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Book Club Schedule
Sierra Club Book Club Biddeford Schedule
Want to
explore Hubbert's Peak? Read and discuss stories of nature? Concerned about
sustainability of fossil carbon based economy? Worried that having more hybrid
vehicles may not be enough? Then join us for our book club
at the McArthur Library (270 Main St., Biddeford, 284-4181) on
Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8 pm!
We will begin by understanding the problems and end with some solutions (and
have some fun conversations in the process)!
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SERIES:
Living on Earth: New and Old
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Tuesday October 10, 2006
The Edge of the
Sea
by Rachel Carson, Intro by Sue Hubbell.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A brilliantly
written argument that changed the course of history.
– Al Gore
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Tuesday,
November 14, 2006
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Sunlight warms the
Earth with life. As our culture moved from ancient hunting/gathering times
to the technological era, we discovered ancient sunlight -- captured
millions of years ago by plants and compressed into oil deep under our soil
and oceans. Now, as our planet's oil supplies are projected to last no more
than thirty to fifty years, and species and cultures are dying off at an
unprecedented rate, we confront difficult choices. For more info:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/last.shtml.
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Tuesday,
January 9,
2007
Walden,
Lesson for the New Millenium
by Henry David Thoreau, Intro and annotated by Bill McKibben.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The classic – need we
say more?
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Tuesday,
February 13, 2007
Hope, Human
and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth by
Bill McKibben.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Essays on successful collaborations
between man and Mother Nature from the New Yorker staff writer who wrote the
bestselling The End of Nature. --Publisher’s Weekly |
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Tuesday,
March 13, 2007
The Wild
Within by Paul
Rezendes.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Rezendes (Tracking and the Art of
Seeing) takes readers on a hauntingly beautiful journey into the woods
of the American Northeast. Drawing on his treks taken alone, with
experienced nature adventurers and with neophyte students, he depicts a
variety of human encounters with bears, loons, deer, bobcats, coyotes, fox
and moose, and ultimately, with the nature of the universe, life, humanity
and self. – Publisher’s Weekly
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Cradle to
Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
and Michael Braungart
BOOK DESCRIPTION
William McDonough's new book, written with
his colleague, the German chemist Michael Braungart, is a manifesto calling
for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent
design.
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Tuesday,
May 8, 2007
An
Inconvenient Truth
by Al Gore.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Our climate
crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is
happening very quickly-and has become a true planetary emergency. – (I)nconvenient
truths do not go away just because they are not seen. – Al Gore
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Contact |
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Contact
David Mokler (602-2210 or dmokler@une.edu)
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