Millis Reads About the Environment
January – December 2018
Summary: Started in 2013, Millis Reads is an effort to strengthen the Millis Community by encouraging everyone to explore and discuss the same topic in whatever way works for them. This year’s Millis Reads is all about the Environment. The Library is offering a list of suggested books, as well as hosting a film series, a speaker series, monthly discussion groups led by local experts, and multiple field trips.
Suggested Reading:
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Rachel Carsen
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
This Changes Everything by Naomi Kline
Film Series:
An Inconvenient Truth
Beasts of the Southern Wild
2012
Plastic Paradise
Speaker Series:
Robert Weiss, Energy Manager, Town of Millis
Elizabeth Kolbert, Author of Field Notes from a Catastophe
MassParks
Bioethics Professor
Wellesley College Professor
Tangerini’s Farm
FreshBox Farms
How to Green Your Home
Sustainable Gardening (partnership with the Millis Garden Club)
Discussion Circles:
Monthly
Field Trips:
EPA in Boston
Hike in Millis
School Connections:
Learning Garden
Book Club
Environment Fair (open to all ages in town)