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November 26, 2024
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GARNA Book Club
Deepen Your Ecological Literacy
Joining GARNA’s book club lets you explore environmental issues through diverse voices, fostering a deeper connection to nature through thought-provoking discussions.
Examining topics like road ecology, walking as a mindful practice, climate change, water management, and the wisdom of trees will broaden your perspective and empower you to be a better steward of our planet.
2024 Book Club Reads
Oct - Dec A Place Unmade by Carla Seyler.
Meeting Dec 4, with the discussion led by the author!
6pm. Location likely at the Valley View School House!
July - Sept - Fireweather by John Vaillant
Meeting September 9. 6pm at Elevation Beer
April - June - Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science, by Jessica Hernandez
Meeting July 15th at Howard General
Jan – Mar – Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
2023 Book Club Reads
In 2023 we hosted a “Year to Walk” with the Salida Walking Club
A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time by Antonia Malchik
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time by Annabel Streets
WALK – Slow Down, Wake Up and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour by Jonathon Stalls.
Prior Year's Books
- Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Where the Water Goes by David Owen
- Trees and Other Witnesses by Kathy Taylor
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- September 3 – River Notes: The Dance of
- Herons by Barry Lopez.
August 6 – Desert Notes: - Reflections in a Raven’s Eye by Barry Lopez. .
- Tuesday, July 2 – The Nature Fix, by Florence Williams.
- *Author Florence Williams will speak at GARNA’s Nurturing Nature Gala on July 7, taking place at the Barn at Sunset Ranch in Buena Vista.
- Tuesday, June 4 – The Overstory, by Richard Powers.
- July 3 – Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, by George Marshall.
- June 5 – The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History by David Beerling.
- May 1 – Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up by Daphne Miller.
- April 3 – Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben.
- March 6 – The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan.
- February 6 – Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier, by Jeffrey A. Lockwood.
- January 9 – Wildness: Relations of People and Place, edited by Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer.
- December – Arctic Dreams, By Barry Lopez.
- November – The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben.
- October – A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist’s Bicycle Journey Across the United States, by David Goodrich.
- September – The Soul of an Octopus; A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery.
- August – The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker.
- July – The Planet in a Pebble, by Jan Zalasiewicz.
- June – Grass, Soil, Hope by Courtney White with a forward by Michael Pollan.
- May – Half Earth by E.O. Wilson.
- April – The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
- March – Rising From the Plains, by John McPhee.
- February – Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World, by Dan Riskin Ph.D.
- January – All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West, by David Gessner.
- January – The Animal Dialogues, by Craig Childs
- February – The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, by Charles Fishman
- March – The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World, by Joel K. Bourne, Jr.
- April – The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka.
- May – House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, by Craig Childs
- June – The New Wild by Fred Pearce
- July – Song of the Alpine, by Joyce Gelhorn
- August – Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: The Making of the American West, fifteen essays by Wallace Stegner
- September – The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
- October – Underground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape our World by Yvonne Baskin
- November – The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples, by Tim Flannery
- December – The Log from the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck
- February – Silent Spring by Rachel Carlson
- March – Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants, by Jane Goodall
- April – The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- May – The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
- June – Anthill, by E. O. Wilson
- July – The Invisible History of the Human Race, by Christine Kenneally
- August – Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect, by David W. Orr
- September – Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America , by Bruce Babbitt
- October – Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Phillip Connors
- November – Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee, by Hattie Ellis
- December – Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, by Bernd Heinrich
- June – Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
- July – A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
- August – Moby Duck, by Donovan Hohn
- September – Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, by Edward Glaeser
- October – Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Release 2.0 by Thomas L. Friedman (November 2009)
- November – Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose–Doing Business by Respecting the Earth by Ray Anderson
- December – Desert Wife by Hilda Faunce
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