Unlike wildfire smoke or oil spills, pollution from hog farms is not something you can easily capture in a photograph. This issue is the subject of Wastelands, a nonfiction environmental legal thriller by Corban Addison, an attorney and novelist. The 400-page book reports on a series of court cases filed against Smithfield Foods by neighbors of its industrial hog operations.
Read MoreThe simple truth is that many of us are conditioned to fear and hate bugs as we get older. We think of bugs as signs of dirtiness, as garden pests, or as threats that can bite and sting us. As author Vicki Hird writes in Rebugging the Planet:, this is an attitude we ought to change.
Read MoreLeslie Crawford, author of Sprig the Rescue Pig and Gwen the Rescue Hen, interviews Sy Montgomery. Montgomery’s enthusiasm and devotion to Earth’s creatures — and the similarities we share with them — has inspired her readers to get to know the eight-tentacled and big-brained wonders in The Soul of the Octopus, and taken us to the ends of the Earth and back to our own backyards in such award-winning books as Spell of the Tiger and Birdology.
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