wins Connecticut Book Award
James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has won the 2005 Connecticut Book Award for nonfiction.
Speth took the prize for "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment," in which he argues that the international community must take urgent action to address global-scale environmental threats or face an era of unprecedented environmental decline.
The book, published in March 2004 by Yale University Press, outlines steps in eight areas that, taken together, would comprise the needed transition to sustainability. "These transitions require genuine partnership between countries of the north and south, as well as actions far outside the traditional areas of environmental policy," said Speth.
The paper edition of "Red Sky at Morning," published in March 2005, contains an afterword that reviews the evidence of serious climate change and proposes a 10-point plan of action that does not depend on Washington leadership.
The Connecticut Book Awards were presented Dec. 5 by the Connecticut Center for the Book, a program of the Hartford Public Library and an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The books, published during the previous year, must be by an author, illustrator or designer who lives or has lived in the state or have a Connecticut setting. Judges chose the winners from nominations by individuals in the publishing industry, librarians, teachers and the public.
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