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Book Review: A Darker Wilderness, edited by Erin Sharkey

September 8, 2023 by Lillie Gardner

New this year from Milkweed Editions is a must-read essay collection of powerful Black nature writing. Originated and edited by Erin Sharkey, A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Essays, Gardening, History, Milkweed Press, Nonfiction, Plants, Pollution, Trees

Book Review: The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism

December 28, 2023July 17, 2023 by Midge Raymond

The term “Effective Altruism” has been buzzy for a while now and has attracted well-known followers and promoters — and because of this, the movement is generally associated with doing …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, Oxford University Press, Veganism

Book Review: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage

June 21, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
book cover for Kathryn Savage's Groundglass, the words around broken fragments

Kathryn Savage’s gorgeous lyric essay Groundglass is a poetic reckoning with environmental pollution and its unavoidable connection to human bodies. In the book, available August 2nd from Coffee House Press, Savage blends tough …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pollution

Book Review: Phoenix Zones by Hope Ferdowsian

June 30, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives by Hope Ferdowsian, MD, is among the many compassionate, powerful, inspiring books the world needs now. This slender book about trauma …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, History, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, Veganism, Wolves

Book review: PROTEST KITCHEN by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina

May 27, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Carol J. Adams, best known for her groundbreaking book The Sexual Politics of Meat, has teamed up with dietician Virginia Messina to create Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Nonfiction, Veganism

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