Green Group discussion

Thanks for the rec, Jamie, book will be added.

Clare wrote: "Good choice, Brian.
I have just finished In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms


Brian, I highly recommend Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business. It is another book that presents a very different take on the feasibility of sustainability. This is a great read for anyone who runs their own business, is a decision-maker at their current job, or is just interested in the role businesses can have in the fight against climate change!

The author, Robert Sroufe, provides readers with a proven (and very simple) strategic planning approach backed by evidence-based examples that explains how sustainability can easily be integrated into the daily decisions of any business.

I learned after reading Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business that it even won an award in 2020 for Responsible Research in Business Management!

Sounds useful, thanks!

David Hetherington tells me on Linked In:


"The publisher of my book, The Lynx and Us, is currently providing digital copies of it free of charge until the end of February (they normally cost £10).
Visit their store & enter the code ‘LynxToScotland’ to learn about living alongside lynx:
https://lnkd.in/dBwMDZF "

I have downloaded and this is a beautiful and informative book. I highly recommend you grab the free offer.

Colin wrote:
Hi. Maybe this is a bit brash because I wrote this book. But I think it gets at a lot of big iss..."

Hi Colin,
Thanks for the rec, and I am sure your book is good and useful reading.
However, we are trying to avoid making the forum look like a series of adverts. So I suggest you repost your content in the Promotions Folder. You might add the cover image so people can recognise it when they see it on the shelf.
If another member reads your book and chooses to recommend it here, that will be acceptable. Similarly, you can recommend a book by another author which you believe is relevant.
I hope this helps.
Good topic. We need to learn about this subject.

Recommending a book: fiction about a beekeeper and her young apprentices. This is an adult read.
The Music of Bees

I recently read The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow. It's fiction. About a scientist that has been researching glaciers for forty years, and is now a tour guide in the Antarctica. It's a book that I thought presented eco anxiety very well.

Good to know, Hakon, thanks. I'll shelve the book.

Thanks to Candice for this rec! Sounds like a fascinating read. When I was growing up, secondhand meant from a relative or local person, or from a secondhand bookshop or jumble sale. Now it often means sending goods abroad.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

"Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country-or even halfway across the world-to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.

In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more."

I just read Humanity's Moment : A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope by Joëlle Gergis

I'd see it as a must-read (non-fiction) as it combines scientific fact (from her work in the field) with emotional experience and reflection. Despite the title I feel the author is struggling to be positive but then again so are we!

Thanks, Stef, I will add that one.
I think it's easy to write a depressing or shocking title, but that will turn off many readers who might otherwise take a lot from the message. A hopeful message will prepare readers for the work that needs to get done.

I have added Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Nice looking YA book The Art of Rewilding: The Return of Yellowstone’s Wolves


I have put in a request for a review ARC.

Just got an ARC of
The Solutionists
How Businesses Can Fix the Future
by Solitaire Townsend

The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the Future

John Boorman


Adventures of a Suburban Boy


John Boorman filmed The Emerald Forest among other standout films.

I loved The Emerald Forest.

Candice recommends The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

Goodreads's blog recommends this lovely list of recent nature books.
I've got a few on my shelves already, and they all look interesting.

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...

New romance fiction from Gayle Irwin

Rescue My Heart not on Goodreads yet. This follows a wildlife biologist studying sandhill cranes on a ranch. Gayle has written several animal rescue fiction books.

Jemima Pett recommends
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

Hi folks,

I would like to recommend The Regenerative Enterprise .

Such an inspiring masterpiece that has been endorsed by world leaders in the space.

Best,
Noha

Hi Noha, thank you for the rec This certainly looks like a good fit for our Bookshelf.

I've had a rec for Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar – SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION – HIGHLY COMMENDED by Chantal Lyons

Chantal Lyons

I've just read Bluebird Day by Megan Tady which is women's fiction about the ski racing sport, mentioning that warming is endangering the sport.

I'm currently reading Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino

I've enjoyed The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos. Same book, two titles.

I've had a recommendation.
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer by Paul Lamb

I've added Murderbot Diaries Collection Complete Hardcover Series Set

The Murderbot Diaries are SF set in a future based on planetary and asteroid mining and giant interstellar corporations. Exploitation of workforce is commonplace and environments are despoiled. A few research groups are trying to oppose the status quo.