Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and leopards. We share this beautiful blue-green globe with creatures magnificent, delicate, intricate – and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any other time in Earths history. Spend Lent with 25 of these wild ones. Vivid descriptions of their lives will fill listeners with wonder – and grief at what they suffer on a planet shaped by human choices. Their stories thaw our stiff hearts and wake us to greater compassion – which is what Lent, meaning springtime, has always been for. These stories also wake in us a wild hope that from all this death and ruin, something new could rise. The promise of Lent is that something new will rise. In fact, as these stories also attest, our hope, though wild, is not impossible and is already loose in the world.Listen…
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A new “farm-to-closet” vision for the clothes we wear – by a leader in the movement for local textile economies
As the world realizes the benefits of education, more and more people move to cities; in search of a better future. A future which includes affordable housing, health-care, quality education and inexpensive food. However, while the other options are possible, the pressing question here is: If so many people relocate to the cities, who will work on the farms then?
In May 2015, the Earth wrote me a letter and told me to start a blog! Since then, I received more letters from the Earth which are encouraging, uplifting, and challenging. During our growing ecological crisis, this audiobook provides a fresh voice of Gaia/God, who calls us to slow down and take time to appreciate the miraculous nature of all and to awaken to needed changes to avoid environmental destruction.
Sustainable has long been the rallying cry of agricultural progressives; given that much of our nations farm and ranch land is already degraded, however, sustainable agriculture often means maintaining a less-than-ideal status quo. Industrial agriculture has also co-opted the term for marketing purposes without implementing better practices. Stephanie Andersonargues thatin order to provide nutrient-rich food and fight climate change, we need to move beyond sustainable to regenerative agriculture, a practice that is highly tailored to local environments and renews resources.
A collection of 13 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California fish and game wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.
Relax, writes author Mary DeMocker, this isnt another light bulb list. Its not another overwhelming pile of parental “to dos” designed to shrink your familys carbon footprint through eco-superheroism. Instead, DeMocker lays out a lively, empowering, and doable blueprint for engaging families in the urgent endeavor of climate revolution.
Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for 10 millennia.
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, and plastics – the list of concerns seems endless.
Summary Of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells.