#ayana elizabeth johnson

[dailysudeikis]

Jason Sudeikis and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson at Ayana's book launch in NYC. - September 17, 2024.

[higherentity]

[maiathebee]

Without knowing the outcome, we have to try anyway; without a single guarantee, we must show up.  So we focus on how to understand where we are and where we go from here. As the subtitle lifts up, we must summon truth, courage and solutions. This trifecta can move us forward, through aching uncertainty.

From the introduction to All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

[loudlylovingreview]

Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

What If We Get It Right?by Ayana Elizabeth JohnsonPenguin Random HouseHardcover retail price: $34.00 ~~~ On a recent family trip to Jamaica, I walked through the lush, humid forests of a Kingston suburb. The island was still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Beryl—the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a century—and the pervasive effects of climate change were laid bare. Shattered…

[inclineto]

Books, July-August 2024

The English Experience - Julie Schumacher [I thought Dear Committee Members was excellent, and The Shakespeare Requirement too realistically curmudgeonly to be funny; The English Experience is closer to the first, and what Schumacher writes especially well are the inadvertent, unrecognized profundities of students writing very badly]

Come and Get It - Kiley Reid [the last 80ish pages: damn. damn!]

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia - Christina Thompson

Weather - Jenny Offill

War Among Ladies - Eleanor Scott ["Books about education" seems to be July's unintentional theme; this quietly vicious short novel about the bureaucratic, relentless grinding down of women's potential makes me want to reread South Riding]

Orbital - Samantha Harvey [didn't feel certain about this in the first couple of pages, but my god it's made of stars] *

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis - edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson [the chapters with good writing are overwhelmed by the many tedious essay versions of a "thank you for coming to my TED talk" pitchdeck; dnf]

High Times in the Low Parliament - Kelly Robson [I was on a plane]

Curious Tides - Pascale Lacelle [one of those all vibes/no classes dark academia settings; looming signs of YA love triangle; dnf]

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts - Christopher de Hamel [I suddenly, desperately want to know what de Hamel - a former Sotheby's employee himself - thinks of The Stegosaurus Auction, aka the most nsfw sfw video I have seen this year]

[marcmarcmomarc]

RWBY (Behind the Voice Actors)

