Sustainability Tips for the Week of October 2nd - October 6th: 
Reading about Climate Change
As we have for the past few years, the Michael Schwartz Library Sustainability Team will be sending out some sustainability tips each week of October, Campus Sustainability Month. Here are this week's tips!
Join the Library's Sustainability Book Club
Have you heard about the library’s sustainability book club? It’s not too late to join! This ten-week book club meets in RT 503 on Thursdays from 12-1pm, September 14 through November 16. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to participate. Register or reach out to Jenn or Mandi to join!
Looking for some inspiring sustainability-related reads? Here are some suggestions from Mandi and Jenn:
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Kimmerer shares her insights as a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, inspiring readers to gain a deeper ecological understanding of the natural world around. Highly recommended by Jenn! -
All We Can Save edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
A collection of essays, poetry, and art created and compiled by women, this book explores how we can muster creativity and courage to face our collective future. This is our sustainability book club book, so we highly recommend it! -
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Can Go From Here by Hope Jahren
Jahren, who is an award-winning scientist and teacher, explains how systems and everyday actions contribute to the climate crisis and what can be done to fight back. -
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
The result of an enormous effort, this seminal book compiles huge amounts of data to reveal the solutions to climate change with the biggest impact. -
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. -
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. -
Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change by Sherri Mitchell
Sherri Mitchell draws from Indigenous knowledge and ancestral wisdom, as well as her experience as a lawyer and activist, to address some of the most crucial issues we face today--including indigenous land rights, environmental justice, and our collective human survival. -
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth.
Looking for more options? Here are some inspiring lists for you to peruse!
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Titles for getting down to climate business now that children are back to school
from Yale Climate Connections -
7 Nonfiction Titles about the Climate Crisis
from the American Library Association
Feel free to share your other favorites with everyone!
Thank you for helping to make the campus more sustainable!
-This week's tips compiled by Jenn McMillin, CSU Sustainability Director and Mandi Goodsett, Performing Arts & Humanities Librarian, Michael Schwartz Library