August 2018 Creation Corner Column: Books, Songs, Heat & Fire Stories, Stamps, Quotes.
Books
500 Insects: A Visual Reference. Stephen A. Marshall.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp & Camille Kingsolver.
Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants. Tamarack Song.
Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell. Alexandra Horowitz, Unabridged Audiobook CD read by the author, 8 CDs. Named a "Best Science Book of 2016" by Library Journal and Science Friday.
Butterflies in Flight. Roger Camp, photographer.
Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of the Air Around Us. Sam Kean.
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming. Stephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky.
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery. Andrew Westoll.
Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright.
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet. Kerryn Higgs.
The Complete Book of Hummingbirds. Tony Tilford.
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution From the Origin of the Universe. John Hands.
Danger on Peaks: Gary Snyder. Poetry, Deluxe Audio Edition. Snyder also authored Turtle Island.
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Andreas Malm.
The Genius of Birds. Jennifer Ackerman.
Good Birders Still Don't Wear White: Passionate Birders Share the Joys of Watching Birds. Lisa A. White & Jeffrey A. Gordon, eds.
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life. Edward O. Wilson.
Health From God's Garden: Herbal Remedies for Glowing Health and Well-Being. Maria Treben.
How Animals Talk: And other Pleasant Studies of Birds and Beasts. William J. Long (1919).
Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies. Robert Duffy.
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization. Roy Scranton.
The Magic of Birds. Celia Fisher.
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World. Laura Spinney.
Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. Nathan Pieplow.
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat. Barry Estabrook.
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. Andreas Malm.
Soul Healing With Our Animal Companions: The Hidden Keys to a Deeper Animal-Human Connection. Tammy Billups.
The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World---And Could Destroy It. Alanna Mitchell.
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century. William Rosen.
We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change. Roy Scranton
Zapped: From Infrared to X-Rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light. Bob Berman.
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A Critical Thinking "Listopia" for you avid readers can be found on the GoodReads Book Site:
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Lifting every voice to sing about subjects related to this blog is facilitated by accessing the 2015 Rise Again: AGroup Singing Songbook ( Annie Patterson and Peter Blood; Hal Leonard Corporation).
It provides words/lyrics and chords to nearly 1200 songs, suitable for occasions that raise up 39 subject matters such as earthcare (songs about environmental and climate issues), faith, farm and prairie (agriculture, gardening, cowboys), home and roots, outdoors, spirituals and gospels, etc.)
The compact collection provides for identifying what recording artist is associated with each song, an alphabetical list of song titles, and groupings by genre (folk, blues, jazz, etc.) and culture.
Although no discography accompanies this effort, there is a web site link to YouTube recordings. Learn more by "googling" this title. It is a sequel to the 15th anniversary edition of Rise Up Singing in 2005, although there is no repetition between the two books.
"Ecology Doxology", anyone?
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Fire and Heat Summer Stories, as can be scanned at your library periodical shelves, include these:
July's heat wave is one for the books---globally. Temperature records shatter by the thousands. "USA Today Weekend" edition for July 27-29, p. 1A.
A World on fire: What's causing 2018's extreme heat? Cover story in the 27 July issue of "The Guardian Weekly" newspaper (UK).
As the World Burns: What wildfires and record temperatures tell us about climate change. Cover story in the August 10 issue of "The Week".
In the line of fire: Losing the war against climate change. Cover story in the August 4th-10th issue of "The Economist".
As The World Burns: Greed and Stupidity in the Age of Mega-Fires. Cover story in the August issue of "Harper's Magazine". (17 pages, two articles, special report). Plus a 9-page article on how climate change comes to the cradle of civilization entitled The End of Eden.
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Postal Stamps may highlight your appreciation of the natural world when you affix such environmental theme first class postage to your letters. Recent examples available from the U.S. Postal Service include:
Protect Pollinators
Flowers From the Garden
Henry David Thoreau
Bioluminescent Life
National Parks (2016 was 100th anniversary of the National Park Service)
O Beautiful (U.S. natural beauty scenes)
Love (floral inspired)
Peace Rose
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"Summer afternoon---summer afternoon: to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." ---Henry James.
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"I think the US is in a terrible state of denial... Worse than that we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung : we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong." Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Next Month: 10th anniversary of The Green Bible (NRSV): Understand the Bible's Powerful Message for the Earth (hardback and paperback).
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Mike Ochs blogs at http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com .
He earned a B.A. from Gettysburg College (1965), and a Master's from Lock Haven University (1989), where he studied the international Green Party movement.
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