- Wednesday, January 16, 2019
- 12:30 PM–1:30 PM
- Covenant Fine Arts Center Auditorium
- Free - no tickets required
William Powers will discuss his experience living a sustainable and slowed-down life.
William Powers has worked for two decades in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, and North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. Powers has worked at the World Bank and holds international relations degrees from Brown and Georgetown. A third-generation New Yorker, Powers has also spent two decades exploring the American culture of speed and its alternatives in some fifty countries around the world. He has covered the subject in his four books and written about it in the Washington Post and the Atlantic. Powers is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct faculty member at New York University. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Suraqueta, Bolivia, where they attempt to live sustainably, in deep community and in balance with nature.
