Earth Day is Every Day
We all can make positive change for this amazing planet we call Earth. April 20 is Earth Day, but it shouldn't stop there! Let's celebrate and find the leader in each of us, so that every day can be Earth Day.
The book of wilding : a practical guide to rewilding big and small
Tree, Isabella, 1964-, author
2023
This is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature. It is ambitious, visionary and pragmatic. Rewilding is a spectrum of possibility, and everyone is on it. Whether you have a garden, roadside verge or window box, there is no space too small. Rewilding is learning how to contribute to a living landscape, to connect with other areas of nature and help forge the life-support system that will save our planet from calamity and provide humankind with a prosperous and sustainable future. This book explains why rewilding is important and how every one of us can play a part.
The darkness manifesto : on light pollution, night ecology, and the ancient rhythms that sustain life
Eklöf, Johan, author
2023
How much light is too much light? The world's flora and fauna have evolved to operate in the natural cycle of day and night. But in the last 150 years, we have extended our day-and in doing so have forced out the inhabitants of the night and disrupted the circadian rhythms necessary to sustain all living things, including ourselves. Swedish conservationist Johan Eklöf urges us to appreciate natural darkness, its creatures, and its unique benefits. Streetlamps, floodlights, and the ever more pervasive and searingly bright LED lights are altering entire ecosystems, and scientists are only just beginning to understand the long-term effects.
The end of Eden : wild nature in the age of climate breakdown
Welz, Adam, author
2023
The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species. Combining classic natural history, firsthand reportage, and insights from cutting-edge research, Adam Welz brings us close to species as they struggle to survive. This is a deeply researched exploration of wild species reacting to climate breakdown - and galvanizes us to act in defense of the natural world before it's too late.
Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
Proulx, Annie, author
2022
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood role of these wetlands in saving the planet. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is a stunningly important work and a rousing call to action by a writer whose passionate devotion to understanding and preserving the environment is on full and glorious display"--Provided by publisher.
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
Simard, S. (Suzanne), author
2021
With humour, emotion, and the narrative drive of a lifelong storyteller, Dr. Suzanne Simard takes readers on an intimate journey of groundbreaking scientific discovery. Linking her research to her personal experiences, she recounts her life's work uncovering the "Wood Wide Web," the underground mycelium network that connects all the trees and plants within a forest. It is a network that allows them to share not only nutrients, but information, all of which originates from the hubs called Mother Trees.
Greenwood : a novel
Christie, Michael, 1976-, author
2020
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is an overqualified tour guide in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: thrumming a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie's effortless sentences and working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival.
Held by the land : a guide to indigenous plants for wellness = Wa ch'ích'istway ta temixw : spén̉em txwnam̉ ta ha7lh sḵwálwen
Joseph, Leigh, author
2023
Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have
Schlossberg, Tatiana, author
2019
By examining the unseen and unconscious environmental impacts in four areas-the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel - Schlossberg helps readers better understand why climate change is such a complicated issue, and how it connects all of us: How streaming a movie on Netflix in New York burns coal in Virginia; how eating a hamburger in California might contribute to pollution in the Gulf of Mexico; how buying an inexpensive cashmere sweater in Chicago expands the Mongolian desert; how destroying forests from North Carolina is necessary to generate electricity in England.
The loneliest Polar bear
Williams, Kale (Journalist), author
2021
"The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn't returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora. Humans rarely get as close to a polar bear as Nora's keepers got to their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora's birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter, Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and temperatures creep up year after year, Agnaboogok and the polar bears-and everyone and everything else living in the far north-are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed. Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone"-- Provided by publisher.
Migrations
McConaghy, Charlotte, author
2020
Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean’s tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. On a remote Greenland, Franny finds the world’s last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani, to take her onboard with promises that the birds she is tracking will lead them to fish. Franny is full of dark secrets, so when the story of her past begins to unspool, Ennis and his crew must ask themselves what Franny is really running toward - and running from.
The overstory
Powers, Richard, 1957- author
2018
An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing-and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
The sustainable homestead : create a thriving permaculture ecosystem with your garden, animals, and land
Ferraro-Fanning, Angela, author
2023
Whether you're just dreaming, working on site selection, or an experienced homesteader, The Sustainable Homestead is the go-to resource to bring permaculture techniques to your crops, animals, and more.
The uninhabitable earth : life after warming : adapted for young adults
Wallace-Wells, David, author.
2023
"An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming-how the future will look to those living through it as well as a direct overview and an impassioned and hopeful call to action to change the trajectory while there is still time. Adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller"-- Provided by publisher.