Current Selection:
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
Dates: March 10, April 7
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: University Hills Community Center Media Lounge
Past Selections:
Eye of the Storm: Facing Climate and Social Chaos with Calm and Courage by Terry LePage, MDiv, PhD (2023)
Inaugural Sustainability Book Club selection (November 2023-January 2024)
Calm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. But you need not respond with denial or despair. You can be the eye of the storm, calm and centered, living your values despite an uncertain future, and helping others to do the same. Eye of the Storm offers resources and stories from people around the globe that will build your practical and emotional skills to face whatever comes. Engaging and insightful essays, interviews, and reflections invite you to reorient your ideas of what matters, give you perspectives to face fear and loss with courage, and inspire you to live creatively and compassionately in hard times.
More Good Reads (suggestions from your Uhills neighbors):
NON-FICTION
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchey (2024)
Natures Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas Tallamy (2020)
How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts by Candis Callison (2014)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
Tending the Wild: by M. Kat Anderson (2013)
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit (2009)
Water Wars by Vandana Shiva (2002)
FICTION
The Future by Naomi Alderman (2023)
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2019)
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta (2014)