Monthly Archives: April 2024
All the Beauty in the World
Patrick Bringley spent ten years working as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. All the Beauty in the World is a wonderful memoir of that time. It’s about art, of course, and about grief and joy and how art reflects them back to us. Continue reading
Posted in Books, History
Tagged art, art history, book review, memoir, museum, nonfiction
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The War Below
The clean energy transition is forcing countries and communities to make very difficult choices. Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels means we need huge quantities of raw materials: lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, aluminum and other critical minerals. The War Below explores the conflicts around mining for the materials we need to power the clean energy transition. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Energy, Environment
Tagged book review, clean energy transition, climate change, cobalt, lithium, minimg, nonfiction
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