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Author | : Winona LaDuke |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608466612 |
How Native American history can guide us today: “Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.” —Whole Earth Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among “America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty” by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. “Moving and often beautiful prose.” —Ralph Nader “Thoroughly researched and convincingly written.” —Choice
Author | : Marcus Crown Grodi |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1681496828 |
Voices from every direction beckon us, even push us, toward better and faster technology, with the promise of more wealth, more pleasure, and, consequently, more happiness. But have we become so bewitched by the siren song of material progress that we've lost the ability not just to achieve, but to discern what true happiness is? What criteria do we use to plan for the future, for retirement? At the end of our earthly lives, how will we measure our fruitfulness? In this book Marcus Grodi discusses what he and his family discovered, mostly by surprise, after moving from the city to twenty-five acres of Ohio farmland. This move involved a radical shift in priorities for all of them, but mostly it helped them to discover some critical truths about our relationship to nature and to nature's Creator that apply regardless of where a person lives. He offers wonderful reflections on his going-back-to-the-land experience as a metaphor for drawing closer to God.
Author | : Jedediah Purdy |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691216797 |
A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.
Author | : Dana Naone Hall |
Publisher | : AI Pohaku Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781883528447 |
In this volume, Dana Naone Hall articulates, through essays, testimony, public talks, writings, interviews, and poetry, her 30 years of activism surrounding Native Hawaiian rights to traditional lands- including advocating for burial preservation, which ultimately led to the birth of the Hawaiian burial movement and the creation of state laws to protect remains and establish island burial councils.
Author | : George Monbiot |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 022620555X |
As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Environmental protection |
ISBN | : 9789799745354 |
Author | : Gary Evans |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780802068330 |
Gary Evans traces the development of the postwar NFB, picking up the story where he left it at the end of his earlier work, John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda.
Author | : Carolyn J. Brown |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2021-03-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1665519444 |
LIFE ON THE LAND: Memoir of a Farmer’s Daughter is an inspirational look at life through the eyes of a black child during a time when “cotton was king.” Carolyn J. Brown shares her story of living on a farm in Northeast Texas. She details the challenges and joys of growing up in a family of black cotton farmers who worked on their own land. Upon leaving the farm for a career in urban education, the author faced different kinds of challenges and rewards which she describes. Also included are strategies that engage children with literature in meaningful ways.
Author | : Sir David Attenborough |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1538720000 |
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. All we need is the will to do so.
Author | : Richard Brighton |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) |
ISBN | : 1456752235 |