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After Geoengineering - Holly Jean Buck.
Hothouse Book Club 18/11/2024 Hothouse Book Club 18/11/2024

After Geoengineering - Holly Jean Buck.

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The Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Hothouse Book Club 10/09/2024 Hothouse Book Club 10/09/2024

The Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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Drawdown - Paul Hawken
Hothouse Book Club 02/08/2024 Hothouse Book Club 02/08/2024

Drawdown - Paul Hawken

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Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change - Nathaniel Rich
Hothouse Book Club 04/06/2024 Hothouse Book Club 04/06/2024

Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change - Nathaniel Rich

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The Value of a Whale - Adrienne Buller
Hothouse Book Club 23/04/2024 Hothouse Book Club 23/04/2024

The Value of a Whale - Adrienne Buller

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Feminism or Death - Françoise d’Eaubonne
Hothouse Book Club 18/03/2024 Hothouse Book Club 18/03/2024

Feminism or Death - Françoise d’Eaubonne

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Regenesis - George Monbiot
Hothouse Book Club 30/01/2024 Hothouse Book Club 30/01/2024

Regenesis - George Monbiot

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What We Need To Do Now - Chris Goodall
Hothouse Book Club 05/12/2023 Hothouse Book Club 05/12/2023

What We Need To Do Now - Chris Goodall

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Less is More - Jason Hickel
Hothouse Book Club 30/10/2023 Hothouse Book Club 30/10/2023

Less is More - Jason Hickel

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It's Not Just You - Tori Tsui
Hothouse Book Club 05/09/2023 Hothouse Book Club 05/09/2023

It's Not Just You - Tori Tsui

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Who Owns the Wind - David Hughes
Hothouse Book Club 09/08/2023 Hothouse Book Club 09/08/2023

Who Owns the Wind - David Hughes

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Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
Hothouse Book Club 21/06/2023 Hothouse Book Club 21/06/2023

Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

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Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit
Hothouse Book Club 13/04/2023 Hothouse Book Club 13/04/2023

Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit

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On Fire - The Burning Case For a Green New Deal - Naomi Klein
Hothouse Book Club 20/03/2023 Hothouse Book Club 20/03/2023

On Fire - The Burning Case For a Green New Deal - Naomi Klein

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Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Hothouse Book Club 11/12/2022 Hothouse Book Club 11/12/2022

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Who Owns England - Guy Shrubsole
Hothouse Book Club 21/09/2022 Hothouse Book Club 21/09/2022

Who Owns England - Guy Shrubsole

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm
Hothouse Book Club 14/08/2022 Hothouse Book Club 14/08/2022

How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm

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Saw this via @adriennemareebrown and it’s been rolling around my brain for the last few weeks and has really emphasised what I love about reading the books we read at Hothouse and then discuss together. So much of it is about listening to the a
Hi everyone! We can’t quite believe it’s been TWO YEARS of @hothousebookclub , thank you so much for being part of the community 🫶🫶🫶🫶 Diyora and I wanted to check in as we begin to prepare for 2025 and ask you for some feedback on ho
Reposting the @climatefictionprize’s long list from @climate__spring for anyone who wants to read some fiction about the climate crisis! I’m really excited to read orbital soon - @isseymg “Nine novels, including Booker Prize-winne
Hi everyone! Apologies that the next date is a little later than planned it’s a small team behind hothouse and we’ve all been rather swamped lately. That being said we’re getting BACK on it and would love to see new and old faces at
Last session we read The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. It was an interesting one, while I loved the focus on decay and the possibility it holds as well as the west’s f
A big thank you to everyone who joined the discussion of ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World’ a few weeks ago! It was great hearing all your perspectives on precarity and its possibilities as we near environmental collapse. The conversa
Our next book will be ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins’ by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. We will be meeting on the 15th October at Housmans (ticket link in bio).

A tale of diversity within o
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming is challenging to review, given it’s a textbook (whoops, we didn’t realise before seeing it in person😅). However, I found it an incredibly valuable resource fo
Oops, we got so wrapped up in the last session that we forgot to snap any pics! So, here’s a quick cameo from one of our furry Hothouse members with the book instead! 🤭 This time, instead of sticking to our discussion based approach to sessio
Hothouse wouldn’t exist without the support of London’s independent book stores (love u @housmans_books 🫶), but another favourite of ours @thecommonpress needs some help to continue existing!! (We’ve posted a donation link in stori
Hi everyone! Our next book will be ‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming’ by Paul Hawken. We’re meeting on the 3rd September after our summer break! Ticket link in bio🎟️ Drawdown presents
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change was a text we desperately needed to read as a book club. Our membership is fairly young, with most of us born after 1990. Though I can’t speak for everyone, I imagine that our unders
I think about this quote from Arundhati Roy talking about the Occupy movement in the epilogue of Capitalism: A Ghost Story a lot, but in reference to the climate just world we want to build. Today feels like one of those days where you can hear thi
After some pesky technical issues we FINALLY present to you the third episode of the Hothouse Podcast discussing ‘Feminism or Death’ with @alicecappelle_!! In this episode we discuss Ecofeminism as well as key themes of the book and als
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