Read the Change

(You Want to See in the World)

Seeded in childhood, watered every day since, fear had sprouted through her veins all her life. Thinking war thoughts it had gathered, blossomed into another thing.
– Toni Morrison

Human Rights

Shirin Ebadi’s Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (2016)

Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021)

Samar Yazbek’s A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (2012)

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Books gave us a way to shape ourselves – to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be.
– Rebecca Mead

Conservation

Deni Ellis Béchard’s Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral (2013)

Michelle Nijhuis’ Beloved Beasts (2021)

Alexandra Morton Not on My Watch (2021)

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?
– Audre Lorde

Ecosystems

Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring (2021)

Linda Hogan’s The Radiant Lives of Animals (2020)

Theresa Kishkan’s Mnemonic: A Book of Trees (2011)

Véronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men (2017; 2021)

Christiane Vadnais’ Fauna (2017; Trans. Pablo Straus, 2020)

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…reading is a political act. The more you read, the more political you become. The more you read, the more dangerous you become.
– Timothy Findley

Water

Erin Brockovich’s Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What WE THE PEOPLE Can Do about It (2020)

Sadrine Colette’s Just after the Wave (2018; Trans. Alison Anderson, 2020)

Winona LaDuke’s To Be a Water Protector (2020)

Nina Munteanu’s A Diary in the Age of Water: A Novel (2020)

Laura Trethewey’s The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea (2020)

Doreen Vanderstoop’s Watershed (2020)

It’s that powerlessness that I want to help people break out of because I don’t accept it is inevitable in any circumstances. I think books can do that. They give you strength, they give you purpose, they give you hope.
– Jeanette Winterson

Pollution

Rick Smith’s and Bruce Lourie’s Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health (2009)

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Read the Change

(You Want to See in the World)

Seeded in childhood, watered every day since, fear had sprouted through her veins all her life. Thinking war thoughts it had gathered, blossomed into another thing.
– Toni Morrison

Human Rights

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves – to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be.
– Rebecca Mead

Conservation

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?
– Audre Lorde

Ecosystems

…reading is a political act. The more you read, the more political you become. The more you read, the more dangerous you become.
– Timothy Findley

Water

It’s that powerlessness that I want to help people break out of because I don’t accept it is inevitable in any circumstances. I think books can do that. They give you strength, they give you purpose, they give you hope.
– Jeanette Winterson

Pollution

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Spring 2021 (10 works of fiction, non-fiction, collections)

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Summer 2021 (10 works of fiction, non-fiction)

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Autumn 2021 (9 works of fiction, non-fiction, collections)

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Winter 2021 (11 works of fiction, non-fiction, collections)

Read the Change

(You Want to See in the World)

Seeded in childhood, watered every day since, fear had sprouted through her veins all her life. Thinking war thoughts it had gathered, blossomed into another thing. – Toni Morrison

Human Rights

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves – to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. – Rebecca Mead

Conservation

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? – Audre Lorde

Ecosystems

…reading is a political act. The more you read, the more political you become. The more you read, the more dangerous you become. – Timothy Findley

Water

It’s that powerlessness that I want to help people break out of because I don’t accept it is inevitable in any circumstances. I think books can do that. They give you strength, they give you purpose, they give you hope. – Jeanette Winterson

Pollution

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Spring 2021 (10 works of fiction, non-fiction, collections)

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Summer 2021 (10 works of fiction, non-fiction)

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Autumn 2021 (9 works of fiction, non-fiction, collections)

EARTH CHANGES, HABIT CHANGES: Winter 2021 (11 works of fiction, non-fiction, collections)

Seeded in childhood, watered every day since, fear had sprouted through her veins all her life. Thinking war thoughts it had gathered, blossomed into another thing.
– Toni Morrison

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves – to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be.
– Rebecca Mead

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?
– Audre Lorde

…reading is a political act. The more you read, the more political you become. The more you read, the more dangerous you become.
– Timothy Findley

It’s that powerlessness that I want to help people break out of because I don’t accept it is inevitable in any circumstances. I think books can do that. They give you strength, they give you purpose, they give you hope.
– Jeanette Winterson