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SUMMARY:Join author Gus Speth\, for a reading from his new book Jericho Riv
 er!
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGus Speth -- Jericho River\n\n\n\nTuesday Nov 10t
 h\, 2026\n\n\n7:00 PM\n\n\n-\n\n\n8:00 PM\n\nIn-Store Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \nJoin author Gus Speth\, for a reading from his new book Jericho River!\n
 \nDuring the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s\, the small Vermont village of Jer
 icho River has its share of engaging and sometimes endearing townspeople\,
  and the journal of solitary observer Clare Pascal chronicles their storie
 s. Clare comes to appreciate that she is not writing random stories but is
  witness to something beautiful.\n\nGus Speth is a writer living in centra
 l Vermont and coastal South Carolina with his wife Cameron of 61 years. Se
 e www.gusspeth.org. In 2009 Speth completed his decade-long tenure as Dean
 \, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies\, now the Yale School
  of the Environment. From 1993 to 1999\, he was Administrator of the Unite
 d Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Pri
 or to his service at the UN\, he was founder and president of the World Re
 sources Institute\; professor of law at Georgetown University\; chairman o
 f the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (Carter Administration)\; and 
 senior attorney and cofounder\, Natural Resources Defense Council. He serv
 ed on the faculty of the Vermont Law and Graduate School as Professor of L
 aw from 2010 to 2015 and is now a fellow of the Tellus Institute\, the Wel
 lbeing Economy Alliance\, and the Democracy Collaborative and an honorary 
 director at NRDC and WRI.\n\nHe is the author\, co-author or editor of a d
 ozen books including the American Crisis series published by Yale Universi
 ty Press: Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environ
 ment (2004)\, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism\, the Enviro
 nment\, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008)\, and America th
 e Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy (2012). In 2014 he published a mem
 oir\, Angels by the River (Chelsea Green Publishing\, 2014). Between 2019 
 and 2025 he published six books of poetry. See www.watershedpublications.o
 rg. Speth edited The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy 
 (with Kathleen Courrier\, Routledge\, 2021) and authored They Knew: The US
  Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis (MIT
  Press\, 2021). Most recently\, he is the author of a novel\, Jericho Rive
 r. See www.jerichoriver.com.\n\nAmong his awards are the National Wildlife
  Federation’s Resources Defense Award\, the Natural Resources Council of
  America’s Barbara Swain Award of Honor\, a 1997 Special Recognition Awa
 rd from the Society for International Development\, Lifetime Achievement A
 wards from the Environmental Law Institute and the League of Conservation 
 Voters\, the Blue Planet Prize\, the Thomas Berry Great Work Award of the 
 Environmental Consortium of Colleges and Universities\, and the Thomas Ber
 ry Award of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. He holds honorary degrees f
 rom Clark University\, the College of the Atlantic\, the Vermont Law Schoo
 l\, Middlebury College\, the University of South Carolina\, Green Mountain
  College\, the University of Massachusetts/Boston\, and Unity College.\n\n
 Speth graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964 with a BA in 
 Political Science\, and subsequently earned an MLitt in Economics from Oxf
 ord University in 1966 as a Rhodes Scholar and his JD from the Yale Law Sc
 hool in 1969. After law school\, he served as law clerk to Supreme Court J
 ustice Hugo L. Black.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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