Solving the Climate Crisis - April 27, 2010, in Brookline, MA

Attended by close to 50 people, mostly Brookline residents and Boston College students, "Solving Climate Change" produced a thoughtful evening with From Greed to Green author Charlie Derber, BC doctoral student, Mike Cermack and Paul Shannon leading the conversation. The discussion period explored different strategies for change and considered green jobs, socially responsible investing, social movements and available political choices. These photos were taken with a phone camera... so please excuse the blurriness.

Charlie Derber connecting winner-take-all capitalism with environmental destruction and wars to secure fossil fuels.

Systemic crises are necessary consequences of the way we structure our economy and they cannot be avoided as long as we keep the same economic relationships.

College students made up about a third of the attendees.

Mike Cermak demonstrates how effective local organizing can connect young people with the green agenda by addressing real community problems. His slide presentation included a statement by a young person, "Bury Seeds, Not Bodies!"

Meeting