Confessions of an eco sinner – Invitation

What if you knew where your cotton socks came from?

Or knew about the person who picked your coffee beans?

What if you knew how fresh green beans come to sit on the supermarket shelf all year round…? Would you stop buying them? Or would you in fact start buying them?

Fred Pearce, currently the environment consultant of New Scientist magazine and described as one of Britain’s finest science writers, set out on a journey that took him around the world seven times to discover the truth about where stuff comes from, and wrote about it in “Confessions of An Eco-Sinner”.

This Wednesday (18 Nov, 6.30pm) you can hear and talk to Fred at the Science Gallery, Trinity, Pearse Street. You will have the opportunity to hear his tale first hand, to learn how it fundamentally changed his thinking, and ask him the questions that you need answered by his often shocking and counterintuitive findings.

More than just a lecture, this event will be a talk, followed by a longer Q&A session, where you will have the chance as an audience member to make your voice heard, so come prepared with questions and comments!

Fred Pearce is an English author and journalist based in London. He is a regular contributor to the London Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, Times Higher Education Supplement and Country Living, and has reported on environment, popular science and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years. He specialises in global environmental issues, including water and climate change, and frequently takes heretic and counter-intuitive views – “a sceptic in the best sense”, he says.

Tickets are €15, with 10% off for Science Gallery members – Membership is free.
Pre-Booking is essential.  The event starts at 6.30pm

Buy your tickets on the Science Gallery website : www.sciencegallery.com/events