AUTHOR DIANNE DUMANOSKI TO SPEAK AT CRWA ANNUAL MEETING

Newton, MA - Dianne Dumanoski, award-winning environmental journalist and co-author of the groundbreaking Our Stolen Future, will be the featured speaker at the November 16^th Annual Meeting of the Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA).  Celebrating its 35^th year of potent advocacy for the Charles River, CRWA will host the meeting at the Newton Marriott from 6 to 10 pm.

"Dianne is one of the most knowledgeable and thought-provoking environmental and science writers of our times," remarked Robert L. Zimmerman, Jr., CRWA’s executive director.  "I’ve known Dianne since her days on the environmental beat at the Boston Globe and we can count on an evening of stimulation and fresh insight."

Our Stolen Future, which Dumanoski wrote with scientists Theo Colburn and John Peterson Meyers, lays out the emerging scientific case that a wide range of man-made chemicals can disrupt delicate hormone systems and derail biological development.  Since its release in 1996, the book has been lauded as a worthy sequel to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

Dumanoski, a Newton resident, is working on a new book that will provide background for her November 16^th talk, "What Are We Saving Anyway?"  From a philosophical and historical perspective, the work-in-progress explores how the current environmental crisis challenges us, as humans, to rethink our relationship to the biosphere, and to redraw our roadmap for the century ahead.

Before writing Our Stolen Future, Dumanoski covered national and global environmental issues for the Globe and wrote One Earth, a unique monthly environmental column for the newspaper’s Health and Science section. She was among the pioneers reporting on the new generation of issues, including ozone depletion, global warming, and the accelerating loss of species.

In addition to Dumanoski’s talk, CRWA’s annual meeting will include cocktails, dinner, awards, and a brief business meeting.  The dinner is $40 per person and reservations must be made before November 9^th.  Call (617) 965-5975 ext. 200 for reservations and information.

One of the country’s first watershed organizations, CRWA was formed in 1965 in response to public concern about the declining condition of the Charles. Since its earliest days of advocacy, CRWA has figured prominently in major clean-up and watershed protection efforts that have dramatically improved the health of the Charles.