What We Can't Burn: Author Event with Eve Driver

When they met as juniors at Harvard, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid the college’s fossil fuel divestment campaign--which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds.

What We Can’t Burn shines a spotlight on the chasm in first-hand experiences, tactics, and hopes between two people from vastly different backgrounds and circumstances on the issues of climate change and renewable energy. The result is a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.

EVE DRIVER is a writer and strategist focused on the energy transition. Her writing has been published in the Tusculum Review and Harvard Magazine among other publications, and she has spoken on panels sponsored by the Better Future Project, Uprooted and Rising, and the Gull Island Institute. She has worked as a journalist in Nairobi, a strategy consultant in New York, and as a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy.