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Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A picture book about a family's connection to their land, their home, and each other. Long ago, Grandfather came to a new land. Fish swam in the water, birds chirped in the sky, monkeys played in the trees. And in this wilderness, with his own two hands, Grandfather built a house. It wasn't easy. But the land gave him what he needed. And it became his home. Decades later, his grandson will have all he needs: a head full of memories, two capable hands,...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Returning the Self to Nature is written for the person who no longer wishes to function in a world that revolves around selfish, disconnected identities and yearns to step into healthy relationships with one's self, one's community, and our planet. Seeing the suffering of the planet and that of humans as inseparably linked-the ecological crisis as psychological crisis, and vice versa-opens the door to a mutuality of healing between people and nature....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer).In Rooted , cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity--the foundations of science--to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change"--
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Edible Ecosystem Solution explores how humans benefit from edible ecosystem abundance, the immense opportunities in society for landscape change, and how anyone can build their own 25-square-foot edible ecosystem as a launch pad for community land transition and cultural transformation."--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war -- climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it's time for the church to meet this moral challenge, just as the church addressed previous moral challenges. Antal calls for the church to...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "better catastrophe.""--
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Like many who feel unfulfilled by traditional faith expressions, Victoria Loorz went in search of spirituality strong enough to reckon with the unraveling of her vocation, identity, and planet, and found herself in the wilderness. With an ecospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, Church of the Wild uncovers the wild roots of faith and helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"100 vivid infographic maps reveal the astonishing wonders of the natural world"--
Which nations have launched animals into space? How many humans live in high-risk zones for natural disasters? Higgins answers these questions and many more, using infographic maps that reveal the astonishing wonders of the natural world, while celebrating our planet and the plants and animals which whom we share it. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Publisher
Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the Pacific Northwest, many of us delight in Olympic National Park, a unique and magical UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, located right in our own backyard. Yet the famed park is just the center of a much larger ecosystem, a wild circle of rivers that encompasses ancient old-growth forests, pristine coastal expanses, and jagged alpine peaks, all possessed of a rich biodiversity. For tens of thousands of years, humans have thrived and strived...
Author
Publisher
Terra Firma Books, an imprint of Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At Great Salt Lake, near Robert Smithson's iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty, a motley crew of scientists walks the mudflats to study fossils in the making. This reputedly dead sea is home to countless tar seeps, pools of raw oil that act as the perfect preservative, encasing organisms as they were in life. In this spare landscape, an intricate web of life unfurls. Halophiles--salt-hungry microorganisms--tint the brackish water pink and orange; crystals...
Author
Publisher
Harper One
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and the cartoonist and award-winning author of MUTTS join forces to call for a Compassionate Revolution that encourages everyone to work together to heal our relationships with each other and with the planet.
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