#FossilFuelIndustry #edinburghbookfestival #climateemergency “#Greenwashing efforts by the #fossilfuel industry, including sponsorship of cultural events, allow them to keep the social licence to continue operating,” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/greta-thunberg-greenwashing-edinburgh-book-festival-arts

#GretaThunberg pulls out of #EdinburghBookFestival over 'greenwashing'
She had been due to attend an event at the annual festival on 13 August.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of a much-anticipated event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She cited a sponsor's "heavy" investments in fossil fuel and accusing them of "greenwashing".
"As a climate activist I cannot attend an event which receives sponsorship from Baillie Gifford

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/04/greta-thunberg-pulls-out-of-edinburgh-book-festival-over-greenwashing

#GlobalBoiling

#GretaThunberg accuses #EdinburghBookFestival sponsor of ‘#greenwashing’

#ClimateActivist pulls out of event, saying sponsor #BaillieGifford invests heavily in #FossilFuels industry

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/greta-thunberg-accuses-edinburgh-book-festival-sponsor-of-greenwashing #EdinburghFestival #Edinburgh #Books

Greta Thunberg has pulled out of this year’s Edinburgh book festival after revelations about its sponsor’s investments in firms who profit from fossil fuels.
#edinburghbookfestival
#GretaThunbeg
#climatebreadown
#fossilfuel

Booking my online streaming #Edinburgh Book Festival tickets for this year. I could watch live online, but will also have until the end of September to watch them on catchup, most likely how I’ll watch. My husband is going to watch the #GretaThunberg talk with me. And I’ll also watch the Icelandic Prime Minister speaking about her crime writing career in another. Plus 3 more talks. https://www.edbookfest.co.uk #EdBookFest #EdinburghBookFestival #CrimeWriting #BookFestivals #Books #Iceland #Bookstodon

Edinburgh Book Festival tickets successfully secured for M. John Harrison's event, This Is Not A Memoir, on 19 August. Only 1856 people in the queue ahead of me to begin with, although not all of them *necessarily* to see Mike, more's the pity! Very much looking forward to it!
@mjohnharrison

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/m-john-harrison-this-is-not-a-memoir

#MJohnHarrison #ThisIsNotAMemoir #WishIWasHere #EdinburghBookFestival #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival

EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL

Join us to welcome the first ever #LGBTQ children's books in Gaelic and Scots.

Myself and Matthew Mackie have been busy all Spring, translating two stories by Lawrence Schimel for the Rainbow Books series.

Bring along your little ones for a special bilingual story session!

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/rainbow-books-a-storytelling-adventure-in-scots-and-scottish-gaelic-18806

~ Marcas

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EdBookFest #EdinburghBookFestival #ScottishGaelic #GaelicBooks #ScottishBooks #KidsBooks

FÈIS LEABHRAICHEAN DHÙN ÈIDEANN

Bithibh còmhla rinn gus fàilte a chur air a' chiad leabhar #LGDTC do chloinne sa Ghàidhlig Bheurla Ghallta.

Tha mi fhìn is Mata MacAoidh air a bhith trang fad an Earraich, ag eadar-theangachadh dà sgeulachd le Lawrence Schimel airson an t-sreatha Rainbow Books.

Thigibh ann, an cuideachd ur daoine beaga!

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/rainbow-books-a-storytelling-adventure-in-scots-and-scottish-gaelic-18806

~ Marcas

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #EdinburghBookFestival #EdBookFest #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Browsing the #EdinburghBookFestival programme. I'm hoping to see some events online, either live or on catchup. Aiming for at least #GretaThunberg and #DeniseMina. But I'll wait for my printed copy of the programme to arrive, then pore over it. In person ticket sales open later this month but online streaming tickets can be bought now. And the #streaming system they use works very well. I've enjoyed lots of talks in recent years. https://www.edbookfest.co.uk #books #reading #bookFestivals #Edinburgh