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Life of Pi

2012

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

127 min

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He Uses Art to Make State Parks in California More Accessible for All

Joe Colmenares and many others, Bayview-Hunters Point is not simply a representation of urban blight. It’s a living, breathing community where people live and work, love and lose, join together and get by.

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Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants

Whether you live in a mountain cabin or a city loft, plant spirits present themselves to us everywhere. Since its first printing in 1995, Plant Spirit Medicine has passed hand-to-hand among countless readers drawn to indigenous spirituality and all things alive and green.

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Resilience in Environmental Activism | Sumaira Abdulali | TEDxSCAC

Sumaira Abdulali recounts her memories of how resilience helped her through thick and thin in both environmental activism and life.

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As We Seek Nature, We Wall It Out

The myth of our sprawly, paved-over cities and towns is that we’ve driven native animals out and stolen their habitat. Not entirely true.

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Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm

Award-winning author Temple Grandin is famous for her groundbreaking approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations.

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How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement

Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...

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Rachel Carson’s Natural Histories

“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.

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Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

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The Sea Around Us

Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world.

Rachel Carson, Sylvia Earle

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Silent Spring

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.

Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson

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