The book club will discuss

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

at the Schrader Center in Oglebay Park at 7pm.

Join the Environmental Book Club at Oglebay’s Environmental Schrader Center in Oglebay Park, Wheeling, WV every Third Thursday of the month at 7pm.

This month we will be discussing:  Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.

Note that this is not a book of poetry, as I originally thought, but, it was reviewed on Orianmagazine.org here.

Hope you can join us!

Third Thursday November 17th at 7pm World on the Edge by Lester R. Brown

The Schrader Center is located within Oglebay Park in Wheeling West Virginia.

Lester Brown’s World on the Edge has been praised…

“World on the Edge is brilliant. Author Lester Brown is one of humanity’s greatest voices for the environment. In this volume, he presents the reader with a clear prescription for restoring sanity to our relationship with the biosphere. Highest recommendation.”—Geoffrey Holland, Author, The Hydrogen Age

“This is the ultimate survival guide for our species. Lester Brown plots a path around and beyond the looming environmental abyss with courage, compassion and immense wisdom.” —Jonathan Watts, Asia Environment Correspondent for The Guardian and author of When A Billion Chinese Jump

“No one is better informed than Lester Brown of the multi-faceted crisis facing our planet. And no one has spelt out so clearly how our civilisation could be saved from falling ‘over the edge’ while there is—hopefully—still just time.” —John Rowley, founder/editor www.peopleandplanet.net

“Lester Brown has produced another ‘planetary survey’ book that tells us how to get off the wrecking train we are on by courtesy of a dozen environmental assaults such as climate change. The better news (and there’s plenty) is that turning problems into opportunities generally puts money into our pockets.” —Norman Myers, 21st Century School, University of Oxford

“World on Edge details the vice closing around us:  a quadruple squeeze of global warming and shortages in food, water and energy. Then it explains the path out—and how little time we have left to take that path.  Got anything more important to read than that?” —Peter Goldmark, former head of the Port authority of New York and New Jersey, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and CEO of the International Herald Tribune

Praises were found on the Earth Policy Institute website, where I also borrowed their images.

Please join us this evening to view the acclaimed film, The Future of Food.

Join us this Third Thursday, October 20th at 7pm to discuss

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

The Environmental bookclub meets at the Schrader Center of Oglebay in Wheeling, WV every third Thursday of the month. We discuss books ranging in topics from food, environmental impacts, and those that question how to live a more thoughtful lifestyle. Do you have something to share with your experiences? Will we address a question you’ve been pondering? Join us to find out. This month we will focus on a memoir by Kristin Kimball. Kristin, a past freelance writer, has run the Essex farm since 2003 with her husband. She has made the press a few times. Look at these sources found on her website, Food & Wine, and Oprah’s O Magazine to learn more about her engaging life change.

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This Third Thursday, September 15th at 7pm American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel

The Environmental Book Club at Oglebay’s Schrader Center will be reading American Chestnut this month instead of the scheduled book, The Dirty Life. We will read The Dirty Life, by Kristen Kimball in October 2011.

Join us at 7pm, September 15th, the Third Thursday of this month to discuss this literary work. Enjoy the excerpt below.

The tree looks like an aging champion struggling to stay upright until the last round. It is badly bruised. A major branch is missing. But it still has a heavyweight’s build and a veteran’s endurance. Perhaps 150 or two hundred years old, this tree is one of the few survivors of a century-long plague that has brought down nearly every mature American chestnut tree from Georgia to Maine. At sixty feet tall and nearly four feet wide, it’s the largest chestnut left in the species’ historic range.
Until recently, the tree had the company of a few other chestnuts in the nearby fence row. One succumbed to the chestnut blight; another was pushed over by a pasturing horse. So now it sits majestically alone, behind a horse-proof fence erected by volunteers. We step through the gate and into the tree’s shrunken kingdom, a shady chaotic patch of yarrow, blackberry bramble and thistles.
It’s soothingly green beneath the tree’s magnificent canopy. The bark is deeply furrowed and all along the main stem are sunken blackish spots, healed scabs from the tree’s epic battle with the chestnut blight. Patches in the crown are brown and dying. The oval saw-toothed leaves are bumpy with bug infestation. Last winter’s storms brought down a branch bigger than a man’s leg, leaving the tree with a lopsided look. “I don’t know how much longer the poor fellow’s going to last,” says the current owner of the land.
Yet, the tree hangs on: sixty-plus feet of blind hope. New shoots sprout from its roots. And the tree remains faithful to the seasonal script, even though it’s a lonely solo performance. Each June, it bursts forth with bushy, cream colored blossoms, undeterred by the absence of other chestnuts to receive the pollen or reciprocate. Each October, the branches dangle dozens of burs, the prickly brown husks that are supposed to protect the tree’s precious cargo, its seeds. The ground around the tree is littered with the dried-out burs of last fall. I nudge a few open with the toe of my shoe. Every single one is empty.

I’m not someone who hugs trees or talks to them. Yet in such a situation, it’s easy to anthropomorphize. When I press my hand flat against the weathered trunk, I could swear I feel life itself pulsing inside.

Join us next month on the Third Thursday, October 20th at 7pm to discuss  The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

Third Thursday, August 18th at 7pm The Long Emergency:  Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler

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Check out these sources for book reviews below:

Natural News Book Review , Common Ground USA , & Tree Hugger

The Environmental Book Club meets every Third Thursday of the month at The Schrader Center at Oglebay in Wheeling WV at 7pm.

Please join us this month when we discuss:

 Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating by Jeffery M. Smith

What is a GMO? Check out Seeds of Deception website to find out.

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating by Mark Bittman ~

Because we are what we eat, please join us, the Environmental Bookclub at Oglebay’s Schrader center, for lively discussion, coffee, and the occasional homegrown, yummy treat.

Welcome to the Environmental Book Club at The Schrader Center!

Last Month we watched The Power of Community with Faith Morgan. This month join us for the viewing of KiloWatt Ours!

The book club meets every third Thursday of the month at 7pm, to discuss a book, watch a film, meet community members who are like-minded. For a full listing of what we’ll be up to for the next year check out the Future Books tab above!

Join in the discussion, give us the examples you practice in your life to be more energy-efficient and see what your neighbors are doing! I grabbed the descriptions below from Kilowatt Ours Website. Hope you can make it!

Introduction to Kilowatt Ours

 Chapter 1: Mountain Top Removal

 Chapter 2: Five Tons of Coal Per Year

 Chapter 3: Our Planet is Warming

 Chapter 4: Altering an Eco-System

 Chapter 5: Poisioning Our Grandchildren

 Chapter 6: Changing Our Direction

Chapter 7: In Search of Savings

 Chapter 8a: Conservation Power Plant

 Chapter 8b: Alternative Energy Solutions

 Chapter 9: Net-Zero Energy

 Chapter 10: Take the Kilowatt Ours Challenge!

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