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"GOMOBAAT - Gathering Our Minds One Book At A Time". The Greener Reader is a consciousness raising book club focused on reading and discussing texts (and sometimes films) that intersect with the topics of sustainability, place, "Cli-Fi" and potential futures, democracy and civic engagement, environmental ethic, history from the perspective of food and other underrepresented perspectives, contested narratives, and the “unspoken complexities of the human heart”. We meet (almost always) on the last Tuesday of every month to read together in silent solidarity, share what we're reading, and discuss the book of the month. 1-3 times a month we gather in public green space to read as well.
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Upcoming Events:

TODAY Tuesday December 17th @ Impact Hub 6 pm - 7 pm silent free read and potluck, 7 pm introduce each other and share thoughts and feelings about Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm pitch and vote on Greener Reader's 2020 list! See below for the options we'll be voting on

Tuesday January 14th @ The Kahala Hotel 7 pm - 8:30 pm UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series: David Wallace-Wells is the Deputy Editor at New York magazine, where he writes a column on climate change, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, and co-host of the 2038 podcast, which interrogates predictions about the next two decades.

Never been to a Greener Reader meeting before?  It's a little something like this (start at 0:44)

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If you only have a small chunk of time to immerse yourself in Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell today, think about these below
What Do You Want to Read In 2020?

We gathered book suggestions from the most faithful Greener Readers and other bibliophiles we dreamed and schemed with throughout 2019, and we'll vote to read one of each of their suggestions in 2020! Click to view their suggestions and join us at 7:30 pm for their pitch and then we vote.

2019's Reading List
* Discount for Greener Reader on Bulk Book
Buy at our Favorite Local Bookstore *

Da Shop has copies of several of our 2019 reading list. Support this community-minded bookstore in Kaimuki and get a discount. 10% off 1 book from the list, 15% off 2 books, and 20% off 3 or more! Just mention at the register you're part of the Greener Reader book club.

For 2019, book recommendations fell under one of these categories:1) A book related to a place you're from (author, setting, or topic) 2) Indigenous author 3) A perspective other than your own (however you want to interpret this) 4) A memoir or biography on a leader 5) Books from one of these nine sci-fi sub-genres to help us understand the future 6) Books related to Hawaii 7) A book from the Slow Books 2019 reading list by Slow Foods Oahu and Da Shop.

January 29th: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan. Qualifying category: A perspective other than her own (psychedelics). Follow up material sent from folks after the meeting:
February (March 11th): Unsheltered: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Qualifying category: A book related to a place Raf's from (the US) and a fictionalized biography of a leader (Mary Treat)
March 26th: The Power by Naomi Alderman. Qualifying category: Kitchen sink dystopia. 5+ copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

April 30th: Becoming by Michelle Obama. Qualifying category: A  memoir of a leader). Over 2 million people bought it. Borrow someone's copy!
May 28th: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Qualifying category: A memoir or biography of a leader. 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries.

June 25th: Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood. Qualifying categories: Climate Fiction ("Cli-Fi"). 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries.

July 30th: Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard. Qualifying category: A book related to Hawaii. 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries.

August 27th: Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder. Qualifying category: The New Weird. 5 copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

September 24th: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. Qualifying category: A book related to a place Mikey is from (Mumsie's kitchen table). 4 copies available in Hawaii libraries.

October 29th: Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman. Qualifying category: Slow Books 2019 reading list

November/December 3rd: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Qualifying category: Indigenous author. 5 copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

December 17th:  Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell. Qualifying category: Related to Hawaii. 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries. Meet, Eat, & Determine 2020's list!!
 
 
 
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