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Book Review: The Wild Horse Effect by Chad Hanson

March 10, 2025 by Midge Raymond
Cover of The Wild Horse Effect: Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature by Chad Hanson

Chad Hanson’s gorgeous book The Wild Horse Effect: Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature combines beautiful imagery of the West and wild horses with reflections on mindfulness, nature, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chronicle Books, Conservation, Nonfiction, Sustainability

Going to Seed, Essays on Idleness, Nature, & Sustainable Work

December 28, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart
Cover of Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work by Kate J. Neville

By Kate J. Neville Texas Tech University Press, 2024, The Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Winner I read Going to Seed right before the U.S election, when I was full of …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Essays, Nonfiction, Plants, Sustainability

New and forthcoming environmental books (September 2024)

September 1, 2024 by John Yunker

Here are a number of recently published or about-to-be-published books that have come across our desks. Love Story with Birds By Derek Furr “Let us be at a loss for …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, Oceans, Sustainability, What we're reading

North Woods, a novel by Daniel Mason

September 16, 2024August 9, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart
Cover of North Woods by Daniel Mason

Random House, 2023 “Shivers of lust passed through his elytra as he found her scent grow stronger,” and there we are, in the head of an Elm Bark beetle, one …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, History, Insects, Plants, Random House, Trees

Book Review: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

September 16, 2024July 16, 2024 by John Yunker
Cover of Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals by Brenda Peterson

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “…a woman’s place…is in the wild.” This remarkable book is a memoir, a unique lesson in natural history, a love poem to the wild, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Mountaineers Books, Nonfiction

New and forthcoming environmental books (June 2024)

June 9, 2024June 2, 2024 by John Yunker

Here’s the latest batch of books to come across our desks — enjoy! The first book is written by the founder of an amazing chicken rescue organization, Sweet Peeps, based …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Sustainability, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: Entangled Life

December 15, 2024April 5, 2024 by John Yunker
Cover of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Funny the difference a word makes. Restaurants generally don’t advertise “fungi” on their menus. But “mushrooms” and “truffles” are a different story. Even though they are the same thing. Which …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, Random House, Trees, What we're reading

Mountain Time, A Field Guide to Astonishment, by Renata Golden

March 16, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart
Cover of Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment by Renata Golden

Mountain Time, A Field Guide to Astonishment is a sharp and moving collection of essays about author Renata Golden’s time in the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeast Arizona. Hard on the New Mexico and Mexico borders, the area is isolated, but not desolate. For those who pay attention, the desert is teeming with life, past and present.

Categories Book Reviews, Columbia University Press

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2024)

March 9, 2024 by John Yunker

Here are some of the latest books to land on our desks. Please take a moment to scroll down and check them out! Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Rewilding, Sustainability

Book Review: Vesper Flights

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart
Cover of Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

by Helen Macdonald Vesper flights is the name of the sunset behavior of swifts, who rise high into the air, out of sight, in order to reorient themselves to the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Sustainability, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books (December 2023)

December 9, 2023December 8, 2023 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry
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