Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, Beth Powning came to...
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Author:Creech, Steve, Johnson, SpencerSummary:Hold Your Water offers insight into the water and world around us. Taking a conversational approach to conservation, it dives into simple ways that even little old you can make a difference—all with a witty, and at times whimsical,...
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Author:Abdul-Matin, Ibrahim, Ellison, KeithSummary:“The Earth is a mosque.” Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connections between Islamic teachings and...
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Author:Van Tol, Alex, Alexander, CherylSummary:The remarkable story of Vancouver Island's lone wolf, Takaya, is told in this charming, lyrical picture book for infants. Takaya, the lone wolf, wakes up on a quiet bluff and sets out to discover the calm, gentle beauty of his coastal...
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Author:Suzuki, David T.Summary:This book "takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. It reveals that a clear and present environmental danger is staring us in the face - but there is good news. We still have time to avoid...
- Author:Li, QingSummary:
The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent...
- Author:Gierach, JohnSummary:
If John Gierach is living in a fool's paradise, then it's a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering. Laced with the inimitable blend of wit and wisdom that have made him fly-...
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Author:Koch, MaryjoSummary:* "The world is your birdbath." * "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." * "Success can take a long time to hatch." * Distinguished naturalist painter Maryjo Koch offers a bird's-eye view...
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Author:Holmes, NancySummary:How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? In Nancy Holmes’ new book of poetry, these questions are...
- Author:Christianson, Amy Cardinal, McGee, Tara K.Summary:
Nearly one third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges.This evacuation guide is based on...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
'[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.' — Publishers Weekly STARRED review Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left —...
- Author:Dumont, BertrandSummary:
Saviez-vous que les tomates étaient des lianes tropicales dont les fruits n'ont pas toujours été rouges? Que les choux poussaient en buisson? Que les haricots étaient jadis toxiques? Explorer l'histoire des plantes que nous...
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Author:Walsh, BryanSummary:What is going to cause our doom? How can we save ourselves from it? Bryan Walsh explores a multitude of apocalyptic situations and explains how we can decide our fate.
- Author:Tison, Marc, Fontaines, HugoSummary:
L'or était là. Des milliards de dollars d'or enfoui, invisible, en pleine taïga, 200 kilomètres à l'est de la baie James. Un complexe minier grand comme un village s'y dresse aujourd'hui, construit au coût de...
- Author:Beyers, Bert, Wackernagel, MathisSummary:
Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew--its biocapacity--and distils this...
- Author:Grubbs, Jennifer D.Summary:
Ecoliberation is a captivating and creative glimpse into the world of direct action, animal and earth liberation, and political repression. In stories that are simultaneously heartbreaking, riddled with tension and contradiction, and...
- Author:Otter, IsabelSummary:
This collection of 20 engaging stories about the natural world is drawn from global cultures and reminds readers of everyone's responsibility to care for and respect Earth. In this collection of 20 stories from many global cultures...
- Author:Magnason, Andri SnaerSummary:
Un appel à la mobilisation endossé par les Mères au front. À partir des plus récentes données scientifiques mais aussi d'entrevues, entre autres avec le dalaï-lama, Magnason présente la réalité des changements climatiques comme...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...
- Author:Housty, JessSummary:
Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory....
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