10/'20 CCC: Books, TIME's important people, etc.
Climate Crisis and other Environmental Issues Books
The Age of Hiroshima. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry, editors.
Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution. Alexander Pschera, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer; foreword by Martin Wikelski.
Animal Languages. Eva Meijer, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.
As Far as the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker. David Brill.
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths That Hinder Progress. Mark Jaccard.
Climate Courage: How Tracking Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide in America. Andreas Karelas.
Elsewhere: A Journey into Our Age of Islands. Alastair Bonnett.
The Environmental History of the Civil War. Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver.
The Food Sharing Revolution: How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops Are Changing The Way We Eat. Michael Carolan.
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behaviors, Health, and Happiness. Emily Anthes.
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities. Vaclav Smil.
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything. Mike Berners-Lee.
Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law. S. Marek Muller.
The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools. Gennifer E. Gaddis.
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice. Gillen D'Arcy Wood.
Lead For The Planet. Five Practices For Confronting Climate Change. Rae Andre.
Migrations: A Novel. Charlotte McConaghy (re: Arctic terns and climate).
Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound. David Rothenberg.
Solved: How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing The Climate Crisis. David Miller; foreword by Bill McKibben.
The Story of CO-2: Big Ideas For A Small Molecule. Geoffrey A. Ozin and Mireille F. Ghoussoub.
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here. Hope Jahren. This highly-acclaimed scientist is especially good bringing quantitative data to the issues, and provides "an environmental catechism."
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System. Raj Patel.
Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What WE THE PEOPLE Can Do About It. Erin Brockovich. Note that her Resources list suggests these national organizations working to help communities clean up their water: Americans Against Fracking; American Rivers; Citizens Concerned About Chloramines; Clean Water Action; The Clean Water Fund; Earth Justice; Environmental Working Group; Environment America; Environmental Integrity Project; Food and Water Watch; The Union of Concerned Scientists; National Association of Clean Water Agencies; The National Wildlife Federation; Waterkeeper Alliance.
Tales From the Ant World. E.O. Wilson.
Talking Animals. Joni Murphy novel re: a city in climate collapse.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know. Ronald Bailey and Marian L. Tupy.
Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings. Valerie Trouet.
Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction. Peter Christie.
Vesper Flights. Helen Macdonald (40 nature essays).
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret. Coleman Flowers (founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice).
What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action. Jane Fonda. With the help of Annie Leonard of Greenpeace USA, Fonda narrates her journey to "Fire Drill Fridays" and the many issues that are threats to the integrity of our environment.
What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry, 1969-2017. Wendell Berry.
When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. Eva Meijer.
Why Trust Science? Naomi Oreskes.
Why Vegan? Eating Ethically. Peter Singer.
Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry. Julie Guthman.
Epidemic, Pandemic, etc. Books
COVID-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One. Debora Mackenzie.
Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19. Rob Wallace.
Death in Venice. Thomas Mann 1912 novella, cholera epidemic.
The Epidemic: A Collision of Power, Privilege and Public Health. David DeKok (re: 1903 typhoid epidemic at Cornell University and Ithaca NY).
Epidemics and Society: Frank M. Snowden.
Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis. Ross A. Slotten, M.D.
Plagues and Peoples. William McNeill.
Poisoned Nation: Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics. Loretta Schwartz-Nobel.
Television Series
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series on "The New Environmentalists" profiles grassroots activists awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea. A Film by Ken Burns.
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From TIME Magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" double issue of October 5 and 12, are these various icons, leaders, titans and pioneers in the fields of the environment and responders to COVID-19, etc.
ENVIRONMENT
David Hill, Protecting Indigenous Sovereignty
Nemonte Nenquimo, Defending the Amazon
Anne Hidalgo, Urban Climate Visionary
Cecilia Martinez, Advocating for Environmental Justice
RESPONDERS TO PANDEMICS, EPIDEMICS
Amy O'Sullivan, Frontline Hero
Ady Barkan, Healthcare Warrior
Anthony Fauci, Public Servant
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, The World's Doctor
Bonnie Castillo, Protecting Nurses
Ursula von der Leyen, Prescient Powerhouse
Tsai Ing-wen, Resolute Leader
Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, Ebola Fighter
Zhong Nanshan, Voice of Clarity
Tunji Funsho, Ending Polio
Claire Babineaux Fontenut, Food-bank Hero
Shi Zhengli, Tracking the Virus
Zhang Yongzhen, COVID-19 genome mapper
Ravindra Gupta, Hope for a HIV Cure
Lauren Gardner, Democratizing Pandemic Data
Camilla Rothe, Raising the Alarm
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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.
Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.
For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at
He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.
