COURSE READINGS

READINGS

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All We Can Save is a collection of poems about the environment and climate change from women primarily from North America. It is edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble.

Octavia Butler offers a framework for transforming the climate movement that is personal, relational, and organizational. By Adrienne Maree Brown.

Paul Hawken speaks on an approach to the climate crisis that is inclusive and effective. The regeneration movement speaks on justice, biodiversity, human dignity, and more.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.

Rupa Marya and Raj Patel discuss the concept of inflamed bodies, an inflamed society, and an inflamed planet.

Reading Recommendations

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People and Planet. Thomas, Leah. 2022

Climate Justice, Adaptation and Investing in Indigenous Power (Digital version) NDN Collective. 2021

Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury, Ray. 1953

Parable of the Sower. Butler, Octavia. 1993

How Beautiful We Were. Mbue, Imbolo. 2021

The Serviceberry. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2024

Our Favorite Quotes:

You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in a drop. -Rumi

Transform yourself to transform the world. - Grace Lee Boggs

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root". – Angela Davis

Justice is what love looks like in public. - Cornel West

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. -Margaret Cho

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach. - Will Durant

Leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom. - Robin Wall Kimmerer

All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. - Octavia Butler