Past Month’s Books & Discussions

On April 19th, 2012 at 7pm for Poetry Month we read: Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield. See a review here.

On March 15th, 2012 we watched a film:

Alone in the Wilderness as shown on PBS.

On February 16th, 2012 we discussed Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe and other selections as read by our members. Reading an array of John Muir’s writings, and other author’s accounts gave our discussion a well-rounded perspective of this man’s fantastic life.

See a review of this book here by Char Miller.

On January 19th, 2012 we discussed

Journey of the Universe

by Mary Evelyn Tucker partners with cosmologist Brian Swimme

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/6356/

On November 17th at 7pm we discussed

World on the Edge by Lester R. Brown

Drought Ice Melting UN Relief South African Shantytown Bicycles Windmills Solar Panels Smokestacks Forest Coins Grain Population

Earth Policy Institute - where I also borrowed images.

On October 20th at 7pm the bookclub met to discuss The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball.

On September 15th at 7pm, the bookclub met to discuss American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel

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

On July 21st at 7pm the Environmental book club met to discuss Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating by Jeffery M. Smith

June 16th at 7pm Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating by Mark Bittman

May 19th at 7pm Film Viewing of Kilowatt Ours

April 21th, 2011 Film Viewing of The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil at 7pm with special guest, director of the film, Faith Morgan!

March 17th, 2011 – The Bookclub met to discuss When Smoke Ran Like Water : Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Lee Davis and had an enlightening conversation on health, prevention, and the power of knowledge. See the discussion notes here.

February 17, 2011 -Bookclub met The Music of Nature Lang Elliot, an expert in recording the sounds of nature, was at the Schrader Center for a free evening presentation entitled, “The Music of Nature: Soundscape Recordings as Art Forms” on Thursday, February 17th Lang has provided a link to his blog in which he demonstrates one of the ideas we are exploring. Take a listen.

November 18, 2010 – Small is Beautiful : Economics as if people mattered by E. F. Schumacher

October 21, 2010 – Walden by Henry Thoreau

September 16, 2010 - Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What we Buy Can Change Everything by Daniel Goleman

This past August we met to discuss Biomimicry: innovation inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus

In July of 2010 we read The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel

Limits of Growth – The 30 year update Donella H. Meadows & Jorden Randers & Dennis Meadows is the book we chose for our June discussion.

To promote gardening and instill a sense of providing for yourself, we kicked off the summer with May’s book selection of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow

The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg was April’s book of discussion.

In March 2010 we read the selection Mad Cowboy : Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman & Glen Merzer.