Environmental Book Club

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

2013

JANUARY
New Roots for Agriculture by Wes Jackson

FEBRUARY
Where the Sky Began: Land Of The Tallgrass Prairie by John Madsen

MARCH
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

APRIL
Wild Trees by Richard Preston

MAY
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow

JUNE
Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Original Hightower Report and Other Recent Reports by Jim Hightower

JULY
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works by Atina Diffley

AUGUST
Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are by Roger Fouts

SEPTEMBER
Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural by Wendell Berry

OCTOBER
Road of Souls: Reflections on the Mississippi by Nich Lichter

NOVEMBER
Good Food Revolution by Will Allen

Previous Books Read:

2012

• Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
• Eco Barons: the Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who are Saving the Planet by Edward Humes
• Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of A New World by Paul Gilding
• Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman
• Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Frazier Nash
• Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep & Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend
• Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell
• Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
• Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
• Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
• Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis

2011

• 1491 by Charles C. Mann
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Wicked River by Lee Sandlin
• Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
• Rats by Robert Sullivan
• The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
• Keeper of the Wild by Joe Paddock
• Eaarth by Bill McKibben
• Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
• Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte
• The Big Burn by Timothy Egan

2010

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

2009

• The Creation by Edward O. Wilson
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
• RiverKeepers by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp
• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor, and Vicki Robin

2008

• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
• Sustainable Operating Systems: The Post Petrol Paradigm by 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 by Chad Pregracke
• How to Live Well Without Owning A Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life by Chris Balish
• The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
• Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning
• Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson
• Mississippi Solo: A River Quest by Eddy Harris

2007

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