MAIN RWBY CAST

Ruby Rose: Lindsay Jones

Weiss Schnee: Kara Eberle and 1 other

Casey Lee Williams

Blake Belladonna: Arryn Zech

Yang Xiao Long: Barbara Dunkelman

Jaune Arc: Miles Luna

Nora Valkyrie: Samantha Ireland

Lie Ren: Monty Oum and 1 other

Neath Oum

RECURRING ROLES

Qrow Branwen: Vic Mignogna and 1 other

Ernesto Jason Liebrecht

Oscar Pine: Aaron Dismuke

Professor Ozpin: Shannon McCormick

Cinder Fall: Jessica Nigri

James Ironwood: Jason Rose

Emerald Sustrai: Katie Newville

Sun Wukong: Michael Jones

Pyrrha Nikos: Jen Brown

Penny Polendina: Taylor McNee

Mercury Black: J.J. Castillo and 1 other

Yuri Lowenthal

Winter Schnee: Elizabeth Maxwell

Salem: Jen Taylor

Neopolitan: No Voice Actor

Dr. Arthur Watts: Christopher Sabat

Tyrian Callows: Jessie James Grelle

Hazel Rainart: William Orendorff

Bartholomew Oobleck: Joel Heyman

Peter Port: Ryan Haywood and 1 other

Anthony Sardinha

Maria Calavera: Melissa Sternenberg

Adam Taurus: Garrett Hunter

Robyn Hill: Cristina Valenzuela

Roman Torchwick: Gray G. Haddock and 2 others

Billy Kametz

Christopher Wehkamp

Neptune Vasilias: Kerry Shawcross

Glynda Goodwitch: Kathleen Zuelch

Jacques Schnee: Jason Douglas

Raven Branwen: Anna Hullum

Clover Ebi: Christopher Wehkamp

Elm Ederne: Dawn M. Bennett

Marrow Amin: Marrow Amin

Harriet Bree: Anairis Quiñones

Vine Zeki: Todd Womack

Ghira Belladonna: Kent Williams

Whitley Schnee: Howard Wang

Ilia Amitola: Cherami Leigh

Kali Belladonna: Tara Platt

Taiyang Xiao Long: Burnie Burns

Vernal: Amber Lee Connors

Little: Luci Christian

Somewhat: Luci Christian

May Marigold: Kdin Jenzen

Joanna Greenleaf: Marissa Lenti

Fiona Thyme: Michele Everheart

Dr. Pietro Polendina: Dave Fennoy

Klein Sieben: J. Michael Tatum

Corsac Albain: Derek Mears

Fennec Albain: Mike McFarland

Leonardo Lionheart: Daman Mills

Curious Cat: Robbie Daymond

Coco Adel: Ashley Jenkins

Velvet Scarlatina: Caiti Ward

Yatsuhashi Daichi: Joe MacDonald

Cardin Winchester: Adam Ellis

Caroline Cordovin: Mela Lee

Jabberwalker: Richard Norman

Jinn: Colleen Clinkenbeard

Flynt Coal: Flynt Flossy

Neon Katt: Meg Turney

Saphron Cotta-Arc: Lindsay Sheppard

Terra Cotta-Arc: Jamie Smith

Blacksmith: Kimlinh Tran

Lil’ Miss Malachite: Luci Christian

Willow Schnee: Caitlin Glass

The Hound: Ernesto Jason Liebrecht

Hei “Junior” Xiong: Jack Pattillo

Miltia Malachite: Maggie Tominey

Melanie Malachite: Maggie Tominey

Zwei: Penny Layne Matthews

Ozma: Aaron Dismuke and 1 other

Shannon McCormick

God of Light: Chase McCaskill

God of Darkness: Bruce DuBose

Ambrosius: Valentine Stokes

Jinxy: Brendan Blaber

Red Prince: Michael Malconian

Herbalist: Christopher Guerrero

Creatures of Grimm: William Orendorff

MINOR ROLES

Announcer: Jeff Williams

AK-130 Android: Shane Newville

Shopkeep: Patrick Rodriguez

Goons: William Lopez and 1 other

Isaiah Torres

Cyril Ian: Patrick Rodriguez

Lisa Lavender: Jen Brown

Student: Kerry Shawcross

Russel Thrush: Shane Newville

Police Officers: Burnie Burns and 1 other

Joel Heyman

Sailors: Isaiah Torres and 1 other

Daniel Fabelo

White Fang Goons: Chris Martin and 4 others

Austin Hardwicke

Miles Luna

Dustin Matthews

Josh Ornelas

Penny’s Driver: Alan Abdine

Tukson: Adam Ellis

CCT AI: Megan Castro

Schnee Corp Operator: Emily McBride

Atlas Soldiers: Jon Risinger and 19 others

