2026 MNIPL Winter Book Club
This winter, MNIPL is launching a Winter Book Club to read inspiring works speaking to this moment in our collective climate crisis. If you’ve been wondering how to access hope for your continued work on climate action, these books are for you! Please join us!
Every month January – March, we’ll read a recent book 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: A Last Chance for the Climate and A Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben
Thursday, January 8 | 6:30 – 7:45 pm CT | Zoom
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.
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Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the Word
Thursday, February 5 | 6:30 – 7:45 pm CT | Zoom
Mini-Forest Revolution is about a movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and towns by transforming empty lots, backyards, and degraded land into mini-forests. Author Hannah Lewis is the forest maker turning asphalt into ecosystems to save the planet and she wants everyone to know they can do it too.
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About Power: How to Democratize Electricity Now by George Crocker
Thursday, March 5 | 6:30 – 7:45 pm CT | Zoom
A primary reason we have accelerating Climate Chaos and profound societal inequity is that society delivers electric utility services upside down and backwards. On the demand-side, electric utilities are healthier financially when they emit more pollution, and conservation reduces their earnings. On the supply side, big, very expensive power lines are being built to accommodate renewable energy development.
While acknowledging a host of existential threats, About Power makes the case that society’s major problems can be reduced, if not solved, with proper management of energy resources.
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