2009 Book Selections
February 19th 2009 Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friendman
March 19th 2009 Animal, Vegetable, Mircle by Barbara Kingslover
April 16th 2009 Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollen
May 21st 2009 Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
June 18th 2009 Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future By Bill McKibben
July 16th 2009 A discussion lead by Rich Sidwell on ‘The Passive House’
August 20th 2009 Better Off : Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende
September 17th 2009 Gone Tomorrow:The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers.
October 15th 2009 The Hawk’s Nest Incident: America’s Worst Industrial Disaster by Martin Cherniack
November 19th 2009 Massive Change by Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard
December 17th 2009 Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature by James William Gibson
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2010 Book Options to be Voted on January 21st
Silent Spring by Rachael Carson
Limits of Growth : The 30 year update by Donella H. Meadows
Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal by Peter Thompson
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunster
The Last American Manby Elizabeth Gilbert
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Snow Leopard by Peter Mathiessen
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Kingbird Highway: the Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kauffman
A field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Ceremonyby Leslie Silko
An American Land Ethic by M. Scott Momaday
The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
Right Relationship, building a whole earth economy by Peter Brown and Geoffrey Garver
The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones
Blessed Unrest, how the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming by Paul Hawken
Pedal Power, the quiet rise of the bicycle in American public life by J. Harry Wray
Plan C, community survival strategies for peak oil and climate change by Pat Murphy
Crisis Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture by John E. Ikerd
Biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature by Janine Benyus
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything by Daniel Goleman
The Long Descent: A users’s Guide to the End of the Industurial Age by John Michael Greer
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki
Uncommon Grounds The History of Coffee And How it Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health by Sidney MacDonald Baker
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect by David W. Orr
Small is Beautiful: economics as if people mattered by E.F. Schumacher
When Smoke Ran Like Water : Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Lee Davis
In Defense of Food : An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Real Food; What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck.
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