The Road

The Road

OK, this is Cormac McCarthy: it's dark and visually searing. If you’re up for a bleak vision of the future in the hands of an exceptional writer, give this a go. And be forewarned that you're unlikely to erase the images of the father pushing the shopping cart from...

The Dog Stars

The Dog Stars

By Peter Heller Hig’s wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the...

Nate Hagens Keynote Address, 2019 Resilience Gathering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9&v=MNzLkdr7UIU&feature=emb_imp_woyt The Resilience Gathering The New School at Commonweal hosted The Resilience Gathering, including keynote speaker Nate Hagens. We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is...

The Uninhabitable Earth

The Uninhabitable Earth

This book is filled with accessible prose & technical science and woven together by storytelling that gives human context to its central question: “What if climate change is worse than we think?” As someone who consumes climate information in bite-sized pieces, it...

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