Conservation Philosophy Reading Group

An on line discussion of books that have been or are currently being read by members of the Audubon Naturalist Society Conservation Philosophy Reading Group. We choose books, old and new, that collectively constitute the intellectual underpinnings of conservation philosophy.

December 28, 2020 The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect, by Wendy Williams

 

 

 

 

 

Review in Washington Post

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November 30, 2020 - Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, by Bathsheba Demuth

                NYT Review
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Oct 26 2020 - The Falcon Thief: A True Tail of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt of the Perfect Bird by Joshua Hammer

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the  Perfect Bird: Hammer, Joshua: 9781501191886: Amazon.com: Books

 





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Sept 29 2020 7:30pm by Zoom: Eager by Ben Goldfarb

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Review in Seattle Times

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Zoom Aug 31, 2020 - Semiosis: Sentience Take Many Forms by Sue Burke.

Wiki Review 

Semiosis

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“Climate change is basically
a capitalist catastrophe. We
have to create post-capitalism
to deal with climate change.”

-- Kim Stanley Robinson

Events/Links/Misc

Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
Smithsonian American Art Museum
March 20, 2020 - Jan 22, 2021

Video Tour




Other Books Under Consideration

  • 28 December, The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect, by Wendy Williams, 2020
  • 1 February 2021- Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, by Robert Richardson, 1986
  • 22 February 2021 - Terry Tempest Williams, your choice among her books including her classic Refuge and her newest collection of essays: Erosion: Essays of Undoing, 2019
  • March 29, 2021 The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham, winner of the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Award. He will join us by zoom!
  • tba - Vesper Flights, by Helen Macdonald, 2020.
  • Coffee: A Dark History by Antony Wild
  • Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands by John Clayton
  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
  • Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas
  • Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill Mckibben
  • New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
  • All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
  • The Gaia Hypothesiss: Science on a pagan planet by Michael Ruse
LINK TO LIST OF PAST BOOKS

Links

  • Audubon Naturalist Society
  • abebooks.com
  • Orion Magazine Book Reviews
  • Orion Author's Reading Lists
  • Book Reviews from Science Magazine
  • Leonardo Reviews
  • Mangoverde.com (World Bird Guide)

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