April Potluck and Presentation by Keith Akers!

Join us for great food and conversation with your fellow vegans at our monthly potluck! For those who are new to veganism, welcome! Our monthly gathering is a great opportunity to get to know others in the group and sample lots of delicious vegan food!
Earth Day Presentation - In honor of Earth Day, this month's potluck will feature a special presentation by our very own Keith Akers, about his important new book, Embracing Limits. See book description below. You won't want to miss it!

What to Bring:

• A vegan dish to serve at least 8 people, with a recipe card or list of ingredients. (All vegan please: no meat, bacon, eggs, poultry, fish, dairy or honey). If you do not know what to bring, please contact Denver Vegans leadership.

• Your own utensils and reusable place setting

• $3.00 cash fee to help pay for our rental space.
(There will be an option to pay via PayPal for those who don't carry cash).

We gather at 6:00 PM and eat at 6:30 PM. The presentation will begin after the meal.

NOTE: if you want to come ONLY for the talk, then you don't need to RSVP. You can skip the potluck, skip paying the $3.00, and come at 7:15 pm. The talk will begin after most people have finished eating, probably around 7:15 pm.

Rocky Mountain Miracle Center is convenient by car from I-25, as well as accessible by RTD bus (Route #40) and light rail (Colorado Blvd. station).

We hope to see you there!

About the book:

RADICAL MEASURES ARE NECESSARY
If you’ve ever wondered where we’re headed, and what a truly sustainable future might look like—this is the book for you.
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Today’s civilization is like a kid with a credit card, thinking the party will never end. Politically speaking, there are no adults in the room. Perhaps there never were.

Climate change is only the best known of the many environmental crises that are undoing human civilization. The area of land turned into desert or otherwise rendered unfarmable by humans is now larger than the area being farmed—which is itself being destroyed by the very methods used to farm it. These methods depend heavily on fossil fuels every step of the way. And let’s not forget biodiversity collapse, and groundwater depletion, and others, any one of which could be fatal for our civilization. We don’t face a single problem, such as climate change—but a general problem: that we have far overshot any sustainable limits to economic growth.

We need to make three critical changes, worldwide: reduce consumption, reduce human population, and drastically reduce or eliminate livestock agriculture. We live on a finite planet with finite resources—a fact that the world’s economies, based as they are on the concept of infinite expansion, refuse to acknowledge.

Recycling bottles, putting up windmills, and driving electric cars—although helpful—isn’t going to cut it. We’re told it will, because it’s comforting to think that small changes will save us. We, all of us, need to make massive changes, now.

This book details the challenges we face, and the solutions that may save us.

Paperback copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. They normally retail for $25 each, but the price will be $20 for this special book launch event.