Ecology Book Club
The Ecology Book Club meets online each month on zoom (register at z.umn.edu/bookclubonline). A few times a year, they also meet in person at the Lindeman Center (2660 Fawn Lake Dr. NE, East Bethel).
Virtual meeting option: join the discussion via Zoom by going to z.umn.edu/bookclubonline and registering for upcoming meetings. A link will be sent to your email. If prompted, the password is Cedar123.
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 on zoom. Register at Z.UMN.EDU/BOOKCLUBONLINE to receive connection information. A few times a year, the club additionally gathers in person at Cedar Creek's Lindeman Research and Discovery Center. Directions are here.
Upcoming book club meetings:
May 25th: The Marsh Builders: The Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife, by Sharon Levy, Karen White, et al.
June 22nd: The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Millman
July 27th: Upstream, by Mary Oliver
August 24th: A World Without Soil: The Past, Present & Precarious Futerr of the Earth Beneath our Feet by Jo Handelsman and Kayla Cohen
Living discussion and resources page: https://z.umn.edu/bookclubdiscussion
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
Wolf Island by David Mech
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas W. Tallamy
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght (with visit by the author!)
The Book of Hope – A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall