George Monbiot in Aber!

George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and human rights and environmental activist (and People and Planet's Patron) will be delivering a lecture in Aberystwyth next Wednesday, 21 Feb at 7pm in A12 Hugh Owen.

The title of the lecture is 'Environmentalism and Social Justice: When do they collide, when do they coincide?'

If you can make it, I'd strongly recommend going along. Monbiot is an excellent, engaging speaker and hearing him for the first time two years ago was what sparked me down a road of discovery about climate change.

He has published a new book last autumn, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, which details how a 90% cut in carbon emissions could be achieved in the next quarter-century without drastically changing our quality of life - and in fact, improving it. An edited extract is available here.