The Wildwoods Foundation is proud to co-sponsor tomorrow (4/13) night's event at Skylight Books when writer and activist William Powers discusses and signs his new memoir of off-the-grid living, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream.
William Powers has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, and Native North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. A 2004-2005 recipient of the Open Door Foundation for non-fiction, he is the author of the Liberia memoir Blue Clay People, the Bolivian memoir Whispering in the Giant's Ear.
