5/2023 Creation Corner Column
Spring Titles; TIME magazine honorees; note to readers
1. Religion and Ecology books
The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God's First Sacred Text. Barbara Mahany.
Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap.
2. Books with Environmental Themes
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. Jared Farmer.
Ethics In The Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter. Peter Singer. A fully updated and expanded edition.
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis. Annie Proulx.
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. Neta C. Crawford.
Sea Changes: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. Christina Gerhardt.
Ten Birds That Changed the World. Stephen Moss.
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. Laura J. Martin.
3. TIME magazine 100/ The most influential people in the world (artists, titans, leaders, pioneers, innovators, icons) from the April 24/May 1, 2023 edition. Those who champion environmental causes are Johan Rockstrom, Laurene Powell Jobs, Sherry Rehman, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Britney Schmidt and Peter Davis, Robin Zeng, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Andrea Kritcher, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Wanjira Mathai, Kate Orff, King Charles III, Yvon Chouinard.
4. TIMECO2 EARTH AWARDS for 2023 in the May8/May 15 edition recognized five leaders in the battle against climate change.
Mark Ruffalo and Gloria Walton of the Solutions Project; Lisa P. Jackson, formerly with the US EPA now is the environmental director for Apple; Vanessa Nakate founded the Africa-based Rise Up Movement; and Antonio Guterres is Secretary-General of the U.N. who asks "What did you do to save our planet and our future when you had the chance?"
5. Four picture books for children that celebrate the natural world.
The City Tree. Shira Boss and Lorena Alvarez.
Maple and Rosemary. Alison James and Jennifer K. Mann.
One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth. Nicola Davies and Jenni Desmond.
This is the Planet Where I Live. K.L. Going and Debra Frasier.
6. COVID-19 Pandemic Books
The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era. Rob Wallace.
The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America. Gwendolyn L. Wright, Lucas Hubbard and William A. Darity Jr., editors.
Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Michelle Fishburne.
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Note to readers: Due to aging issues of this blogger (I am 80), it is unclear as to how long this column can be sustained on a regular basis. I deeply appreciate the invitation to post on the LRC site since 2011.
Michael Ochs, Lutheran Layman, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 142 Market St., Williamsport PA 17701
Website: www.stmarkswilliamsport.org
Email: stmarks@stmarkswilliamsport.org
