Join us on Wednesday, September 4 when we welcome Eve Driver for the release of her book, co-authored by Tom Osborn, What We Can't Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future, at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
https://youtube.com/live/X3A6I5eFAnQ
Praise for What We Can't Burn
"Few things I've ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight: how we need to do many things, at the same time, and without stumbling over each other!" - BILL McKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature; founder of Third Act
"This book is essential reading - it gives us an important opportunity to understand the way to catalyze the change we need to make the world a better place." - KENNEDY ODEDE, TIME100 Most Influential People of 2024; New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid
"A powerful reminder that no one changes the world alone." - MICHELLE NIJHUIS, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
About What We Can't Burn
When they met as juniors in college, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid their college's fossil fuel divestment campaign -- which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds. The result is a poignant story of coming of age in a generation divided about how to save itself, and a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.
About the Authors
Eve Driver is a writer and strategist. Her essays and reporting have been published in Grist, Quartz, the Tusculum Review, Harvard Magazine, and Mongabay, and she has worked as a journalist in Nairobi, a strategy consultant in New York, and a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy. She is working on a collection of poetry.
Tom Osborn is a community-oriented entrepreneur and co-founder of the Shamiri Institute--a public benefit organization that develops and scales mental healthcare to young people across Africa. He is a 2021 TED Fellow and global Forbes' 30 under 30 social entrepreneur and has won numerous national and international awards for his work, including World Deliver Social Entrepreneur of the year in 2016, the Donors' Circle for Africa Energy Prize, and many others. Africa Youth Awards named him as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans. Born and raised in rural Kenya, he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's in psychology. He lives in Nairobi.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
https://youtube.com/live/X3A6I5eFAnQ
Praise for What We Can't Burn
"Few things I've ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight: how we need to do many things, at the same time, and without stumbling over each other!" - BILL McKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature; founder of Third Act
"This book is essential reading - it gives us an important opportunity to understand the way to catalyze the change we need to make the world a better place." - KENNEDY ODEDE, TIME100 Most Influential People of 2024; New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid
"A powerful reminder that no one changes the world alone." - MICHELLE NIJHUIS, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
About What We Can't Burn
When they met as juniors in college, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid their college's fossil fuel divestment campaign -- which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds. The result is a poignant story of coming of age in a generation divided about how to save itself, and a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.
About the Authors
Eve Driver is a writer and strategist. Her essays and reporting have been published in Grist, Quartz, the Tusculum Review, Harvard Magazine, and Mongabay, and she has worked as a journalist in Nairobi, a strategy consultant in New York, and a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy. She is working on a collection of poetry.
Tom Osborn is a community-oriented entrepreneur and co-founder of the Shamiri Institute--a public benefit organization that develops and scales mental healthcare to young people across Africa. He is a 2021 TED Fellow and global Forbes' 30 under 30 social entrepreneur and has won numerous national and international awards for his work, including World Deliver Social Entrepreneur of the year in 2016, the Donors' Circle for Africa Energy Prize, and many others. Africa Youth Awards named him as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans. Born and raised in rural Kenya, he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's in psychology. He lives in Nairobi.
Join us on Wednesday, September 4 when we welcome Eve Driver for the release of her book, co-authored by Tom Osborn, What We Can't Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future, at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
https://youtube.com/live/X3A6I5eFAnQ
Praise for What We Can't Burn
"Few things I've ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight: how we need to do many things, at the same time, and without stumbling over each other!" - BILL McKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature; founder of Third Act
"This book is essential reading - it gives us an important opportunity to understand the way to catalyze the change we need to make the world a better place." - KENNEDY ODEDE, TIME100 Most Influential People of 2024; New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid
"A powerful reminder that no one changes the world alone." - MICHELLE NIJHUIS, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
About What We Can't Burn
When they met as juniors in college, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid their college's fossil fuel divestment campaign -- which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds. The result is a poignant story of coming of age in a generation divided about how to save itself, and a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.
About the Authors
Eve Driver is a writer and strategist. Her essays and reporting have been published in Grist, Quartz, the Tusculum Review, Harvard Magazine, and Mongabay, and she has worked as a journalist in Nairobi, a strategy consultant in New York, and a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy. She is working on a collection of poetry.
Tom Osborn is a community-oriented entrepreneur and co-founder of the Shamiri Institute--a public benefit organization that develops and scales mental healthcare to young people across Africa. He is a 2021 TED Fellow and global Forbes' 30 under 30 social entrepreneur and has won numerous national and international awards for his work, including World Deliver Social Entrepreneur of the year in 2016, the Donors' Circle for Africa Energy Prize, and many others. Africa Youth Awards named him as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans. Born and raised in rural Kenya, he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's in psychology. He lives in Nairobi.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
https://youtube.com/live/X3A6I5eFAnQ
Praise for What We Can't Burn
"Few things I've ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight: how we need to do many things, at the same time, and without stumbling over each other!" - BILL McKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature; founder of Third Act
"This book is essential reading - it gives us an important opportunity to understand the way to catalyze the change we need to make the world a better place." - KENNEDY ODEDE, TIME100 Most Influential People of 2024; New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid
"A powerful reminder that no one changes the world alone." - MICHELLE NIJHUIS, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
About What We Can't Burn
When they met as juniors in college, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid their college's fossil fuel divestment campaign -- which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds. The result is a poignant story of coming of age in a generation divided about how to save itself, and a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.
About the Authors
Eve Driver is a writer and strategist. Her essays and reporting have been published in Grist, Quartz, the Tusculum Review, Harvard Magazine, and Mongabay, and she has worked as a journalist in Nairobi, a strategy consultant in New York, and a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy. She is working on a collection of poetry.
Tom Osborn is a community-oriented entrepreneur and co-founder of the Shamiri Institute--a public benefit organization that develops and scales mental healthcare to young people across Africa. He is a 2021 TED Fellow and global Forbes' 30 under 30 social entrepreneur and has won numerous national and international awards for his work, including World Deliver Social Entrepreneur of the year in 2016, the Donors' Circle for Africa Energy Prize, and many others. Africa Youth Awards named him as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans. Born and raised in rural Kenya, he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's in psychology. He lives in Nairobi.
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