nature book club

Get together, expand your knowledge of the natural world, meet other folks, and have a good time!
Nature Book Club meets monthly, is free, and open to all.

Nature Book Club is a great way to keep up on your nature learning, meet new people, read new books, and participate in discussion about the ways nature writing shapes our experiences and relationship to the natural world.
New folks are always welcome to join! 

The meeting date for Book Club has changed to Wednesday!

Nature Book Club now meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Online, contact us for the meeting link

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Next Meeting Wednesday, November 22 at 6:00pm.

Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
by Lewis Dartnell

When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human.

From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.

Upcoming selections:

October:  Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
November: Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
December: The Wolverine Way by Douglas Chadwick
January:  American Snakes by Sean Graham
February: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
March: Netting the Sun: A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert by Melvin Adams
April: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcomb
May: The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop by Tristan Gooley

Also check out our Tracking Club!