It’s not often that I come across books with ‘vegan’ in the title — particularly now that ‘plant-based’ has become the less controversial, more mainstream alternative. Yet I still prefer …
Read the review: Book Review: Vegan Minded: Becoming a Steward for Animals, People, and the Planet
This is the eighth year that we’ve gathered together a list of our favorite books from the past 12 months. Seeing this list makes me appreciate what EcoLit Books has …
Read the review: The best environmental books we’ve read in 2023
We can’t review every book we receive. But that doesn’t stop us from highlighting them. Here is a selection of new titles worth checking out… Horse Show By Jess Bowers …
Read the review: New and forthcoming environmental books (December 2023)
What does it mean to be an architect in the Anthropocene? This is the question that attracts me to books about building reuse and earth architecture as well as writings …
Read the review: Book Review: Skylab: The Nature of Building
Sarah Brown’s The Hidden Language of Cats shares with readers the many varieties of cat communication, from vocalization to tail signals to gazes, and what studies have revealed cats are trying to …
Read the review: Book Review: THE HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF CATS by Sarah Brown
Willard Scott (for the young ones out there: America’s weather person) once said: “Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.” You could say …
Read more: Book Review: Picturing a Better World: The Climate Action Handbook
Let me begin this review by saying that university presses and small presses have published some of the most creative and thought-provoking environmental literature I’ve read over the past few …
Read the review: Book Review: Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
In Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet author Ben Goldfarb shines a light on the millions of animals who perish on our roads. There are …
Read the review: Book Review: To get to the other side: Crossings
“An ideological descendant of the Gold Rush, the green rush serves as yet another get-rich-quick fantasy founded on the erasure of Native People …aptly named the green rush, this surge …
Read the review: Environmental Armageddon in Cannabis Country
New this year from Milkweed Editions is a must-read essay collection of powerful Black nature writing. Originated and edited by Erin Sharkey, A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil …
Read the review: Book Review: A Darker Wilderness, edited by Erin Sharkey
A Review of Gloria Dickie’s Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future In my life I have had the privilege of seeing more grizzlies, more blacks, and more polar bears …