Field Notes From a Fungi Forager by Ashley Rodriguez is an amazing guide to discovering a variety of mushrooms and specifically focuses on those found in the Pacific Northwest. This stems from a love of exploring mushrooms in beautiful and scenic locations both forest and...

Cooling Our Environment by Kalpana Sutaria is an enlightening exploration of sustainable architecture and its crucial role in combating climate change. As an architect with decades of experience, Sutaria combines personal anecdotes, scientific research, and professional insights to present a compelling argument for urgent action...

Oliver Elliot takes readers on a fascinating exploration of our mental and physical world in Brain, Nature, Mind, Universe: Interesting Facts and Unsolved Mysteries of Science and the Cosmos. He begins by presenting the physical world in terms of examples from nature, examining animal, bird,...

London Baby Wildlife by Lande Jewels is a pocket-sized book chock-full of nature observations, each in a one-page poem. From heron to hedgehog, Lande Jewels has created little gems of wisdom for families to enjoy. Though not particularly rhyming, the poems have a melodic quality....

Brian D. McLean's Our Global Crisis critically examines humanity's consumption patterns and their detrimental effects on societal stability and ecological health. McLean offers the extinction of the passenger pigeon as a cautionary tale, leaning into how overhunting and habitat destruction, fueled by 19th-century technological advancements,...

This week I’ve been diving into the first issue of XeLuS Mind Studio, an educational comic book created by Deborah Andersson and edited by Deborah and Martin Andersson with illustrations provided by multiple contributors. The goal of this book is to use characters based on...

Hurricane Audrey: The Deadly Storm of 1957 by Cathy C. Post is a retelling of the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Audrey on mid-century Cameron, Louisiana. As the storm approaches, families prepare for evacuation, with Captain D.W. Griffith coordinating efforts to evacuate oil rig crews. Local...

Now in her eighties, Carolyn Osborn had a successful career as an author, and wrote, amongst others, numerous anthologies. In Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays, she describes her family ties against the background of World War II and the post-war years in Tennessee and...

The theme of Walking and Wayfinding is mindful walking as a spiritual and reflective practice. I have always enjoyed walking while going to work and sometimes for relaxation in the evening. However, I had not considered it in the way Lea Appleton presents it. Lea...

Allegro to Life is a collection of reflective poems by Earl Vincent de Berge. They explore themes of nature, human experiences, social struggles, and resilience. The poems are divided into three parts: Songs from My Life, Poems From Guatemala, and Desert Songs. The first part...