Sweet Briar College’s annual Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum will present a lecture, “Our Environmental Future,” by investigative journalist and author Mark Hertsgaard at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 in Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Mark HertsgaardHertsgaard spent much of the 1990s traveling through 19 countries trying to answer the question: Is the future of the human species at risk? The result is his acclaimed 1998 book, “Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future.” He will speak about global warming and other challenges facing the environment today.

Hertsgaard is the environmental correspondent for The Nation, the political correspondent for Link TV, and a commentator for National Public Radio’s “Marketplace.” He also contributes to the New Yorker, Time, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, the Guardian, and several other international publications.

Other books include “The Eagle’s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World,” “On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency” and “Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy.”

More information is available on Hertsgaard at markhertsgaard.com.

Sweet Briar’s Waxter Forum is funded by Julia Baldwin Waxter, an SBC alumna, and her husband, Bill. The annual series presents lectures focusing on environmental issues and concerns that affect today’s world.

For more information about this event, please contact Robert Alexander, SBC associate professor of environmental studies, at ralexander@sbc.edu or (434) 381-6451.