We are pleased to announcethe return of Climate Wednesdays at Brooklyn Public Library! This series, presented by 350 Brooklyn, examines how Brooklynites can face the climate crisis and features experts and activists sharing their ideas and practical solutions to combat climate change. Launched in the fall of 2019, past events have explored how energy use, parenting, food, and our health are impacted by rising temperatures, pollution and natural disasters.
The next event on fossil fuel-free transportation (Wednesday, July 22, 7 pm) looks at sustainable transportation while considering the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our travel needs. Other events in the series will examine urban ecology, as well as the environmental and economic benefits of green collar jobs. Please note that registration is required for all events.
To celebrate our Climate Wednesdays series, we’ve selected a few books that explore climate change and how we can confront the climate crisis.
The Sustainable City by Steven Cohen
Cohen offers an approachable take on sustainable city planning, highlighting examples of how transportation, energy and waste are approached in urban environments around the world.
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Rising presents a harrowing picture of communities facing rising sea levels and severe weather across the United States, along with the plants and animals equally affected by climate change.
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
Environmental activist McKibben draws on his personal accounts of both local and international attempts to fight climate change and reflects on the importance of each.
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Based on seven years of reporting, Griswold illustrates the intersecting environmental, health and economic struggles faced by an Appalachian family in the midst of a natural gas boom.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth serves as a stark warning about the potential catastrophes brought about by climate change, and highlights the necessity of immediate action to avoid future crises.
Live Sustainably Now: A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life by Karl Coplan
Drawing on personal experience, Coplan shares a vision of how one can live sustainably in a fulfilling way.
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos
A Planet to Win calls for radical change to cut carbon emissions while generating equitable livelihoods for all Americans through the Green New Deal.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning, expansive novel about humanity's complex relationship to trees and the natural world.
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