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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