Patrick Rodriguez

Shane Newville

Kerry Shawcross

Josh Flanagan

Jeb-Aguilar Kendrick

J.D. Arredondo

Kirk Johnson

Alena Lecorchick

Tony Salvaggio

César Altagracia

Quentin Holtz

Nicholas Swift

Ed Whetstone

Cody Hawkins

Andrea Ratsos

Noël Wiggins

Dalton Allen

Nick Cramer

Alena Lecorchick

White Fang Lieutenant: Gray G. Haddock

“Deery”: Maggie Tominey

Student: Jacob Strickler

Perry: Kyle Taylor

Councilman: Gray G. Haddock

Reese Chloris: Erin Winn

Bolin Hori: Jon Risinger

Brawnz Ni: Blaine Gibson

Roy Stallion: No Voice Actor

Nolan Porfirio: Aaron Marquis

May Zedong: No Voice Actor

Bartender: Markus Horstmeyer

Nebula Violette: Kate Warner

Scarlet David: Gavin Free

Dew Gayl: Kim Newman

Sage Ayana: Josh Ornelas

Gwen Darcy: Mylissa Zelechowski

Octavia Ember: Claire Hogan

Video Game Announcer: Gray G. Haddock

Ciel Soleil: Yssa Badiola

Salesman: César Altagracia

Woman: Kate Warner

Man: Robert Reynolds

Large Man: Alex Leonard

Inn Keeper: Joe MacDonald

Crying Child Illusion: Maggie Tominey

Amber: Laura Bailey

Paramedic: Jon Risinger

Atlas Security Guard: Jonathan Floyd

Haven Tourist: Robert Reynolds

News Reporter: Tyler Coe

Broadcast Op: Cole Gallian

Warning Announcer: Kate Warner

Atlas Ship Captain: Travis Willingham

Blue Three: Andrea Caprotti

Mayor: Mike McFarland

Blacksmith: Christopher Guerrero

Dying Huntsman: Alejandro Saab

Captain: Bruce Carey

Reporters: Tyler Coe

Amber Lee Connors

Jason Douglas

Crew Member 1: Yunhao Zhang

First Mate: Derrek Ziegler

Crew Member 2: Chris Kokkinos

Oscar’s Aunt: Marissa Lenti

Higanbana Waitress: Kim Newman

Businessman: Scott Frerichs

Businesswoman: Amber Lee Connors

Henry Marigold: Alejandro Saab

Angry Businessman: Nick Landis

Waiter: Kyler Smith

Trophy Wife: Felecia Angelle

Husband: Chris Kokkinos

An Ren: Dawn M. Bennett

Lie Ren (young): Apphia Yu

Young Blacksmith: Connor Pickens

Tall Boy: Scott Frerichs

Short Boy: Marissa Lenti

Medium Boy: Amber Lee Connors

Li Ren: Kaiji Tang

Nora Valkyrie (young): Kristen McGuire

Mistral Pilot: Stan Lewis

Atlas Pilot: Richard Norman

Train Announcer: Alena Lecorchick

Mistral Pilot: Reina Scully

Menagerie Guard: Gio Coutinho

Bartender: Zane Rutledge

Shay D. Mann: Clifford Chapin

Sienna Khan: Monica Rial

Bandit One: Chris Kokkinos

Saber Rodentia: William Ball

Bandit Two: Billy B. Burson III

Worried Mother: Victoria Holden

Mata: Scott Frerichs

Yuma: Nick Landis

Ramen Shop Owner: Nick Landis

Small Girl: Emily Fajardo

Trifa: Emily Fajardo

Menagerie Guard 1: Stan Lewis

Menagerie Guard 2: Jenn K. Tidwell

Faunus: Willem W. Keetell and 1 other

Ariel LaCroix

Young Faunus Woman: Christine Stuckart

Older Faunus Man: Patrick Rodriguez

White Fang Members: Luis “Paco” Vazquez and 2 others

Willem W. Keetell

Jenn K. Tidwell

Mistral Police Captain: Jamie Smith

White Fang Guards: Christine Stuckart and 2 others

César Altagracia

Connor Pickens

Dee: Alex Mai

Dudley: Christopher Guerrero

Mistral Woman: Lauren Aptekar

Newscaster: Ethan Marler

Body Guard: Jenn K. Tidwell

Frightened Man: Richard Norman

Eldest Daughter: Jenn K. Tidwell

Youngest Daughter: Lauren Aptekar

Tock: Ruth Urquhart

Adrian Cotta-Arc: Lucella Wren Clary

Nubuck Guards: Kyle Phillips

Red Haired Woman: Jen Brown

Terminal Soldier: Connor Pickens

Argus Air Control: Danzer Koehler

