Environmental Book Club
Organizer: Gladwyn d'Souza
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
Book List 2023____________________
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
Powells
Current Read
Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang, America's Horse
By: Gladwyn d'Souza
ISBN: 9780393635300
Questions: Why is the treatment of wild horses disturbing?
- What does it mean to have wilderness? How do indigenous fit into this understanding?
- How does science further our understanding of wilderness? Who inhabits the range?
- What does does hollywood play in myth, memory, and the making of wild horses?
- How are bureaucracy, BLM, and regulatory...