Environmental Book Club

Organizer: Gladwyn d'Souza

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Description:

Meets the second Saturday of the month via Zoom at 10:00 AM. Started by the San Carlos Belmont group of the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club. Email [email protected] for a zoom link. See current books for the Qeustions used for discussion.

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Book list 2024

January, "Fire Weather" by John Vaillant.
February, "Wild Horse Country" by David Phillips.
March, "Butcher's Crossing" by John Williams.  
April, "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility" by Rebecca Solnit, editor.
May, "Crossings" by Ben Goldfarb
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June, "Leave The World Behind" by Rumaan Alam
July, “Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold
August, The Shadow Docket by Stephen Vladeck
September, “Parable of the Sower,” by Olivia Butler
October,
November, 
December, Zora Neil Huston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
 
 

Book List 2023____________________

January: Water Always Wins- thriving in an age of drought and deluge, by Erica Gies
February: Nomad Century- How climate migration will reshape our world, by Gaia Vince
March: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
April: Under The White Sky- the nature of the future by Elizabeth Kohlbert
May: Regenesis- Feeding the world without devouring the planet by George Monbiot
June: Euphoria by Lily King
July: The Flag The Cross, And The Station Wagon by Bill McKibben. 
August: Rescuing the Planet- protecting half the land to heal the earth by Tony Hiss. 
September: The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
October: There Are No Accidents- the deadly rise injury and disaster, who profits, and who pays the price by Jessie Singer
November: Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman
December: How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

Book list 2022_________________

Jan- Yellowbird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Feb-  Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
Mar- Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel By: Anthony Doerr
April- As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 
May- Downriver: Into The Future Of Water In The West, by Heather Hansman.
June- Lost Mountain by Anne Coray
July- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
August- Short Circuiting Policy by Leah Cardamore Stokes
Sep- Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
Oct- Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Nov- Owls of The Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
Dec- What strange paradise Omar El Akkad

Books we read in 2021 

January- Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet, One Bite At A Time by Mark Hyman
February- The Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz. 
March- The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California By Mark Arax
April- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
May- The Omnivore’s Dilema by Michael Pollan
June- The Ministry Of The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
July- Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
August- The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them, by Alex Rogers (2019).
September- Entangled life- by Merlin Sheldrake
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet - by Paul Stamets (ed), et al.
October- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
November- Superman’s Not Coming by Erin Brockovich.
December- Farm City: the education of an urban farmer by Novella Carpenter
Floats-
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein 
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet - by Paul Stamets (ed), et al.
A Planet To Win: Why we need a green new deal- By Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea RioFrancos
Places to buy your books.
Bookshop.org
Thrift books
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