With the extension of the stay at home order, we have more time inside. For those who are itching to make a difference, Soundkeeper is hosting virtual activities like the #PSKVirtualCleanup and the #MayRepurposingChallenge to still make a positive impact while staying safe. Another great way to make a difference while staying home is to further educate and fuel inspiration, which is why we pulled together a list of some of our staff’s favorite books and documentaries pertaining to water and the environment.
For our staff book club we’re reading How We Get Free – The Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The book is about The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, which was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles.
Here is our list of books and documentaries that have inspired our own activism and we hope will inspire yours as well!
Books
- Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do by Wallace Nichols
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Saving Tarboo Creek by Scott Freeman
- Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White
- The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet Timothy Egan
- Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore
- Being Salmon Being Human by Chelsea Green
- Beyond Words by Carl Safina
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Deep by James Nestor
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- Lazy Point by Carl Safina
- Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert
- Sea Change – A Message of the Oceans by Sylvia Earle
- Swell by Captain Liz Clark
- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
- The Water Book by Alok Jha
- The Wave by Susan Casey
- How to Change Minds About our Changing Climate by Seth B. Darling, Douglas L. Sisterson
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
- Amazing Sailing Stories by Dick Durham
- Giant Squid by Richard Ellis
- Ocean Outbreak by Drew Harvell
- Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor by Hali Felt
- The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
- King of Fish by David Montgomery
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors by Charlotte Cote
Documentaries
- The Story of Plastic We are excited to be hosting an online screening of The Story of Plastic and an expert panel on May 14th 6:30 – 7:30pm. RSVP Here!
- Blue Planet 2
- One Strange Rock
- Blue Planet 1
- Chasing Coral
- Fish People
- Mission Blue
- Our Planet
- Planet Earth 1
- Planet Earth 2
- Plastic Ocean
- Racing Extinction
- There’s Something in the Water
- 180 Degrees South
- Blackfish
- DamNation
- Revolution
- True Facts-Nudibranchs
- Sharkwater: Extinction
- The Cove
Happy reading and watching!
– Puget Soundkeeper Staff