Mark your calendar for upcoming Book Club selections/discussions

The book discussions are free and open to the public. All sessions begin at 7 p.m. and are held on the 4th Tue. of the month in the River Action office, 822 E. River Dr., Davenport.
 
 

2010 Environmental Book Club Selections

JANUARY 26
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond

FEBUARY 23
The Old - Time River Rats
by Kenny Salewey

MARCH 23
Man Killed by Pheasant
by John T. Price

APRIL 27
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
by Sue Halpern

MAY 25
In Defense of Food
by Michael Poilen

JUNE 22
Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
by David Wann

JULY 27
Where the Wild Things Were: life, death and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators
by William Stolzenberg

AUGUST 24
Krakatoa: The Day the Earth Exploded : August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester

SEPTEMBER 28
You are Here: the surprising link between what we do and what that does to the planet
by Thomas Kostigen

OCTOBER 26
The Land Remembers
by Ben Logan

NOVEMBER 23
Tales of an Empty Cabin
by Grey Owl

Previous Books Read:

2007
• The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
• The Last River Rat: Kenny Salwey’s Life in the Wild, J. Scott Bestul and Kenny Salwey
• A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, John M. Barry
• An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming, Al Gore
• The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, Tim Flannery
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, David Quammen
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Food, Michael Pollan
• Language of Landscape, Anne Whitson Spirn
• The End of the Wild, Stephen Meyer

2008
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
• Sustainable Operating Systems: The Post Petrol Paradigm, Michael Richards
• Green Living: The E/Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
• From the Bottom Up: One Man’s Crusade To Clean America’s Rivers, Chad Pregracke
• How to Live Well Without Owning A Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life, Chris Balish
• The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson
• Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning
• Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Kolbert
• Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, Edward O. Wilson
• Mississippi Solo: A River Quest, Eddy Harris

2009
• The Creation, Edward O. Wilson
• Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan
• Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, Vandana Shiva
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman
• RiverKeepers, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry
• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• No Impact Man, Colin Beavan
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp
• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor, and Vicki Robin

2010
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
• The Old - Time River Rats, Kenny Salwey
• Man Killed by Pheasant, John T. Price
• Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, Sue Halpern
• In Defense of Food, Michael Poilen
• Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle, David Wann
• Where the Wild Things Were: life, death and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators, William Stolzenberg
• Krakatoa: The Day the Earth Exploded : August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester
• You are Here: the surprising link between what we do and what that does to the planet, Thomas Kostigen
• The Land Remembers, Ben Logan
• Tales of an Empty Cabin, Grey Owl