Ecology Book Club
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:
April 28th, 2021 Wolf Island by David Mech
May 26th, 2021 Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
June 23rd, 2021 Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
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
The Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris
The Life and Death of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
A Love Affair with Birds by Sue Leaf
Climate, A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
A Naturalist At Large by Bernd Heinrich
The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
Deep Woods, Wild Waters: A Memoir by Douglas Wood
The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation, by Fred Pearce
Listening Point by Sigurd Olson
Our Native Bees by Paige Embry
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans de Waal
The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben
Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird by Katie Fallon
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Wild and Rare-Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest by Adam Regn Arvidson
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
Rising by Elizabeth Rush
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
The Big Marsh by Cheri Register
Tales of the Shaman's Apprentice by Mark J. Plotkin
Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell by Susan Leaf
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology by Margaret D. Lowman
The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark. J. Plotkin
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina