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What we’re reading

Q&A with Gene Helfman, author of FINS

August 25, 2023 by John Yunker

Gene Helfman, EcoLit Books contributor and author of Beyond the Human Realm, has a new book out — a “novel of relentless satire” and an impassioned defense of sharks. I …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Author Q&A, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Oceans, What we're reading

Book Review: Three Bears, not Eight

December 28, 2023August 21, 2023 by Bill Streever

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, W. W. Norton & Company, What we're reading

Book Review: Living in the Time of Red Flag Warnings

December 28, 2023August 3, 2023 by John Yunker

It’s fire season here in southern Oregon. Which is another way of way of saying it’s just another season here in southern Oregon. Over the past decade fires have become …

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Categories Anthropocene, Bloomsbury, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Nonfiction, Pollution, What we're reading

The Ecological Citizen: Vol 6. No. 2

July 29, 2023 by John Yunker

The slogan for The Ecological Citizen is Confronting human supremacy in defense of the Earth. Which is why I welcome each new issue, including this recent edition, published recently. Essays …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Endangered Species, Journals and Magazines, What we're reading

Book Review: The wildflowers and mushrooms of North America

December 28, 2023June 29, 2023 by John Yunker

The wildflowers are in bloom here in Oregon. And while I love coming across them on hikes I’m mostly clueless about what exactly each flower is. I consult the iNaturalist …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Gardening, Plants, PNW, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental literature

June 17, 2023 by John Yunker

So many new and exciting novels and books of nonfiction and poetry have come across our desks and inboxes as of late. Here are just a handful that caught our …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Pollution, Rewilding, Sustainability, What we're reading

New and upcoming environmental books

April 16, 2023 by John Yunker

It’s time for an update on all the fascinating new books we’re heard about but don’t (yet) have time to read. Hopefully one or more of these titles will pique …

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Categories Climate Change, Ecology, History, Oceans, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

September 16, 2024March 26, 2023 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. Put simply, reading An Immense World will change how you perceive the world. It certainly has altered my perception. I have decades of experience …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Random House, What we're reading

Book Review: Frankenstein was a Vegetarian

February 26, 2023 by John Yunker

Never had the proverb You are what you eat came to mind so often as I was reading Frankenstein was a Vegetarian by Michael Owen Jones. The book encompasses a …

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Categories Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Sustainability, What we're reading

Love is War: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag

February 8, 2023 by John Yunker

Boy meets girl. Girl goes veg. Boy goes off the deep end. And so begins this heartfelt, occasionally hilarious and generally brilliant graphic novel about one man’s struggle to resist …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Graphic Novel, Hunting, Pets, Veganism, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books

January 21, 2023 by John Yunker

Here are a few recent books that came across our desks and inboxes… Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future AncestorsEdited by Grist Afterglow is a stunning collection of original short stories in …

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Categories Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, What we're reading
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