We’re Getting On emerged from James Kaelan’s skepticism of the direction this country is moving environmentally and technologically. The novel isn’t a cautionary tale or a polemic, necessarily, but it reflects his uneasiness—even his fear—of what sort of country we’ll be living in a few decades from now. Kaelan wanted, therefore, to do something positive to promote the novel.
About a year ago he started wondering, “What if there was a way to manufacture and promote a product in this country that not only didn’t harm the environment, but actually improved it?” That birthed the idea of a book that could grow into a tree. And a book that grows into a tree not only offsets its own production emissions, it also, technically, creates the material to produce new books.
In light of the oil spill—an environmental disaster perpetrated by an industry that trades in environmental catastrophes—We’re Getting On and Flatmancrooked’s Zero Emission Book project operates as an antidote to destructive business practices
When: Tuesday- July 19th, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Where: The Avid Reader
617 Second St.
Davis, California 95616
