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The Book Club meetings are starting again! This quarter they will be Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in the PoE Commons. 

The first book of the quarter: ’The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture’ by Wendell Berry 

This books explores the idea of good farming as a cultural development and the importance of our connection to earth. Gain insight into how culture and agriculture affects us. 

First meeting is this week! Anyone is welcome! To hit the ground running, please read through the first two chapters. 

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Come join in with fellow PoE students and staff to discuss Gus Speth’s ‘The Bridge At the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability’. The book shows how purely economic growth focused ideologies only produce citizen welfare up to a moderate point, at which the cost of using the earth’s energy savings and feeding consumer culture does not produce happier people.

The book club meets at 1:30PM on Fridays in the PoE commons. The club will have read through Chapter 6 by this Friday’s meeting (1/25), but it is not required to be up to that point – anyone is welcome! 

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Come to the first book club meeting of the quart this Friday at 1:30 in the PoE commons! Regular meeting times will be determined at the first meeting.

This quarter’s first book is Gus Speth’s ’The Bridge At the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability’. 

The book shows how purely economic growth focused ideologies only produce citizen welfare up to a moderate point, at which the cost of using the earth’s energy savings and feeding consumer culture does not produce happier people. 

This takeaway fits the mission of the book club by enabling an educated and seriously legitimate challenge to the ‘growing’ ideology of the U.S. market. How would someone support an economic system that rethinks corporate boundaries, and requires that social costs cannot be an economic externality? Come to book club to discuss this issue and more!