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Welcome to the Sustainable Futures Book Club Web page. We are a book club that meets at the Redmond Library in Redmond, Washington -- second Wednesday of the month, 7 pm. The books for future meetings:
This is a very simple site, but there's one cool thing here -- in "Files," there's a spreadsheet with lists of interesting books and Web sites related to sustainability. Also, if you have a suggestion for a book to add to the spreadsheet, you can post your suggestion in "Discussions." For information about the Redmond Library, see http://www.kcls.org/redmond/.
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Books we discussed at past meetings:
2006:
Nov The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson
Dec Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
2007:
Feb Presence by Peter M. Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. Otto Scharmer, and Betty Sue Flowers
and Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Mar The Impossible Will Take a Little While by Paul Rogat Loeb
Apr The Earth's Blanket by Nancy J. Turner
May Ethical Markets by Hazel Henderson June The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry
or The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry
July Jump Time by Jean Houston
Aug Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin
Sept Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Oct Black Elk Speaks
Nov The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki
Dec Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
2008:
Jan Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot
Feb Any book about permaculture, esp. if by Bill Mollison or David Holmgren
Mar Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre by Cecile Andrews
April Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and others
May Any book about positive futures written by a politician (for example, Apollo's Fire by Jay Inslee) June The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
July Deep Economy or Enough by Bill McKibben (or any book by Bill McKibben)
Aug Any book by Brian Swimme (including A Walk Through Time, which was co-authored by Swimme)
Sept Any of three books about water: Mirage by Cynthia Barnett, My Story as Told by Water by David James Duncan, or When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce
Oct Any book by Thom Hartmann, especially What Would Jefferson Do? or Screwed or The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Nov Either How to Re-Imagine the World by Anthony Weston or Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Margaret J. Wheatley Dec Any book by Frances Moore Lappe (authored or co-authored) 2009:
Jan Simple Prosperity, or any book authored or co-authored by David Wann
Feb The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
Mar The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins Apr Any book in the trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson: Forty Signs of Rain; Fifty Degrees Below; or Sixty Days and Counting
May Any book by Riane Eisler, or David Korten's new book, Agenda for a New Economy June Ecological Literacy, edited by M. K. Stone & Z. Barlow or Original Instructions, edited by M. K. Nelson
July Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon or Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and others
Aug Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman or Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown
Sept Six Degrees by Mark Lynas or The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock
Oct The Gecko's Foot by Peter Forbes or Pulse by Robert Frenay
Nov The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan --OR-- Nature's Second Chance by Steven Apfelbaum Dec No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet... by Colin Beavan
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