During these virtual times, we’re trying a new way to connect - a NOFA-VT member book club!
On Thursday, April 1st from 6:30-8pm, please join us to discuss All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson. This collection sets out to highlight a wide range of women’s voices in the environmental movement, most of whom are from North America. Connect with fellow NOFA-VT members during these socially distant times.
If you don’t have a copy of the book yet, you can contact your local library or consider purchasing from one of Vermont’s incredible independent bookstores. You can find a list here »
More about this collection from Goodreads:
All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States--scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race--and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.
Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save.
Past books:
On Thursday, January 21st from 6:30-8pm, please join us to discuss Sherri Mitchell’s important book, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. This is a great way to get ready for Sherri’s keynote at our annual Winter Conference and also connect with fellow NOFA-VT members during these socially distant times.
If you don’t have a copy of the book yet, you can contact your local library or consider purchasing from one of Vermont’s incredible independent bookstores. You can find a list here »
More info about the author: Sherri Mitchell - Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, is a Native American attorney, teacher, activist and changemaker who grew up on the Penobscot Indian Reservation. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change, and convener of the global healing ceremony, Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island. She is the founding director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the protection of Indigenous land, water and religious rights, and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. Sherri works at the intersection between Indigenous rights, climate change and conscious evolution. She has been a longtime advisor to the American Indian Institute’s Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth, and was a program coordinator for their Healing the Future Program. She has also served as an advisor to the Indigenous Elders and Medicine People’s Council of North and South America for the past 20 years, and is a consultant and Advisory Committee member for Nia Tero’s International Indigenous Land Guardianship Program. She currently speaks and teaches around the world.