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"OUR EARTH" Book Discussion Club

IN PERSON - Connie Morella Library

2025-11-22 15:30:00 2025-11-22 17:00:00 America/New_York "OUR EARTH" Book Discussion Club Come, share your ideas and learn more about environmental topics in this space for thoughtful exchange, around fiction and non-fiction books. Connie Morella Library -

Saturday, November 22
3:30pm - 5:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-22 15:30:00 2025-11-22 17:00:00 America/New_York "OUR EARTH" Book Discussion Club Come, share your ideas and learn more about environmental topics in this space for thoughtful exchange, around fiction and non-fiction books. Connie Morella Library -

Come, share your ideas and learn more about environmental topics in this space for thoughtful exchange, around fiction and non-fiction books.

Starting from a common base to have real discussions about the environment, this book discussion club is a great way to deepen ideas, have respectful debates while listening to the points of view of others and broaden our understanding and vision on this important topic. Together, we may discover new forms of commitment and imagine new sustainable and desirable horizons.

This month's selection is The lost trees of Willow Avenue: a story of climate and hope on one American street, by Mike Tidwell. A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees - all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and hurricanes. In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC. A love letter to the magnificent oaks and other trees dying from record heat waves and bizarre rain, Tidwell's story depicts the neighborhood's battle to save the trees and combat climate change: The midwife who builds a geothermal energy system on the block, the Congressman who battles cancer and climate change at the same time, and the Chinese-American climate scientist who wants to bury billions of the world's dying trees to store their carbon and help stabilize the atmosphere. The story goes beyond ailing trees as Tidwell chronicles people on his block sick with Lyme disease, a church struggling with floods, and young people anguishing over whether to have kids, all in the same neighborhood and all against the global backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and hurricanes. Then there's Tidwell himself who explores the ethical and scientific questions surrounding the idea of "geoengineering" as a last-ditch way to save the world's trees - and human communities everywhere - by reflecting sunlight away from the planet. No book has told the story of climate change this way: hyper local, full of surprises, full of true stories of life and death in one neighborhood. 

A limited number of copies will be available at the Check Out Desk. 

Questions about this program? Contact the branch at 240-777-0970.

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Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures and Discussions | Environment |

TAGS: | Indoor Program |

Connie Morella Library

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