Booktv college series. This month we are at Pepperdine University. Wade grams have stomach booktv to talk about his book in which he looks at the nations gardens at the people who design them. This is about half an hour. Now on the tv we want to introduce you to wade graham who is the author of american eden. Guest i do a series of things. I design gardens and imho the list. Host how did you get interested or acted. I got a chance early in life who taught me how to do it. She was quite a powerful designer. So in the defining gardens and writing about the environmental history i realized i was quite ignorant about what i was doing. I knew how to do it and i could do english garden with a modern house that is strictly i didnt know why people needed these things and it came to me quite strongly that only by ignorance but it was an interesting question. My husband has commissioned and has lots of sharp things and they said about and what you please design me in english rose garden. I thoug
Coming up next, sierra Club Volunteer harold wood discusses the legacy of con survey shifts that conservationists and National List john your john muir. This was hosted by the California Historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. We want to hear harold would tonight. He will give us an incredible journey through john muirs life. That legacy is stronger than ever. Im looking forward to hearing you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. And the partner, the sierra club. For all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect our Natural Landscapes here and throughout the nation. What a legacy. A couple of quick questions,
Here, who actually managed this process. The city was wanting to build out mission bay, the two big concrete batching facilities in the city were in mission bay, needed to be relocated, came to port property actually without s in that case because they were maritime leases. And i dont know what. It took a while. They took a while to build out their footprints. Do the design, i would imagine its a couple of years from start to finish. Its hard to say because i dont think they had an incentive to move quickly at that point in time. But they took about two years. And part of that may have been driven by the Environmental Review and. Yeah. Weve consulted with the Planning Department and we do have the waterfront Supplemental Environmental Impact report. I think the early read is that we may be able to tier off of that prior environmental work for this project, that it was the type of use that was contemplated. So im not sure that the timeline for the older project is applicable here. I wou
Mission bay, needed to be relocated, came to port property actually without s in that case because they were maritime leases. And i dont know what. It took a while. They took a while to build out their footprints. Do the design, i would imagine its a couple of years from start to finish. Its hard to say because i dont think they had an incentive to move quickly at that point in time. But they took about two years. And part of that may have been driven by the Environmental Review and. Yeah. Weve consulted with the Planning Department and we do have the waterfront Supplemental Environmental Impact report. I think the early read is that we may be able to tier off of that prior environmental work for this project, that it was the type of use that was contemplated. So im not sure that the timeline for the older project is applicable here. I would make one last comment. I was glad to hear you say that the city and the mayor has put 50 to 60 Million Dollars aside to repair roads in the city b
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, keith and rossum. And sitting to my ri