Join the Sustainability Book Club on Thursday, October 11, at 12:30 p.m. in the Original Westhampton Deanery Living Room to discuss “Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment” by Sandra Steingraber. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome. Copies of the book are available through the library.
“In this compelling book, Steingraber uses her experience as a poet, a biologist, and a cancer survivor to lay out a persuasive case for the linkage between cancer and environmental toxins. Weaving scientific investigation with her own family’s history, she shows how the increased incidence of cancer in the rural areas of her native Illinois (and in similar communities nationwide) has gone hand-in-hand with increased levels of human-caused poisons in the environment.” – SciTech Book News, June 2010
November’s club meeting will discuss “Tomatoland” by Barry Eastbrook – available through the University libraries.
“In fast-moving, tautly narrated scenes, Barry Estabrook tells the startling story of labor conditions that should not exist in this country or this century, and makes sure you won’t look at a supermarket or fast-food tomato the same way again. But he also gives hope for a better future–and a better tomato. Anyone who cares about social justice should read Tomatoland. Also anyone who cares about finding a good tomato you can feel good about eating.” –Corby Kummer, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Pleasures of Slow Food
” `Tomatoland’ (is) in the tradition of the best muckraking journalism, from Upton Sinclair’s `The Jungle’ to Eric Schlosser’s `Fast Food Nation.’ ” —-Jane Black, The Washington Post
