All We Can Save: A CSU reading group – The Cauldron
Facilitated by Dr. Mike Skladany, Camden Lockner, Kamyra Plicka, and Kayleigh Connors*; Department of Criminology and Sociology
Located on Cleveland State University’s campus from April 7th – June 9th
Synopsis
All too often, real solutions to the existential planetary crisis of climate change seem so far removed and at best, hopeless. Overwhelmingly, the slate of proposed climate “solutions” bandied about are jargon-laden, unrealistically utopian and far removed from the encroaching anxieties of the world’s citizens.
In our present-day dystopia, two facts remain; global mean temperatures continue to rise, and the world has not come to an effective consensus on how to resolve this growing ecological and human catastrophe.
The brilliant eco-anthology, “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis”, a collection of essays and poems by women at the forefront of the climate justice movement, recontextualizes the climate crisis by grounding it in our lives, places and spirits.
For the sake of our current and future generations, and especially Mother Earth, please join us as we embark on an inclusive march forward in addressing the most pressing issue of the twenty first century.
Schedule 6:00-7:15pm
| Date | Reading Section | Page numbers |
| April 7 | Introduction | Overview; Hoodwinked in the Hothouse |
| April 14 | BEGIN + Section 1: Root | All We Can Save: pp. xvii-xxiv, 3-48 |
| April 21 | Section 2: Advocate | All We Can Save: pp. 51-102 |
| April 28 | Section 3: Reframe | All We Can Save: pp. 105-144 Guest Discussant Tish O’ Dell CELDF |
| May 5 | Section 4: Reshape | All We Can Save: pp. 147-183 Guest Discussant Jennifer McMillin SOPEC |
| May 12 | Section 5: Persist | All We Can Save: pp. 187-227 |
| May 19 | Section 6: Feel | All We Can Save: pp. 231-283 |
| May 26 | Memorial Day | Library closed |
| June 2 | Section 7: Nourish | All We Can Save: pp. 287-320 Guest Discussants Shallana Davis Rid-All Green Partnership; Dr. Ben Belton, MSU & IFPRI |
| June 9 | Section 8: Rise | All We Can Save: pp. 323-368; 371-374 |
*Notable guest discussants throughout our sessions
April 28th Tish O’ Dell, Consulting Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund https://celdf.org/
May 5th Jennifer McMillin, Regional Director for Northeast Ohio for Sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council https://www.sopec-oh.gov/
June 2nd Shallanna Davis, 2012 CSU Alumni, Rid-All Green Partnership https://ridall.org/
June 2nd Dr. Belton, Associate Professor of International Development, Michigan State University/ Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh https://www.ifpri.org/profile/ben-belton/