Library
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
We will discuss a book about things we usually see as mutually exclusive: nature and cities. They aren’t as separate as we may think. In fact, cities teem today with plant life, insects and wildlife. And for the sake of cities, the author argues, we need them to teem even more. Ben Wilson is a…
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
We will discuss a book that shows us the infrastructure systems around us and helps us see their challenges and opportunities. The greatest challenges: adapting these systems to climate change as we transition them to new forms of energy. Another challenge: There are major issues with aging infrastructure, including water and sewers. We have experience…
Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River
“Keeping the Chattahoochee” is the memoir of an environmentalist, but it is also a book about what makes advocacy and reform effective. It’s explains how a small group, working in the right ways, forced a city to take on a problem its leaders absolutely did not want to deal with, the polluting of a river….