The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
by Zach St. George Author
Though we tend to think of forests as stationary biomes, the trees within are actually mobile and even somewhat restless. So any time a tree dies, or a new one begins the grow, the forest shifted jut a bit. When many new trees grow in the same direction, the forest begins to migrate. This helps protect forests from threats, but modern obstacles such as logger, climate change, and pests transported through global trade are threatining these slow moving tree communities. The Journeys of Trees focuses on five types of trees: giant sequoia, ash, black spruce, Florida torreya, and Monterey pine and includes encounters with activists, biologists, and foresters. Without these forests, survival is much harder for our species and our planet.
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The return of INSTEAD OF PRISONS comes at a time when it is very much needed, when two million human beings languish behind bars and barbed wire in the United States, and the reports of abuse, torture, rape, well as false convictions and cruel sentences, make moe people question the whole idea of prisons. But these thoughtful essays are not utopian. They present realistic alternatives to a system which is both cruel and ineffectual. It is more and more clear that prisons do not diminish crime. They diminish the men and women inside, and diminish the humanity of the rest of us outside. I hope this book will be widely read, so it can do for imprisonment what "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did for slavery -- arouse the nation.