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Happy World Penguin Day

April 25, 2019 by Midge Raymond

Today is World Penguin Day— not that we need a reason to celebrate these amazing little creatures, but it’s great to have a designated day on which everyone thinks about these …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species

Happy Earth Day

April 22, 2019 by Midge Raymond

Even though every day is Earth Day at EcoLit Books, we wish you all a lovely day and hope it includes some quality time outdoors, with animals, and enjoying all …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Veganism

The Overstory by Richard Powers wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize

October 14, 2020April 16, 2019 by John Yunker

Congratulations to Richard Powers for a novel that captures the tragedy of what we have lost (and continue to lose) every time we cut down some of the oldest-living inhabitants …

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Categories Awards, Book Reviews, Conservation, Fiction, Trees

Book Review: Orphaned by Eliot Schrefer

September 29, 2019April 16, 2019 by Mindy Mejia

This imagined prehistory is undeniably the crowning achievement in Schrefer’s ape quartet, at once brimming with hope and loss, love and cruelty, constantly challenging the reader to question, in six hundred thousand years, how much and how little we’ve evolved.

Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Endangered Species, Fiction, Poetry, Scholastic Press

Writing Opportunity: Stage plays focused on building a sustainable society

April 13, 2019 by John Yunker

The UK-based Green Stories Writing Competition is looking for full-length plays that address sustainability — and, best of all, the contest is free to enter. Here are the details… We …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, For Writers, Organic Farming, Writing Opportunities

The One-Straw Revolution: On saving the planet, one garden at a time

September 29, 2019March 29, 2019 by John Yunker

I thought I knew a thing or two about gardening. But since undertaking a rather intensive gardener training program I now know just how little I actually knew about gardening. …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, New York Review Books Classics, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Veganism

The Sexual Politics of Meat, 20 Years Later

September 29, 2019March 25, 2019 by John Yunker

The other day I saw an ad for a new model of Audi. In it, a woman enters a butcher shop, and the butcher, a female, knowing that this woman …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Bloomsbury, Contest, For Writers, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Through a Vegan Studies Lens

September 29, 2019March 8, 2019 by Midge Raymond

Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism, edited by Laura Wright, is part of the series “Cultural Ecologies of Food in the 21st Century” from the University …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Essays, Nonfiction, Pets, University of Nevada Press, Veganism

For the Animals: Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism

September 29, 2019March 1, 2019 by John Yunker

The cover of Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, a collection of essays edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, features a photograph of a rescued chicken taken by Jo-Anne McArthur. Rescued …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Insects, Nonfiction, Routledge, Veganism

Minding Nature: Winter

February 14, 2019 by John Yunker

The winter issue of Minding Nature (published by our contributor The Center for Humans and Nature out now and well worth reading (free download here). This issue features essays about …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Endangered Species, Essays, Journals and Magazines

Book Review: Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship between Humans and Nature by Strachan Donnelley

September 29, 2019February 1, 2019 by John Yunker

Reviewed by James Ballowe, Distinguished Professor English Emeritus from Bradley University Strachan Donnelley founded the Center for Humans and Nature in 2003 after years of pondering the ethical responsibilities of humans …

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