Shippensburg’s Center for Land Use and Sustainability presents bestselling author Doug Tallamy (author of Bringing Nature Home, The Living Landscape and Nature’s Best Hope) in a free public lecture and book signing Wednesday, April 3 at 6 p.m.

Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth.

The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Choosing the right plants for our landscapes will not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well. Tallamy presents simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

This lecture is presented as part of  Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Week (April 1-8),  a global initiative sparking real dialogue on climate and justice on campuses and in communities around the world.

Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

This program is being sponsored by Sustainability Funds provided by Pepsi and the Center for Land Use and Sustainability at Shippensburg University.