BOONE — Businessman, environmentalist and self-taught science journalist Dave Harman will speak to the congregation at Boone Unitarian Universalist Fellowship about climate change on Sunday, Jan. 22 during 11 a.m. service.Â
Harman's discussion on environmentalism, entitled "Climate Change: The Big Picture" will include his focus on establishing environmental nonprofits and helping organized protests and demonstrations.Â
Harmon co-authored with Dr. Harvard Ayers of Arctic Gardens - Voices from an Abundant Land (2010), a non-fiction book and Train Wreck Earth (2017), a scientific novel and is currently on the boards of Blue Ridge Conservancy and the Watauga County Community Foundation.
Harmon has protested various energy projects, traveled to the Arctic to observe climate change, organized students to attend the Peoples Climate March in 2014, lobbied and testified on energy and climate policy on the state and federal level and "tells anyone who will listen about climate change and its consequences."
A coffee hour prior to service will begin at 10:30 a.m. For more information, visit www.buuf.net.
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