Green Reads Book Club

Location:
Zoom
If you are concerned about protecting and conserving Georgia’s natural resources, join the Staff of the Georgia Conservancy for the Green Reads Book Club. We will delve into essential reads related to land conservation and protection, sustainable growth, and stewardship among other environmentally-focused subjects as we: · Inform ourselves, · Exchange new ideas, · Expand our minds, · Share our love of literature Some titles will be specific to Georgia. Others will be more global in perspective. Selections will include journalism, biographies, historical fiction, short stories, and novels, as well as literary works for younger readers.
The Green Reads Book Club meets online on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. via the Zoom platform.
Book Club Liaison: Liza Mueller
June Selection
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Previous Selections
Regeneration by Paul Hawken
The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart
Gonna Trouble the Water by Miguel A. De La Torre and Bill Ritter
Southern Water, Southern Power by Christopher J. Manganiello
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Leave It As It Is by David Gessner
All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fire in Paradise by Alastair Gee
The World of the Salt Marsh by Charles Seabrook
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
Drifting Into Darien by Janisse Ray
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward Wilson
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Home Place by Drew Lanham
My Work is that of Conservation by Mark D. Hersey
The World of the Salt Marsh by Charles Seabrook
Saving the Georgia Coast by Paul Bolster
The Genius of Earth Day by Adam Rome
Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South by Rick Van Noy
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The River of Kings by Taylor Brown
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
Drawdown by Paul Hawken