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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most?
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Terrible Beauty: Reckoning With Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul
by Auden Schendler
Terrible Beauty offers a trench-view critique of the modern environmental movement, arguing that individual and corporate sustainability efforts are failing to address the climate crisis. Sustainability veteran Auden Schendler exposes the "big green lie" and how current approaches inadvertently uphold the status quo. However, weaving in personal stories and a sense of moral obligation, the book provides an inspiring prescription for change, offering innovative, real-world methods at various levels to create a truly effective environmentalism rooted in our shared humanity.
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Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
by Miriam Darlington
Driven by a lifelong fascination, nature writer Miriam Darlington embarks on a year-long immersive journey across Britain in search of wild otters. Otter Country chronicles her expeditions through diverse landscapes and seasons, from Devon to the Scottish Highlands, as she seeks encounters with these elusive and captivating creatures. Along the way, she meets various individuals, deepening her understanding of the otter's ecological and cultural significance. This beautifully written work blends memoir, natural history, and scientific observation, offering a hopeful and wonder-filled exploration of the natural world through the lens of one of its most enchanting inhabitants.
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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
by Katie Holten
The Language of Trees reimagines our connection with nature through Katie Holten's tree alphabet, translating diverse writings about the natural world. This beautifully illustrated collection, featuring voices from Plato to Ursula K. Le Guin, offers a fresh perspective on our relationship with literature and landscape, celebrating trees and underscoring the need for conservation.
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
by Jessica J. Lee
In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being 'out of place'--weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.
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Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
by Jeff Chu
Seeking meaning beyond his successful New York City life, first-generation Chinese American writer Jeff Chu left his magazine job to study at Princeton Seminary's "Farminary." Good Soil chronicles his year on the 21-acre farm, where working the land and observing its inhabitants – from cranes to worms to overlooked long beans – prompts a gentle interrogation of his heritage, his relationship with food, and the lessons the earth offers. In moving prose, Chu's story encourages readers to connect with the land and each other, celebrating friendship, acceptance, spirituality, and the unexpected growth of love.
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How to Feed the World: the history and future of food
by Vaclav Smil
In this myth-busting book, a scientist investigates why big food-producing countries also have the most undernourished populations; why food goes to waste and how to prevent it; whether the planet could and should go vegan; and how to feed a growing population without killing the planet
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Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
by Vince Beiser
Journalist Vince Beiser's Power Metal offers a gripping and sobering account of the worldwide scramble for increasingly rare minerals vital for renewable energy and digital technologies. Through on-the-ground reporting, Beiser examines the human and environmental costs of this intensifying competition, showcasing examples from train-robbing copper thieves in Chile to Bill Gates-backed Arctic ventures. The book explores the potential for both progress and devastation as the world races to secure the materials that will define our future.
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A Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down, and Save the Planet
by Carina Wohlleben
A mother-of-two provides a blueprint for how she and her family adopted a sustainable, plant-based lifestyle, sharing the eye-opening facts that convinced her they needed to make a change...it wasn't until she was a new mom that she had an epiphany about how her own daily habits were connected to the ecological crisis we are facing and the importance of living sustainably. After learning that we can reduce our environmental footprint by 25 percent simply by forgoing animal products, she transformed her life, adopting a vegan diet, rethinking all her travel and consumption choices, and rediscovering her connection to nature.
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