The Delaware Nature Society and Sierra Club of Delaware have partnered for this environmental book club. The books that we read are selected by our book club participants. Books on any environmental topic will be considered, from water, land or air issues to energy, wildlife, land use, transportation, and environmental justice. The number of exciting books on the environment is practically endless.
Special Book Club Sea Level Rise Awareness Week Book Club:
We will be reading Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 by John Berry.
Mark your calendars now for Thursday, September 19th at 6:00pm. We meet on the topmost floor of the DuPont Environmental Education Center in the Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge on the Wilmington Riverfront 1400 Delmarva Lane Wilmington, DE.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl is an American history book written by New York Times journalist Timothy Egan in 2006. It tells the problems of people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, as a disaster tale.
Fall in love with nature all over again with this compelling story written in 1924.
Winner of the 2008 Audubon Award, Richard Louv challenges us to rethink the importance of nature to healthy child development, not only to mitigate many of the health problems that children increasingly face (obesity, ADHD), but also to ensure that our current and future generations develop relationships and experiences with the natural world that he suggests are so critical to the future conservation of our planet.
Originally published in 1962, Silent Spring is both beautifully written and powerful. Carson is credited for raising public awareness of the impacts of chemical pesticides on ecological and human health and launching the environmental movement in the United States. Her work remains equally relevant fifty years after its first publication.
This highly readable book reviews the history of cod fishing, which spans more than one thousand years and takes readers on a journey from Europe to the Caribbean to the northern Atlantic coast of North America. The story of cod is one of adventure and environmental crisis, and Kurlansky tacks between these themes with a focus on future sustainability and the ocean policies needed to protect cod fisheries.
More Environmental Books
Environmental Justice and Pollution
Fisheries
Food
Water
Energy
