Conservation Forum Covers Water Crisis

Author Cynthia Barnett, author of “Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis” will be the featured speaker at the Conservation Forum, presented by SCCF and the Everglades Foundation on January 31, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Sanibel Community House. The event is free.

Cynthia Barnett, a long-time journalist who has reported on freshwater issues from the Suwannee River to Singapore, is the author of two books on water. Her latest, “Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis,” calls for a water ethic for America similar to the land ethic promoted by Aldo Leopold in the 1940s. Her first book, “Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.,” won the gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards and was named by The St. Petersburg Times as one of the top 10 books that every Floridian should read. “Mirage” was also a “One Region/One Book” read in thirty Florida counties. For more information, please visit the author’s website at www.cynthiabarnett.net.

The Conservation Forum will be held at the Sanibel Community House on January 31 at 7 p.m. Following Cynthia Barnett’s presentation, there will be a Q&A with the author plus SCCF’s Natural Resource Policy Director, Rae Ann Wessel and Kirk Fordham, CEO of the Everglades Foundation. The event is free, with a wine-and-cheese reception and book signing following.

For more information, please call SCCF at 472-2329.