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The Environmental Book Club is starting a new book at the beginning of Spring quarter: ‘The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture’ by Wendell Berry, the “cultural and economic critic, and farmer” (wiki). It was written following the infamous declaration of ‘get big or get out’ in US agricultural policy. But to what degree has the decline of Agriculture and the rise of “agri-business” been a corollary of American rural culture’s decline?
 
Here’s a doodle poll for next quarter so we hit the ground running, check out the book.
http://www.doodle.com/6s9givwsbhv2ztft 
 
The Book Club’s goal is to stimulate additional thought on the environmental ideas available in literature, and to be able to articulate that understanding in environmental studies.

Rainy Day+Great Book=PoE Bookclub!!!!

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TODAY!!!

12:30PM

PoE COMMONS

Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book, we welcome everyone to join!!

Great discussion, warm tea, and lovely people.

Hope to see you there!

More info about the PoE Bookclub:

Join an Environmental Book Club with free coffee:
Don’t join a different one. The goal is to read literature that is influential to the environmental movement and develop environmental perspectives that are in tune with whatever you think the environmental movement should really look like, and your ability to fight apathy accordingly. Envir post docs and students collectively winnow out ideas to create succinct environmental perspectives/arguments/essays/ethics or anything. Participation is more essential than being up to speed with the reading.

The first book: ‘Blessed Unrest: How the world’s largest movement came into being and why no one saw it coming’ Paul Hawken 2007 
Friday, 1230-130 PoE Commons Wallace Hall

Please read the recruitment letter if you’re interested, and for more details.

Robsm2@uw.edu