Oil People by David Huebert
Part generational saga, part eco-gothic fable, Oil People is a luminous debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as an object of toxic wonder. – McClelland & stewart
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Throwback: Earthkeeping by Gary Saunders
Part poet, philosopher, scientist, and artist – Gary brings to mind the acronym STEAM.. when academia finally realized the importance of art to the scientific realm. He is definitely science and art in a wonderful blend.
Scorch by Natalie Rice
Scorch is a fierce call to readers, inviting us to look unflinchingly at what we’ve done to nature, and what remains for us to pick up and explore anew.
Kara Griffin’s Flitt’s Call: At Home on the Shores of Prince Edward Island
Kara Griffin’s Flitt’s Call is a wonderful picture book that aims to educate young children about the bank swallow and its home on Prince Edward Island, and hopes to inspire children to protect the environment.
Hazard, Home Evokes Nature’s Beauty and Vulnerability
In Hazard, Home, Christine Lowther offers 52 poems about the natural world and our relationship with it.
The Great Greenwashing by John Pabon
If you’re like me and you highlight passages that really resonate with you as you read, be sure to buy a value pack of highlighters for John Pabon’s excellent book, The Great Greenwashing. Part One covers what greenwashing is with fairly broad strokes, over the course of three chapters, and explains what will be covered …
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars.
The Temple at the End of the Universe: A Search for Spirituality in the Anthropocene by Josiah Neufeld
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
Mr. Mindbomb: Eco-hero and Greenpeace Co-founder Bob Hunter ― A Life in Stories Edited by Bobbi Hunter
A collection of personal essays detailing the life and achievements of a renowned environmental hero and activist, Bob Hunter.
Field Notes on Listening by Kit Dobson
Field Notes on Listening is a response to our lack of connection to the land we call home, the difficult history of how many of us came to be here and what we could discover if we listened deeply to the world around us.
Letters from the Future: How New Brunswickers Confronted Climate Change and Redefined Progress -Edited by Daniel Tubb, Abram Lutes, and Susan O’Donnell; Illustrated by Ian Smith
Letters from the Future presents a sample of hopeful stories, written by people who care deeply about New Brunswick.
The Darryl Whetter Interview
Professor Darryl Whetter is the author of two books of poetry and four books of fiction, including the new climate-crisis novel Our Sands.
More Powerful Together – Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders by Jen Gobby
Fernwood Publishing has a history of releasing socially conscious books that critique contemporary culture. Their catalogue extends to a variety of different topics concerning marginalized communities, and political and economic theory. The title from this effort derives from a quote from Baruch Spinoza, appearing on pages 212 – 213 (to wit, “…through which people become …
Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times, edited by Catriona Sandilands
In the introduction to Rising Tides, Sandilands states that climate change stories “focus increasingly on thornier questions of persistence, adaptation, resistance, and renewal” instead of apocalypse. Ultimately, the short fiction, poetry and personal climate testimonies in this climate change anthology are about hope.
