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Author offers solutions to climate crisis

Tom Rand will be in Nelson on March 16 to discuss the treats and economic opportunities of climate change.
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Best-selling author Tom Rand will discuss global transformation to a low carbon economy.

Best-selling author and cleantech investor Tom Rand will give a public talk on the solutions to climate disruption at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson on March 16.

The first 100 people to arrive for the talk will receive a free copy of Rand’s latest book. Admission is $10 and all students will be admitted free. Tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre box office and website.

A local panel discussion and question period will follow Rand’s address which will start at 7 p.m.

Rand is the author of two books, Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit (2010) and most recently Waking the Frog: Solutions for Our Climate Change Paralysis which spent nine weeks on The Globe and Mail’s non-fiction best-seller list in 2014.

Rand’s appearance is being organized by the Nelson chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and is co-sponsored by the City of Nelson EcoSave Program, the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce, the West Kootenay EcoSociety, the Kootenay Country Store Co-operative, the Nelson and District Credit Union, the Nelson United Church, Selkirk College, the Nelson and Area Economic Development Partnership, and the Nelson Star. The Columbia Basin Trust provided additional funding for the event.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to have Tom Rand present his ideas to our community. He is a global thought leader with an extraordinary record of achievements in the promotion of a low carbon economy,” said Laura Sacks, who organized the local chapter.

“We are equally excited about the conversations that will ensue during the panel discussion and audience question part of the event.”

Rand holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, a masters in philosophy of science from the University of London/London School of Economics and a masters and PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Rand challenges his audiences to recognize concrete solutions to the climate change crisis. Rand believes we have yet to have a serious, public conversation about the threat of climate change, and the economic opportunities afforded by the global transformation to a low-carbon economy.