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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By Ben Rawlence. St. Martin’s Press, 2022. 320 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $20/paperback (available in the US in December 2023); $14.99/eBook. If…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery (The Illustrated Edition)

By Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe. The MIT Press, 2022. 224 pages. $29.95/hardcover. As I was preparing this review, my…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

By Richard Heinberg. New Society Publishers, 2021. 416 pages. $24.99/paperback or eBook. Looking back on cultural history, it’s clear that…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

By Paul Hawken. Penguin Books, 2021. 256 pages. $25/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Degeneration of land, water, forests, biodiversity, and human health is…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

By Ranae Lenor Hanson. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 200 pages. $19.95/paperback or eBook. Traveling on the water taught me…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The Depth of Our Belonging: Mysticism, Physics, and Healing

By Mary Conrow Coelho. Producciones de la Hamaca, 2021. 94 pages. $25/paperback; $15/eBook. I was first introduced to the writings…

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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

By Michael E. Mann. PublicAffairs, 2021. 368 pages. $29/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. All we require are policies to incentivize the needed shift.…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul

By Belden C. Lane. Oxford University Press, 2019. 344 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. We’re surrounded by a world that talks, but…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability (Quakers and the Disciplines, Volume 6)

Edited by Cherice Bock and Stephen Potthoff. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2019. 478 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. This comprehensive history…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

By Naomi Klein. Simon & Schuster, 2019. 320 pages. $27/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in September); $12.99/eBook. I’ve read several of Naomi…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt