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Book Review: Heart Spring Mountain by Robin MacArthur
Heart Spring Mountain by Robin MacArthur is the story of a woman named Vale who returns to her hometown in rural Vermont in search of her missing mother, Bonnie. Along the way, the story touches on the lives of several generations of women in Vale’s family and the role of climate change in the storm…
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Climate Justice Group: Center for Story-based Strategy
The Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power. What is story-based strategy and how does it relate to climate justice? Story-based strategy is a participatory approach that links movement building with an analysis of narrative power and places storytelling at the center…
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Climate Fiction By Women Reading List
Are you reading climate fiction written by women? The book publishing industry has a serious diversity problem. By some accounts, women are now publishing more books than men. But women of color are still underrepresented in publishing. And merely being published doesn’t mean that women’s books are receiving the attention they deserve from publishers, readers,…
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Book Review: Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar
There’s more than one way for a family to deal with generational trauma. And there’s more than one way for a family to respond to systemic racism and the climate crisis. Mary Annaïse Heglar’s debut novel, Troubled Waters, tells an intense, compelling, and deeply personal story at the intersection of these themes. After listening to…
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Book Review: The Deluge by Stephen Markley
What will the climate crisis and the world’s response to it look like over the course of the next decade or two? The Deluge by Stephen Markley offers one of the most thorough and compelling answers to this question that I’ve read to date. This novel explores almost every facet of the climate crisis in…
