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For centuries we’ve been sold a lie: that you need to own the land to care for it. Just 1% of the population own half of England, and this tiny landowning elite like to present themselves as the rightful custodians of the countryside. They’re even paid billions of pounds of public money to be good stewards. But what happens when they just don’t care?

Professor Richard Fortey has been a devoted field mycologist all his life. He has rejoiced in the exuberant variety and profusion of mushrooms since reading as a boy of nuns driven mad by ergot (a fungus). Drawing on decades of experience doing science in the woods and fields, Fortey starts with the perfect ‘fungus day’ – eating ceps in Piedmont. He introduces brown rotters and the white, earthstars and death caps; fungal annuals and perennials, dung lovers and parasites, even fungi that move through the trees like mycelial monkeys.

Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn.

Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.

Este libro ofrece una introducción accesible y completa al mundo de la ecología, explorando las complejas interacciones entre los seres vivos y su entorno. A través de capítulos que abarcan desde los fundamentos de la ecología hasta los desafíos actuales como el cambio climático y la pérdida de biodiversidad, el lector descubrirá cómo los ecosistemas se forman, evolucionan y cómo nuestras acciones los afectan.

Im Podcast der IOZK Stiftung geht es um das Thema Krebs und neue Behandlungsmethoden. Wir möchten die individualisierte Immuntherapie mit wechselnden Gesprächspartnern vertiefen und über neue Entwicklungen in der Krebsforschung informieren. Abonnieren Sie den Podcast der IOZK Stiftung und erfahren Sie, wie die Individualisierte Immuntherapie funktioniert und wie sie das Leben von Krebspatienten verändern kann.

A podcast that explores what The Marine Mammal Center, the world's largest marine mammal hospital, has learned over 50 years of rescuing, researching, and educating about seals, sea lions, whales and other marine mammals.

Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth. How do we respond to the harmful legacies of the past? How do we use our species’ incredible power to heal rather than to harm? Tapper walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest.

Birding for Boomers is a friendly, accessible, and humorous guide to discovering the joys of bird watching. Beginning birders of all ages will get answers to every question they may have, like which birds like feeders, the difference between a finch and a flicker, or which birding app to use. The guide also helps birders plan everything from local explorations to exciting "bird-cations."

From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products on social media to natural health activists sponsored by organic food companies, the marketplace for advice about how to live life naturally is better stocked than ever. Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, as Andrew Case shows, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneur and reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and their company, the Rodale Press.

Mit Resonanz hat Hartmut Rosa ein Konzept vorgeschlagen, um der hegemonialen und verdinglichenden Beschleunigung des Renten- und Spekulationskapitalismus entgegenzuwirken. Ihm zufolge wird die tiefgreifende Umgestaltung unserer Gesellschaften nur dann gelingen, wenn wir uns darauf einlassen, ein neues Verhältnis zur Welt einzugehen, das von einer »responsiven« Beziehung zu ihr geprägt ist.

In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice. Hecht outlines how mining in South Africa is a prime example of what she theorizes as residual governance—the governance of waste and discard, governance that is purposefully inefficient, and governance that treats people and places as waste and wastelands.