In conjunction with the Kiawah Island Conservancy, this category will feature books about the natural world–flora, fauna and the environment.
Review of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren review written by Richard May Several years ago, I had the good fortune to read Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. It is a wonderfully engaging story of a complex young woman from Minnesota whose passion for plants and trees leads her to become a botanist.Through her experienced eyes, nature comes alive in ways that I could never
Book Review Title: It’s Only One! Author: Tracey Corderoy Illustrator: Tony NeaTracey Corderoy pens a captivating picture book about the impact that small contributions — whether positive or negative — can have on communities. Sunnyville is a beautiful town, and its residents are happy and cheerful. When Rhino tosses one piece of litter on the ground, he justifies it by declaring, “It’s only one!” Unfortunately for Sunnyville, this one small action results in big
Michel Hammes comments on Conservancy Book Review– I try to buy only sustainable clothing (made with consideration of the earth, long lasting and not made in sweatshops) and also buy from thrift stores. I also really think about what I buy- do I need it, can I upcycle or use it for something else? Can I fix it easily or will it break in a
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale By Adam Winter Review by: Theresa Wagner Have you ever cleaned out your house or garage and donated items to Goodwill or another thrift store? Ever wonder what happens to your items once you drop them off? In Secondhand: Travels in the new Global Garage Sale, journalist Adam Winter takes a deep dive into the “reuse” industry.
Following the Wild Bees The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting Thomas D. Seeley Book review by Karen Madoff Karen is a full-time resident of Kiawah Island, a Certified naturalist in Ohio, an Old Master Gardener and a newbie beekeeper. If honeybees, the world’s most important pollinator of crops, could choose their own homes what and where would they be? Since the mid-1800s, thousands of
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Weather by Jenny Offill “Voted, that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof;voted,that the earth is given to the Saints; voted that we are the Saints.” Weather, a novel by Jenny Offill, opens with the above quotation from a 1640 Connecticut town meeting. If indeed Earth “belongs” to us, are we compelled to protect (or salvage) our planet? This novel answers with a
Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with her assistant Emmanuelle Charpentier, and their work helped lay the groundwork for the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Just remember that, if your daughters or granddaughters aspire to be chemists. Doudna’s high school counselor told her that girls do not become chemists. Not an awful lot of girls become chemists, true,
BOOK 1 Bill Gates has been promoting his newest book entitled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. You may have seen his appearance on “60 Minutes”, which aired February 14, 2020. On the TV program and in the book, Gates claims that the world needs to get to zero carbon emmissions by 2050 in order to avoid a climate disaster. To accomplish this goal, Gates
PBS provided a great deal of hype for it’s new adaptation of James Herriot’s books about his time as a veternarian in the Yorkshire countryside. Some viewers, however, do not appreciate the new version of All Creatures Great and Small. Have you watched the series? Did you read the books? What do you think? James Herriott, whose actual name was James Alfred Wight, was a
