by Liz Haegele | Mar 7, 2011 | Book Reviews
by Amy Stewart What gardener hasn’t spent time thinking about earthworms and their impact on the soil? Earthworms can be gross, and they actually sometimes are gross in Stewart’s book that describes the natural history and role of earthworms in our soils. Earthworms...
by Liz Haegele | Feb 4, 2011 | Book Reviews
by Thomas Berry As a reader of environmental literature, the recurring theme of our planet’s irreversible destruction and humanity’s downward spiral into a bottomless pit of greed can sometimes be a little disheartening. Books about remaining hopeful for no particular...
by Liz Haegele | Nov 30, 2010 | Book Reviews
by Janine M. Benyus The modern world offers us many problems: feeding a large population, energy shortages, and health care inadequacies to name a few. While professionals in each of these disciplines work towards finding the solutions to many of these seemingly...
by Liz Haegele | Nov 2, 2010 | Book Reviews
by Edward Abbey Walt Whitman’s quotation in the beginning of the book puts the theme of this novel into perspective: “Resist much. Obey little.” What started the environmental movement? Rachel Carson’s response to the wanton use of DDT in her famous book Silent...
by Liz Haegele | Oct 11, 2010 | Book Reviews
by Robin Wall Kimmerer Mosses are ancient and tiny. To the casual observer, they might not seem too interesting, if only for the fact they require a magnifying lens to really understand what they look like. But to Robin Wall Kimmerer, mosses are beautiful,...
