Hello and welcome to The Prince George’s County Sierra Club Group ‘Environmental Book Club page! We meet about once each month to discuss books about environmental issues. All are welcome! We hope you will join us. The books we’ve discussed so far are listed below. We welcome your suggestions! To suggest a book or volunteer to lead a discussion, contact Na’ilah Dawkins. We hope you find the following list of books insightful, informative, and fun. The types of books we read vary in category to include educational, science, nature history, environmental policy, environmental science, botany, climate change, animals, sociology, food science, and more.
There are several reasons to start a book club. For our Group it made sense to us because in our book club we exchange various book titles previously unexplored, diversify our reading lists, explore deeper book themes and what we can learn from them, create healthy debates about many interesting environmental topics, engage in a fun social activity, and congregate with other bibliophiles (book lovers!)
Check the calendar for upcoming book discussions! We hope to see you at a discussion in the near future.
Please enjoy our current catalog of books discussed from 2020 to the present
Date Suggested by member
Book Title
05/12/2020 Na’ilah Dawkins
‘American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)’ by Jonathan Bloom
06/16/2020 Anne Riley, Janet Gingold
‘The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming’ by David Wallace-Wells
07/15/2020 Janet Gingold
‘The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate’ by Peter Wohlleben
08/18/2020 Janis Oppelt
‘The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human’ by Noah Strycker
09/15/2020 Nick Orrick Janet Gingold
‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming’ by Paul Hawken
10/14/2020 Janet Gingold
‘Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors’ by Carolyn Finney
11/17/2020 Lily Fountain
‘Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer (part 1)
12/08/2020 Lily Fountain
‘Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer (part 2)
12/15/2020 Janet Gingold
‘The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children’ by Rachel Carson
01/26/2021 Joseph Jakuta, Janet Gingold
‘Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change’ by Eitan Hersh