Windmills Not Oil Spills: Turning the Tide on America's Energy Future - A talk by Mike Tidwell, author of Bayou Farewell September 29, 2010

If ever there was a time to get off of oil and plug into wind power, it is now, argues Mike Tidwell, a clean-energy activist and veteran journalist with deep roots in the Louisiana bayous.

Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He is also an author and filmmaker who predicted in vivid detail the Katrina hurricane disaster in his 2003 book Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast. His newest book, focusing on Katrina and global warming, is titled The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities. Tidwell’s most recent documentary film, We Are All Smith Islanders, vividly depicts the dangers of global warming Maryland, Virginia, and D.C.

Official Website: http://z.umn.edu/oilandwater/