Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni will be at Nat Geo on Friday evening. Image courtesy of National Geographic.

DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area

This week, we have a number of Earth Day discussions, including two promising events at National Geographic, a family day at the Anacostia Community Museum, and even a Corcoran lecture on sustainability in interior design.

Monday:
» At 7 p.m., Politics and Prose hosts essayist Adina Hoffman as she discusses her tribute biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammed Ali, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century.

Tuesday:
» The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World author and investigative journalist Michelle Goldberg appears at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss her most recent work which “exposes the global war on women’s reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences.”

» Learn about Evaluating and Collecting Craft tonight at 6:45 p.m. at the S. Dillon Ripley Center. The lecture costs $30, but includes a ticket to the Smithsonian Craft Show, which runs from April 23 to 26 at the National Building Museum.