Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Sometime, I missed reading this in high school or college. I mostly knew Thoreau as the butt of a joke: the man who went to live in the woods but still had his mother nearby to send him food and do his laundry. But I learned more recently that Thoreau's… Continue reading Reading Roundup: July 2024
Author: Sara Davis
Climate Roundup: Another long hot summer
Climate impacts Earth Is Sneakily Getting Thicker and Our Days Are Getting Longer, Scientists Say (Popular Mechanics, July 18, 2024) Barred Owls Blur Lines Between Invasive Species and Refugees (Atmos, July 1, 2024) Climate change is already making your bills more expensive (Washington Post, June 24, 2024) Extreme heat is wilting and burning forests, making… Continue reading Climate Roundup: Another long hot summer
Reading Roundup: June 2024
How Much of These Hills is Gold, Ship Fever, A Billion Black Anthropocenes, Closer. And In the Dream House, again.
Climate roundup: The longest day of the year
Happy solstice, friends. There is a heat emergency in Philadelphia and much of the northeast right now. Stay cool, stay hydrated. It's officially going to be Too Hot Out There (Indignity, June 17, 2024) Interactive map: Heat risk (National Weather Service) Plastic Free July Every year, the Plastic Free Foundation declares Plastic Free July to… Continue reading Climate roundup: The longest day of the year
Reading Roundup: May 2024
I've been wanting to reread Middlemarch by George Eliot since I read The Marriage Question back in February, and the month of my birthday seemed like a great time to revisit this book for grown-up people. I believe it is my third read of this 785-page saga, so I suppose it's not surprising that I'd… Continue reading Reading Roundup: May 2024
Reading roundup: April 2024
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston by Ernest Callenbach. This short book, published in 1975, imagines a future world in which the Pacific Northwest and northern California have seceded from the United States. It is written in the form of a journalist's reported articles and private notes as he visits the relatively new country,… Continue reading Reading roundup: April 2024
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