Friday, July 5, 2019

7/19 CCC: Quotes, Announcements, Books, McKibben Interview

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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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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