Author Conversation With James Thornton And Martin Goodman

Join author James Thornton as he discusses "Nature, My Teacher", and shares how he picks up lessons from listening to the natural world. Now helping to build the North American office of ClientEarth in Santa Monica, he speaks of a lifetime of using law to save the planet. As a Zen priest, trained in LA, he speaks of practices that help him keep up the environmental fight without growing angry, and how to deal with environmental anxiety.About the authorsOne of the world’s leading spokespeople for the environment and a TED speaker, James Thornton is a poet, Zen Buddhist priest, and founder and president of ClientEarth, the leading global not-for-profit environmental law group. Recent poetry collections are The Feynman Challenge and Waymarks. A lifetime of environmental activism includes dramatic success in China.Martin Goodman co-wrote Client Earth, the book about James and other ecolawyers saving the planet. Recent novels are On Bended Knees and The Cellist of Dachau, while 2025 sees the release of My Head for a Tree, about the Bishnoi religion and its focus on saving nature. He is the publisher of Barbican Press. More Info below.