EA Forum Podcast (All audio) “Organising Bookclub: How to Create a Vegan World” by Indra Gesink 🔸
1. Introduction
One of the first activities I organized in Effective Altruism 3 years ago, after I participated in the first Dutch Effective Altruism Introductory course 3.5 years ago, was a bookclub on Tobias Leenaert's book How to Create a Vegan World. The proximate cause was that this was organized earlier once by Marieke de Visscher but not again and I also wanted to participate.
I ran it 3 or 4 times and am quite enthusiastic about it, so I want to share the format here to enable (and encourage) you, or someone else, to run it too. I’ll share the program setup and then the reflection questions to guide the conversation, which Tobias Leenaert as the author provided himself and okayed sharing. Both of the Google documents were shared in full and upfront with the participants, so people knew what to expect and could prepare. And as [...]
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Outline:
(00:12) 1. Introduction
(01:20) 2. Context on Organising
(01:25) 2.1: Sessions, Beforehand and Afterwards
(02:31) 2.2: Participants
(04:45) 2.3: Two equal parts build up this bookclub
(05:45) 2.4: Time-management
(08:48) 3. Impact
(10:58) 3.1: Evaluations
(12:06) 4: Program
(14:29) 5: Reflection Questions
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First published:
July 7th, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.