Welcome to The Climate Book Review!
Episode Notes for March 1, 2024
The Climate Book Review is a radio show and podcast featuring book reviews, author interviews, and reading lists for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with climate themes.
The Climate Book Review airs every Friday at 10:30 a.m. Central on WDBX 91.1 FM: Solar-Powered Community Radio for Southern Illinois. You can also find the show online at WDBX.org, ClimateBookReview.com, and on your favorite podcast app or site.
The Climate Book Review is hosted by Treesong.
The two main segments of the show are the Climate Book of the Week and the Climate Reading List of the Week. If you have suggestions for the show, please email us at info@climatebookreview.com.
Climate Book of the Week
This week’s Climate Book of the Week is Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn.
If the author would like to be a guest in a future episode of The Climate Book Review, I’d be happy to have them. In the meantime, here’s my review.
Climate Reading List of the Week
This week’s Climate Reading List of the Week is Climate Books for Black History Month. The nonfiction section of this list is based on the Climate Books for Black History Month reading list developed by Michael Svoboda, the Yale Climate Connections books editor. For more reading lists like this, find Michael Svoboda on Yale Climate Connections.
Climate Nonfiction
- 2023 NGO and Foundation Transparency Report Card by Chandler Purrity et al.
- Adversity to Advancement: 15 Climate Impacts & 45 Black-Led Pathways to Climate Justice by Jacqui Patterson
- Blueprint for a Multiracial Cross-Class Climate Movement: The Report on Coalitions by Lynsy Smithson-Stanley and Jack Zhou
- Confronting Injustice: Racism and the Environmental Emergency by Alba Kapoor, Nannette Youssef, and Simon Hood
- The Cost of Doing Business: The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA by Research Staff
- “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone by Research Staff
- Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance, edited by Jennifer L. Rice, Joshua Long and Anthony Levenda
- Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan’s Water War by Michael Mascarenhas
- Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges, edited by Neil J.W. Crawford, Kavya Michael, Michael Mikulewicz
- Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture by Stefanie K. Dunning
- Unearthed: On Race and Roots and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong by Claire Ratinon
- Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Climate Fiction
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
- The World is Ours to Cherish: A Letter to a Child by Mary Annaïse Heglar
Thank You
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Finally, thank you to everyone who is reading, writing, and taking action in response to the climate crisis. With our powers combined, we can make climate justice a reality.
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