The Magazine of The Sierra Club
In His New Novel, Richard Powers Writes From a Tree’s Point of View
“The Overstory” turns the growing evidence of plant communication into literature
Climate Visionary Ursula K. Le Guin
Consider these six works by the late author your required reading for 2018
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Bill McKibben's Novel Imagines Life in the Midst of Runaway Climate Change
"Radio Free Vermont" offers a soothing, utopian vision of this hot century
Paul Kingsnorth Ditches False Hope for "Dark Ecology"
Scythe in hand, a "recovering environmentalist" takes a whack at planet politicking
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Kim Stanley Robinson On His New Book, Climate Change, and Why He’s Still Optimistic
"New York 2140" is set in a Manhattan flooded by rising sea levels. Its characters have had it with global capitalism.
The Brains of Beasts
In the book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal argues that our fellow creatures deserve more credit
Dying to Live
In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton explores the global failure to address the climate crisis.
