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Dahr Jamail

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis – from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest – in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Like no other book, The End of…

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Jonathan Hill

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Hold on tight and learn about weather and storms in illustrator Jonathan Hill’s Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate (written by MK Reed) (First Second), an action-packed nonfiction graphic novel for middle-grade readers. Furious floods, looming landslides, terrifying tornadoes, ferocious forest fires! Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something?

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Submission Deadline: smoke + mold Issue 2

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

smoke + mold is an online journal of, broadly defined, nature focused prose by trans writers in reaction to ongoing crises of climate and culture. Work should be limited to 3000 words or less. Excerpts of longer work welcome, but should be able to stand on their own. Prose poems are welcome, but the journal really wants prose of fiction, nonfiction, and critical work. All writers receive $50 upon acceptance. See the website for greater detail of the kind of work their looking for. smoke + mold is also accepting issue proposals for 1-2 themed special issues revolving around a particular theme, issue, question, etc. to be selected, edited, and introduced by a guest editor. See the same link above for further info.

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Michael Meade: Chaos, Climate, and Creation

First Unitarian Portland 1211 SW Main St, Portland, OR, United States

As the chaos in the world increases, most ideas of the future become fatalistic. Yet, the situation only seems “hopeless” when viewed from the narrow logic of a collapsing world view. Old ways of seeing the world are blocking more vital paths of imagination, vision and healing. The point is not simply evolution or progress, rather there needs to be a collective rite of passage that transforms our world view. Transformation is required to move us from despair and overwhelm to awakening and imagination. We are either on the way to transformation or on the road to greater tragedy. The agony of the earth calls for each of us to defeat the growing alienation and isolation of life in order to become more human and…

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Endangered Orcas: The Story of the Southern Residents

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

The critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales are the most watched and studied whales in the world, yet they struggle for survival in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia. These urban orcas, a Pacific Northwest icon, are at the center of human politics as we attempt to learn from the past and find a sustainable future. Our relationship to these whales, complicated by both the positive attachments and negative politics we have created around them, has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. With more challenges on the horizon, one question looms: Can we still create a sustainable future for humans and orcas in the Salish Sea? Monika Wieland Shields’s Endangered Orcas (Orca Watcher) is the story of the Southern Resident killer whales.

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Books & Prints by Ian van Coller

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Passages Bookshop is excited to announce our summer exhibition •••• BOOKS & PRINTS BY IAN VAN COLLER •••• July 8 – August 20, 2022 Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required ================================================ For the past decade, Ian van Coller has traveled the globe in pursuit of images that communicate the realities of climate change and deep time. He has photographed disappearing glaciers, endangered and threatened birds, the oldest trees on earth, and the oldest ice yet discovered, traveling to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, the cloud forest of Colombia, Svalbard in the high Norwegian Arctic, and Glacier, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountain National Parks in the Western United States. He has accompanied climate scientists on expeditions to remote glaciers on…

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