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
Shelton Johnson has held many jobs, including his current one — serving as a National Park Service ranger in Yosemite. But in this, his first novel, Johnson proves himself to be a writer whose keen, affectionate observations of the natural world take you back to the poetry of Whitman,...
Oct
07
THE GLOBAL WARMING READER
edited by Bill McKibben
This is a book for all of us: students, activists, Earthlings. Edited by one of the most widely-respected writers on the environment today, GWR is a comprehensive resource that gathers seminal texts and voices on climate change from its discovery in...
Sep
17
WHEN THE KILLING’S DONE
by T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle’s latest combines action-packed adventure with a troubled conscience questioning whether we can successfully control the natural world, and whether we even have the right to try?
Set on the wild, mostly uninhabited Channel Islands...
Sep
17
REWILDING THE WORLD: Dispatches from the conservation revolution
by Caroline Fraser
As scientists worldwide warn of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds, and insects, this book offers hope with the first definitive account of a...
Sep
16
MARS TRILOGY
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Science fiction is a genre that has long recognized the fragile balance between mankind and his habitat. Indeed, hundreds, maybe thousands, of science fiction stories have been launched from the point where humans have tipped this earthly balance toward oblivion...
Sep
15
