Some of the books (and poets and websites) that have been mentioned in the sessions I’ve attended, or which I’ve acquired, or which I recommended to people….
Film/YouTube clips/Slides
A Farm for the Future (on YouTube, in 5 parts)
Being Caribou
Design for Disaster (SlideShare)
Flight Patterns (YouTube)
Upstream Battle
Journals/Magazines/Publishers
Milkweed
Orion
Poetry: Books
Kupinse, William – Fallow
Lang Day, Lucille – The Curvature of Blue
Munden, Paul, editor – Feeling the Pressure: Poetry & Science of Climate Change (anthology)
Oswald, Alice – Dart (book-length poem on the river Dart, in Devon)
Voros, Gyorgyi – Unwavering
Washington, Peter, editor – Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink (anthology)
Poetry: Individual Poems
Bishop, Elizabeth – The Map
Doty, Mark – Description
Frost, Robert – Aquainted with the Night
Hughes, Ted – September Salmon
Hughes, Ted – Wolfwatching
Jeffers, Robinson – Night
Merwin, WS – Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise
Neruda, Pablo – Ode to the fertility of the earth
Page, PK – Planet Earth
Scott, Duncan Campbell – Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon
Poetry: Poets
Loren Eiseley – poet and naturalist
Maggie O’Sullivan – recommended by Harriet Tarlo for her unusual engagement in the non-human world.
Prose: Books
Armstrong, Luanne – Blue Valley: An Ecological Memoir
Benstein, Jeremy – Way Into Judaism and the Environment
Berry, Thomas – The Dream of the Earth
Berry, Thomas & Swimme, Brian – The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos
Berry, Wendell – The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Bogard, Paul, editor – Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
Coe, Sue – Dead Meat
Deakin, Roger – Waterlog
Franklin, Adrian – Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia
Galeano, Juan Carlos – Amazonie / Amazonia
Howard, Russell D., Forest, James J.F. & Moore, Joanne – Homeland Security and Terrorism: Readings and Interpretations
Hughes, Ted – Poetry in the Making
Irland, Basia – Water Library
Knechtel, John, editor – Food
Kohak, Erazim – The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Moral Sense of Nature
Laporte, Dominique – History of Shit
Lessing, Doris – The Grass is Singing
Menzel, Peter – Hungry Planet
Nabhan, Gary Paul – Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
Pears, Pauline & Kruger, Anna – Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Pollan, Michael – Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education
Raymo, Chet – The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage
Smiley, Jane – A Thousand Acres
Vileisis, Ann – Kitchen Literacy: How we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back
White, Richard – The Organic Machine: The Making of the Columbia River
Prose: Individual Essays/Articles
Barcott, Bruce – Kill the Cat that Kills the Bird
Berry, Wendell – The Pleasures of Eating
Diamond, Jared – The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Steinbeck, John – The Harvest Gypsies
Thoreau, Henry David – The Bean-Field
Websites
International Dark-Sky Association: non-profit member organization that teaches others how to preserve the night sky through factsheets, law references, pictures, and web resources.
Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP): Information on how light pollution affects birds, and what steps must be taken to save the lives of birds by reducing lighting
The Organic Center – Peer-reviewed scientific studies on the benefits of organic farming.
Gross, yes. But what they do is even grosser. Leaves on an apple tree ended up looking like lace paper doilies.
Still, at least you can see these and they don't come inside, hidden behind your ear. What am I talking about? Ticks. Still not quite sure I didn't bring any home from Saskachewan in my luggage…
Owweuuuicchh. I'm glad I dodged those ticks sufficiently to avoid attachment last year, but I did have to get the stewardess to drown one in hot water on the plane home after I caught it crawling up my arm. I think if I ever go back there I'm going to borrow the dog's flea collar…