The Eliza Cabot Follen Library, tucked in next to the Community Center, has a book for you!

Amy from the Follen Library Team recommends three books on the topic of our environment.

Coming to the Library Soon

• What If We Got It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
  Answers to the environmental problems of our fragile world require policy, scientific, societal and cultural action. The authors of these uplifting essays offer an additional element—the ability to imagine a future world that is healed and thriving.
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  A perfect book for the idea of the interdependent web. Native American author Kimmerer weaves together her training as a botanist and professor of plant ecology with her passed-down indigenous knowledge to help us understand our relationship to living things. With an appreciation of our interdependence, we can come to a new understanding of our role in healing our planet.
• Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, by Catherine Coleman Flowers
  Author Flowers has spent her life fighting for environmental justice, particularly in unprotected communities. Here, she draws together history and science, illuminating her and others’ efforts to bring together people of diverse views for common good. A great book to lead us all to action.

Currently on Display in the Library

•  Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice, by Aviva Chomsky
  Through a series of questions, Chomsky makes it clear that climate justice is not a single scientific matter.  It is inextricable with issues of inequality – social, racial, and economic.
• Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World, by Kate Schapira
  As an antidote for her own feelings of climate change helplessness, author Schapira set up a booth around Providence, RI with a sign inviting people to sit down and talk with her about their own climate anxieties. Ten years and around 1,200 conversations later, she wrote this book, sharing the thoughts and feelings brought up in those discussions, and elucidating the actions that people were doing—or could do—to help our planet.

Find these titles in our online catalog or on the shelf in the Follen Library!