Manta Two-Two: Noël Wiggins

Manta Three-Four: Dalton Allen

Manta Two-One: Melanie Stern

Manta Two-Four: Joe Clary

Atlas Air Traffic Female: Alena Lecorchick

Drunk Mann: Joel Mann

Drinking Buddy: Dustin Matthews

Forest: Eric Baudour

Pilots: Billy B. Burson III and 1 other

Todd Womack

Fria: Luci Christian

Newscaster: Scott Morgan

Mantle Citizen: Kirk Johnson

Mantle Patrol: Quentin Holtz

News Broadcaster: Kyle Taylor

AK-200 Driver: Ed Whetstone

Patrol: Connor Pickens

Waiters: Kirk Johnson and 1 other

Christine Stuckart

Female Dinner Guest: Lauren Aptekar

Councilman Sleet: Chad James

Councilwoman Camilla: Anairis Quiñones

Mantle Child: Brooke Olson

Citizens: Quentin Holtz and 5 others

Nikita Steele

Nicholas Swift

Jenn K. Tidwell

Alena Lecorchick

Ed Whetstone

Manta Team Delta: Richard Norman

Atlas Pilots: Ed Whetstone and 1 other

Alena Lecorchick

Atlas Commander: Zoe Terhune and 1 other

Kate Daigler

Atlas Technician: Alena Lecorchick

Reporter: Nick Schwartz

Mother: Jenn K. Tidwell

Disgruntled Grandmother: Christine Stuckart

Fiona’s Uncle: Gus Sorola

Crimson: César Altagracia

Mechanical Voice: Andrea Ratsos

Operator: Nick Schwartz

Madame: Linda Leonard

Step-Sisters: Amanda Lee

Rhodes: Christian Young

Commanders: Billy B. Burson III and 2 others

Kdin Jenzen

Zack Watkins

Child: Alexia Cruz

Father: Matthew Cruz

Computer Terminal: Alanah Pearce

Atlas Officer: Billy B. Burson III

CCT Voice: Jackie Izawa

Civilian: Chris Demarais

Summer Rose: Morgan Lauré Garrett

The Bird: Richard Norman

Mouse: Brendan Blaber

Mouse Leader: Jamie Battle

Townsperson: Jamie Battle

Toy Soldiers: Nick Cramer and 4 others

Billy B. Burson III

Kdin Jenzen

Cody Hawkins

Michael Malconian

Toy Guard: Brendan Blaber

White Pawns: Brandan Blaber and 3 others

Billy B. Burson III

Jamie Battle

Michael Malconian

Hawker: César Altagracia

Teapot Lady: Kdin Jenzen

Blue Paper Pleaser: Connor Pickens

Yellow Paper Pleaser: Dalton Allen

Green Paper Pleaser: Dustin Matthews

Red Paper Pleaser: Paula Decanini

Purple Paper Pleaser: Yssa Badiola

Genial Gem: Paula Decanini

Alyx: Shara Kirby

Vacuan 1: Eddy Rivas

Vacuan 2: Melinda Bonifay

ADDITIONAL VOICES

Austin Hardwicke

Blaine Gibson

Daniel Fabelo

Dustin Matthews

Harley Dwortz

Jeff Yohn

Kris McMeans

Kristina Nguyen

Luis “Paco” Vazquez

Maggie Tominey

Megan Castro

Shane Newville

Sheena Duquette

Stefanie Hardy

[storytelling-2075]

Climate Storytelling 2075 is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the inaugural cohort’s anthology in September of 2024.

These artists and storytellers offer us an expansive and uplifting roadmap to a climate future where, to borrow from Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (@ayanaeliza), we “get it right.”

Join us as we spotlight our young storytellers.

In the timeless words of @tonicadebambara “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” The works in this inaugural anthology illuminate the beauty and promise of a climate revolution, helping us envision a just world for people and planet.

This September, the 2024 cohort of climate storytellers envision a 2075 free from the dystopian narratives that dominate the public imagination. From the frontlines, these artists and storytellers offer an equitable vision of a thriving future.

