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The Ministry for the Future
It’s the year 2024. After most nations fail to meet their commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, delegates to the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) create a “subsidiary body” to defend and protect future generations of citizens and all … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, carbon, cli-fi, climate change, ecology, fiction, kim stanley robinson, sustainability
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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
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Tagged book review, ecology, fungi, merlin sheldrake, nonfiction
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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, 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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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
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Tagged biodiversity, book review, cain blythe, ecology, non-fiction, paul jepson, rewilding
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