BRUNSWICK
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s presentation of their 20th annual Winter Speaker Series, “Electronic Silent Spring,” features investigative journalist and novelist Katie Singer. The event taking place at Brunswick’s Unitarian Universalist Church across from Curtis Library on Wednesday is free and open to the public, but a $10 donation is suggested helping cover Church rental and speaker travel expenses from New Mexico.
Singer will explain electronic technologies’ energy demands, their environmental impacts and present ways to reduce e-footprints.
Singer’s most recent book, “An Electronic Silent Spring,” reports on the legal, health and environmental issues related to telecommunications and wireless proliferation. Her monthly newsletters and talks present electronics’ impacts on climate change, biodiversity, health, cybersecurity and culture including impacts of 5th Generation Wireless.
FOMB hosts their Winter Speaker Series October-May on the second Wednesday of each month. The Dec. 14 presentation, “Twisted Genes, Distorted Narratives,” features Fedco Seed founder, CR Lawn. Speaker Series presentations are free, open to the public and supported by Patagonia, Inc. in Freeport. Visit www.fomb.org to see speaker biographies, full event schedules, become a member, and learn more about how you can help protect beautiful Merrymeeting Bay.
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