# Weather Reports: The Climate of Now #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 1, 2021** 07:00PM - 08:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Zoom** [ Registration arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GJ7Tw-gQR868kMNPjBBB-Q) **Michael Pollan,** writer, will present "The Climate of Consciousness." **Michael Pollan,** writer, will present "The Climate of Consciousness." Michael Pollan has been educating us with illuminating prose on “the botany of desire” for a very long time. He will discuss his latest book *This Is Your Mind On Plants* and his landmark bestseller *How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence*. Pollan’s call for change, restoration, and resiliency may be the very thing we need to bolster our consciousness in the midst of climate collapse. This session will be live streamed. Respondent: Charles Stang, Director of the Center for the Study of World Religion Brian Kirbis of Theasophia will open the conversation with a tea pouring. Each conversation will be conducted online by [Terry Tempest Williams](https://hds.harvard.edu/people/terry-tempest-williams), writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School. This series is a Constellation Project in partnership with the [Center of the Study of World Religions](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/), [Religion and Public Life](https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/), and the [Planetary Health Alliance](https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/). For more information, visit [the event page](https://hds.harvard.edu/news/weather-reports). [Registration](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GJ7Tw-gQR868kMNPjBBB-Q) is required. Contact: See also:- [ Arts & Humanities ](/research-areas/arts-and-humanities) - [ Social Sciences ](/research-areas/social-sciences) - [ Harvard Divinity School ](/school/harvard-divinity-school) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.environment.harvard.edu/node/1415276/event-feed.ics) Copy link link