TINDERBOX

a book club

Finding new ways of thinking about Earth with science and storytelling.

Join us for the launch of Tinderbox, a new book club dedicated to exploring the critical issues facing our warming planet.

Together, we’ll dive into powerful books that uncover the science, stories, and solutions behind climate change and environmental justice.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Saturday, June 28

11 AM

Catalyst Coffee

102 N Naches Ave

Yakima, WA 98901

Questions?

You can reach out to Charley at 425-306-1046.

At our first meeting, we will discuss The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail–a deeply moving exploration of climate impacts and the urgent call to action. There is no expectation that you will have read the full book prior to this meeting! If you would like to do some pre-work, there are 3 copies in the Yakima Valley Library system.

Take a peek at our suggested reads below and help us decide on our first read.

Let’s learn, reflect, and grow together as a community committed to climate awareness and action.

Help us decide on our first read together!

  • Book cover of The Heat Will Kill You First

    The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

    The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks.

    A masterful, bracing, vivid portrait of the future we now know will be shaped, like clay, by that heat–a godlike force, as Goodell writes, governing all life conducted under its profound and brutal reign.

    –David Wallace-Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling The Uninhabitable Earth

  • Book cover of Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation

    Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation

    A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown

    Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded.

  • Book cover of The Sixth Extinction

    The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

    Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.