Watch this space for announcements of the digital and print publications, as well as opportunities to experience the work with a public launch this fall.

Interested in partnership, offering mentorship to young artists, or sponsorship? Email climatestorytelling2075@gmail.com

https://www.instagram.com/climatestorytelling2075

[adapembroke]

Astrology for the Present

I was a grad student in my mid-20s when I discovered Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder. I was in Berkeley in the winter in the rain, and this jaunty little book of poetry with its black cover, handwritten chalk font, and sunny strip of bright pink was the perfect mix of rawness and twee optimism for that moment in my life. 

The title poem is about death–as you would expect–but it is also about a light up skull keychain, David Foster Wallace, and depression. It fades out in the end into something like a rallying cry:

“If a nation 

can fall asleep

it can wake up not

exactly angry but a little dizzy

with pleasant hunger.”

Collectively in the US, we have been talking about “joy” a lot lately, like we talked about “hope” and “change” in 2008. Come on All You Ghosts is not about joy. Zapruder isn’t afraid to say that “the sea seems more / than a little angry.” But there is a hope to this work that I’ve been hungry for, and it doesn’t make me feel like my mouth is stuffed full of rock candy.

It reminds me of something I heard author and marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ask on the radio recently: “What if we get it right? What if we are getting it right right now?” 

Right now.

For the last couple months, I’ve been doing a daily horoscope column on Threads and Instagram for people with Leo ascendants. I was talking with a colleague recently about horoscope writing, and she said that she can’t do daily horoscopes every day. She has to batch them all at once over a weekend.

It’s the opposite for me. I need to wake up in the morning and feel into the energy of the moment. When I try to predict how things will feel, I get into my head too much. I get too theoretical and lose track of my heart. 

I envy the astrologers who are able to calmly stand in front of a chart and talk about the weather like a meteorologist inside a news studio. Often, I feel like a weather reporter standing on the beach in front of a hurricane, talking about the rain. 

Astrology tends to attract people who are future-oriented. We believe that if we can just prepare thoroughly enough for what’s coming, we’ll know the right thing to do and say at all times. It creates this dynamic where we are always living five steps ahead. Always aspiring, always improving, never arrived. Stuck in the idealism of an impossible future, frustrated whenever we’re forced to deal with life as-is. 

What if the hope–or even the joy–we need isn’t waiting for us in a future that never becomes the present? What if this is the moment we can step into, not perfection, but “books made of blue sky” or “terrible marvels?”

I don’t think it’s an accident that mythology and folklore is full of warnings for people who consult oracles. It isn’t because we’re helpless, bound by fates we can’t control. It’s because no amount of work in the present can control the future. This is the only moment we can touch.

If we live in the present, we won’t get it right. We will find ourselves staring in open-mouthed confusion, utterly unprepared. But that is why we’re here, to dance with the moment instead of marking out the perfect choreography of all the things we will do… tomorrow. 

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[apatosaurus]

Looking forward to this book by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson! “What if we get it right: Visions of Climate Futures” is due out September 17.

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (August 23, 1980) is a marine biologist, environmental strategist, and policy expert. Born to a teacher and an architect, She was raised in Brooklyn.

She earned a BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University. She earned a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her dissertation focused on the bionomics and social and economic factors of maintaining coral reefs sustainably. She was awarded an American Association of University Women Fellowship, a Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Fellowship. She won the first Rare/National Geographic Solutions Search contest for the fish trap that she invented. She held a policy position in the Environmental Protection Agency and, she held a policy position in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She went on to occupy the role of Director of Science and Solutions at the Waitt Foundation.

She led the Caribbean’s first-ever successful ocean zoning project. This zoning project resulted in the protection of the coastal waters of Barbuda.

She spearheaded the growth of this initiative, successfully instituting it in Curacao and Montserrat through partnerships. She is the founder and president of a consulting firm, Ayana Elizabeth Consulting. She founded an ocean policy think tank called Urban Ocean Lab which works to develop ocean policy solutions for coastal cities.

