Environmental Book Club

Environmental Book Club

WMEAC is excited to host an environmental book club where people from across the region are able to learn more about environmental topics and get more in touch with our community. Everyone is welcome to join us for our book club meetings or to follow along on their own. 

The WMEAC Environmental Book Club meets virtually via Zoom the first Wednesday of each month from 6:30-7:30pm. The link is sent out before the meeting and not posted publicly. Email mkilgore@wmeac.org to join!

The next WMEAC Environmental Book Club meeting will be:

Wednesday, March 6th from 6:30 to 7:30pm (via zoom)

Love Letter to the earth 

By: Thich nhat Hahn  

The book club is sponsored by Books & Mortar: Get 10% off the price of your book club book when you purchase or order it through them! Stop by their store or call  (616) 214-8233 to shop local and support this fiercely independent bookstore today.

WMEAC Reading List

HERE IS A LIST OF THE BOOKS WE’VE READ IN PAST MONTHS AND A SNEAK PEEK TO UPCOMING MONTHS. 

2024 Reading List 

Feb 7 – The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife (Nancy Lawson) 

March 6 – Love Letter to the Earth (Thich Nhat Hahn) 

April 3 – A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Aldo Leopold) 

May 1 – Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (Rachel Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, Editors) 

June 5 – Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future (Oliver Franklin-Wallis)

July 10 – Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)

Aug 7 – Restoring the Kinship Worldview (Wahinkpe Topa and Darcia Narvaez) 

Sept 4 – What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds (Jennifer Ackerman) 

Oct 2 – To Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Katharine Hayhoe) 

Nov 6 – Brave the Wild River (Melissa Sevigny) 

Dec 4 – Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest (Diana Beresford-Kroeger) 

*Jan 8, 2025 The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (Greta Thunberg) 

WMEAC Book Club History