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Condemning such terms as ‘Sites of Special Scientific Interest’, ‘no-catch zones’, ‘reference areas’ and ‘natural capital’ for a lack of vision when describing the remarkable vitality and richness of the planet we inhabit, he went on to write, ‘Had you set out to estrange people from the living world, you could scarcely have done better.’ The
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
The mysterious life and death of Intrade’s CEO
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John Todd, the venerable systems ecologist best known for his work on environmental remediation. In 1969 Todd founded the New Alchemy Institute and began to design microecosystems, self-contained plant communities inside greenhouses. Using them as small-scale prototypes for larger real-world projects, he revolutionized how we approach solving envir
... See moreDickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
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Many years ago I became fascinated by a rooster named Weirdo, who weighed over thirty pounds. His offspring, Ralph, was even bigger. The man who had raised these extremely aggressive animals had been forced to singe off their spurs with a blowtorch. Then I found Frank, a miniature horse, specially bred from sixteenth-century Spanish stock, who stoo
... See morePaul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
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