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Earthzine would like to invite you to submit reviews and recommendations of some good books you’ve read lately! They can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama or prose. Thematically, they should address in some way one or more of the nine societal benefit areas of GEOSS: agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disasters, ecosystems, energy, health, water, weather; also oceans and sustainability.

Paul Racette, posted on October 26th, 2009
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Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

We all hear about global this and global that, what to recycle or not, and who should be responsible. This is almost non-stop from every sort of media available, which becomes mind numbing and, in a huge sense, scary. With all the information our there, Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods caught my attention.

Nancy Racette, posted on August 28th, 2008
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Noctilucent Cloud by The Chromatics

It’s not often one has an opportunity to hear both noctilucent cloud and mesospheric in the same song, but the highly educational and always entertaining Chromatics have provided us an opportunity to do so.

Kyla Hanington, posted on April 29th, 2008
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Hammering Out Our Differences

“We have not met, yet I feel I know you well enough to call you friend.” So begins the letter to a Southern Baptist pastor that E.O. Wilson weaves into a riveting account of the peril posed by the extinction of life in The Creation: An Appeal To Save Planet Earth.

Paul Racette, posted on March 3rd, 2008
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“Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond

Book review by Jay Pearlman

Jared Diamond starts his book with a question from an acquaintance in New Guinea: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people have little cargo of our own.” Whether the cargo is wealth, power, good medicines or a long life, Diamond sets out to answer this question in a logical and analytical process and 440 pages later comes to some interesting and very thoughtful conclusions.

Jay Pearlman, posted on July 31st, 2007
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“The World is Flat”? by Thomas L. Friedman

Paul Racette, posted on July 31st, 2007
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