The Sustainability Committee invites you to join our Sustainability Book Club! Each semester we’ll read a different sustainability-focused book, then come together to discuss it and share our thoughts. Fall semester is reserved for fiction novels while the spring is reserved for non-fiction.
The Spring 2026 Book Club selection is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Published in 1962, this book has been credited with drawing both the public and public officials’ awareness to the horrific environmental effects of pesticides such as DDT. This engaging and seminal work reminds us of the importance of science based policy making and the impacts to water quality, ecosystem health and even human health if we choose to ignore scientific findings. Meetings are on Fridays from 2:30-3:30pm on February 6th, March 6th and April 3rd. The book is available online for free and can be found at the link below.
Please click on the link below to join the discussion!
Suggestions for future Book Club books can be submitted to Victoria Downey (Victoria.Downey@anokaramsey.edu). Our past books have included:
- Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors 2025 Stories (Fall 2025)
- Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Spring 2025)
- Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors 2024 Stories (Fall 2024)
- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (Spring 2024)
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Fall 2023)
- For Love of a River: The Minnesota by Darby Nelson (Spring 2023)
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (Fall 2022)
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