Recommend a book.
I recommend This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein. Klein argues that we need a new economic system if we are going to effectively fight climate change. Working within the capitalist model of never-ending growth, we'll never be able to seriously take on the changes we need to make to halt the damage we are making to the planet. She outlines some of the movements occurring and the people fighting for change all across the planet. There is a companion documentary of the same name, and it is good, but it doesn't do justice to everything presented in the book. I recommend checking out both.
Next up for me is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, another book about the environment, and anything you guys recommend that I find interesting.
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Once an Eagle is by Anton Myrer and is really a long fictional story detailing the life of soldier Sam Damon. It stretches from WWI to Vietnam and details the competition between two career military officers who have very different views about leadership. It was required reading at West Point for many years. Sam Damon's character remained very much of Pug Henry. That, is why I think you would like it.
I have been planning to read it. You just lit a fire under me. The recent assassination of Berta Caceres makes me suspect this may be what Perkins was talking about in his book. 
Non fiction, about the ecosystem that exists in the canopy of the giant redwoods of the Pacific NW:
"The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wild-Trees-Passion-Daring/dp/0812975596/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_top?ie=UTF8
It's like reading a science-base fairy tale 
I have finally learned how to make green smoothies that are wonderfully tasty! And now I'm considering what kind of juicer to get (I have a VitaMix, but need a juicer, too.)
So yeah, I recommend that book highly
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It is one of my favorite books. I love Kingsolver's fiction, but I give this book to people as gifts.
I second another DU'ers recommendations for Robertson Davies.
Barbara Pym is also excellent, and if you or your wife like lighthearted mysteries, try the Southern Sisters series by Anne George. Not so much for the mysteries, but Anne George just has a way with words. I love them. They are my "comfort food" of reading. Also, I recently finished "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro. A beautifully written book - Tobin, if you like to read other writers' words just for the sheer pleasure of the way they use English, read this book. And "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers is beautiful but about broke my heart.
Here's a review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:
Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don't raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This field—local food and sustainable agriculture—is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"
, but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won't find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers' markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl. Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what's risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver's clue to help greenhorns remember what's in season is the best I've seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national "eating disorder" and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local food—in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the telling—demands teamwork. 
