Benefit Lecture Featuring Beth Gardiner (Join us this evening)

Plastics are polluting our planet and choking our oceans, harming human health and damaging ecosystems vital to our livelihoods. Join the North Shore Land Alliance and our Benefit Committee for a discussion Featuring Acclaimed Environmental Journalist and Author of Plastic Inc. – Beth Gardiner Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 6 PM A Private Club  Park Avenue (Midtown, NY, NY) Exact address provided upon RSVP  Event Committee: Carrie Bassett * Mary Beth and Joe Donohue * Paula and John Hornbostel Valerie and Wright Ohrstrom * Francesca Olivieri and Christopher White Claudia and Gunnar Overstrom * Virginia and Stuyve Pierrepont Anne Prosser and Hollis Russell * Tory and Nelson Walsh Melissa and Chris Worth In her book Plastic Inc., Gardiner offers an up-close look at the plastic industry’s relentless growth, extraordinary profits, toxic pollution, and its hidden role in exacerbating climate change. Through gripping storytelling, she reframes a problem many of us think we understand—revealing deeper roots and greater dangers than we realize. 6:00 PM – Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres & Book Signing 7:00 PM – Lecture Tickets (Advance registration required) $500 – Sponsor Ticket (Signed book included) $250 – Lecture Bundle Ticket (Signed book included) $195 – Lecture Only Ticket Attire: Jacket and Tie required. Please respond by May 1st. Space is limited.  For additional information or to sponsor the evening, please contact Deb Wiener 516.922.1028 deb@northshorelandalliance.org. About Beth Gardiner Gardiner is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of the book Plastic Inc., which examines the global plastics industry and its profound impact on human health and the environment. A longtime reporter on climate change, air pollution and environmental policy, her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Through deeply reported storytelling, Gardiner sheds light on the forces driving the plastics crisis and the solutions emerging around the world. Plastic, the foundational material of modern consumerism, is everywhere in our daily lives. But the oil and petrochemical companies making it are hiding in plain sight. Because for all the vivid coverage of where plastic ends up, there is remarkably little discussion of where it comes from. Today, industry is pouring billions of dollars into plans to double, or even triple, the amount it churns out, even as individuals concerned about plastic’s out-of-control proliferation try to use less. As Big Oil stares down a future of diminishing demand for fossil fuels, plastic has become its financial lifeline. Award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner gives readers an up-close look at the plastic industry’s relentless growth, its extraordinary profits, its toxic pollution and its hidden role in exacerbating climate change. Plastic Inc.’s gripping stories will reframe for readers a problem many of us think we understand, but which has deeper.