A concept album from Grimes and two new books suggest we could be entering a new era of stories about our ecological age, writes our arts columnist Lucy Jones. But for the most part, the silence is deafening

This is the third in a series called "Get Outside!" about field trips and teaching environmental history outside the classroom. You can find the other posts here. Name and School: Richard Pickard, University of Victoria Course: ENGL 478 - Special Studies in Literature and Environment...

https://climatecultures.net/gifts-of-sound-and-vision/rising-appalachia/ My article at ClimateCultures.net. I found the music.

"We human animals are wired to be receptive and empathetic to the experience of other individuals – human and more-than-human. And that, actually, it doesn’t take much: once we are given license we easily assume a whole and true existence in a more-than-human other. Deeply...

There's so much going on in this field. It's amazing.

The Literary Method of Urban Design aims to predict urban futures and to design cities and prepare citizens in line with these predictions.

It must be the season to write about novels tackling climate change. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/books/review/ben-winters.html Some of the same novels listed in this article are in the other I just posted. Note the multiple genres valid for talking about climate change in fiction. I love...

Neat article by Amy Brady in Oprah Mag. https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a26811549/climate-change-books/

Eco-fiction sees literature and the environment coming together. Believe me when I say that when these two join the stories they produce are shocking, to say the least.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/books/review/namwali-serpell.html "Stories are one of our oldest technologies. They let us have vivid experiences — beautiful, moving ones, but also horrifying, dark ones — and then close the book, or the laptop, unscathed. They give us a kind of perverse pleasure in reverse:...

https://dragonfly.eco/climate-change-author-spotlight-d-g-driver/ I talked with @DGDriverAuthor about her #ya #teen #fantasy Juniper Sawfeather series, which follows a teen investigating an oil spill, logging, and orca endangerment. #YouthClimateStrike Good to see #fiction addressing...

https://www.adn.com/arts/books/2019/03/03/in-new-novel-teens-fight-for-survival-in-a-dystopian-future-alaska/

https://dragonfly.eco/navigating-site/ Dragonfly.eco is an evolving site with a database of hundreds of novels and short stories about climate change and other ecological issues; dozens of interviews and spotlights ranging from authors such as Jeff VanderMeer to Edan Lepucki to David Brin to Rajat...

These favourite non-fiction nature reads by other writers will delight, inspire, break your heart, or change your life. Or all four!

Hope this captures the wild beauty of Colombia as much as portrayed in the novel. My favorite novel of all times.

The Overstory,” by Richard Powers, has been named one of five finalists for the $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award, America’s largest peer-juried prize for fiction. Powers’s ambitious environmental novel tells several intertwined stories about people devoted to trees. The Washington Post chose “The Overstory” as one of...

Feels good to return in 2019 to our #women working in #literature and the #arts series with part XX--a look at author and radio/stage writer DM Cameron. We explore her native Australian surroundings and talk about her novel Under...

In Part XI of Dragonfly's world #ecofiction series, I talk with #crime #thriller novelist Deon Meyer and look at his South African stories, which include #globalwarming, #poaching, and harsh and beautiful natural landscapes.