Humanist Community Forum (2010-01-10): How Africa’s Indigenous Bushmen Can Help Us “Climate-Proof” Silicon Valley

James Workman, Yale graduate, speechwriter for Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, and the Palo Alto-born author of a new narrative nonfiction book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, will tell the dramatic story of how he traveled to the ends of the earth in arid Africa, spent years following the oldest continuous people, besieged in the Kalahari Desert, absorbed seven secrets of how they thrive under extreme climate flux, and is applying those strategies here in Silicon Valley.