Recommended Reading
contributed by Front Range Chapter members
All We Can Save has been nominated for our next Book Club meeting in July, 2021. Curated by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, it is a collection of writings by women at the forefront of the climate movement.
All We Can Save communicates that we are in a civic and planetary emergency…. It seems that the climate crisis–and the biodiversity crisis–and dominant landscaping trends–have tight connections to other disastrous trends we should recognize. — Tom Swihart, Board Member
We welcome other nominations for (and volunteers to facilitate) our next book club meeting. Please email your suggestions to frontrangewildones@gmail.com.
Landscaping for Ecological Value
Rick Darke & Doug Tallamy, The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
Robert Nold, High and Dry: Gardening with Cold-Hardy Dryland Plants
Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Benjamin Vogt, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
Non-Fiction, Essays & Observations
Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom for the Urban Wilderness
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders, In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Richard Preston, The Wild Trees
Zach St. George, The Journey of Trees: A Story About Forests, People, and the Future
Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Fiction
Richard Powers, The Overstory