Save Your Planet!
This fall at Jesse Smith library...

The Jesse Smith Library is one of many Rhode Island public libraries collaborating with the URI Fall 2008 Honors Colloquium to bring about public discussion of human-caused global change, its consequences, and potential response.

We will be forming a local People & Planet Book Discussion Group to meet once a month during the fall to read and discuss titles recommended by the Colloquium, and, at the end of the series, a scholar from URI will visit our group to lead a rountable discussion of the issues raised by our readings.

Please be sure to sign up for this important discussion series at the library's Circulation Desk. A limited number of copies of the discussion books will be available for participants to borrow.

JMS Library
People & Planet Discussion Group Schedule

September 24th at 7:00 p.m.
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs

October 22th at 7:00 p.m.
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas

November 19th at 7:00 p.m.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert

December: 3rd at 7:00 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion

URI Fall 2008 Honors Colloquium

Human activities are transforming the world at an extraordinary rate. The URI Fall 2008 Honors Colloquium will explore human-caused global change, its consequences, and potential human responses through a series of lectures, films, and panel discussions.

You can participate!

The URI Fall 2008 Honors Colloquium invites the public to attend their series of free events this fall. Events take place on URI's main campus in Kingston. Please click here for their schedule.