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Undammed

Most books about the environment or climate change catalog the disastrous state of our world but dangle a morsel of hope at the end. Undammed, a book about dam removal in the United States, describes real progress, genuine restoration, and actual healing of the land and its people. Continue reading

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There Are Rivers in the Sky

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak tells the story of three people connected by two rivers and one raindrop. Arthur Smyth, born into squalor on the banks of the polluted Thames River in Victorian England, discovers the … Continue reading

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Nonfiction November 2025 Week 4: Diverse Perspectives

Week 4 of Nonfiction November is all about Diverse Perspectives, about seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. Or in my case, through the “eyes” of a river. Continue reading

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Is a River Alive?

In this fabulously written book, Robert Macfarlane journeys to rivers in three very different landscapes — the cloud-forests of Ecuador, the city of Chennai, India, and the wilderness of northern Quebec — seeking answers to the question are rivers alive and what would it mean if they were? Continue reading

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