Eve Driver presents “What We Can’t Burn” – Wellesley, MA

Eve will be in conversation with Ana Isabel Keilson, the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Gull Island Institute.

If you would prefer to buy your ticket by phone, you may call Wellesley Books at 781-431-1160.

Admission tickets cost $5, or you can buy a copy of the book and receive a free admission ticket. Books will also be available for purchase at the event.

Please note that you must purchase your copy of the book from Wellesley Books in order to have the author sign it at the event.

Please also note that we cannot issue ticket refunds within 48 hours of the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Eve was a fossil fuel divestment activist from Massachusetts who was coming to believe capitalism was at the root of the climate crisis. Tom was a clean energy entrepreneur from a rural village in Kenya who believed the activist approach was suspended from the real-world experiences of those facing the worst of the crisis’ effects. They met as juniors at Harvard, launching a journey in which their conflicting perspectives almost tore their unlikely friendship apart.

Raw, funny, and lyrical, WHAT WE CAN’T BURN is a memoir in two voices about coming of age in a world confused and divided about how to save itself. Set in both Kenya and the United States, this timely story is a singular testament to the power of dialogue, humor, and friendship to help us find our place among the many currents of change-making that cut across the world today.

“Few things I’ve ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight: how we need to do many things, at the same time, and without stumbling over each other! This is also a moving testament to the power of ongoing dialogue and friendship, just the sort of thing we need to be thinking about in this ever-angrier movement.” –Bill McKibben, environmentalist

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

EVE DRIVER is a writer and strategist focused on the energy transition. Her writing has been published in the Tusculum Review, Harvard Magazine, Grist, Mongabay, Quartz, and Undark, and she has spoken on panels sponsored by the Better Future Project, Uprooted and Rising, and the Gull Island Institute. She has worked as a journalist in Nairobi, a strategy consultant in New York, and as a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy.

ABOUIT THE MODERATOR

Ana Isabel Keilson is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Gull Island Institute, a place-based liberal arts institute with a mission to cultivate democratic citizenship for an age of climate change. Before co-founding the Gull Island Institute, from 2017-2023 she held academic appointments at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, Deep Springs College, and SciencesPo (Reims/Paris). She holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Barnard College. Prior to her academic career, she danced professionally.