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How Roads Shape Our Planet: Insights from Ben Goldfarb’s Crossings
"Crossings"Â by Ben Goldfarb explores the impact of roads on ecosystems, highlighting how they fragment habitats, disrupt wildlife, and alter
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Planet & Pages
Join us as we read both non-fiction and fiction books about climate change. Together we will explore topics such as global warming, plastic pollution, environmental equity, and the proposed solutions to combat their effects. We will use “Cli-Fi” books to balance science with the human experience for a rounded understanding, and hopefully provide comfort and active purpose to build the future we want.
Meets at Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library. Session Recaps can be found at the bottom of this page.
October 9th
7:00-8:30pm
This novel centers around a small-town woman who discovers a mysterious phenomenon in her town—a colony of monarch butterflies far from their normal migratory route. It is a heady exploration of climate change, along with media exploitation and political opportunism that lie at the root of what may be our most urgent modern dilemma.
November 13th
7:00-8:30pm
In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways.
She documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now.
Session Recaps
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