New website coming
this spring!
You are warmly invited to HTL's Nature Book Club, with Rama Hamarneh, PhD. The book club provides a space to discuss books related to nature, together as a community!
Several times a year, we will meet on Zoom to discuss a book we have read, and the work's relationship to nature. We will explore multiple aspects of nature in literature - represented through multiple genres and authors from around the globe.
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, May 27 at 7pm on Zoom
The Zoom link for each meeting will be sent out to the book club email list a few days before the meeting. The book club is free to attend, and all are welcome.
For May, we're reading Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr.
Humans are one of the most extreme examples of life transforming Earth. Through fossil fuel consumption, industrial agriculture, and pollution, we have dramatically altered more aspects of the planet in less time than any other species, pushing Earth into a state of crisis. But humans are also in a unique position to understand and protect the planet’s wondrous ecology and self-stabilizing processes. Jabr introduces us to a diverse cast of fascinating characters—scientists, artists, and inventors; firefighters, spelunkers, and beachcombers—who have devoted themselves to this vital work. With compelling narrative, evocative descriptions, and lucid explanations, he shows us how Earth became the world as we’ve known it, how it is rapidly becoming a very different world, and how we—we who are alive at this crucial moment in the planet’s history—will ultimately help determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come.