Always read David Wallace-Wells for a dose of climate reality: 'What’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse.'
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Plastic recycling is a big sham.
theguardian.com/us-news/2022/o…

The Nature of Things was such a touchstone of my life growing up, as a budding sprout of a boy who cared about the natural world. Now, after forty-four years of hosting the show, David Suzuki is retiring.
youtube.com/watch?v=Narv-N…

'Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas' by Harley Rustad reviewedin in NYT nytimes.com/2022/01/21/boo…

Join us for Sunday morning brunch! Helen Humphreys, Emily Urquhart, and Harley Rustad will discuss their latest work, writing process, and lives as writers. Intimate, casual, and engaging – an ideal way to spend a Sunday morning.

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Weekend recommendation from the The New York Times! nytimes.com/2022/01/21/boo…

'From Middle-earth to the galaxy far, far away, what makes fandom such a target for coordinated bigotry?'
thewalrus.ca/the-rings-of-p…

That’s my boy. 🌲

Last year social workers from the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development came to Gitanmaax to apprehend a six-year-old Gitxsan girl and take her to Ontario. This is the story, by Amy Romer, of how the community stood up to the foster care system.
thewalrus.ca/the-new-reside…

'Among plants, there are ephemerals, annuals, biennials, perennials—and beyond them all a category I call 'perdurables.''
What the World Will Lose if Ancient Trees Die Out, by Jared Farmer, author of the brilliant new book ELDERFLORA.
nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opi…

Further to my belief that bananas are the most fascinating fruit.
nytimes.com/2022/10/17/sci…

I’m having a hard time not thinking about these fish right now.

These are salmon in the lower stretch of a west coast river, that appeared to be waiting for levels to rise so they could swim further upstream —this was in late August, and it hasn’t really rained since.

Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia

Forty years ago, Chatwin’s debut book transformed travel writing. But just 12 years later, its author was dead. Chatwin’s editor for that book, reflects on a brief, brilliant career
theguardian.com/books/2017/sep…

About that half a million dollars that mysteriously went missing from a Manitoba small town's municipal coffers...
thewalrus.ca/when-500000-di…

“LIE-BERNATION” !!
rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

How to teach preschoolers about climate change.
nytimes.com/2022/10/04/cli…

Guerrilla satirists skewer Toronto mayor by turning urban decay into public art. theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

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