Category: Book & Film Reviews
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Re-imagining Overpopulation
“Recognizing possibilities of other kinds of intimacies–not focused on biological reproduction and making population, but caretaking precious kin that comes to us in diverse ways–is an important step to unsettling settler sex and family.” – Kim TallBear Thomas Malthus was a racist, and his ideas around “population” growth have long been challenged, particularly by the…
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Sapiens or “How I Decide to Read a Book”
For a while now people have been recommending the book “Sapiens.” So I looked it up. As I glanced over it I realized I that I have a methodology and order for how I grade a book before I decide to read it. Here is the process I go through in order to decide whether…
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Book Recommendation: Coyotes Guide to Connecting With Nature
This book is a 3lb tome that describes Jon Young’s mentoring model. I recommend it for any rewilding people out there, simply on the basis that it has a great collection of games and “routines” that help people have amazing experiences with the other-than-human world. The routines in this book gave me experiences that formed…
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Book Review: “Forgotten Fires”
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Tending The Wild
Native peoples played a major role in the maintenance and enhancement of biological diversity by introducing disturbances that created and maintained mosaics of different vegetation types. These disturbances, caused mainly by burning, were carried out specifically to maintain populations of plants that were gathered for food, cordage, basketry, and other uses and to enhance their…