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sustainNU is trying out a new program to help staff connect with others and learn about new things people are reading and learning. 

Northwestern is committed to creating an environmentally sound, socially just, and economically sustainable culture. For our first Environmental Book Club, we want to take this moment to highlight black environmentalist voices. Check out these book recommendations and let us know what else we should be reading! Staff and faculty are invited to discuss these or other book recommendations as a community this Friday, June 5th, at our Environmental Book Club. 

Please bring a book recommendation. It can be one you recently read or would like to read, and should be related to the environment or sustainability. It can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, really anything! 

Some recommendations for discussion this Friday: 

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage (2010) by Dianne D. Glave 

Birding for Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers (2007) by John C. Robinson 

The Environment and the People in American Cities: 1600s-1900s. Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change (2009) by Dr. Dorceta Taylor 

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille T Dungy 

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham