Degrees bonus episode: Staff picks

Great reads and listens: Inspiration from the Degrees team

Happy holidays listeners! The Degrees team is taking the week off, but we SO appreciate you that we wanted to gift you a few recommendations: things that have inspired us, fed our souls, stretched our brains, or made us laugh over the course of this strange year. We hope they do the same for you! Stay tuned: December 28 we’ll bring you an incredible interview with Bill Weihl, a superstar of sustainability.

Here’s a re-cap of our team’s recommendations

From Yesh:

• The Second Mountain – The quest for a moral life by David Brooks
• Hello Monday with Jesse Hempel podcast (Yesh gives a shout-out to the June 1st episode with Reid Hoffman)

From Rick:

• Kitchen Confidential – Adventures in the culinary underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• This Species Moment – On Being podcast episode with Agustin Fuentes
• Piano and a Microphone by Prince

From Amy:

• iNaturalist app
• All We Can Save – Truth, courage and solutions for the climate crisis edited by Anya Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine Wilkinson
• How to Save a Planet podcast
• The Energy Gang podcast
• Climate Connections podcast
• A Matter of Degrees podcast

From Cristina:

• Rad American Women A-Z by Miriam Klein Stahl & Kate Schatz
• Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
• Girls Can Do Anything! by Caryl Hart
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
• “A handful of Nora Roberts‘ novels”
• The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris

From Lindsey:

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (audiobook version)
• 1619 podcast

From Elaine:

• The Cathedral Within – Transforming your life by giving something back by Bill Shore
• On Writing – A memoir of the craft by Stephen King
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle
• I Think You’re Wrong, but I’m Listening by Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers
• Pantsuit Politics podcast
• Two Wild Trips with Surprisingly Happy Endings podcast