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In To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning (MIT Press, Nov 2020), Mitchell Thomashow proposes that we revitalize, revisit, and reinvigorate how we think about our residency on Earth. First, we must understand that the major challenges of our time--migration, race, inequity, climate justice, and democracy--connect to the biosphere. Traditional environmental education has accomplished much, but it has not been able to stem the inexorable decline of global ecosystems. Thomashow, the former president of a college dedicated to sustainability, describes instead environmental learning, a term signifying that our relationship to the biosphere must be front and center in all aspects of our daily lives. In this illuminating book, he provides rationales, narratives, and approaches for doing just that.                ________________________Van Carter is a retired broadcast newsman. "I've never been a genre reporter until now, but the Climate Crisis deserves everyone's full attention." He published the green website theOnlyGreenlist from 2008-2023.  For more of the 12 episodes, search Suicide Earth at BlogTalk Radio.Music Credit: David Nevue, While the Trees SleepKudos to Sunbury Press for hosting this interview series on its BookSpeak Network

Aspen and Lori Wolfe are a pair of not-so-genteel young ladies, inventive, adventurous, and deadly. Like their father, Aspen and Lori build and operate machines that do wondrous things that should just not be in Victorian-era England, but then, things are never what they seem.Taking lodging at the home of a friend of sorts, Keagen Myrack, the Wolfe sisters embark on a quest to free "Dimies," a unique, enslaved race. The epic adventure steps off in "Gear Heart: Freedom is Worth the Risk."Michelle Young is an author, artist, painter and creator, who lives in Texas--she joins Tory Gates to discuss "Gear Heart," her career and life on the Brown Posey Press Show.

The Population Bomb (Ballantine Books) is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich, (who was uncredited), in 1968. It predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a "population explosion" existed in the 1950s and 1960s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience.The book has been criticized since its publication for its alarmist tone, but the Ehrlichs stand by the book despite its flaws stating in 2009 that "perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future" and believe that it achieved their goals because "it alerted people to the importance of environmental issues and brought human numbers into the debate on the human future." See mahb.stanford.eduVan Carter is a retired broadcast newsman. "I've never been a genre reporter until now, but the Climate Crisis deserves everyone's full attention."  He published the green website theOnlyGreenlist from 2008-2023.  For more of the 12 episodes, search Suicide Earth at BlogTalk Radio.Music credit: David Nevue, While the Trees SleepKudos to Sunbury Press for hosting this interview series on its BookSpeak Network

Join Author Sherry Knowlton for the fifth episode of her limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. On today’s Episode, Tips for Taking a Safari Knowlton is joined by travel expert, Donald Roebuck from AAA Central Penn Travel. Roebuck has been a travel agent for 14 years and specializes in adventure and luxury travel. One of his key focus areas is Africa, which he’s visited multiple times. Roebuck will talk about the options travelers have when considering an African safari, such as countries, budget, accommodations, transportation and more. Knowlton will share some of her go-to tips for planning and packing for an adventure in Africa, developed over the course of many safaris. They’ll also address some common questions people have about safaris and their own experiences in the African wild.  Please tune in.Sherry Knowlton is the author of the Alexa Williams series of suspense novels including Dead of Autumn, Dead of Summer, Dead of Spring, Dead of Winter and Dead on the Delta.  Passionate about books at an early age, she was that kid who would sneak a flashlight to bed at night so she could read beneath the covers. All the local librarians knew her by name. When not writing the next Alexa Williams thriller, Knowlton works with her health care consulting business or travels around the world. She and her husband live in the mountains of South Central Pennsylvania. Knowlton is embarking on this series of podcasts to celebrate the release of her latest Alexa Williams novel, DEAD on the DELTA, and to talk about its setting, the African wild. www.sherryknowlton.com

