By Katherine Verhagen Rodis (October 2, 2019) On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein, Knopf Canada, September 17, 2019, 309 pp., $24.75 “We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there.” (Naomi Klein, February 2019) Regardless of whether or not you work in an environmental arm of the charitable sector, you … [Read more...] about On Fire: Klein’s book is alarmist, an alarm being ignored
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The Uninhabitable Earth: The reality of climate anxiety
By Juniper Locilento (October 7, 2019) The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, Tim Duggan Books (Feb. 19 2019), February 19, 2019, 320 pp, $30.90 Climate anxiety is real. As I’ve been reading David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth these past few weeks, I found … [Read more...] about The Uninhabitable Earth: The reality of climate anxiety
This Place, Decolonizing Wealth & Indigenous Relations: We have history
This Place is a hearty place, an artful place, full of resonant emotion. By Gail Picco, October 4, 2019 This Place: 150 Years Retold, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, et al., Forward by Alicia Elliott, Highwater Press, May 17, 2019, 296 pp. $36.00 This Place: 150 Years Retold begins in 1867, the year Canada was created and … [Read more...] about This Place, Decolonizing Wealth & Indigenous Relations: We have history
Start a Podcast or Win Grants: Guides to both.
A proper guide to starting a podcast—friendly, but stern By Cindy Wagman (September 26, 2019) So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen by Kristen Meinzer, William Morrow, August 6, 2019, 224 pp, $22.69 Podcasting seems to be on the tip of everyone’s lips these days. … [Read more...] about Start a Podcast or Win Grants: Guides to both.
Nonprofit Managing 101 & The Complete Project Manager: Two of the season’s best will get you to a yes
A non-profit management boot camp in a book By Sharon Broughton (September 20, 2019) Nonprofit Management 101: A complete and practical guide for leaders and professionals – 2nd edition, Edited by Darian Rodriguez Heyman and Laila Brenner, Wiley, August 30, 2019, 576 pp, $41.58 Described as “essential resources, tools and hard-earned wisdom from 55 … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Managing 101 & The Complete Project Manager: Two of the season’s best will get you to a yes