What we’re about
We are professional women working in the clean technology and sustainability space, from the entry-level to the executive level. We meet regularly to network and learn the latest developments in the green movement from speakers and panelists. Topics covered include renewable energy (solar, wind biofuel, etc), water, smart grid, biomass, carbon reduction, sustainable transportation, energy efficiency, sustainability, green buildings and many other technologies that aim to make our world a cleaner, more sustainable place. This is the Los Angeles sister chapter of Women in Cleantech & Sustainability headquartered in San Francisco.
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Join WCS Book Club for the discussion on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Get the book here.
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- General ticket: $5. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed.
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- All registrants will receive access to a recording of the event.
The Cleantech and Sustainability Industries are dynamic and fast moving. To stay on top of the latest research and news it’s important to read. Unfortunately, as women, we are often pressed for time and may lack a community of like-minded individuals to engage with.
The goal of the WCS Book Club is to motivate women to come together to read the year’s most important sustainability books, while getting the chance to meet and befriend other women in the Cleantech and Sustainability Industries. What’s more intellectually stimulating than discussing transformative ideas with other passionate women?
Each year we will aim to read 3 books, and will have virtual events discussing each book. In addition we also have a WCS Connect Slack Channel, where the group can share related articles and thoughts pertaining to topics relevant to the book.
About the book (Amazon):
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon and five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book—gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred—and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
