Media Relations
MEDIA CONTACT: Terry Gearing 561-799-8026, gearing@fau.edu
FAU Jupiter Hosts Environmental Journalist Philip Shabecoff
Author to Speak on the Need to Protect our Children from Environmental Poisons
WHAT: FAU Jupiter and the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment present journalist Philip Shabecoff, who will speak on “Poisoned Profits: A Toxic Assault on our Children.”
WHEN: Wednesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. Book signing and refreshments after the lecture
WHERE: FAU’s John D. MacArthur campus AD Auditorium 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
COST: Free and open to the public
CONTACT: 561-799-8462 or scrippsinstitute@fau.edu
Philip Shabecoff is a Massachusetts-based freelance writer and co-author of Poisoned Profits, a new book scheduled for publication this summer. For 32 years, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times and was founder and publisher of Greenwire, the environmental news daily. Shabecoff is also author of Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, A New Name for Peace and A Fierce Green Fire. In 1990, he received the American Library Association’s James Madison Award for expanding the public’s right to know. After the lecture, books will be available for purchase, and the author will be present for book signing. Light refreshments will be served. This lecture is sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation and coordinated by FAU’s School of Communication & Multimedia Studies.
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