Nature Is A Human Right: Why We're Fighting for Green in a Gray World
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Nature Is A Human Right: Why We're Fighting for Green in a Gray World
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Overview
Access to the natural world is a human right. This inspiring book captures why contact with nature is essential for our mental, social and physical well-being — and how we can rethink urban development to create green city spaces and a return to nature.
Find an inspiring collection of original writings from world-leading “green” voices and discover:
• Benefits and issues surrounding our access to nature
• Discussions on social and environmental justice
• Why we need nature around us, how we’re being deprived of nature and what we can all do to change environmental and social issues
• Edited by the founder of the environmental justice campaign Nature is a Human Right, Ellen Miles
Concrete outweighs every tree, bush, and shrub on Earth. Nature deprivation is a fast-growing epidemic, harming the health and happiness of hundreds of millions of people worldwide — especially vulnerable and marginalized groups. Nature is a Human Right, founded by Ellen Miles in 2020, is working to make access to green space a recognized right for all, not a privilege.
This book brings together a collection of engaging, accessible essays, interviews and exercises, from expert ambassadors and supporters (including authors, artists, scientists, human rights experts, television presenters, TED speakers, and climate activists). Each contributor offers a new perspective on why contact with nature should be a protected human right.
Enlightening and sometimes uncomfortable, this collection of writing and ideas illuminate the work that needs to be done to make our global future happier.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780744048056 |
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| Publisher: | DK |
| Publication date: | 04/19/2022 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Sales rank: | 1,067,256 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.63(w) x 8.81(h) x 1.28(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction Ellen Miles 14
Welfare Why We Need Nature Around Us
Chapter Introduction Ellen Miles 28
The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry 34
The Secret Power of the Forest; From a Feeling to a Science Professor Qing Li, MD, PhD 36
Walk Through the Jungle Shareefa Energy 50
The Necessary Medicine Joy Griffiths 54
Empathy as Resistance Sophia "So" Sinopoulos-Lloyd 64
Animism(s) and Our Need for Beyond-Human Kinship Sophia Pinar Ates Sinopoulos-Lloyd 66
Restor(y)ing Place: Tracking and the Necessity of Ecological intimacy Sophia "So"Sinopoulos-Lloyd 68
When Seeing the World as Alive is Called Madness Pinar Ates Sinopoulos-Lloyd 77
Recycled Rhythms Rashmeet Kaur 84
The Ancient Alchemy of Composting Poppy Okotcha 86
From 31 words * prose poems ("highly visual rural winter image …") Evie Shockley 90
Is Nature Caffeine for Creativity? Daisy Kennedy 92
Injustice How We're Being Deprived of Nature
Chapter Introduction Ellen Miles 106
The Enclosed Place Michelle Barrett 112
City Kid Hila the Killa 124
Crossfire: Global Intersections Ellen Miles 126
Nature's Outcastes Elizabeth Soumya 127
After Apartheid, Green Spaces Are Still White Spaces Celine Isimbi 132
Latvia's Soviet Housing: A Grey Legacy in a Green Nation Linda Ludbarza 136
How Can We End Rural Racism? It's Time to Reimagine the Countryside Louisa Adjoa Parker 141
Land, Real and Imagined Louisa Adjoa Parker 152
The Road to Common Ground: Trespassing with Nick Hayes Ellen Miles interviews Nick Hayes 154
Potholes Linda Hogan 168
Disability is Natural Syren Nagakyrie 170
She's the City Erin Rizzato Devlin 182
Change What We Can ALL Do
Chapter Introduction Ellen Miles 186
From On Love and Barley-Haiku of Basho ("75") Translation Lucien Stryk 194
What If Your City was a National Park? Daniel Raven-Ellison 196
Self-portrait with a swarm of bees Jan Wagner Translation Iain Galbraith 210
Resistance is Fertile Ron Finley Tayshan Hayden-Smith in conversation 212
Seed Bombs Ayesha Tan-Jones 226
Permaculture Dora Young 230
Placemaking: Putting Communities at the Heart of Urban Greening Sharlene Gandhi 232
Rebel with a Cause: How to Become an Activist Noga Levy-Rapoport 243
The Power of Love: Why Nature Connection is at the Root of Solving the Climate Crisis Ellen Miles Clover Hogan 258
Look down, look up Olafur Ellasson 272
What If? Dan Raven-Ellison Ellen Miles 274
Endnotes 278
Index 300
Contributors 304
A Note from the Editor 314
Acknowledgments 315
Resources 318
Credits 319