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Climate Fiction 101: Everything You Need to Know

Climate Fiction 101: Everything You Need to Know

Quick Key Facts What Is ‘Climate Fiction’? Climate fiction is a genre of fiction that emerged in the first decades of the 21st century in response to growing awareness of the climate crisis caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels. It is often abbreviated as “cli-fi.”  As the term “cli-fi” suggests, climate fiction was […]

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    12 Environmental Novels We’re Reading This Fall

    12 Environmental Novels We’re Reading This Fall

    By John R. Platt The collective unconscious is telling us something… These days more and more artists are turning their feelings about climate change, environmental justice and the extinction crisis into powerful creative works. It’s easy to see why. These issues affect just about everybody — a new recent study found that about 85% of […]

    10 New Books About Wildlife and Our Relationship With Animals

    10 New Books About Wildlife and Our Relationship With Animals

    By John R. Platt As I sat in a pharmacy chair for the required 15 minutes after my first vaccine dose, my mind turned to animals. There weren’t any animals nearby, of course — the buzzing fluorescent lighting of the run-down drugstore wasn’t anyone’s natural habitat, including mine. And that very absence of visible sky […]

    12 Books on Healing Our Connection With the Planet for Earth Day

    12 Books on Healing Our Connection With the Planet for Earth Day

    By Michael Svoboda For April’s bookshelf we take a cue from Earth Day and step back to look at the bigger picture. It wasn’t climate change that motivated people to attend the teach-ins and protests that marked that first observance in 1970; it was pollution, the destruction of wild lands and habitats, and the consequent […]