October 7, 2026
Online at 1pm ET
With Leah Stokes
Hosted by Tricycle
What if instead of minimizing our individual carbon footprints, we maximized our effort to combat climate change by working together? What if instead of jumping right to fatalism, assuming that we can’t make a difference, we recognized that we already have the technology and the science to help our planet, and we just need to put policy behind it? This is the central premise of climate activist and professor Leah Stokes’ new book, The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet. The heart of the book lies in the deeply personal stories, interwoven throughout, of the author’s high-risk pregnancy, the premature births of her twins, and her friends on frontlines, new parents themselves, trying to pass the largest climate law in American history.
Real change can come from real people, and we’re stronger together, The Carbon Wave shows us. Join Stokes, an award-winning author and practicing Buddhist who studied Buddhism as an undergraduate, to hear how her practice and background informs her work and her empowering framework for protecting our planet.