July 2019 Creation Corner Column: Quotes, Announcements, Books, McKibben interview
Quotes
"Before we become too impressed with our ability to change nature, we might compare our work with the original." Father Terrence (Gerald) Kardong (1936-2019). A Benedictine monk and priest from Richardton North Dakota, he was a long time activist and leader in the Dakota Resource Council within the Western Organization of Resource Councils.
"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot", song lyric in "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell, 1970.
Announcements
Mother Earth News Fair has announced three dates:
August 3-4, Albany, Oregon
Sept. 13-15, Seven Springs, Pennsylvania
Oct. 19-20, Topeka, Kansas
Visit MotherEarthNewsFair for more information (Working Together to Create a Sustainable Life)
Travel adventure opportunity to see climate change up close by sailing the Northwest Passage with the ice-class expedition vessel, the Ocean Endeavor. Info at adventurecanada.
The Men's Journal has begun a "cause-marketing campaign" to build knowledge and support of our public lands. See MensJournal/LandsUncompromised.
"Spirit of Place: A Theology of Water" 3-day conference of the Cedar Tree Institute, Marquette MI, Oct. 31-Nov. 2. 906-360-5072.
2019 is the centennial of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA). Among other efforts, it publishes the magazine "National Parks."
Books, July 2019
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History. Susanna Forrest.
American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau. Bill McKibben, editor (2008).
Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures. Ross Piper.
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects. Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination. Richard Mabey.
Caesars' Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us. Sam Kean.
Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems. John Felstiner.
Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence. Peter J. Bowler.
The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival. Robert Jay Lifton.
Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 95 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment. Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes.
The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters. Robert Muir-Wood.
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, 2nd edition. Alfred W. Crosby.
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. Nicholas Stern.
Emerging Threats to Human Rights: Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship. Heather Smith-Cannoy, editor.
The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation. Ben A. Minteer.
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. Kyle Harper.
Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle. Joshua Sbicca.
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West. Christopher Ketcham.
The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature. Nick Haddad.
Living Lightly on the Earth: Building an Ark for Prince Edward Island 1974-76. Steven Mannell.
Living Oil: Petroleum Culure in the American Century. Stephanie LeMenager.
The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration. Hester Blum.
Nightingales In Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound. David Rothenberg.
The Paradox of Evolution: The Strange Relationship Between Natural Selection and Reproduction. Stephen Rothman.
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us. Ruth Kassinger.
So Little Time: Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis. Edited by Greg Delanty and Daniel Hume.
Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living. Alan Boye.
The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth. Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees in the American Cityscape. Jill Jonnes.
Underland: A Deep Time Journey. Robert Macfarlane.
Vanishing Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas. Vivien Gornitz.
Waste Not: How to Get the Most from Your Food. Tom Colicchio, the James Beard Foundation.
Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. Joy McCann.
Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wilderness. Laura and Guy Waterman.
Documentary DVD
How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution. 2017.
A recent interview with climate activist Bill McKibben occurs in the July 3 issue of The Christian Century, "The End of being human", interview with David Heim.
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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.
