Ecology Book Club

Are you interested in our impact on Planet Earth? The web of life? Climate change? Nature? Ecology? If so, this book club is the place for you! Join us as we continue our journey of lifelong learning! We generally meet the 4th Wednesday of each month at the Lindeman Center.

In accordance with guidance from the University, onsite programming is on hold to slow the transmission and spread of COVID-19.

We have a virtual meeting option!! Join our book club discussion via Zoom by going to z.umn.edu/bookclubonline (link will launch a Zoom meeting, active only during book club times). The password is Bookclub20.

The Ecology Book Club was originally developed as a capstone project for a group of Cedar Creek Master Naturalists in 2017. Since then, it has grown into a lively group that meets monthly to discuss and dissect books related to environmental issues. Fiction, non-fiction, heavy, light - we read it all! Books are selected by the club members, and no scientific expertise or background is necessary to participate. You don't even need to have finished the book!

We generally meet on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm, in the Lindeman Research and Discovery Center. Directions are here. DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, WE WILL NOT HAVE IN-PERSON MEETINGS. JOIN US ONLINE AT Z.UMN.EDU/BOOKCLUBONLINE. (password: Bookclub20)

Upcoming book club meetings:

July 22nd: Tales of the Shaman's Apprentice by Mark J. Plotkin

August 26th: Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell by Susan Leaf

Past books:

For Love of Lakes by Darby Nelson

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Half Earth by E.O. Wilson

The Sixth Extinction by Rachel Kolbert

Conservation on the Northern Plains by Anthony Amato