City Lights and YES! Magazine present Stan Cox in conversation with Sonali Kolhatkar, celebrating the launch of his new book, "The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic," published by City Lights Books. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis.

You can purchase copies of "The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic" directly from City Lights at a 30% discount here: https://citylights.com/open-media-series/path-to-a-livable-future/

Stan Cox began his career in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is now the Lead Scientist at The Land Institute. Cox is the author of "The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can" (with City Lights), "Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)" and "Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine." His writing about the economic and political roots of the global ecological crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Kansas City Star, Arizona Republic, The New Republic, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Salon, and Dissent, and in local publications spanning 43 U.S. states. In 2012, The Atlantic named Cox their “Readers’ Choice Brave Thinker” for his critique of air conditioning. He is based in Salina, Kansas.

Sonali Kolhatkar is YES! Magazine’s Racial Justice Editor. She is also the host and creator of "Rising Up with Sonali," a nationally syndicated television and radio program.

YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent organization that publishes solutions journalism daily online and a quarterly print magazine. To learn more visit: www.yesmagazine.org

This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation