Speaker: Jonathan Mingle

Speaker: Jonathan Mingle

Climate Policy under a 2nd Trump Presidency

Tuesday, 1/21/2025
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

 

Virtual Library

Zoom Registration

EnvironmentalCenter@sfpl.org

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The Trump campaign has signaled its plans to undo key federal environmental regulations and roll back Biden-era clean energy and climate policies. Journalist Jonathan Mingle will discuss his reporting on the first Trump administration's dramatic impacts on environmental policy, and on the fossil fuel industry and conservative groups that are now pushing a second Trump administration to go even farther in dismantling the administrative state. He will also discuss what these sweeping changes might portend for communities hit hardest by pollution and future climate change-driven weather disasters. Q&A to follow his remarks.

Jonathan Mingle is an independent journalist based in Vermont. His reporting and writing on the science and politics of climate change, the energy transition, health and technology has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Yale Environment 360, Undark Magazine, Slate, and other outlets. He is a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. He is the author of two nonfiction books: Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World (2015) and Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future (2024).

Connect with Jonathan

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This program is organized by the library's Environmental Center and Government Information Center. See listing on the master event calendar.

Upcoming Programs in the Environmental Center

We've got back-to-back programs this month that are crossover events with the Stegner Environmental Center and the Magazines and Newspapers Center, both in-person at the Main Library here in Civic Center. We hope you can join us! 

 

Speaker: Alejandro Lazo of CalMatters

Tuesday, 10/29/2024
5:30 - 6:30

Environmental Center Exhibit Space - 5th Fl

Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA94102

Local journalist Alejandro Lazo will speak about CA environmental issues, from his view at the nonprofit news site CalMatters. The site description says CalMatters "[brings] Californians stories that probe, explain and explore solutions to quality of life issues while holding our leaders accountable." Short Q&A to follow his remarks.

As we head towards Election Day, bring your questions about environmental issues and how they intersect with the ballot.

See event listing on the SFPL master calendar.

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Author: Rosanna Xia in conversation with Tyrone Jue

Los Angeles Times Journalist in conversation 

with Director of SF Environment

Wednesday, 10/30/2024
6:00 - 7:00

Environmental Center Exhibit Space - 5th Fl

Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA94102

 

Author Rosanna Xia will discuss stories from her book California Against the Sea (Heyday Books, out now in paperback). In this compelling book, voices of Indigenous leaders, community activists, small-town mayors, urban engineers, and environmental scientists discuss what responses we need for rising ocean levels along our state. Rosanna Xia is an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Tyrone Jue is Director of SF Environment. He leads the City’s efforts to advance climate action, environmental justice, and sustainability policies. He grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood witnessing firsthand the environmental challenges faced by underserved communities, leading to a career in public service.

Local store Dog Eared Books will be available to sell copies of the title at this event.

An RSVP is appreciated, but not required. Please write to EnvironmentalCenter@sfpl.org 

See event listing on the SFPL master calendar.

 

Available at the library’s Environmental Center: Emergence Magazine

Editor's note: this guest post is authored by Gregory Hom, Program Manager of the Environmental Center.  

Hi Magazines and Newspapers Center blog readers: I’m the manager of the library’s 5th floor Environmental Center. I’m thankful to be able to do this guest post on a physically beautiful magazine with great content: Emergence Magazine. 

Emergence has a lovely website you can enjoy on your computer or phone, but they also put out an annual print magazine. Below are the covers for the 2022 and 2023 issues. 2024's issue should arrive at the library relatively soon. 

Volume 4 (2023) of Emergence Magazine: Shifting Landscapes

Volume 3 (2022) of Emergence Magazine: Living with the Unknown

Spectacular photography and visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction pieces, and interviews are all part of the mix. With one issue per year, you’ll want to spend your time with these almost 300-page collections.

Some of the things I read today while preparing for this post: An interview with author Amitav Ghosh looking at issues of colonialism and violence against land and peoples. An interview with scientist Suzanne Simard on her work in forests and the concept of the Mother Tree. Thoughts on economics and ecology with Robin Wall Kimmerer, which will make you want to read her book The Serviceberry, coming out later this year in November. 

These reference volumes are kept in the Environmental Center, either on display or in the Reference Section. I do hope you’ll come by and check them out. The ideas in these 2022 and 2023 volumes are still fresh, relevant, and nurturing.