We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. She is an author. Lawyer and activist. For 30 years, she has led the Delaware River Keeper Network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. And she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. It is called the green amendment the peoples fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keith and rossum. And sitting to my right is a gentleman that ive had the opportunity to work with previously, been to the book festival a number of times. This is Douglas Brinkley, who lives here in austin. He is the katherine sarnoff, chair of humanities and a professor of history at rice university. The president ial
I. Will with Everyone Welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. My name is brian sweeney. Im the proud member of the Advisory Board at the texas book festival. And though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. So thank you for being here. We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. She is an author. Lawyer and activist. For 30 years, she has led the Delaware River Keeper Network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. And she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. It is called the green amendment the peoples fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keit
Incentive to take risk and i have a chapter on the book on organizational structure and how to that can shape risk taking. Id like to go to the other side of the equation. Theres a section in the book, and i would imply this to the regulators as well and everybody and Board Members the power of simple questions. In other words, there are certain simple questions you, when you ask them and pursue the answers you learn something. In the late 2000s fannie mae took a large hit for an ordinary company not large for them because they were such a big company on manufacturing housing loan. In 2003, the chief Credit Office at fannie mae wrote a report saying one of the lessons is you cant trust the aaa rating because we bought aaa pieces on the mobile home loans and they createred on us. Craters on us. Again, if somebody starts to ask questions and say why arent you doing Due Diligence on what youre buying regardless of whether it has a rating and remember underneath the rating in terms of the
I walked by shelly and were in washington last week. I walked by the hoover building and thought what a disgrace that the name is up there. What with know about the guy he was one of the most corrupt government officials in the history of the republican. And his name is still on the building. His etho is still in the building. Thats why all we talk about whitey gull we are bsh bulger. On that cheery note. [laughter] i would like to thank you for coming out. I would like to thank shelley murphy, kevin. The book is whitey if we turn away from others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. What happened to join to take advantage of it. Obesity is nothing short of a Public Health crisis. There so much into it. I think they serve as a window on the past it was going on with american women. She becomes the chief compromise. Many of the women who were first ladies, they were writers. A lot of them were writers, journalists. They wrote books. They are mor
Weve got one minute to kill. Ok. By the way, i am going to ask you to start. I go to you first. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another panel. Iscussion this is dissecting the pentagon strategic choices and management review. I am marvin calvin. I am a Senior Advisor to the center for crisis reporting which is located just next door. August 2011 which is only two years ago Congress Passed and the president signed into law a legislative monstrosity called the budget control act. It was a way of doing something when nothing seemed worse. At least at that time. A joint committee was set up to control the spiraling deficit. That if were warned they fail to come up with a solution sequestration would automatically although. These cuts have now begun. Was already prepared to cut 150 billion dollars over the next 10 years. 500stration would require billion in cuts over the next 10 years. Warnedek check hagel that cut of that magnitude would not only affect entitlement such as sa