6/18 Creation Corner Column: June Books
Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature. Liam Heneghan.
Biophylia. E. O. Wilson.
The Biophylia Hypothesis. S.R. Kellert and E.O. Wilson, eds.
The Book of Caterpillars: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World. David G. James, ed.
Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North. Mark C. Serreze.
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (updated and expanded edition). Douglas W. Tallamy.
California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader. David Vogel.
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American. Tyler Green.
Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music, vol. 1, and vol. 2 All The Earth Shall Sing. wendellberrymusic.org
Client Earth. James Thornton and Martin Goodman.
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America. Sam White.
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. James Delbourgo.
Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Darren Frederick Speece.
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (with a new Afterword 2011). Bill McKibben.
The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism. Keith Makoto Woodhouse.
Energy: A Human History. Richard Rhodes. 2018.
The Experience of Landscape. Jay Appleton.
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change. Ashley Dawson.
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. Kyle Harper.
Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up. Steve Brescia, editor. Also in French and Spanish.
French 'Ecocritique': Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically. Stephanie Posthumus.
The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water. Gary E. Machlis and Jonathan B. Jarvis.
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. James Lovelock.
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone. Richard Lloyd Parry.
Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale. Matt Hern and Am Johal.
The Global Warming Express. Marina Weber. (For young readers).
Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth. Carin Holroyd.
Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture. Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall.
Healing Earth: An Ecologist's Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship. John Todd (forthcoming).
Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet. James Lovelock.
A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov. Peter J. Bowler.
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. (Spoiler Alert: Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, Lives).
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People. Timothy Morton.
The Infinite Desire for Growth. Daniel Cohen.
Insult to Our Planet & the Florida Keys: Explore the Environment of the Past...Confront the Future. Jerrold J. Weinstock, M.D.
Interwoven: Junipers and the Web of Being. Kristen Rogers-Iversen.
The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy. Michael Robertson. (Note: the four are Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman).
Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World. Scott Chimileski & Roberto Kolter.
The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums. Christopher Kemp.
Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surround Animal Death. Margo DeMelio.
A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense. Bernard E. Rollin.
Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path. Richard K. Taylor.
Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It's Too Late? Mark Cocker.
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. George Monbiot.
Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms. Ted Anton.
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species. Carlos Magdalena.
Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Edward Slavishak.
This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent. Daegan Miller.
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Elizabeth Rush.
Science Comics Series (Get to Know Your Universe graphic non-fiction novels for the middle-grade reader, available in soft or hard-cover). Latest 128-page issue is Trees: Kings of the Forest, by Andy Hirsch. Other titles include Coral Reefs, Volcanoes, Plagues, Sharks, Robots & Drones, Dogs, etc.
Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment. Harold L. Platt.
Symbiosis in Cell Evolution. Lynn Margulis.
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet. Varun Sivaraam.
The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World. Lizzie Collingham.
Toward a Better Worldliness: Ecology, Economy and the Protestant Tradition. Terra Schwerin Rowe.
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife. Lucy Cooke.
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World. Andrea Barnet.
Whose Dog Are You? The Technology of Dog Breeds and the Aesthetics of Modern Human-Canine Relations. Martin Wallen.
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. Isabella Tree.
Wildlife Crime: From Theory to Practice. William D. Moreto, editor.
Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise. M. L. Rosenzweig.
Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World. Trina Moyles.
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Post-Script to my May "Creation Corner Column" on Plastics, see the June issue of The National Geographic magazine:
