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SNQ: Sarah Jaquette Ray’s “A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety”

Summary: Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety isn’t a book about how to solve the climate crisis. Rather, it’s about how to cultivate a mature, compassionate, and resilient mindset that will allow climate activists to pursue climate justice in a healthy and sustainable fashion. Ray presents a series of lessons about the psychological challenges [...]

Quotes 1-19-2016

“A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” ––All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, pg. 328   “The rise of a popular press and [...]

Book Review: Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld’s “The Influencing Machine”

This is a terrific primer on media history and one reporter’s take on how average citizens can promote a free, open news environment.  Aided by Josh Neufeld’s clever illustrations, Brooke Gladstone takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through media history’s most tenuous moments, setting her sights on the perennial conflict between authoritarian power, which [...]