Nov 24, 2024 10:30 AM —  12:00 PM Fragile Blue Dot | Ross West | Weekly Sunday Gathering —  The Montrose Center 401 Branard St #106, Houston, TX 77006

Community Moment: None

Music : Hank Woji

Main Talk Description:

The speaker will talk about his book "Fragile Blue Dot". Here is a book description:

Climate change, food insecurity, carbon footprints, environmental justice, global warming-questions of staggering consequence that inflame emotions, generate fierce debate, and resist quick fixes and easy answers.West tackles these complicated issues through fifteen timely and thought-provoking tales that explore how the problem affects everyone-from businesses and industry to workers, families, and endangered species-in big and small ways. 

Although there are no simple or convenient solutions, The Fragile Blue Dot-Stories from Our Imperiled Biosphere presents compelling narratives for change that will stay with you long after you've read the final page.

Main Speaker Bio :

Ross West has placed fiction, essays, journalism, and poetry in publications from Orion to the Journal of Recreational Linguistics. His work has been anthologized in Best Essays Northwest, Best of Dark Horse Presents and elsewhere. For nine years he was the Science Writer for the University of Oregon and edited the university’s research publication, Inquiry, then served for a decade as senior managing editor at Oregon Quarterly. He was text editor for the Atlas of Oregon (2001) and the Atlas of Yellowstone (2012 and 2021 editions).

Musician Bio:

A self-described ‘Jersey Shore Ex-Pat turned West Texas Desert Rat’, Hank cut his musical teeth as a bassist in the vibrant Asbury Park, NJ music scene of the 1980s & 90s. In Spring 2001 Hank moved to Houston, TX, and found his new musical voice as a Singer Songwriter, but it was his chance move, in 2009, to the far West Texas desert town of Terlingua, that has most reshaped his life and his music. Critics have described Hank’s music as “acoustic-wielding, sharply observed, Americana all the way” and being “in the best tradition of the Texas troubadours like Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt and Butch Hancock.” His new CD “Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams” debuted in Sept. 2023 at #5 on the EuroAmericana chart and #3 on the FAI Folk chart. Over his 40+ year music career, Hank has performed with such notable artists as: David Amram, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger. A proud union member of AFM Local 1000, he’s based in Terlingua, TX and tours nationally.

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