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Book Review: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

September 16, 2024August 6, 2020 by Jacki Skole

In 1989, Robert Fulghum published All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Three decades later, reading Hope Jahren’s new book, The Story of More: How We Got …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Vintage

St. Louis Blues: The Broken Heart of America

July 28, 2020 by John Yunker

The cover of The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson features a nearly complete St. Louis Arch, known as the Gateway to the West. It was completed about six …

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Categories Basic Books, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, What we're reading

Book Review: Phoenix Zones by Hope Ferdowsian

June 30, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives by Hope Ferdowsian, MD, is among the many compassionate, powerful, inspiring books the world needs now. This slender book about trauma …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, History, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, Veganism, Wolves

Book review: PROTEST KITCHEN by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina

May 27, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Carol J. Adams, best known for her groundbreaking book The Sexual Politics of Meat, has teamed up with dietician Virginia Messina to create Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Nonfiction, Veganism

Learning to love weeds: Beyond the War on Invasive Species

May 25, 2020 by John Yunker

Dandelions. Bull thistle. Kudzu. Japanese knotweed. Himalayan blackberry. From front lawns to woodlands, these are among the most despised of plant species. Species that, we are told, are hell-bent on …

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Categories Book Reviews, Chelsea Green Publishing, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Gardening, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Permaculture, Plants, What we're reading

Review: In The Art of Earth Architecture everything old is new again

October 17, 2023May 5, 2020 by John Yunker

As an architectural enthusiast, I have long admired Louis Khan. When I first visited San Diego years ago, I made sure to visit The Salk Institute. To see how concrete …

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Categories Architecture, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Princeton Architectural Press, What we're reading

Book Review: The Great Derangement

May 2, 2020May 1, 2020 by Lauren Frick

With the future state of the planet in question, Amitav Ghosh explores the roles of literature and history in terms of their place in the climate crisis in his book …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, What we're reading

Book Review: Erosion, Essays of Undoing

April 29, 2020April 28, 2020 by Jacki Skole

“Trump finalizes rollback of Obama-era vehicle fuel efficiency standards” (Reuters) “Trump Loosens Methane Standards In A Win For Oil & Gas Industry” (Forbes) “Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Conservation, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Nonfiction

Bird by Word: Two reviews of American Birds: A Literary Companion

April 26, 2020 by John Yunker

As I finished reading American Birds: A Literary Companion I realized that there were two reviews I could write: the “typical American birder” review and the “atypical vegan birder” review. …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, History, Library of America, Nonfiction

Book Review: Land of Wondrous Cold

April 23, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Gillen D’Arcy Wood’s Land of Wondrous Cold combines the stories of three lesser known (but no less important) Antarctic explorers with continental history and future implications on a rapidly warming planet Earth. In …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Nonfiction, Oceans, Princeton University Press

In Floating Coast, stories of survival, sadness and madness

April 22, 2020 by John Yunker

The Bering Strait is probably best known these days for the 50-mile thin stretch of Pacific Ocean that separates Russia from the United States. But it is also one of …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Hunting, Nonfiction, Oceans, W. W. Norton & Company, Wolves
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