few people with the insight, experience and guts to show us a way forward that actually might work. (It) blends hard-won practical tips on how to build a mass movement for change with deeply moving stories of Berman’s own successes and failures in the high-stakes world of international environmental campaigning.

Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down

From caring for the environment to being a good neighbour, there seems to be a huge gulf between what we say is important to us and the choices we make in our lives. If we are really as concerned about the environment as the polls suggest, what will it take for us to change the way we live our lives?

Tim Ward, the acclaimed author of What the Buddha Never Taught, returns to the Festival with Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds. It follows a journey with his son to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, where they traverse the treacherous terrain of fatherhood, divorce, dark secrets and old grudges, and forge an authentic adult relationship. The mountain too has a story to tell, a story about climate change and the future of humankind – a future etched all too clearly on Kilimanjaro’s retreating glaciers.

Written by Tzeporah Berman, co-founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, and the former Greenpeace International Climate and Energy Co-Director, This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge has been described as the No Logo of the NEW environmental movement, an essential must-read that combines Bill Bryson's personable style and humour with Naomi Klein's hard-hitting activism and research.

Join us for a conversation on the gap between what we believe and how we live.

The Authors

Tim Ward

Tim Ward is an author, publisher, teacher, and traveler. He has written five books about his travels through Thailand, India, China, Tibet, Greece and Southern Europe, and most recently East Africa. His stories have appeared in 13 anthologies, including Traveler’s Tales Best Travel Writing 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Tim is also the publisher of Changemakers Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, dedicated to books on personal and global transformation. Together with John Hunt, Tim wrote The Author’s Guide to Publishing and Marketing, a book to help new authors succeed. Tim also co-owns a global training business, Intermedia Communications Training, with his wife and business partner, Teresa Erickson. They teach scientists, economists and development experts how to communicate effectively. They live in Maryland, where Tim spends his spare time kayaking in the Potomac and planning his next mountain trek. Read Tim’s interview about his adventure to Kilimanjaro with his son Josh.

Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman is a founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, and is currently Greenpeace International Climate and Energy Co-Director. She has been designing and managing environmental campaigns for the past eighteen years. She is known for her role in coordinating the largest civil disobedience in Canada’s history, the logging blockades in the rainforests of Clayoquot Sound in 1993, during which she was arrested and charged with 857 counts of criminal aiding and abetting. She is also known for her work in creating unlikely alliances with the logging industry and major paper and wood consumers that have resulted in the permanent protection of millions of acres of old-growth forests. She was one of the experts in Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary, The 11th Hour. The Royal BC Museum has included her in a permanent exhibition as one of the 150 people who have changed BC’s history. She has been lauded as “Canada’s Queen of Green” in a cover story in Reader’s Digest and was recognized by the Utne Reader as one of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge is her latest book.