Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
The Simple Life
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It seems living is no simple matter these days. Profound political, economic, psychological and moral implications of everyday actions are all-pervasive as western culture wrestles with the beast of its own making – excess consumption. Michael Pollan and Elizabeth Farrelly consider why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive to not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.

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Panel  |  Nonfiction, Current Affairs
Participants
Michael Pollan, Elizabeth Farrelly

When
Friday, May 23 2008
13:00 - 14:00

Where
Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
22 Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
$15/$10

Bookings
9250 1988
www.sydneytheatre.org.au

Schedule
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ELIZABETH FARRELLY (LOCAL)Farrelly, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Farrelly is a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.

She trained as an architect in Auckland, practised in London and Bristol and holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Sydney, where she is also Adjunct Associate Professor. She has been assistant editor of The Architectural Review in London, an independent Councillor in the City of Sydney and inaugural Chair of the Australia Award for Urban Design.

Elizabeth’s writing awards include the Marion Mahony Griffin Award, the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, the Adrian Ashton Award and the Paris-based CICA award for international criticism. Elizabeth now lives in Sydney with her partner and two children. Her latest book is Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness.

also appearing at...
130: Blubberland
295: Now and Beyond

MICHAEL POLLAN (INTERNATIONAL)Pollan, Michael
Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs and architecture for the past 20 years. The Omnivore's Dilemma was named one of the 10 best books of 2006 by both The New York Times and The Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of my Own and Second Nature.

A long-time contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.

In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating was released this year.
www.michaelpollan.com

also appearing at...
212: Michael Pollan in Conversation with Caroline Baum
251: Cafe Scientific: The Future of Food