We are seeking your recommendations for Sierra Club’s Atlantic Chapter book discussion group. In addition, please let us know whether you would be willing to lead a book discussion via conference call. The more we read together, the more we can build our communities for greater democracy and protection of the environment. E-mail your recommendations to Erin Riddle: riddleriddle@gmail.com Learn more: https://atlantic2.sierraclub.org/content/democracy-environment-book-club

NYC Group recommendations:

MARINE POLLUTION
What Everyone Needs To Know
by Judith S. Weis

Summary: Judith Weis, an active Sierra Club member, covers marine pollution from many different angles, each fascinating in its own right. Beginning with its sources and history, the book describes in detail each common pollutant, why exactly it is harmful, why it may draw controversy, and how we can prevent it from damaging our marine ecosystems. Weis points out that PCBs were never intentionally sprayed in the environment. They were used in industry and got into the environment through carelessness during manufacturing and use. And, while they have been banned for more than 40 years they still accumulate in fish tissue that we eat. All PCBs have neurotoxin and immune-toxic effects and accumulate in fat. If you happen to ingest PCBs they will accumulate in the fat in your body and will be there for most of your life and toxic effects on your neurons and immune system. Weis makes it easy to find and understand why pollutants are there and how they affect the environment and ourselves. –Irene Van Slyke

WALDEN
By Henry D. Thoreau

THE YOSEMITE
By John Muir

THE HOUR OF LAND
A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
By Terry Tempest Williams

ENDANGERED
By Tim Flach

CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
by Joseph Romm

FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE
by Elizabeth Kolbert

AFTER NATURE
A Politics for the Anthropocene
by Jedediah Purdy