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Tonight's Discussion

We will each share what we learned and thought about one of the subject areas: technology, food, fashion, and fuel. If you didn't have a chance to finish or read the book, that's ok! We'd love to see you anyway!

Inconspicuos Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
by Tatiana Schlossberg

Meeting date: Zoom Meeting on Tuesday April 28
Location: Wherever you are!
Time: 6pm

The link for the zoom meeting will be sent out to you if you RSVP!

Virtual Volunteer Opportunites
You can still volunteer your time remotely from your computer!

For our stay-at-home service activity, we invite you to explore your yard with one or both of these citizen science opportunities. Take photos of you in action and we will share them on our socials and at our April 28 meeting!

1: Flowering Dogwoods Cloned Plants Project
Participate in a regional campaign for National Phenology Network to help researchers answer key questions, get info-rich emails with localized results, and an end of season summary. They need help identifying characteristics of dogwood trees. If you have one of these nearby, sign up to input information about your flowering tree!

2. iNaturalist in your backyard!
iNaturalist is a hub run by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. Get outside and make some observations from your own backyard! Plants, insects, birds, and more can be photographed and tagged with a pin. If you have identification skills, they also need help with the millions of nature observations submitted. Even the first step of information is helpful for posts with zero tags -- identifying whether a photo is of a plant or animal!

For more ideas, see How to Help Scientists Without Leaving Home.

Help pick the next book!

We are seeking your input to help make this book club great!

We have a long Amazon list filled with amazing suggestions from members. Please view the list here. We are collecting answers and additional feedback via this short 2 minute survey!

Thank you so much!

All about Irises

Irises is TWIG's brand new book club for current members! The Iris is the Tennessee State Flower, and a fitting acronym for what we hope to read together!

What's so different about our book club? Each meeting we will meet and discuss what we've read AND we will pair a service activity to go along with each book to support a local non-profit or sustainability initiative in Tennessee!

Meetings are every other month with a rotating location. The book club is led by
Renee Barker and Leah Sherry, and input from members is always appreciated.

Feel free to bring a friend who is not a member of TWIG! Their first two meetings are free (same as monthly meetings) and thereafter will be $5 per meeting.