Live coverage of the Los Angeles Times festival of books and we will begin with an author panel on the environment. [inaudible] [applause] i am so thrilled to be able to have three wonderful guests we have here to discuss a very important topic environment surviving the future. I will tell you about each of them starting to my far left, lee van der voo is an independent journalist based in my favorite city in the plan of Portland Oregon and also the author of the fish market inside the bigmoney battle for the ocean and your dinner plate. Sitting next to her everyonenn hold your applause until the end come in the middle is miriam horn, the New York Times best selling sequel at the Environmental Defense fund and lived in new york city her latest title last but not least my left journalist and communitybased activists in richmond california the author of three previous books like the la times, boston globe, usa today, the progressive and many more and also helped initiate labor for the Pr