Green Book Club
Tuesday, March 2, 7:30PM

Our Mission
To create a lively forum for verdant thinkers who will convene monthly to discuss an important work of fiction or non-fiction that helps us examine our relationship, as individuals and a society, to the natural world.

Please join us at our next discussion on Tuesday, March 2, 7:30PM. We have selected Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Our monthly meetings are open to adults and take place in the Visitors Center.

Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the government to ban DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.

Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.

We encourage you to purchase books locally or visit your library. Elm Street Books in New Canaan offers, a 10% discount to NCNC members on current book club titles.

Please RSVP or if you have questions, email nature@newcanaannature.org

Upcoming meetings & books:

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (March 2)

Eco-Chick Guide to Life, by Starr Vartan (April 6)

List of Previously-Read Books

In Pursuit of the Common Good, by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner (February 2)

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce (read January 2010)

Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (read December 2009)

Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough (read November 2009)

A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold (read October 2009)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (read September 2009)

The Art of Simple Food and The Edible Schoolyard, by Alice Waters (read July 2009)

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan (read June 2009)

Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future, by Greg Melville (read May 2009)

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, by Bill McKibben (read April 2009)