12/1/22 Creation Corner Column
New Readings and Old Anniversaries
ANNIVERSARIES
50th anniversary of the USA Clean Water Act
50th anniversary of The Club of Rome's influential, and controversial, environmental report The Limits to Growth, by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III..
READINGS
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus. David Quammen.
Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains. Chris Thorogood.
The Creative Lives of Animals. Carol Gigliotti.
Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia. Kay Harel.
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide. Bill McGuire.
The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution. Alison Bashford.
In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names. Sandra Knapp.
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. Martha Nussbaum.
Trees: From Root to Leaf. Paul Smith. Foreword by Robert Macfarlane.
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Children's titles from the winter 2022 issue of the Nature Conservancy magazine;
Alexander von Humboldt (age range: 4-7 years)
A Bird Will Soar (age range: 8-12 years)
A World Full of Nature Stories (age range 5-8 years)
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Recent periodicals with environmental themes featured:
Time magazine of October 10/October 17, 2022 provided a list of their "TIME100 Next" artists, advocates, leaders, innovators, and phenoms, many of whom include environmental aspirations as their motivations.
Sojourners for December 2022 has as its cover story "Is Climate Change a 'White' Issue?" Climate activist Vanessa Nakate, author of A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis, is interviewed.
"The Climate Issue" is the theme for the November 28, 2022 edition of The New Yorker magazine. Articles include ones about the potential collapse of a Florida-size glacier ("Journey to Doomsday"); a low-lying Alaskan town reckoning with extinction ("The Coming Storm"); wind farms coming to coal country ("Blade Runners"); and, by Elizabeth Kolbert, an A to Z list of stories we tell ourselves about the Earth's future climate crisis ("A Vast Experiment").
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