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Warm Earth Studies's avatar

I really love this format! You’re making me smarter 🥲

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Kevin Thomas's avatar

That book sounds fascinating. I've been to Morton Arboretum too so even more so!

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Ben Lockwood, Ph.D.'s avatar

Never thought I’d read historical fiction about J Sterling Morton, but it works

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Regi Teasley's avatar

Useful information.

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David Booram's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation on Lumberjack. Sounds intriguing. Thought I'd introduce myself and my new novel, The Greenling since eco-fiction is your genre of choice. The book was released just last month. See below for details. Cheers!

The Greenling is a coming-of-age tale set in the not-so-distant future that combines elements of eco-fiction with magical realism. Non-human life, especially trees, begins to display a sentience usually reserved for humans. The central figure, a young woman named Noah, has a growing sensitivity to Nature’s communications.

As Noah awakens to the catastrophic crisis of her time, she gradually becomes aware that she is being chosen to lead an impending planetary reset, one that will directly collide with the global corporatocracy's unstoppable lust for greed and control.

This beautifully written, multilayered, and mystical story introduces endearing and complex characters while it takes the reader on an unfolding journey that begins in rural Ireland, progresses to the Amazon rainforest, and through the university halls of Toronto, then concludes in the remote realms of Northern Scotland.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233663401-the-greenling?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=28vcJirwk2&rank=1

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Paul Hellsegg's avatar

The decrease in seed dispersion is likely exacerbated by wind turbines - notorious insect and bird killers - and by the dead zones created by the vast, dystopian fields of solar panels.

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JN's avatar

All this news is cool & all but it leaves me feeling bitter, mainly BC whichever way I slice it, there seems to be no space for the chronically ill/disabled in "sustainability", it's literally like Life itself is Inaccessible, & no one cares.

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