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We Need to Blackfish the Climate Crisis

John Boal 9/11, Al Gore, author, Be A Global Force Of One, Blackfish, book, Caring and Community, celebrities, celebrity, Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, climate, crisis, CSI, David Letterman, documentary, editorial, film, Gisele Bundchen, Guardian, Harrison Ford, In Your Hometown, Inconvenient Truth, International Day of Climate Action, Jack Black, killer, Marshall McLuhan, Matt Damon, op-ed, opinion, orca, orcas, People’s Climate March, PETA, plea, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Someplace With a Mountain, Steve Goodall, story, Sun Come Up, The Day After Tomorrow, The Island President, thriller, Tilikum, Time to Choose, Tom Zubrycki, video, whale, whales

An activist and author pleas for filmmakers to make a Blackfish for the climate crisis, that is, a film so compelling that it forces people to take action on behalf of emissions reduction.

EarthTalk

Environmental Heroes LaDuke, McKibben and Fox Inspire Millions To Take Action

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer activism, activist, Aldo Leopold, Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, book, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, documentary, eco, End of Nature, environment, environmental, film, Gasland, Henry David Thoreau, hero, heroes, inspiration, Josh Fox, LaDuke, native, Ojibwe, Our Revolution, Rachel Carson, rights, Sand County Almanac, Silent Spring, tribal, tribe, tribes, Walden, Winona

Environmental heroes like Winona LaDuke, Bill McKibben and Josh Fox have inspired millions of people to take action on behalf of protecting the environment.

Soap Box

Oil Junkies of the 21st Century: It’s Time to Wean Off Fossil Fuels

CJ Quinn addiction, book, C.J. Quinn, carbon, dependency, foreign, fossil fuel, fuels, natural gas, oil, op-ed, opinion, petroleum, pollution, Talia and the Capture of Wrath, wean

Author C.J. Quinn takes to the Soap Box and wonders why we must continue to create environmental catastrophes in order to provide energy for our planet…

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The Last Savanna: A Writer’s Memory

Mike Bond Africa, author, book, China, Chinese, choice, choices, consumer, DNA, elephant, elephants, homeland, lion, Mike Bond, products, Savanna

Mike Bond wrote THE LAST SAVANNA because the loss of Africa, the loss of the magic savanna, was driving him crazy. It still does…

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New Kids Books Teach Young Readers Respect for Nature

E The Environmental Magazine book, books, Carol Malnor, children, children's, Dawn Publications, kids, Marianne Berkes, Patricia Thomas

Dawn Publications’ new spring titles give parents and kids a lot to love when it comes to learning about nature and the wildlife that helps make the human experience so magical.

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Off Grid and Free

E The Environmental Magazine book, Jonathan Taggard, Life Off Grid, memoir, Moon Willow Press, off-grid, off-the-grid, Phillip Vannini, survival, wilderness

Ron Melchiore’s exciting new memoir Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness traces the author’s path to the wilderness which led him to building an off-grid, sustainable homestead with his wife Johanna. Here you will find true stories of survival, determination, and adventure. Ron’s years of experience make this book an essential guide for all audiences wanting […]

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The Surprising History & Science of Plant Intelligence

E The Environmental Magazine book, Brilliant Green, intelligence, Island Press, plant, plant intelligence, Stefano Mancuso

Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary — just too different from us. Yet […]

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Parking Management for Smart Growth

E The Environmental Magazine book, cities, development, Island Press, parking, Parking Management for Smart Growth, planning, Richard W. Wilson, sustainable

In Parking Management for Smart Growth, planning professor and parking expert Richard W. Wilson provides a path forward for strategic parking management in a new era of tighter parking supplies. He asserts that without parking management, parking has become a free-for-all—a competitive sport—with arbitrary winners and losers. Historically drivers have been the overall winners in having free […]

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Unnatural Selection

E The Environmental Magazine antibiotics, book, Darwin, Darwinism, drugs, Emily Monosson, evolution, natural selection, pesticides, pollution

Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans […]

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Blood of the Tiger

E The Environmental Magazine activism, activist, Blood of the Tiger, book, China, J.A. Mills, species extinction, wildlife

Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species takes readers on a wild ride to save one of the world’s rarest animals from a band of Chinese billionaires. Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than ever—from […]

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