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Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times

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

With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising, there is more urgency than ever to act on the ecological crises we face. Leading Buddhist environmentalist Stephanie Kaza has spent her career exploring the intersection of religion and ecology. In Green Buddhism (Shambhala), she offers guidance on how people and communities can draw on Buddhist concepts and practices to live more sustainable lives on our one and only home. Kaza will also present Conversations With Trees (Shambhala), a collection of evocative meditations on the beauty, fragility, and resilience of trees.

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Eat Like a Fish

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

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish (Knopf), Bren Smith – a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer – shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!).

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Inconspicuous Consumption

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

From former New York Times science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have (Grand Central), a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday lives – in everything we use, buy, eat, wear, and how we get around – and have consequences that extend far beyond our lives.

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Naomi Klein in Conversation With Thom Hartmann

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

For more than 20 years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet – and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, Klein pens prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire (Simon & Schuster) gathers Klein’s impassioned writing on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. Klein will be joined in conversation by Thom Hartmann, radio host and author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment.

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Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm

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

For years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000, facing bankruptcy, the couple decided they would try something new. They would hand their 3,500 acres, farmed for centuries, even millennia, back to nature. They would let it go wild. With minimal human intervention, and with herds of free-roaming animals stimulating new habitats, Knepp is now full of new life. Tree’s book, Wilding (New York Review), points the way to a richer future – a countryside that benefits farming, nature, and us.

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Three Ways to Disappear – Katy Yocom

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading of Three Ways to Disappear, a debut novel by Katy Yocom. Leaving behind a nomadic career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, country of her childhood and of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn, fears that India will be Sarah’s undoing. As Sarah’s new job is made complicated by complex local politics and a forbidden love, Quinn copes with their mother’s refusal to discuss the past, her son’s life-threatening illness, and her own increasingly troubled marriage. When Sarah asks Quinn to join her in India, Quinn realizes that the only way to overcome the past is to return to it, and it is in this place of…

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