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Category Archives: Environment
How the World Really Works
Global climate change is an unprecedented challenge for the world. To meet the challenge, we need to make unprecedented changes in the ways we live, work, produce, and consume. In a new book called How the World Really Works: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Energy, Environment, Science and technology
Tagged book review, climate change, nonfiction, vaclav smil
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Greenwood
I was on vacation last week and took one of my periodic side trips into fiction. Greenwood, by Canadian writer Michael Christie, is a novel about family and trees and the relationship between them. It spans four generations of the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged book review, cli-fi, fiction, forest, michael christie, trees
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Entangled Life
When the author of this book about fungi started describing his participation in experiments involving LSD, I wondered if it was going to be a different sort of book than I was expecting. The author is Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged book review, ecology, fungi, merlin sheldrake, nonfiction
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The Big Switch
I’m only halfway through the book I’m reading, so this week I’m writing about a podcast instead. The Big Switch is a terrific podcast about how we switch to a net zero carbon economy to help slow down climate change. … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment
Tagged carbon emissions, clean energy, climate change, electricity, grid, podcast, sustainability
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Eloquence of the Sardine
As a young boy, Bill François manages to catch a wayward sardine with his toy net and pail while clambering around the rocky Mediterranean coast of his native France. I say wayward because sardines aren’t solitary creatures and they don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged bill francois, book review, fish, nature, nonfiction, oceanography, sardine
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Starting from London and zigzagging in an easterly direction, Jonathan Drori takes us on a grand tour visiting 80 of the world’s most interesting and exotic trees. Literally Around the World in 80 Trees. The book is printed on heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, forest, jonathan drori, lucille clerc, nonfiction, sustainability, tree
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Wintering: A Season With Geese
Over the last couple of years I’ve got into the habit of taking a walk through my neighborhood each evening. On weekends I go for longer walks in a large park a few miles from my home. I suppose it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged birds, book review, geese, nature, nonfiction, stephen rutt, wintering
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Nonfiction November 2021 Week 2: Book Pairings
It’s Week 2 of Nonfiction November, hosted by Katie @ Doing Dewey. And the topic is: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just … Continue reading
Finding the Mother Tree
I’m not much of a hiker or outdoors person, but I’ve done enough walking through the forests of the Pacific Northwest to appreciate their beauty and complexity. I kind of knew, in a vague abstract way, that the trees and … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, ecology, forest, nonfiction, salmon, sustainability, suzanne simard, tree
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The Overstory
A simple description of The Overstory by Richard Powers is that it’s a novel about nine people and their relationships with trees. Sounds weird, right? Well, The Overstory is definitely an unusual novel. But it’s much more, and much stranger … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, cli-fi, ecology, fiction, forest, redwood, richard powers, tree
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