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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear MIT Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Program in Science, Technology, and Society invites you on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wednesday, February 18<sup>th</sup>, from 6-7 pm at the MIT Museum,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>for a special
talk by Professor Kate Brown on her new book:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324105831"><span style="color:#467886">Tiny Gardens Everywhere</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Tiny Gardens Everywhere </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Part history, part reportage, part manifesto, <i><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324105831" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#467886">Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City</span></b></a></i> follows
the roots of urban gardening from feudal England to a late nineteenth century utopia outside of Berlin to 1960s Washington DC to contemporary Amsterdam, Chicago, and beyond. Throughout this history, Brown weaves in her own gardening experience, exploring the
political and the practical while painting a picture of the necessity of self-provisioning in an increasingly chaotic world.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ever since wage labor in cities replaced self-provisioning in the countryside, gardeners have reclaimed lost commons on urban lots. They composted garbage into topsoil, creating the most productive agriculture in recorded human history,
without the use of fossil fuels. The ecological diversity they fostered made room for human difference and built prosperity, too: in Nazi Berlin, working-class gardeners harbored dissidents and Jews; in Washington, DC, Black southern migrants built communities
around gardens and orchards, the produce funding homeownership. The Soviet superpower survived so long only because of its urban gardens.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Copies of <i>Tiny Gardens Everywhere</i> will be available for purchase and signing after the talk, courtesy of the MIT Press Bookstore.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To Attend In-Person</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It costs $5 to attend the event, which can be paid at the door.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a limited number of free tickets available. Please reach out to <u><a href="mailto:museumregadmin@mit.edu" title="mailto:museumregadmin@mit.edu"><b><span style="color:#467886">museumregadmin@mit.edu</span></b></a></u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See the attached flyer for more details. We hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Mina Hadley | MIT (she/her)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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