12 - Eliza Griswold, Author of Amity and Prosperity

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Halt the Harm Podcast

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In this episode you’ll hear a recording of a webinar presentation that Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity brought to the network. The presentation is followed by a Q&A with Eliza.In Amity and Prosperity, the prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.“In her new book, Amity and Prosperity, journalist Eliza Griswold provides a deeply human counterpoint to this political fray. She takes on the decidedly fraught issue of energy extraction through a vivid, compassionate portrait of one family living in the long shadow of industry . . . Griswold chronicles these escalating horrors with disarming intimacy.”— Meara Sharma, The Washington PostAs mentioned in this episodeAmity and Prosperity : the bookWebinar recording : Eliza Griswold, Amity and ProsperityHalt the Harm Webinar SeriesCreditsThis podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.netThe soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca