5x15 presents: Penguin Green Ideas with Jared Diamond
Join us to explore what ancient cultures can teach us about preserving our natural resources to build a fairer, saner, greener world.
Jared Diamond
The Last Tree on Easter Island
Jared Diamond is a Professor of Geography at UCLA and a noted polymath whose books about human societies blend biology, geography, anthropology, linguistics and history. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of Time magazine's best non-fiction books of all time, Collapse, a No. 1 international bestseller, and Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change, among other books.