In the past few weeks, I’ve taken a dive into the world of audio editing as I prepare to launch the In the Weeds podcast. It’s been a steep learning curve and, in the process, I’ve rather neglected the blog. My apologies. I’ve decided, while I focus my energies on this new task, to post…
Read MoreThe book that has been waiting for me in the wings – ecologists and philosophers could have told me – is David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than Human World. It’s been a classic of the environmental movement for over twenty years but is new to me. Abrams speaks…
Read MoreI recently had the pleasure of interviewing Doug Tallamy for the forthcoming In the Weeds podcast (stay tuned!). His book, Bringing Nature Home, packs a powerful message – that to help insure the survival of the many species on our planet – and, yes, that includes us – we need to rethink our way of…
Read MoreI love the Christmas tree, its unmistakable smell, the kindled magic it brings to the dark days of winter. And yet, this year, I faced a moral quandary: having just written about trees as persons, could I justify bringing a cut tree into my home? To answer this question, I decided to research the history…
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