Conservation Philosophy Reading Group

Reviewed in:

The Humanist

The Atlantic

New York Times

Companion book recommended by Ken:

The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse
(contains some fascinating insights into how Darwin and some of his contemporaries struggled with the conflict between their science and the religion that most of them were brought up with.)

Other Books Under Consideration

May 18, 2020: Napier Shelton’s A Life in Nature: At Home and Abroad. Napier will join us.
June 18, 2020: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, a novel which has now been on the NY Times best seller list for over 70 weeks
Grinnell by John Taliaferro
Natural Rivals by John Clayton
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (a Sally suggestion)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (Review)
Inheritors of the Earth by Chris D Thomas
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb (a Susan suggestion)
The Book that Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, by Randall Fuller, (also a Kent suggestion)
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land, by Scott Freeman
Seaweed Chronicles by Susan Hand Shetterly
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by JohnJoe McFadden’
The Year of the Turtle by David Carroll.
A Crack in Creation: Gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution, by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund by Charles F. Wurster
Rambling Through the High Sierra of California by Joseph Le Conte (1870)
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
The Moon by Whale Light.
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Croke
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince
The Gaia Hypothesiss: Science on a pagan planet by Michael Ruse
The Better to Eat You With: Fear in the Animal World by Joel Berger.

Conservation Philosophy Reading Group

Monday, 23 March, 2020: The Book that Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, by Randall Fuller

Monday, 27 January 2020: Horizon by Barry Lopez

Nnovember 25, 2019: Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter and Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman.

Sept 23, 2019 - Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans deWaal

July 1, 2019 - Nature Cure by Richard Mabey