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#naturalitsybingo2023
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jlhammar
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Read this illuminating book in little bites over the past several weeks. Light pollution is growing by an estimated 2% every year. Just what are we losing in our endeavors to light up the world and what can we do about it? I had no idea that the WHO has classified night-shift work as a cancer risk in the same category as smoking. Lots of eye-openers like that. A well-researched call for change. Carpe noctem!

#NaturaLitsyBingo2023 Sky

AllDebooks Sounds good. This is on my 🎅 list 5mo
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BookwormAHN
Migrations: A Novel | Charlotte McConaghy
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Although I enjoyed this book, it was at times rather preachy and depressing. Set in a not to distant future where most of the animals and birds are extinct, Franny is on a quest to follow the last migration of the Arctic terns.
#Naturalitsy #naturalitsybingo2023 #climatechange @AllDebooks #RushAthon @DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 7mo
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 7mo
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jlhammar
Bird Cottage | Eva Meijer
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This novel was inspired by the life and writings of British naturalist and musician, Gwendolen (Len) Howard. A portrait of an extraordinary woman who chose to live an unconventional life dedicated to the study of birds in their natural habitat. Lovely and poignant.

#NaturaLitsyBingo2023 Fiction

squirrelbrain I loved this one too! 8mo
AllDebooks Sounds good 😍 8mo
Tamra Sounds like a must try! 8mo
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jlhammar
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Instead of “you are what you eat,” think “you are what your food eats.” A tad on the dry side (many studies are cited), but very informative. Soil health is incredibly important. What is good for us is what is good for the land.

#NaturaLitsyBingo2023 Plants

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BookwormAHN
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This book is written by Christine Grace, one of the cohosts from the podcast Betwixt and Between. It was a rather quick read, so I fully intend to go back through it more slowly. It is advertised as keys to traditional witchcraft, but I found that it leaned more towards hedge witchery & ancestor worship.
#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks #NaturalitsyBingo2023 #fc @AllDebooks #NoShameReadathon2023 #podcastinspired @Nessavamusic

AllDebooks Sounds good 9mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 9mo
Nessavamusic Fun! 9mo
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jlhammar
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Wonderful! In 1955, Emma Gatewood, 67, mother (of 11!), grandmother, great-grandmother and domestic abuse survivor, sets off on her own to hike the Appalachian Trail. She said the woods made her feel more contented. A walk for solitude, peace and serenity. A walk “because it was there” and it “seemed like a good lark.” Inspiring and just a great story.

#NaturaLitsyBingo2023 Nature & Well-being

BarbaraJean A friend just recommended this to me a few weeks ago—as a better travelogue of the Appalachian trail (she had read Bryson‘s A Walk in the Woods and didn‘t like it much). It sounds fantastic! 9mo
AllDebooks This sounds fantastic x 9mo
KathyWheeler @BarbaraJean While I liked A Walk in the Woods, it didn‘t make me want to go walk the AT; Grandma Gatewood‘s Walk did. 9mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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AllDebooks That's good going! Well done 👏 9mo
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jenniferw88
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OK, the book needs to be proof-read again (punctuation marks and capital letters are all over the place in parts), some of the science went over my head and it is a bit repetitive towards the end, but I learned lots!

🌍 The IPCC can't be trusted to provide accurate data, & is biased towards man causing global warming
🌍 Climate change is more likely to be caused from radiation from the sun & changing ocean currents ⬇️

jenniferw88 🌍 Wind turbines are pretty ineffective 9mo
jenniferw88 🌍 Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is way OTT & inaccurate 9mo
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Cinfhen Wow!! Very “cool” 😉 9mo
Amiable Given that Booker also claimed there was no danger from asbestos or second-hand smoke, I tend to toss his work into the conspiracy-theorist pile. 9mo
Librarybelle Lots of challenges and amazing progress on #14books14weeks23 ! 9mo
jenniferw88 @Amiable that was apparently a different type of asbestos. The argument in this book is pretty convincing. 9mo
Amiable @jenniferw88 Conspiracy theories always are—that‘s why the people who create them can get traction for their claims. 9mo
AllDebooks Wow, that ticks a lot of challenge boxes. Sounds very conflicting with current reserach data. I'd be interested to see his sources. 9mo
jenniferw88 @AllDebooks this is one of his sources. https://wattsupwiththat.com/ 9mo
AllDebooks @jenniferw88 these are blog posts. I find it very hard to accept these as credible scientific sources and having a few articles on Booker, I would be reluctant to believe his proof without cross checking other sources. 9mo
jenniferw88 @AllDebooks I'd be happy to send the book on... I'm pretty convinced! 9mo
jenniferw88 @AllDebooks I think the blog posts will link to the scientific reports (& the blogs are written by the scientists he mentions in the book - I should have made that clearer). X 9mo
GingerAntics I‘ve heard all of this before… from climate change deniers. An Inconvenient Truth is actually praised by climate scientists around the globe. The only way this is convincing is if you‘re willing to believe that the vast majority of scientists on the planet are incompetent, and they have all misread their various data point wrong, but have somehow all managed to read them wrong in the exact same way. This man is nothing but a conspiracy theorist. 9mo
GingerAntics All one needs to know about Booker is that he believes George W Bush is smart enough to see through scientific lies. 🙄 Please tell me your next read is going to be about the grassy knoll, on the flat earth, where no one ever landed on the moon (but while on the moon we didn‘t land on, aliens told humans never to come back to the moon, which is why we haven‘t returned in decades and we‘re only returning now because we think our weapons… 9mo
GingerAntics are better than theirs). 🤣😂🤣💀💀💀 9mo
Ephemera Even if we can‘t positively say for certain that humans are causing global warming, we shouldn‘t ignore that it‘s happening. As they say, there is no planet B, this one is it. I‘ll be gone by the time it gets intolerable but the children of today will never forgive us if we sit around and do nothing. 9mo
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jlhammar
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Weidensaul has participated in migratory bird research all over the world. Filled with detailed field experience and revelatory observations, this was a fascinating read. A bit dense/academic at times, but I‘d definitely recommend to fellow bird nerds.

#NaturaLitsyBingo2023 #Birds

AllDebooks Oh my 😍 10mo
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jlhammar
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“This is my life. I want for no other.”

I have to agree with Helen Macdonald, this book really is bloody marvelous. Beautifully written. Rebanks has such love for shepherding and the Lake District that has been home to his family for generations. Look forward to reading his follow-up, Pastoral Song.

This would work for several #NaturaLitsyBingo2023 prompts (memoir, mammals, landscapes), but given the structure, I‘ll use it for Seasons.

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