Fix or Nix: The Environment & Technology

Stewart Brand became one of America's best-known environmental thinkers when he started publishing the iconic Whole Earth Catalog in 1974. More recently, he's grabbed attention by arguing that environmentalists should rethink their positions on nuclear power, GMOs, and the geoengineering of the planet, ideas laid out in his recent book, Whole Earth Discipline. How can technology best be used to foster sustainability?

Journalist Mark Hertsgaard – the environment correspondent for The Nation and the author of six books, including the forthcoming Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth – will discuss that question and others at what promises to be a provocative dialogue. Book-signing to follow.