with Prof Jules Pretty

Story is a simple device common to every human culture. It has some 50,000 years of history yet has often come to be both misunderstood and misused in the modern era. Join us in the bookshop for a talk by Professor and author Jules Pretty about how stories can be used to create agency for the climate, nature and inequality crises. It is a common feeling for the public and policy makers to feel anxiety and fear, helplessness too, in the face of global-wide crises. Yet stories can create a sense of purpose. They can act like tricksters of old who set us on new paths through the metaphorical dark forests.

A butterfly flaps its wings, and whole systems change.

Jules Pretty (OBE) is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, and Director of the Centre for Public and Policy Engagement. He is Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability and received an OBE for services to sustainable agriculture. Jules is also an author and will share with us one of his latest books, ‘The Low-Carbon Good Life’.

Admission: £5

Book online: Ticketsource https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-jznevmo

or book at Rudolf Steiner Bookshop Tel: 020 7724 7699

Limited places available on the night.