Dependably prickly and comforting at the same time, noted essayist Rebecca Solnit spoke Tuesday at San Francisco’s historic public lecture forum, the Commonwealth Club.

“Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility” is a collection of essays co-edited by Rebecca Solnit, published 2023. (Haymarket Books via BCN)

Solnit drew reflections from a lifetime of climate activism and findings from a new collection of essays that she co-edited called “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.”

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.