Erica Cirino Presents Turning the Tide on Plastic Pollution: Setbacks and Solutions

Live from the Boathouse!
Erica Cirino presents Turning the Tide on Plastic Pollution: Setbacks and Solutions 
6:00 – 7:00 pm
Members: FREE (please use the ticket reservation link to reserve your spot)
Non-Members: $5.00

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Millions of tons of plastic waste flows into the ocean every year, with disastrous consequences for all life on the planet. This growing crisis will not subside until real, lasting changes are made to the ways plastics are used. Join writer, artist, and author Erica Cirino for a talk exploring how plastic pollution harms our waters and communities. Her experience as a climate journalist has given her a world-wide perspective on the climate crisis and has led her to uncover strategies that can help prevent plastic from causing further devastation to our planet and its inhabitants.

Erica Cirino is the Communications Manager of Plastic Pollution Coalition and has spent the last decade exploring the intersection of the human and natural worlds. Erica is best known for her widely published photojournalistic works that cut through misinformation to deliver the often shocking and difficult truths about plastic—the most ubiquitous and insidious man-made material on Earth. In her award-winning book, Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis (Island Press, 2021), she documents plastic across ecosystems and elements; shares stories from the primarily Black, Brown, Indigenous and rural communities that are disproportionately harmed by industrial pollution and injustice globally. Erica holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a Minor in Environmental Humanities and a Master of Science in Journalism degree from Stony Brook University.

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Save the Date!
Don’t miss any of our Fall Live at the Boathouse! lectures:

• October 19, 2023: Beth Caruso presents Conjuring Fear: The Legacy of the Connecticut Witch Trials
• December 13, 2023: Connecticut River Gateway Commission presents Legacies of Preservation: A Panel Discussion with the Gateway Commission

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