Jill Fairchild’s Trees: A Celebration is less a single narrative than a curated chorus of voices, images, and meditations that together compose an arboreal anthology. As its title suggests, the book is not meant merely to instruct or classify, but to honor. What distinguishes this work from more conventional botanical texts is the way it operates at … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Trees, A Celebration edited by Jill Fairchild
The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady
David Suzuki & Wayne Grady’s Tree, A Life Story stages a quiet but insistent argument: to know a tree is to know a world. At once elegy, primer, and manifesto, the book reframes arboreal biography as a mode of ethical attention. Suzuki’s scientific gravitas and Grady’s narrative tact combine to make a book that is neither pure … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods by Holly Worton
Holly Worton’s If Trees Could Talk artfully weaves poetic reflection, personal narrative, and ecological insight into a tapestry that encourages readers to listen more attentively to the natural world. At once intimate and expansive, Worton’s prose invites us to regard trees not merely as silent sentinels of our landscape but as teachers bearing vital lessons about resilience, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods by Holly Worton
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
In Finding the Mother Tree, ecologist Suzanne Simard invites readers into the hidden, exquisite communication network of forests, weaving together rigorous science, personal memoir, and a call to 're-conceive' humanity’s relationship with the natural world. The result is neither dry technical treatise nor sentimental nature writing, but a compelling hybrid that marries empirical inquiry with a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: Our Green Heart – The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
In Our Green Heart - The Soul and Science of Forests, Diana Beresford-Kroeger masterfully intertwines the poetic reverence of a naturalist with the analytical rigour of a scientist. The result is a work that not only illuminates the ecological intricacies of forests but also ignites a profound moral and spiritual call to action. This book is … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: Our Green Heart – The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Empire’s End: Plato’s Lens on the Unsustainability of Modern Power Structures
Plato's philosophy, particularly his ideas on justice, the ideal state, and the nature of human society, provides a rich framework to analyze the interconnectivity and unsustainability of colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, and capitalism. To engage in this debate, we need to explore how these concepts intertwine and how their connections may lead to inherent instability. Interconnectivity … Continue reading Empire’s End: Plato’s Lens on the Unsustainability of Modern Power Structures
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated author of Braiding Sweetgrass and a leading voice in the movement to bridge scientific and Indigenous wisdom, once again graces us with her reflective and poetic prose in The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. At a slender hundred or so pages, this book is more a gem than a tome, yet … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Harmonizing Humanity: A Taoist Perspective on Sustainable Alternatives to Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
Drawing on Lao Tzu's philosophies, we can explore the interconnected nature and unsustainability of colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, and capitalism through the lens of Taoist principles of harmony, balance, and natural order. Interconnectivity and Unsustainability: Colonialism disrupts the natural harmony by imposing foreign rule and exploitation, leading to social, cultural, and environmental imbalance. Nationalism often fosters … Continue reading Harmonizing Humanity: A Taoist Perspective on Sustainable Alternatives to Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
A little good news — about ‘shrooms
I've always loved mushrooms and couldn't understand why other didn't. No matter how they are cooked, they alway made me happy. According to this, it may have been more than the taste that has kept me coming back for more. Funny thing is, now that I know more of the health benefits of mushrooms, I … Continue reading A little good news — about ‘shrooms
The New Renaissance Mindset 