MNIPL Winter Book Club: Here Comes the Sun
This winter, MNIPL is launching a book club to read interesting and informative works by writers and thinkers on responses to our changing climate. Please join us!
Every month, we’ll read a recent book by one of these writers to learn about innovative approaches to addressing climate change and to discuss how these ideas could work in our local context.
Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind-and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the world’s sixth-largest economy-California-nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy.
We will talk about our reactions to the book and the ways we can speed up this already stunning revolution.
No time to read? Here are a few of my favorite conversations about central ideas in the book:
- Bill’s interview with Lisa Smith on Big Bend Radio (26 minutes)
- Lengthier discussion on his book tour with Adirondack Explorer (1 hour 16 minutes)
- Big Ideas Radio (11 minutes)
Purchase here or from your favorite book purveyor.