Please join David Jamison in welcoming OZZIE ZEHNER to The City Club to discuss this very important book. LUNCHEON WILL BE SERVED.

Green Illusions delivers a backstage tour of solar, wind, hydrogen, biofuels, clean coal, and electric cars. It asks: is clean tech part of the solution to growth and productivism, or part of the problem? Learn about the unseen harms of solar cells. Uncover why future environmentalists will resist electric cars and hybrids. Explore the under-appreciated link between human rights and environmentalism. And, learn what future environmentalists are studying in college today.

Ozzie Zehner is the author of Green Illusions and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley. He has written for Christian Science Monitor, The American Scholar, The Hill, UTNE, Truthout, ARTE, The Humanist, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and other publications. He regularly guest lectures at universities and serves as a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Ozzie primarily researches the social, political and economic conditions influencing energy policy priorities and project outcomes. He studies the symbolic roles that energy technologies play within political and environmental movements. His work has appeared in a variety of media including The Sunday Times, WIRED, The Washington Post, USA Today, PBS, BBC, CNN, and MSNBC. His other areas of interest include habitat conservation, consumerism, urban policy, international human rights, and forgeries.