A Modest Crossing of Northern Alaska: A review of Arctic Traverse
What does a solo journey across the Alaskan Arctic entail? As it turns out, much of it is a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, again and …
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Upcoming Virtual Event: Women Writing the Natural World
Here’s an excellent event coming up this Monday at 7pm PST on Zoom and Facebook. The event features writers Corinna Cook, Marybeth Holleman, Adrienne Lindholm and Nancy Lord, moderated by …
In Floating Coast, stories of survival, sadness and madness
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 …
What I’m reading in the New York Times
A few articles that I bookmarked in the Times over the past two weeks… How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? We Taste-Tested Them I agree that Impossible Burgers …
Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail’s The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption is at once a memoir of the author’s experiences in nature and a …
Return of the Sea Otter: The story of a resilient species and its many human friends
The sea otter should have been extinct by now. We, as in human civilization, did our very best to eliminate the species — not because we saw it as a …
