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An Interview with Alice Walker

By Alice Walker — 2018

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In this BBC interview, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Alice Walker, describes a childhood experience and the thoughts it triggered about poverty, rage, oppression, sexism, and misogyny that has influenced her writing.

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The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist’s Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama.

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

This primer on intersectional environmentalism aims to educate the next generation of activists on creating meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.

As Climate Worsens, Environmentalists Also Grapple with the Mental Toll of Activism

Today’s climate activists are driven by environmental worries that are increasingly more urgent, and which feel more personal.

Mindfully Facing Climate Change

In Mindfully Facing Climate Change, Bhikkhu Analayo offers a response to the challenges of climate change that is grounded in the teachings of early Buddhism and mindfulness meditation.

Bhikkhu Analayo

If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change

Scientists are looking into what psychedelics do to inspire people to act pro-environmentally.

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Perspective: Nature Has Sent Humanity a Wake-Up Call. How Will We Answer?

I will confess that I am someone who cares about nature for its own sake. For its spectacles that dazzle, like the annual pulse of bright red sockeye salmon that gift the watersheds of Bristol Bay with their abundance.

Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

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The Way of Imagination: Essays

Scott Russell Sanders shows how imagination, linked to compassion, can help us solve the urgent ecological and social challenges we face.

Scott Russell Sanders

The Hidden Life of Trees

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network.

Peter Wohlleben

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Humanity and Nature Are Not Separate—We Must See Them as One to Fix the Climate Crisis

A deeper issue underlies each one’s part in the malaise enveloping the planet’s ecosystems—and its origins date back to long before the industrial revolution. To truly bring ourselves into harmony with the natural world, we must return to seeing humanity as part of it.

Heather Alberro

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