-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
Recent Comments
Harry Katz on Friends Katie | Doing Dewey… on Friends Harry Katz on Friends Harry Katz on Friends Lisa notes... on Friends Meta
Tag Archives: ecology
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
6 Comments
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
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged book review, ecology, forest, nonfiction, sustainability, suzanne simard, tree
6 Comments
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
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged book review, cli-fi, ecology, fiction, forest, redwood, richard powers, tree
4 Comments
Rewilding
What would it mean to “restore” Earth’s environment? Scientists are warning us that climate change, deforestation, mass extinctions and a host of other environmental problems are driving the biosphere to a tipping point. How do we pull back from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged biodiversity, book review, cain blythe, ecology, non-fiction, paul jepson, rewilding
7 Comments