April 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at Cepeda Branch, Austin Public Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, Texas
Join us for a lively, stimulating, and often deep discussion with some really interesting people! Although we’ve been discussing articles the last few months, this month we will change back to discussing a book – because Bill McKibben’s latest book just came out: “Falter: Has the Human Game Began to Play Itself Out?” (For those who don’t know, Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org. If you want to get a copy, you have just over a week left to read it. If you’re not up to reading it, you can check out various review online, including the one in the NY Times Review of Books:
Of course, you can come without doing any of this reading just to enjoy the discussion. I will summarize the main arguments in the book for everyone.
March 26, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at Cepeda Branch, Austin Public Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, Texas 78702
Join us for a lively, stimulating, and often deep discussion with some really interesting people! This month the discussion will kick off with some thoughts on what we can learn from 350.org about effective social change.
As usual, we will meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, from 7:00pm
to 8:30pm on March 26th at the Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N Pleasant
Valley Rd, Austin.
Everyone attending will be loved! If you’re on Facebook, click on this link to RSVP and invite friends.
February 26, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin TX
Join us for a lively, stimulating, and often deep discussion with
some really interesting people! This month we talk more about a the
Green New Deal. Please read at least the first of the following articles
and come prepared for an interesting discussion on the many aspects of
this new initiative.
As usual, we will meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, from 7:00pm
to 8:30pm on Feb 26th at the Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N Pleasant
Valley Rd, Austin.
If you’re on Facebook, please follow this link to RSVP and invite friends.
January 29, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at Cepeda Branch, Austin Public Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, Texas 78702
Join us for a lively, stimulating, and often deep discussion with
some really interesting people! This month we talk about a the Green New
Deal. Please read the following article and come prepared for an
interesting discussion on the many aspects of this new initiative.
The article is written by Richard Heinberg. He is Senior Fellow of
the Post Carbon Institute and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost
advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels.
He has authored 13 books and scores of essays and articles that have
appeared in such journals as Nature, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The
American Prospect, etc.
As usual, we will meet on the last Tuesday of the month (which
happens to be the 5th Tuesday this month), from 7:00pm to 8:30pm on Jan
29th at the Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin.
As usual, we will meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm on Aug 28th at the Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin.
I will not be there this month, but the discussion will be lead by the lively and loving Alex Norton.
(We all love ‘ya Alex!)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off an upset win in a NY Democratic primary against an established incumbent, and will now likely be elected to congress this November. Her “Green New Deal” plan will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. Let’s start the discussion with this and see where it leads.
As usual, we will meet from 7:00pm to 8:30pm on July 24th at the Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin.
Hope to see you there,
Mike Ignatowski
Please go to our Facebook Event to RSVP and invite friends
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