Book Club meetings
Books are an important vector of promotion for best practices in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.
That’s why Catalethique offers its members to meet on a regular basis to talk about a book they like. Members jointly choose a new book each 2 to 4 months.
Those meetings offer an opportunity to share experiences and points of view in a cordial and informal atmosphere. They take place in downtown Montreal , after office hours. Food and drink is sometimes served during the discussion. The course of the discussion is bilingual as well as the choice of the books.
The author or someone related to the subject of the book may be invited.
Please find below the 3 books that have been shortlisted for next book club meeting .
Click here to vote for your favorite
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Author : Elizabeth Johnston
Editor : Sound Proof Press( sep. 2008)
Number of pages : 156
ONLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
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Elizabeth Johnston is a long time Catalethique member.
After being awarded a Canada Council grant to write a book about the potato, she traveled to Prince Edward Island, Peru and Hungary for research and to interview people. Her fascination with the potato brings her on an absorbing journey through many of the pivotal issues affecting how we live today. The stark reality of GMO domination, leading to the destruction of agricultural communities, the limiting of food choice and the loss of traditional knowledge and farming practices is central to the book. She skillfully demonstrates how science has lost its integrity in response to the lure of big business but points out that there is hope for small scale farmers working to preserve genetic diversity and food security. Elizabeth’s account of how native Peruvians are reclaiming their dignity and spiritual connection to the land and her call for a grassroots movement for food independence make this a captivating read. Continue reading |
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Author : Anita Roddick
Publisher: Anita Roddick Books (May 30, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0954395956
ISBN-13: 978-0954395957
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| Business as Unusual charts the story of Anita and The Body Shop, and now in this new second edition for the first time Roddick talks about her work beyond The Body Shop. Anita tackles a wide range of personal and political issues from self-esteem, to human rights abuses within the context of corporate behaviour. Roddick explains that you can make a profit and make a positive contribution to the community; you can trade on a global scale and you can stick your neck out with campaigns for human rights, whilst opening scores of shops a year. Anita and The Body Shop is one of the business success stories of the century and this book shows you how and why.Read more |
 | Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: Clairview Books (16 Jun 2003)
ISBN-10: 1902636457
ISBN-13: 978-1902636450
Pages: 288 ALSO AVAILABLE IN FRENCH | | When Mike Bowlin, Chairman of ARCO, said in 1999 that "We've embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil," he was voicing a truth that many others in the petroleum industry knew but dared not utter. Over the past few years, evidence has mounted that global oil production is nearing its historic peak. Oil has been the cheapest and most convenient energy resource ever discovered by humans. During the past two centuries, people in industrial nations accustomed themselves to a regime in which more fossil-fuel energy was available each year, and the global population grew quickly to take advantage of this energy windfall. Industrial nations also came to rely on an economic system built on the assumption that growth is normal and necessary, and that it can go on forever.
When oil production peaks, those assumptions will come crashing down.Read more |
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Author : Hervé Kempf
Publisher : Seuil
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9782020975889
Nombre de pages : 168
ONLY AVAILABLE IN FRENCH
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| Dans les innombrables débats qui ont accompagné la publication de Comment les riches détruisent la planète, une question fut inlassablement posée à l’auteur du livre : que faut-il faire ? C’est pour répondre à cette interpellation – et à cette urgence – que l’auteur a écrit ce nouvel ouvrage. Il le fait dans le même style à la fois radical et rigoureux. À ses yeux, il est urgent de changer de modèle. Ce n’est pas l’économie de marché en tant que telle qu’il s’agit de dénoncer, mais la forme nouvelle prise aujourd’hui par le capitalisme. Une forme qui, mécaniquement, privilégie le gaspillage, le saccage de la planète, l’inégalité et la consommation ostentatoire. Cette dernière, qui est le fait des plus riches, fixe pour la grande masse des modèles de comportements désastreux. Lire la suite
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