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#NewYearNewBooks #WomenInScience I still think first of Rachel Carson , marine biologist, who‘s classic work was often the average persons first look at the facts about environmental degradation related to chemicals, & other human activities.

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This one has been sitting on my TBR for way too long (2008, maybe?!)
A few months ago at a meeting with Paolo Giordano, one of my favorite authors, he spoke mainly about this book (he wrote the foreword of the new italian edition).. so I decided to finally read it!

A classic environmental read. A book that documents the effects of pesticides on the environment. A book that shines light on disinformation put out by the chemical industry. The book that assisted in the banning of DDT and helped bring the environmental movement about.

Armed with scientific evidence and the ability to explain links between commerce and ecology, Carson launched the environmental movement with this book — resulting in the creation of the EPA and the banning of toxic chemicals such as DDT. Though written 60+ years ago, clearly science-based policymaking is still necessary. Carson made me think about the interconnectedness of life on this planet and our responsibility to it. 💚

Finished this fantastic read over the weekend as part of September's #Roll100! So glad I finally read this!

1) Tagged. I have always wanted to read this one.

2) Where the Crawdads Sing. The description of the marsh was just amazing

3) a) Brazil
b) Montreal, Quebec
c) Victoria, British Columbia

#wondrouswednesday

#AlphabetGame
#LetterS

The best non-fiction book I‘ve read so far!

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94
@Eggs Thanks for the tag!

1. Tagged

2. Outside

3. Not into gardening.

4. Ginger ale

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Lilacs. We have a big lilac bush next to our deck and it's always the first thing in our yard to bloom
2. Hmm, that's a tough one. How about Silent Spring? Not exactly "enjoyable", but an excellent and influential book nonetheless.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @IuliaC @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @batsy @eeclayton @TheNeverendingTBR @RamsFan1963

#LittensDressedInBlood 2 Sep A Nightmare on My Street

I don‘t read horror. But as an environmental attorney, I‘ve read about real life horror stories—Buffalo Creek, the Great Smog, Minamata Disease, Bhopal to name a few.

In 1962, Rachel Carson documented in the tagged the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. This book helped spur change & lead to the environmental laws that we have in the U.S. today.

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

📚 No. There are too many books to read to read a book twice.
📚 It‘s one of the things I factor in when deciding what to read next, but it‘s not the first thing I think of. I read the synopsis to see whether I‘d be interested in it.
📚 Tagged. Although the book isn‘t about nature per say, it does have moments where the chemicals are adversely affecting nature.

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

1. Living in VT, just the end of the deep freeze and days where it gets dark before 4pm. Also, that brief period of warm weather where there's no humidity and no bugs.
2. No. I do a lot more reading outside, though.
3. Silent Spring, of course! 😀

Tagging @IuliaC @Milara @RamsFan1963 @fredamans

I'm worried this one will freak me out. Which is also why I need to read it. At least I know it helped bring about some needed changes. #tbrpile

#audiopuzzling. I‘m already sorry that I started this. It‘s a hard one.

Part 2 of my Scifi or nonfiction science by a woman prompt recommendations for #winter #booked2021 🧬 🧪

🌱 Silent Spring is a #mustread classic if you‘ve never read it!

🙍🏻‍♀️ Angela Duckworth taught a psych course I took in the past, and while her book borders on self-help, she has done some excellent research in the field of psychology.

🦕 The 6th extinction was on my list for 2020, and may be what I choose for this prompt.

A frosty #audiowalk today. I‘ve discovered that science is my comfort reading.

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

1. I wouldn't say it helped me, but I really liked the audiobook.
2. I've enjoyed the books I read by Marcus Zusack, although I don't think I'll read Bridge of Clay; it's got mixed reviews.
3. I'm grateful that I got a used iPad mini from someone on Facebook Marketplace. Without it, I wouldn't be using Libby as much as I do now. Libby was meant for IOS.

I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook!

1. I believe my middle name was from my great grandfather. I think my parents just liked my first name.
2. Halloween on a Saturday! 🎃

#ThankfulThursday
@Cosmos_Moon @candc320 @OriginalCyn620 @TheSpineView @Stacypatrice @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @DaveGreen7777
All of y'all are friendly. The kindness of everyone on here is what makes this such an awesome community to be apart of. ♥️♥️

#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon @TheSpineView

1. My real name is Mary Edith and I was named after my 2 grandmothers. Eadie is a nickname that my family gave me

2. I‘m thankful for the fall because I love the cooler weather and the changing colors of the trees.

Can you play?
@ctelford @cookie21 @KelsieL @Misswinchester @Junebug17 @cdcnmac @SeaToSkyes @jennbee @readingwino @Storied @Annie1215 @kimdegener @autumnrae @rachelm @the3 @robinz

#thankfulthursday on Friday

1. I often get whiffs of perfume when alone (I don‘t wear)
2. Coffee ☕️ & that it‘s Friday

Who hasn‘t played? Consider yourself tagged.

📸 not this month
📚 nonfiction environmental and science
🍫 savory, chips & salsa is one of my favorites

#ThoughtfulThursday
@MoonWitch94

A book that has been sitting on my TBR pile for way to long, thank you #NonfictionNerds for pushing it to the top of my pile. You‘d think after all these years this book would be dated, but I still found it an excellent read and very topical in the age of science denial, Flint, MI, climate change, fracking, and in this age of an increased push to deregulate air & water pollution laws because their restrictions are hurting business.

