Ecosystem Restoration Discussion Circle at Northwest Library
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Greetings from your friendly librarian ...
I am writing to invite you to Northwest Library's
Ecosystem Restoration Discussion Circle
150 Coddingtown Center in Santa Rosa
This program is part of Planet People Project, a series about building resilient communities and ecosystems
Here's the list of materials to read, watch, and click on ... or just come to the discussion and share and listen:
DISCUSSION CIRCLE MATERIALS
- Books and Articles
- "Leave it to Beavers: the key to a better North Bay environment," by James Knight. The Bohemian. June 26, 2018
- Eager: The surprising secret life of beavers and why they matter by Ben Goldfarb
- Beaver in California: Creating a Culture of Stewardship by Kate Lundquist with Brock Dolman
- Basins of Relations: a citizen's guide to protecting and restoring our watersheds by Brock Dolman and Kate Lundquist
- Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Edited by Paul Hawken
- Earth Repair by Leila Darwish (E-book version is also available here).
The Green Belt Movement : sharing the approach and the experience by Wangari Maathai
Tending the wild : Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources by Kat Anderson
- "Introduction to Mycoremediation," Chapter 22 of Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation by Tradd Cotter
- "Mycoremediation," Chapter 7 of Mycelium running : how mushrooms can help save the world by Paul Stamets
- Can Dirt Save the Earth? by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, April 18, 2018 (NY Times online available free with your library card)!
- "Hit Fossil Fuels Where it Hurts - the Bottom Line," by Bill McKibben. Rolling Stone. May 21, 2018
- Junk raft : an ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution by Marcus Eriksen
- "A running list of action on plastic pollution," National Geographic, 1/17/19
- "Climate Change Needs Behavior Change," Center for the Behavior and Environment
Video
"Living in a Fire Ecology: Relationship, Destruction, Regeneration" with Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol
Available through the library's free streaming service, Kanopy
- Taking Root: The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
- Oceans: The Mystery of the Missing Plastic
Websites
- Bring Back the Beaver Campaign: https://oaec.org/projects/bring-back-the-beaver-campaign/
- Roseland EPA Brownfield Project: Site Reuse & Revitalization Programhttps://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CDC/Roseland-EPA-Brownfield-Project/
- Laguna Foundation of Santa Rosa: Restoration Projects
- The Bay Area's Greenbelt Alliance