Coming of age at the end of nature
Subtitle: a generation faces living on a changed planet
By: edited by Julie Dunlap & Susan A. Cohen ; foreword by Bill McKibben
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781595347800
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Generation Y.; Nature; American essays; Effect of human beings on
Description: "22 essays explore wide-ranging themes, including redefining materialism and environmental justice, assessing the risk and promise of technology, and celebrating place; includes a foreword by Bill McKibben"--
Table of contents: title: I. Living on Eaarth.; title: Post-nature writing  -- Blair Braverman; title: Why Haiti?  -- Elizabeth Cooke; title: Rebuild or retreat : is it time to give up on places like the Rockaways?  -- Ben Goldfarb; title: Winter solstice  -- Lisa Hupp; title: Urban foraging  -- Amaris Ketcham; title: To love an owl  -- Abby McBride; title: But I'll still be here  -- James Orbesen. -- II. Thinking like a river.; title: An Orange County almanac : adventures in suburban ecology  -- Jason M. Brown; title: Other, wise  -- Cameron Conaway; title: Tamale traditions : cultivating an understanding of humans and non-human nature through food  -- Amy Coplen; title: Wilderness of blackberries  -- Craig A. Maier; title: My present is not your tombstone : love and loss in Utah's canyon country  -- Lauren McCrady; title: Sunset at Mile 16  -- Alycia Parnell; title: Birdhouse treasures  -- William Thomas; title: Erosion/accretion  -- Amelia Urry. -- III. Mindful monkeywrenching.; title: Diseases of affluence  -- Ben Cromwell; title: The lives of plovers  -- Sierra Dickey; title: Why I wear Jordans in the great outdoors  -- CJ Goulding; title: We are the fossil-fuel freedom fighters  -- Bonnie Frye Hemphill; title: The wager for rain  -- Megan Kimble; title: Could mopping save the world? How day-to-day chores can bring big changes  -- Emily Schosid; title: True to our nature -- Danna Joy Staaf.