Next Level in Sustainability: Nature Restoration

[ad_1] When online travel giant Expedia Group opened its $900 million Seattle headquarters in 2019, the 40-acre waterfront campus showcased countless possibilities: a bike path, a soccer field, and a beach filled with driftwood logs to sit amidst the sounds of the surf. It also has well-cured impurities. Landscape architects from Surfacedesign in San Francisco …

Leo Marx, 102, Died; Studied Nature and Culture Conflict in America

[ad_1] “He found answers in the cultural region, where literature, general ideas, and specific products of the collective imagination – what we might call ‘cultural symbols’ – meet. The most obvious of these symbols was the railway; “The eerie cry of the train whistle,” he wrote, was, according to Henry David Thoreau, a disturbing intervention …

In ‘Astonishment’, Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety

[ad_1] The main question of the novel is the same one posed in “The Overstory” by Vietnam War veteran Douggie Pavlicek, who has turned into an eco-warrior: [Expletive] Is Mankind Wrong? The dialogue remotely reminded me of my favorite third-grade novel, Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” Robbie speaks in italics throughout, as if he were …

After a Disaster, Nature Lovers in ‘Harrow’ Struggle to Restore Sanity

[ad_1] Joy Williams’ new novel “Harrow” will be a contender in the experimental category when awards are given to the best novels that herald our end, following the imminent apocalypse. Our mutant overlord critics will ask, “What’s going on? NS he?” According to Williams’ books, this is not a very good book. His intelligence is …