TOO OFTEN we think about the history of the Adirondacks without considering its context. We know something about the dramatic events of the 1880s and 1890sโincluding the establishment of the Forest Preserve and Adirondack Park and the constitutional … [Read more...] about The Nature of New York An Environmental History of the Empire State
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Climate Change in the Champlain Basin
The Nature Conservancy recently published Climate Change in the Champlain Basin,which reviews weather records and other data and looks ahead to what's in store for this century. Written by scientist Curt Stager and journalist Mary Thill, the study … [Read more...] about Climate Change in the Champlain Basin
Eaarth Making Life on a Tough New Planet
BILL MCKIBBEN has been trying to warn us about the apocalyptic threat of climate change for two decades, ever since The End of Nature in 1990. As a writer, activist, and citizen of our beleaguered planet, he has done the best that one smart and … [Read more...] about Eaarth Making Life on a Tough New Planet
Climate Change in the Adirondacks The Path to Sustainability
FOR AT LEAST TWO DECADES, weโve known that the global climate is warming, that efforts to stop this trend are grossly inadequate, and that the future is uncertain at best, catastrophic at worst. We know that we need to kick the fossil-fuel addiction. … [Read more...] about Climate Change in the Adirondacks The Path to Sustainability
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, a history professor at Rice University, is a prodigiously productive author or coauthor of an amazing array of best-selling books on a wide range of topics, from the Cold War, espionage, and hurricane Katrina to lives of Ronald … [Read more...] about The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
The written word has been fundamental to the story of how Americans have interacted with the natural world. Nature writing comes in a diverse range of genres, from travel and exploration narratives to poetry, from the literature of contemplation and … [Read more...] about American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau