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Book Review: The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams

February 20, 2014 by Shel Graves

On a bookshelf or reading list, this classic of vegetarian thought belongs beside Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation. Originally published in 1990 and reprinted in a 20th Anniversary Edition The Sexual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Veganism

Falling In Love With Trees

February 14, 2014 by JoeAnn Hart

Seeing Trees Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees. Timber Press, 2011 By Nancy Ross Hugo Photography by Robert Llewellyn “The most effective way to save the threatened and decimated …

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Categories Book Reviews, Trees

Book Review: Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet by Richard Oppenlander

February 11, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Richard Oppenlander’s Comfortably Unaware is a book everyone on the planet should read. Unfortunately, the book’s biggest drawback is that it may not feel accessible to those who need to …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Veganism

Book Review: In the Temple of Wolves by Rick Lamplugh

February 4, 2014 by Beckie Elgin

Imagine. Three months in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, the place known as America’s Serengeti, lush with bison, elk, bear, coyotes, wolves and other wild beasts. This is where writer Rick Lamplugh …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Wolves

Flyway short fiction contest is now accepting entries

February 3, 2014 by John Yunker

The environmental literary journal Flyway has launched a short fiction contest: The Sweet Corn Short fiction contests celebrates fiction about the environment. We interpret “the environment” broadly here and encourage …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

September 29, 2019January 28, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Ann Pancake’s powerful novel Strange as This Weather Has Been is a must-read not only due to its compelling story but also its accomplishments as a work of eco-literature. This …

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Categories Book Publishers, Fiction, Pollution, Shoemaker & Hoard

Residency opportunity in France for environmental and nature writers

January 25, 2014 by John Yunker

This looks like a wonderful place to spend a month writing: Secluded in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, at the end of an ancient stone track, Bordeneuve is a …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World by Oliver Houck

January 14, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Oliver A. Houck’s Taking Back Eden is one of those books that can offer great hope during tough environmental times. Published by Island Press in 2011, this book’s relevance is only going …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

January 9, 2014 by Shel Graves
We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

Contributors to the Indiegogo campaign received We Animals, photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s beautifully designed coffee table book, just before the New Year. Published by Lantern Books, it features photos of individual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

January 6, 2014 by John Yunker

It is difficult to separate Moby-Dick, the book, from Moby-Dick, the whale. Both are epic in scale, and both have been met with wildly different perceptions and interpretations. You only need …

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Categories Animal Rights, Birds, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans

Happy New Year from EcoLit Books

January 1, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Happy new year, readers and writers! We are looking forward to a new year of eco-literature and already have a great lineup of new reviews coming soon. For all of …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Events, Fiction, Oceans
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