Virtual Nature Book Club – April 2022

Date/Time
April 28, 2022
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Enjoy reading books with a nature/environmentalism theme? Join NC’s monthly book club!

New Month, New Book!

We meet on the 4th Thursday of the month via zoom (registration required to receive the link). We welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities to join. Whether or not you’ve read this book, please feel free to come and participate in the discussion!

*Registration is required. Click here to register.

Participants can expect discussion around the book, intellectually stimulating conversation, and a shared passion for all things nature. This month’s pick, Drawdown is available as a book or as talks found online (links below).

Drawdown – 1 hr talk with Paul Hawken 

100 solutions to reverse global warming – 17 min talk with Chad Frischmann

Book Description:

Cover for “Drawdown” edited by Paul Hawken

In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination.

If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.

 

This is a free group. Please email us at [email protected] if you need assistance or accommodations with the subject line: Book Club.


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