By Christian Martin (Originally published in the Cascadia Weekly, Jan 2015) In the same week that the Republicans put all of their political muscle in to pushing …
Read More of This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein’s manifesto on “capitalism vs. the climate”
As a book reviewer for the Cascadia Weekly, I pay close attention to what’s being published, with a special focus on books on regional topics, releases from regional publishers and …
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Editor’s note: Gary Ferguson teaches a Nature Writing Workshop for the Chuckanut Writers program at WCC on Nov 18, 9:30-4:30, $75. Co-presented by North Cascades Institute, Ferguson …
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Evolution of the Genus Iris A reading by Robert Michael Pyle Saturday, May 10, 2014; 7 pm Readings Gallery at Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham Free! …
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Kathleen Dean Moore is the first speaker in our Vanishing Ice Speaker Series, a partnership with the Whatcom Museum as part of their new Vanishing Ice exhibition.
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Upcoming events: North Cascades Institute’s Birds of Bellingham Bay outing on the Snow Goose; Oct. 5, 8 am-5 pm, $125. Info and registration at ncascades.org or (360) 854-2599 …
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Letters from Yellowstone is an account of a fictional 1898 botanical survey of Yellowstone National Park, written entirely through letters. Howard Merriam, a professor from Montana is …
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Graduate student Jacob Belsher writes a natural history book review on John McPhee’s Basin and Range According to James Hutton, a Scottish geologist working in the late …
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Thomas Fleischner, co-founder of North Cascades Institute, will read from The Way of Natural History at Village Books on July 8 at 4 pm. Info at www.ncascades.org/events.
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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice reviewed Note: Williams will be reading in Bellingham on June 21 as part of our “Nature of Writing” series …
Read More of Terry Tempest Williams' intriguing meanderings