Net Impact Seattle :: Professional Chapter

Reminder! The January Book Club is on the 11th at 6:30 PM

When: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Where: Jessica Greenen’s House in Capitol Hill/Madison Park (address is email to those who RSVP)
Book:Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why no one saw it Coming by Paul Hawken
Cost: Free!
RSVP: to Jessica. Please advise of any dietary restrictions as well.
More info: Email Shara Senior

Start of the new year with a though provoking dinner and discussion of Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest. The book is the leading environmentalist and social activist’s examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change.

About the book:

Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries.

Blessed Unrest, Tuesday January 11 at 6:30 PM

When: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Where: Jessica Greenen’s House in Capitol Hill/Madison Park (address is email to those who RSVP)
Book:Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why no one saw it Coming by Paul Hawken
Cost: Free!
RSVP: to Jessica. Please advise of any dietary restrictions as well.
More info: Email Shara Senior

Start of the new year with a though provoking dinner and discussion of Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest. The book is the leading environmentalist and social activist’s examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change.

About the book:

Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women, Thursday, October 28 from 6:30 – 8:30

When: Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: Life Enrichment Bookstore, Columbia City, 5023 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle map
Book: Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Cost: Free!
RSVP: Not necessary for this month. Just get the book and start reading!
Contact: For more information about the Net Impact book club, contact Shara Senior.

“Stunning . . . [Half the Sky] belongs on the ‘must-read’ list because it offers perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism for why and how each of us can and should meet one of the great moral and humanitarian challenges of our times.” -Bill Gates, Sr., The Huffington Post [...]

“The boy who harnessed the wind” discussion coming up: Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM

Be sure to let Erin know if you are planning on attending this weekend’s book club meeting. Find out more about this month’s selection on the original post here. It’s an amazing story!

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Saturday September 11, 2010 1:00 PM

Join us for the next Seattle Net Impact book club get together, where we will be discussing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind while enjoying a barbecue and drinks.

This amazing story is about a boy in Africa who teaches himself how to build a windmill, and improves life for himself and his village. It’s truly inspiring and an amazing story! Here’s a short review:

“Discarded motor parts, PVC pipe, and an old bicycle wheel may be junk to most people, but in the inspired hands of William Kamkwamba, they are instruments of opportunity. Growing up amid famine and poverty in rural Malawi, wind was one of the few abundant resources available, and the inventive fourteen-year-old saw its energy as a way to power his dreams. “With a windmill, we’d finally release ourselves from the troubles of darkness and hunger,” he realized. “A windmill meant more than just power, it was freedom.” Despite the biting jeers of village skeptics, young William devoted himself to borrowed textbooks and salvage yards in pursuit of a device that could produce an “electric wind.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is an inspiring story of an indomitable will that refused to bend to doubt or circumstance. When the world seemed to be against him, William Kamkwamba set out to change it. –Dave Callanan, amazon.com”

The get together will be at Net Impact Member Erin Burke’s house on Bainbridge Island, approximately 5 miles from the ferry. Please contact Erin directly if you’d like to attend and she will send you more information.

Hope to see you there!

‘Deep Economy’ discussion this thursday July 28, 2010

You still have time to read the book! Deep Economy promises to provide plenty to talk about. Book club is this Thursday from 6:30 – 9:00. Contact Melissa for more info.
Check out a summary of the book on the original post here.