I’ll be in conversation at the Chapman University campus in Orange, Calif., with students and Richelle Tanner, environmental researcher and storyteller. This “Total Garbage” discussion of what we all can do about our environmental crises, from plastic pollution to climate change, is free and open to the public. So please join us.

I’ll be discussing Total Garbage in a virtual meeting of the Climate Reality Project’s San Fernando Valley chapter. Find out more and register to join the conversation here.

Join me for a virtual conversation hosted by Sierra Club California about communities embracing solutions that can help save the planet—not by giving up things we love, but by upgrading to things we’ll love more. The even is free and open to anyone anywhere. Details and signup here.

A virtual interview about the power of reframing—and solving— our big environmental crises as symptoms of waste with IVY.

We’ll be discussing the enormous impact that reducing waste can have on climate and environment at this virtual meeting of Trilogy, a 55+ community in Redmond, Washington.

I’ll be speaking at the Chautauqua Women’s Club in upstate New York, kicking off the summer season at this 135-year-old center for literature, the arts, cultural enrichment and the exchange of new ideas. Details.

Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council will host a Total Garbage evening at its new Eco Hub . Register. Chaucer’s Books will have copies of Total Garbage available.

The Shakespeare Club in Pasadena, one of the oldest women’s clubs in the West, has invited me to speak about Total Garbage! Please note: This is a members only, private event.

We’ll be discussing fixing our waste at the online meeting of US Reduces. You can join the conversation and sign up for the US Reduces newsletter here. Come join as via Zoom at 4pm PT / 7pm ET.

I’ll be delivering a keynote address at the annual conference of the Maine Resource Recovery Association at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine.

I’ll be joining Laura Marston, owner of GoGo Refill zero-waste store in Portland, Maine, to discuss and sign Total Garbage. Details to come. Laura and her tips for wasting less are featured in the book.

Come celebrate Earth Day and join the conversation about Total Garbage at Seattle’s Elliot Bay Book Company, where I’ll share the stage with one of the game changers featured in the book, Ryan Metzger, CEO of Ridwell. C-SPAN will carry the conversation.

I’ll be on KING-5 TV’s Seattle morning show New Day Northwest talking about Total Garbage for Earth Day.

I’ll be discussing Total Garbage at the Earth Day meeting of the Palos Verdes Democrats at the Peninsula Center Library in Rolling Hills Estates.

I’ll be joining three other environmental authors— Rosanna Xia, Jeff Goodell, Dan Egan —and the LA Times’s climate columnist Sammy Roth at the LA Times Festival of Books , where we’ll discuss our very different yet related books on environmental crises and solutions. Come join us at the USC campus. Details and tickets here. 

I’ll be joining Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley to talk trash—for real!—at one of the Pacific Northwest’s premiere books and conversations series, Northwest Passages in Spokane. Tickets for the event, hosted at Gonzaga University's Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, are available here.

Join me for the Los Angeles launch of Total Garbage at Diesel, a Book Store in Brentwood and a lively conversation with LA Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, author of the award-winning book, California Against the Sea. We’ll be signing books after. Seat reservation and preorder information here.

I’ll be at New York City’s 92nd Street Y’s Center for Culture and Arts discussing Total Garbage with Andrew Revkin, longtime New York Times environmental writer now running the Sustain What webcast. The “Trash Your Trash for Earth Day” virtual event starts at 7 pm ET (4 pm PT). Register here.

Join me, National Book Award winner Tess Gunty, and our host, writer, actress, author and commentator Sandra Tsing Loh at Bookish. Register for this virtual conversation at the Southern California Newsgroup. .