I‘m glad I finally read this classic. Carson wrote this groundbreaking call for action against rampant pesticide and herbicide use.while she was dying of cancer. I grew up in a disadvantaged logging community doused with 2.4,D by Weyerhaueser and other timber corporations in the 70s. It sickened kids I went to elementary school with and turned me into an environmental activist and chemical free gardener. Thank you Rachael for raising the alarm.

Some of the drawings in this addition are quite beautiful.

#NonfictionNerds

Some of the drawings in this addition are quite beautiful.

#NonfictionNerds

This book is the basis for all recent grassroots environmental activism. Carson was a scientist, journalist, and truth teller. She stood up to chemical companies when no one else would. So inspiring. But if you want current information there are other, more recent books out there. Also, her writing style worked only on audio for me. Still, it‘s classic for a reason.

Full review http://www.TheBibliophage.com
#thebibliophage2020 #nonfictionnerds

Five chapters in. Despite growing up in a tiny Oregon timber community doused with toxic herbicides by Weyerhaeuser that sickened fellow elementary school classmates, and becoming an environmental activist in college, and then devoting my career to conservation work, I‘ve never read this classic. Better late than never, and it‘s affirming again why I do not use pesticides or herbicides. Reading with #nonfictionnerds on Goodreads.

This was a truly eye-opening audiobook! The way herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides can affect the bodies of living things and the environment is horrifying! The narrator was enjoyable to listen to. I would definitely recommend this on audio.

1. After the latest bookshelf reorg, I have five stacks. There are three on the bookcase and two on the nightstand.
2. Tagged book, which I think is one of the July #nonfictionnerds selections?

#two4tuesday

🌕 My kids playing with our younger neighbors
🌖 “In nature nothing exists alone.” Tagged book
🌗 Designate some alone time, reading or puzzling
🌘 Ice cream
🌑 @MoonWitch94 @caffeinated.wayfarer #ThoughtfulThursday

1. One of my favorites tagged!
2. 💚 the same color as my heart 💚
3. Grant writing and the programs that result
4. @AprilOatmeal
#FriYAYintro
@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

The epigraph from Rachel Carson‘s Silent Spring rings true today. Hope you all can find a little time outdoors today.

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.” ~ E. B. WHITE

Photos by me 🤓🌱

Rachel Carson is certainly at the top of my list for favorite #womaninhistory. She was far ahead of her time and she has influenced me so much throughout the years.

#MagnificentMarch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

My all time favorite #nonfiction book is the tagged one, Silent Spring. It changed my world when I read it and pushed me to become a biologist and life long environmentalist.

The six books above are ones I've read this year. They taught me things, made me laugh, made me cry, made me angry, and opened my eyes to new ideas. I'm grateful for books that leave a lasting impression.

#GratefulReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Forgot to post my September wrap up so here it is. All science for #scienceSeptember. Some greatness and some which weren‘t what I thought they would be. #septemberwrapup

This must've been a shocking book to read in the early 1960s. We were literally killing the planet! It's still an important book to read today as we still need to be cognizant of the chemicals we are releasing in to the environment. Living by the Mississippi River for 28 years I have seen the benefits of the DDT ban first hand as bald eagles are now a common sight in the neighborhood. I'm guessing they weren't fifty years ago. #ScienceSeptember

Even cities were poisoned? Who came up with this strategy?

We‘ve lived near the Mississippi River for 28 years and it‘s been awesome to see more and more bald eagles in the sky every year. It‘s no longer a big deal to see one. They are again common.

Cripes! This book is hard to read. Even though this was all 60+ years ago.

I‘m old and remember the horrible pollution everywhere in the early 1970s but this blows my mind. I had no idea toxic chemicals were used so liberally, especially in cities.

A squirrel was reading over my shoulder.

#BFC #BookFitnessChallenge

Waiting in line for airport coffee...so #bookishquestions it is.
1. Cozy mystery, historical nonfiction
2. I am enjoying 20th c nonfiction & memoirs more lately.
3. Erotica, romance, thriller/horror.
4. As @Schlinkles said, I want to see more well done original content. Writing for screen is an art.
5. None. I‘m picky.
6. I have bailed on a lot of mystery & history...the field is so wide its bound to happen.
7. See tags!

This has been on my TBR for a long time. #springHasSprung #literaryLuck @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Funny, I was just thinking about Silent Spring today and then I get tagged in this this evening 😁 Thanks for the love @Princess-Kingofkings ☺️
1-summer. But it used to be spring.
2-daisies & Black eyed susans
3-Silent Spring
4-mostly seasonal but that can be any season lol 😂
@LibrarianRyan @JoScho @TheBookHippie @BookwormAHN
@TheBookStacker @BookishMeanderings

Thanks for the tag @Eggs, @Princess-Kingofkings ! #frideas @SailorMoon
1 spring followed closely by fall
2 too many!! Right now I'm waiting for hyacinths!
3 only one I could think of off top of head
4 no!🤩
5 @SamanthaMarie @Llanphear

🌸 late winter in Texas
💐 peonies and lilacs
🌹 tagged
🌷 pollen
🌺 @Leftcoastzen @Crazeedi @Aussie4paws @Erofan 💛💗💛💗
#frideas @SailorMoon

Spring is here, the cherry blossoms in my neighborhood have started blooming on this very rainy Wednesday. So I think it‘s time to dust this off. (I work as an archaeologist for an environmental consultation firm) This book is a favorite and a very important book at that.

Are you really a Chatham World Ready Woman if you haven‘t read Silent Spring?
I finally got around the reading this book by Chatham‘s favorite alum. It is amazing that this book is still relevant today. At times it was hard to get through but I‘m so glad I read it.

I chose this for #booked2019 #happyplace since Chathams campus is the most beautiful place and I heard so much about this book in my time there