Recipes for Every Monday of the Year
Photo credit: Mary McCartney
Sir Paul McCartney, one of the Meatless Monday movement’s most famous supporters, has launched The Meat Free Monday Cookbook (Kyle Books 2012), featuring meatless menu ideas for every Monday of the year. Assembled in...
Mar
30
Poems selected by Bridget Terry upon viewing A Hummingbird Nest in an Avocado Tree
Photography by Lynn Houston
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth(1798)
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring...
Mar
12
Detectives and the environment appear to be a potent combination for a mystery novel. In fact, there’s a fast evolving mini-genre among eco-readers who like their crime investigations splattered with consciousness-raising motives and clues. Here, Ecology Campus’ Senior Editor, Deborah Harter...
Feb
10
Wade Graham is a Los Angeles, California -based garden designer, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism and the arts has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and other publications. This year, he authored two distinct works about gardens – American Eden, a...
Jan
09
We’ve got too much stuff and not enough room — in our homes, in our neighborhoods, on our planet. Some of us get it – realizing that recycling our stuff needs be an integral part of our lives in order to sustain our natural environment. Sadly, however, too many still don’t get it...
Nov
14
Dickinson Was Widely Known as a Gardener, Not a Poet
During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson’s poetry remained largely private, with fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems being published before her death, over a century ago. In fact, according to author Judith Farr, among her...
Nov
04
Explore the World of Books
ecoLit explores a world of books – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, anthology – all offering insight into our complex relationship with our earthly habitat. Some are wholly dedicated to this theme, while others interweave it into the fabric of their stories.
The...
Nov
04
Wangari Maathai planting a tree at the Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya, to mark the launch of her autobiography, Unbowed. Photo by Wanjira Mathai
“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”
Nobel Laureate Professor...
Oct
24
