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September 13, 2011, 3:36 pm

Frances Moore Lappe' is at it again. This time, she reframes our environmental and social crisis.

ECOMIND Opportunity with Francis Moore Lappe' Tomorrow night at Powell's Books and Thursday at Portland State University.

EcoMind Talk and Book Signing September 14, 2011 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm Powell's Books

EcoMind Talk and Book Signing September 15, 2011 - 1:30pm Portland State University- Smith Memorial Student Union

More HERE.

Enter to win a copy of EcoMind HERE. Please include your name and address.

Listen to my conversation with Frances Moore Lappe' BELOW.

Here's a great piece from Thomas Friedman's column in the New York Times this morning.

".....Remember the first rule of global warming. The way it unfolds is really “global weirding.” The weather gets weird: the hots get hotter; the wets wetter; and the dries get drier. This is not a hoax. This is high school physics, as Katharine Hayhoe, a climatologist in Texas, explained on Joe Romm’s invaluable Climateprogress.org blog: “As our atmosphere becomes warmer, it can hold more water vapor. Atmospheric circulation patterns shift, bringing more rain to some places and less to others. For example, when a storm comes, in many cases there is more water available in the atmosphere and rainfall is heavier. When a drought comes, often temperatures are already higher than they would have been 50 years ago, and so the effects of the drought are magnified by higher evaporation rates.”

Read the entire piece HERE.