Author Talk, Eve Schaub's Family's Zero Waste Journey

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Sep 26, 2024, 6:30 to 8 PM

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Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What I Learned from a Year of No Garbage
A talk with author Eve O. Schaub

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Maple Corner Community Center

Internationally published author and humorist EVE O. SCHAUB challenged her family to attempt the seemingly impossible: to live in the modern world, for an entire year, without creating any trash at all. The resulting memoir, YEAR OF NO GARBAGE, has been featured in THE NEW YORKER, and was described by BILL MCKIBBEN as filled with "humor and grace." Through storytelling and humor, Schaub reveals shocking truths she learned along the way about garbage, plastics, and recycling industry. This talk will trace the high and low points of Schaub's family's ZERO WASTE journey, focusing on lessons learned and where we go from here.

Eve's Brief Bio:

Eve O. Schaub is an internationally published author and humorist. The author of YEAR OF NO SUGAR (2014) and YEAR OF NO CLUTTER (2017), her third family memoir is YEAR OF NO GARBAGE (2023). In addition to being featured in The New Yorker and USA Today, she has been featured on the Weather Channel, NPR, and the Dr. Oz Show. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, and Spanish, and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and Vermont Life. She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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