What is Titan? Well, Titans were mythical figures who were overthrown by the younger Olympian gods.

But Titan is also a cement company that wants to come in from Greece and set up shop in my adopted hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina. It is trying to build a plant on our river (the Cape Fear) that will produce a million or so tons of cement.

The trouble is, the plant will also produce mercury that recent health studies suggest could be deadly.

I decided that an occasion like this called for a children's book. So here is A Child’s Guide to Titan:





P.S. Find more at Stop Titan. You can also sign the petition here.

P.P.S. Here's a a movie called “Stop the Titan Hippies” that I made with a student activism group at the University of North Carolina Wilmington called “The Eco Avengers.”