She was among the inaugural members of the TED Residency program and an Aspen Institute Scholar. She works as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University, a National Geographic blogger, a volunteer co-director of partnerships for the March for Science, and is an independent consultant for climate policy issues and ocean conservation working with non-profits through her consulting firm. Her work has been featured in Nature magazine, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Atlantic. In her spare time, she is a dance party organizer and jazz singer. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[futurerise]

WHERE I’M AT

PRO:

Disability-activism-informed environmentalism

Inside growing

Collective action

Gardening for the rest of us

Farmer’s markets

Small-scale agriculture

future food

hope on purpose

land back + decolonization

physical media

right to repair

mycology

green death practices

right to privacy + digital privacy

abolition (both cops and prisons)

transformative justice

an ad-free future

local community

foraging

sci-fi aesthetics and movements that allow us to imagine a better future, including solarpunk and afro-futurism

a more equitable, inclusive future

better ways of giving money and running non-profits

hearing and thinking about voices from across futurist movements

understanding how the news media cycle and current news climate and culture impact our understanding of the world

Ursula K. Le Guin, adrienne maree brown, Octavia Butler, Rebecca Solnit, Robin Wall Kimmerer 

INTERESTED IN:

Space travel, both private and state-sponsored, with an optimistic but critical eye

all sorts of sci-fi and sci-fi aesthetics

the impact of nature on the human brain, and humans’ connection to nature

fixing effective alturism

nature and STEM education

alternative and hypothetical political models

expanding my understanding of environmentalism from a disability-justice-informed perspective

WARY OF:

greenwashing

perfectionism, “one size fits all”, and uncompassionate views on personal environmental responsibility

eco-facism

non-intersectional eco-activism

BOOKS AND RESOURCES:

News + Publications:

Future Crunch (bi-weekly optimistic newsletter)

YES! magazine (”solutions journalism”)

Science, Food, Nature, Foraging

Best American Science and Nature Writing from the past few years

Forager’s Harvest by Samuel Thayer

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (mushrooms!)

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis (among other things, covers how to balance environmental ideals with accessibility needs)

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky (explicitly covers environmental grief)

Peacebuilding + Transformational Justice + Surviving in this century

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Racism and Decolonization

Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roseanne Dunbar Ortiz

ON MY TO-READ LIST:

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

more Butler and Le Guin

All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

[dailysudeikis]

Jason Sudeikis and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson backstage at Ayana's book launch in NYC. - September 17, 2024.

[ouroboobos]

🩵

All We Can Save ed. by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, OR Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour if you prefer fiction :))

[maiathebee]

For too long Americans have tended to compartmentalize climate change as something that affects (poor, Black, and Brown) people far away, something that is too bad but not our problem. Well, that bubble has burst: hurricanes in the Gulf and Caribbean and along the Eastern Seaboard; fires on the West Coast; floods in the Midwest; droughts here, deluges there, and heat waves everywhere; diseases spreading; insects and songbirds disappearing; sea level ever rising; erratic weather making it harder to grow food. Our visionaries, many of them women and people of color have not only been warning us but illuminating paths forward.

From the introduction to All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

[dandelion-network]

I haven't been reading anything lately because of a lot of things going on in my life - some health things, physical and psychological - and school- and work-related. Not even beginning to touch on the international happenings as well.

I feel hopeful for next year for the book clubs I help lead at my job though. I really slacked on the SFF book club but I volunteered to lead March's read of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. I've been wanting to reread the trilogy and am excited to relive the experience and hopefully bring in more participants for the club. We're changing the day and time from Mondays at 7pm to Thursday at 6pm since surveys have shown people like programs during Wednesday-Sunday and I felt 7pm was a little too late into the night.

I also met with my other coworker for our environmentalism book club and determined the lineup for next year. We're going bimonthly since we've observed not many of our participants finish the books before we meet. We also decided on a nonfiction-nonfiction-fiction schedule. Next year's book lineup is:

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson