**Offsite location** This book club will meet at the Community Center, 39 Marrett Road, Lexington

LexCAN is pleased to co-sponsor a new "Climate Book Club" in partnership with Cary Library.

This month we will be discussing, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben.

The book club will be held in person, approximately once a quarter.  Books will alternate between fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on hope for the planet. The book club has chose a fairly new book and we are working on getting copies for you to borrow at Cary Library. 

Please register as space is limited.

About The Book (from billmckibben.com/books/here-comes-the-sun/)

Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history—if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance.

Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind—and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the world’s sixth-largest economy—California—nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or hold it in reserves—it’s available to all.

There’s no guarantee we can make this change in time, but there is a hope—in McKibben’s eyes, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world. 
(https://billmckibben.com)