Leading Change Through Words
Let's read, write, and talk about climate and what we want our future to be
Let's read, write, and talk about climate and what we want our future to be
All are welcome at writing workshops and a climate reading book group at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca NY. Come in person for a rewarding get-together including visits with guest authors and poets. Led by Wendy Skinner.
Former founder and director of SewGreen, a textile reuse organization that saved more than 350 tons of materials from going to landfills, Wendy is rediscovering writing and new ways to connect with community.
CLIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS
[DATES & TIMES TBD]
Bring ideas, what you're working on, or get help getting started. All levels welcome. Attend any or all workshops. Contact us for more information and a full list of dates. FREE & OPEN TO ALL.
CLIMATE READING BOOK GROUP
[DATES & TIMES TBD]
Contact us for the booklist and future dates. No need to r
CLIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS
[DATES & TIMES TBD]
Bring ideas, what you're working on, or get help getting started. All levels welcome. Attend any or all workshops. Contact us for more information and a full list of dates. FREE & OPEN TO ALL.
CLIMATE READING BOOK GROUP
[DATES & TIMES TBD]
Contact us for the booklist and future dates. No need to read cover-to-cover. The books are jumping-off points for discussion of our climate future and the world we want to leave our children. FREE & OPEN TO ALL.
Henry David Thoreau's "WALDEN" deserves a fresh look. In the 1850s, Thoreau tested the premise that the less one works for others, the happier one will be. He subsisted through his own labors in a tiny house he built, observing nature with minimal impact on his surroundings. He was arrested for refusing to pay taxes and subsequently wrote the seminal treatise, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," a later influence on Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance movement. See the blog for more.
Pull up a blank page or get out your notebook and admire the potential of that emptiness. It's ready for you to express your thoughts, feelings, knowledge. Here are some ideas to spark the synapses:
Who can you talk to about climate change? What do you not say, but wish you could? Write that down. See the blog for more.
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