Author Will Hackman: Radically Reframing Climate Change

To register for this program, please scroll down and click on the blue "Register" box. Join Will Hackman as he discusses his book Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves, which reframes the climate crisis as a humanity crisis -- and provides a path forward for engagement and voter mobilization. The author will be in conversation with Kurt Lawrence, Environmental Planner for the City of Falls Church and Staff Liaison for the Environmental Sustainability Council. Hackman identifies three main obstacles to solving climate change: polarization, paralysis, and ineffective messaging, suggesting that climate rallying cries to "Save the Planet" no longer work in a hyper-partisan world. While arguing that we must change how we think and talk about climate change, he empowers readers to turn their anxiety or apathy into passion, and anger into action at the personal, community, and government levels. “Will Hackman has given us a vital manual for our time: urgent without despair, practical without naiveté, and deeply human throughout.” — Christiana Figueres, founding partner, Global Optimism and former executive secretary, UN Convention on Climate Change This event is co-hosted with Bards Alley Bookshop. Copies of the author's books will be available for sale at the program or you can reserve copies by calling Bards Alley at 571-459-2653. A book signing will follow the author talk. About the Author Will Hackman has more than fifteen years’ experience working in US political campaigns, public policy process, strategic communications, coalition building, climate activism, and global environmental conservation advocacy. Will is a frequent climate policy expert voice online and in the media and has been interviewed on several climate change-related podcasts. His 2022 TEDx “The Future of Climate Change is Personal,” challenges us to reframe our climate conversations to overcome polarization and partisanship. His writing has appeared in The Hill and Washington Post. Will graduated from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, in 2007 with a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and received his Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School in 2018. He lives in Virginia's beautiful Shenandoah Valley with his wife, Paula.