Author Talk: Reclaiming Your Community and Bright Green Future with Majora Carter and Trevor Decker Cohen

Join us for a Green Series author talk and conversation with Majora Carter, author of Reclaiming Your Community and Trevor Decker Cohen, author of Bright Green Future. 

Registration is required. Masks are highly encouraged in Greenpoint library. 

Majora  Carter is a MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award winning broadcaster, and has 7 honorary PhDs in addition to accolades from organizations as diverse as the Center for American Progress, News Corp, the Eleanor Roosevelt Society, Goldman Sachs, BusinessInsider, and the Municipal Arts Society among many many others.

She has served on the Boards of the US Green Building Council, The Andrew Goodman Foundation, Solar One, and The Wilderness Society.

She is quoted on the Walls of Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: “You don’t have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one.” which is also the subtitle of her new book, Reclaiming Your Community. 

She is a real estate developer & consultant who still lives in the South Bronx neighborhood where she grew up and is also the owner of the Boogie Down Grind – which was named Best Cafe in NYC by TimeOut NY and won an AlFresco NY Award for excellence in outdoor seating in 2021.

Trevor Decker Cohen is an environmental author who travels the country to chronicle a renaissance in sustainability. His book Bright Green Future brings together wisdom and practical examples that can help anyone envision what a fully sustainable society might look like. Readers will learn what symbiotic relationships can teach us about switching to renewables, how ecosystems can guide the next industrial revolution, and how the hidden genius of rainforests and prairies can help us grow food in a warming world.

Our partner WORD bookstore will sell books at this event.