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Kate Lawrence on population

Here’s another video excerpt of the interview of Kate Lawrence as part of the “Authors @ Douglas County Libraries” series. This clip is on the population issue. Kate is the author of The Practical Peacemaker: How Simple Living Makes Peace Possible (Lantern Books). For more about the book see Kate’s blog.

 

 

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This entry was posted in Literature / Publishing, Nonviolence, Simple living on September 30, 2015 by Keith Akers.

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