![]() ![]() One of my personal favorite books, "Greenwood" explores one family’s multi-generational relationship to a forested island off the coast of British Columbia. ![]() Also, Barack Obama put it on his 2020 favorite books of the year list, so that’s something. Collected by the aptly named Ministry of the Future, first founded in 2025, these perspectives provide a hopeful, desperate and relatable future for the human race. "The Ministry of the Future" is a novel told exclusively from the perspective of fictional eye-witness accounts about how climate change impacts humanity in the future. Just the mention of Kim Stanley Robinson in my company’s Slack group resulted in many excited responses - we’re thrilled that he’s a confirmed speaker for VERGE 22, our climate tech event in October. ' The Ministry of the Future' by Kim Stanley Robinson They have been meticulously cultivated from Goodreads, my library and the GreenBiz Group Slack group. Disclaimer: I have not read all of these books. (Cut me a break, it's a super-specific topic.) If you came for climate tech, you’ll like this list. So today, I’ve decided to throw us all a genetically engineered/3-D printed bone and offer a list of books about climate tech, or that are climate tech adjacent. Me, too! And then, after that first thought, do you search for a climate tech-specific novel and discover that they are few and far between? Me too! This problem is the bane of my existence. Thanks for all of you who have embraced our changes and engaged with us in our interactive efforts to inform and reflect Minot and the region.Happy Friday! How often do you sit in bed and think, "I wish I had a book to read that focuses on climate tech"? More times than you can count? Well, color me surprised. This summer is seeing change, just as last summer did. I will introduce them in this column space in a few weeks, and I am sure many of you will get to know them over the course of the rest of the year.įolks think of spring as the time for renewal, but around Minot Daily News, it is an ongoing thing. Fortunately, we have found two energetic and engaging local writers eager to join the team this month. Change is eternal in newspaper and the call of home took two of our folks away from the newsroom. I will share more about them as they develop.Īlso in the next few weeks, I will have the pleasure of introducing a pair of new staff members. In the weeks ahead, we are going to continue tweaking the look of the front page and some section fronts, introducing some new features and columnists and some other changes here and there. The new artist feature, hopefully a re-visioned Food section, and some snazzier graphics are just a few of the changes being made at Minot Daily News this summer/fall. I’m not much of a pitch man type, but I did want to point out that I am still hoping for local home cooks to send me recipes of their favorite family dishes or recipes representing your cultural traditions. We are still hoping for more and still planning on publishing the essay at the end of the month or so, in time to bid summer farewell. Thank you to all of the photographers who have sent their pictures representative of summer. We hope to be able to continue our artists’ profiles as a regular feature – it’s just a matter of finding enough interested individuals.Īlso this past week, contributions to our summer scenes photo essay picked up quite a bit. Those who have not yet been in touch, please do drop me a line. We are thrilled to be able to profile you, and I appreciate the tremendous social media effort by so many in the arts community to help us get the message out. Thank you, Arvin, and all of the other artists who have zealously embraced this opportunity. All of this in just one week, before we have even had time to sit down with the good folks from MSU and local high schools to discuss introducing student artists. Next week, we will meet another local artist, and so on. Davis kicked this new feature off, with a very interesting interview and glimpse at his work in this past Thursday’s Arts section. A diverse array of artists have been in touch and so far, each has been scheduled on my calendar for a feature on their work – now stretching into October! Artist Arvin K. Well, color me… shocked thrilled excited? I am at a rare loss for words here – and in a good way! The response has been incredible. Just a week ago in this column, I rolled out (or re-rolled out) several interactive initiatives we are working on, including a call for local artists to get in touch and let us introduce them and their work to our readers. So, imagine my joyous surprise this week, sorting through my email. We aren’t the only newspaper whose staff is often surprised with what “works” and what doesn’t, in terms of generating excitement. Here I will let you in on a little secret. ![]()
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