Mack Lecture: James Thornton, ClientEarth
Presented by Walker Art Center
Dates & Times:
Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:00 pm
Venue: Walker Art Center
Cost: $18 ($14 Walker members, 20% off for festival attendees)
This winter, leading environmentalist and founder of ClientEarth, James Thornton, comes to the Walker. An innovator of legal strategies to address climate change and environmental degradation, Thornton will discuss new ways to think about and tackle global environmental challenges. A short, moderated dialogue and Q&A follows Thornton’s presentation.
The Great Northern and the Walker will host a pop-up bar in the lobby starting one hour before the lecture.
This event will have ASL interpretation.
The Mack Lecture series is made possible by generous support from Aaron and Carol Mack.
This event is hosted and ticketed by the Walker. For questions about tickets please call 612-375-7600.
About James Thornton
James Thornton is founder and president of ClientEarth, the world’s preeminent environmental law group, with 300 lawyers and others holding governments and companies accountable across the globe. Thornton was named “one of 10 people who could change the world” by New Statesman. The Financial Times gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. He was named Green Leader of the Year three times. He is also a Zen priest, poet, and author. His most recent book, Nature, My Teacher, explores how to enter the wisdom of nature so we can save the living world.
Based in Los Angeles, Thornton has built strong support from the arts community for ClientEarth and other organizations. Members of Gallery Climate Coalition have teamed with major galleries and their artists, including Cecily Brown, Rashid Johnson, and Antony Gormley, to raise funds and awareness for the activism of ClientEarth; and Brian Eno, David Gilmour, and Coldplay are among musicians who view Thornton’s work as vital for planetary survival. This innovative legal work can be sampled in Thornton’s TED talk about China, viewed by more than 1.7 million people.