KPU Spring 2024 Employee and Student Book Club
The Spring book club will take place Wednesday, March 13 2024, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm on Teams.
Not Too Late
Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
The KPU Climate+ Challenge and the KPU Library invite you to join us for a virtual book club where we will be discussing Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.
American author Rebecca Solnit is well known for her essay collections, tackling subjects from climate change to Indigenous rights to the joys of walking to the meaning of art. In Not Too Late, with her co-editor Thelma Young Lutunatabua, she gives us the case for climate hope.
The book is a collection of essays contributed by both Solnit and Lutunatabua as well as dozens of other people from around the world, all involved in the climate discussion. It’s easy to read, written in bite-size chunks, and makes the case for hope, which as Solnit argues, will be the driving force for change.
Hope means a person can see a possible positive future, one they can help shape. Hope also comes with responsibility.
“Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with, in an emergency,” Solnit writes in the book.
To learn more, pick up a copy of Not Too Late at the KPU library, and sign up for the March 6 online discussion, facilitated by KPU Journalism Instructor and former Vancouver Sun books editor Tracy Sherlock, who interviewed Solnit for Montecristo Magazine earlier this year.
Questions? Ask Us or email Tracy Sherlock @ tracy.sherlock@kpu.ca.
Previous Fall 2023 Book Club
The Fall book club will take place on Wednesday, November 15th 2023, 2:30 pm-3:30 pm on Teams! Register to join!
Enter to win a copy of Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast on by commenting on Instagram, details are in the caption.
KPU employees and students can enter by November 15, 2023 11:59pm PDT.
John Vaillant is winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for The Golden Spruce and British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for The Tiger. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus. Fire Weather was recently longlisted for the 2023 National Book Awards. John Vaillant lives in Vancouver.
On Wednesday, November 15th 2023 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm KPU students, KPU staff and KPU faculty are all welcome to join on Teams for a virtual book club where we will be discussing Fireweather: The Making of a Beast, by author John Vaillant.
Critics have called Fire Weather a “stunning account of a colossal wildfire” and a “panoramic exploration” of the rapidly changing nature of wildfire and our relationship to it. Weaving together an account of the 2016 Fort McMurray disaster with the legacy of this continent’s fossil fuel industries, Vaillant paints the shocking picture of a new kind of fire that is burning hotter and with more intensity than what we have previously known. Read against the backdrop of this latest fire season in British Columbia and around the world, Fire Weather is both an urgent call to action and a warning of this new destructive force.
“Reading Fire Weather this summer, seeing reports of wildfires in Greece, Hawaii, Chile, Australia, and speaking to friends as they fled their homes in the Yukon and the interior of B.C. means this book’s topic is already a reality for too many people around the world. John Valliant’s writing hits hard – he looks at just how we got to this point, he is unequivocal about the role of fossil fuels, and he covers the risks we face. I look forward to discussing ways to integrate the content into student learning.” (Sue Fairburn, Design Faculty / Researcher)
We invite you to read or listen to the book in print, eBook, or audiobook format and sign up for the online discussion. Wilson School of Design instructor, Sue Fairburn, will facilitate a discussion about the book. The discussion will be informal – your thoughts and feelings relating to the book are all welcome topics along with your ideas for how you might apply the book’s content to your courses!
KPU employees and students can find us on Instagram at kpuclimatechallenge! Contest closes November 15 2023 at 11:59 pm PDT.
The Book Club and Giveaway are open to KPU employees and students only.