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Author Talk with Mike Tidwell

Celebrating Arbor Day in Bexley

Tidwell shares his journey into the ethical and scientific questions surrounding geoengineering as a potential last resort to protect the world’s forests.

In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC. Written as a love letter to the magnificent oaks and other trees dying from record heat waves and bizarre rain, Tidwell’s story depicts the neighborhood’s battle to save the trees and combat climate change.

In this talk, Tidwell shares their story—along with his personal journey into the ethical and scientific questions surrounding geoengineering as a potential last resort to protect the world’s forests. His book, The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue, serves as both a love letter to the oaks that inspired him and a call to action amid the growing crisis of heat, drought, and disappearing green canopies.

Mike Tidwell is a writer and climate change activist. His previous six books include Bayou Farewell about the disappearing wetlands and Cajun culture in south Louisiana. As a contributing travel writer for The Washington Post, Tidwell has won four Lowell Thomas Awards, the highest prize in American travel journalism. In 2002 he founded the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and still serves as executive director, where he has led local, state, and national campaigns for clean energy.

This program is presented in partnership with Rooted In Bexley and the Bexley Arbor Day Celebrations Committee.

Library Parking & Entrance Information:

While the library's main entrance is under construction, we remain open. Clear signage will guide visitors to a temporary, fully accessible entrance via a ramp in the southeast alley, leading to the dock entrance.

The library parking lot also remains open, with temporary entry and exit available via Euclaire Avenue only. Parking may be limited, so we encourage you to arrive early and use street parking on Euclaire, Mound, and other nearby streets.

For more information about the Outdoor Reading Room project, visit www.BexleyLibrary.org/ORR.

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