"Staff Picks" - Recommended Reading



PLENTY: One Man, One Woman, and a
Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
This humorous and innovative book invites readers to examine how eating locally affects their community, health and the environment. It’s an autobiographical journey that follows authors Smith and Mackinnon as they reject corporate food and spend a year eating only what is grown or raised within 100 miles of their British Columbia home.




LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS:
Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder,
Richard Louv
Richard Louv directly links the absence of nature in the lives of today's wired generation to some of the most disturbing childhood trends: the rise in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. This is the first book to bring together a body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults. More than just raising an alarm, Louv offers practical solutions to heal the broken bond.
-– Algonquin Books




THIS FINE PIECE OF WATER:
An Environmental History of Long Island Sound,
Tom Andersen
The misuse of the Sound culminated in a series of sobering events during the last years of the 1980s, events that shook the foundation of scientists’ and the public’s confidence in the Sound. But that crisis also led to a massive effort by the government and an amazingly diverse public constituency to pull the Sound back from the brink of disaster and restore it as a healthy estuary.
-- Tom Andersen




THE FUTURE OF THE WILD:
Radical Conservation for a Crowded World,
Jonathan S. Adams
This respected conservationist ranges from the dusty mountains of Arizona to the marshes of south Florida, laying out a bold road map for how to bind together the scattered remnants of this continent's wild places-and for knitting up the mingled fates of the wild and human communities that inhabit them, envisioning a better, more sustainable future for both."
-- Scott Weidensaul, Author of Return to Wild America




HEAVEN AND EARTH:
The Last Farmers of the North Fork,
Steve Wick
The North Fork of Long Island was settled in 1640 by Englishmen as a religious colony; today, their descendants represent some of the oldest farming families in America. After the Civil War, the Irish came into the area, followed by Poles in this century. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wick, who spent two drought-ridden summers with a small pocket of potato farmers, weaves a history of the North Fork with an engrossing account of the farmers and their struggles to survive.
-- Publishers Weekly




ISHMAEL:
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit,
Daniel Quinn
Here's the novel that, out of 2500 submissions, won the ecological-minded Turner Tomorrow Award--and caused a mutiny among the judges when it was awarded the $500,000 first prize. Is it that good--or bad? No, but it's certainly unusual, even eccentric, enough to place Quinn on the cult literary map. -- www.Ishmael.com
-- Kirkus Reviews




Song for the Blue Ocean, Carl Safina
The oceans of the world rank foremost among humankind's last great frontiers, and their climatological and ecological workings remain mysterious to all but specialists! In this lively, well-written survey, marine scientist Carl Safina encourages readers to take a wider interest in the oceans, especially because so much of that great blue expanse is now threatened by human progress.
-- Amazon.com

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