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Jason Dove Mark @ Avid Reader
Featured Book
The Earth Said Remember Me
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
About the Book - The Earth Said Remember Me
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome,” and they warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.
In this inspiring manifesto, environmental advocate and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers antidotes that everyone can use to resist ecological amnesia and make lasting progress to repair and revive a livable planet. He puts forth four simple but powerful rules for a life lived in communion with the Earth:
Go outside
Bear witness
Make a record
Pass it on
From the mountains of California to the lakes of Wisconsin and across the lush forests of his beloved Pacific Northwest, Mark shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen who are putting these remedies into practice. And he makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.
About the Author
Jason Dove Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Satellites in the High Country, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Atlantic. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Featured Author
Jason Dove Mark
Jason Dove Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Satellites in the High Country, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Atlantic. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
About the Venue
The Avid Reader Bookstore
Since 1987 in Davis, California we have been slinging books around the greater Yolo area for more than 30 years. Long walks on the beach and glasses of sparkling wine at midday are lovely, but we prefer curling up in the corner of a couch with a few books, some tea, and maybe a warm dog at our feet.
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