Join Author Sherry Knowlton for the fourth episode of her limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. Today’s Episode, Wildlife Poaching: A Dirty Business focuses on Knowlton’s research trip to Botswana before she wrote DEAD on the DELTA and some of the important information she learned while there. Knowlton also provides a high-level overview of some of the damage illegal poaching is doing to critical African wildlife species such as lions, elephants, rhinos and pangolins. Please tune in.Sherry Knowlton is the author of the Alexa Williams series of suspense novels including Dead of Autumn, Dead of Summer, Dead of Spring, Dead of Winter and Dead on the Delta.  Passionate about books at an early age, she was that kid who would sneak a flashlight to bed at night so she could read beneath the covers. All the local librarians knew her by name. When not writing the next Alexa Williams thriller, Knowlton works with her health care consulting business or travels around the world. She and her husband live in the mountains of South Central Pennsylvania. Knowlton is embarking on this series of podcasts to celebrate the release of her latest Alexa Williams novel, DEAD on the DELTA, and to talk about its setting, the African wild. www.sherryknowlton.com

In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, 'Federalist' historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and insightful commentary on Jefferson, the man and the myth. Moses specifically focuses on Jefferson's complexities and contradictions. Measuring Jefferson's political accomplishments, intellectual contributions, moral character, and other distinguishing traits against contemporaries like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin but also figures like Machiavelli and Frederick the Great, Moses contends that Jefferson fell short of the greatness of others. Yet amid his criticism of Jefferson, Moses paints him as a cunning strategist, an impressive intellectual, and a consummate pragmatist who continually reformulated his ideas in a universe that he accurately recognized to be unstable, capricious, and treacherous.

On this episode of The Milford House Mysteries, co-hosts JM West and Sherry Knowlton interview Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar. We'll be talking to Aymar about his most recent thriller, They’re Gone, which was published in 2020 under his pseudonym E.A. Barres. We'll also discuss Aymar's busy writing life including his past thrillers such as the celebrated novel, The Unrepentant, his monthly column in the Washington Independent Review of Books, and his work with writing organizations such as  International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. Plus after years of active involvement, he's now taken on the positition of Bookstore Liaison for Crime Writers of Color. Aymar also runs the Noir at the Bar series for Washington, D.C., and has hosted and spoken at a variety of crime fiction, writing, and publishing events nationwide. Tune in for an interesting conversation.Milford House Mysteries Hosts - Sherry Knowlton is the author of the Alexa Williams series of murder mysteries including Dead of Autumn, Dead of Summer, Dead of Spring,Dead of Winter, and Dead on the Delta. Joan West is the author of the Carlisle Crime Cases series including Dying for Vengeance, Courting Doubt and Darkness, Darkness at First Light, Had a Dying Fall and Things Strangled.

Join Author Sherry Knowlton for the third episode of her limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. Today’s Episode, Life as a Lion Researcher, features An Interview with Robynne Kotze. Robynne works with WildCRU’s Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme where her research includes camera trap surveys of the Okavango Delta and other protected areas in Botswana and completing field work to examine connectivity between the western Okavango Delta and Namibia, aligning with the program’s goals to establish secure corridors for lion movement.If you are interested in supporting WildCRU’s lion research and conservation efforts, they welcome donations at www.oxfordna.org/donate (a 501c3 registered charity). Select WildCRU under the I would like my gift to be used for tab and specify Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme, Botswana in the Further Information box.Sherry Knowlton is the author of the Alexa Williams series of suspense novels including Dead of Autumn, Dead of Summer, Dead of Spring, Dead of Winter and Dead on the Delta.  Passionate about books at an early age, she was that kid who would sneak a flashlight to bed at night so she could read beneath the covers. All the local librarians knew her by name. When not writing the next Alexa Williams thriller, Knowlton works with her health care consulting business or travels around the world. She and her husband live in the mountains of South Central Pennsylvania. Knowlton is embarking on this series of podcasts to celebrate the release of her latest Alexa Williams novel, DEAD on the DELTA, and to talk about its setting, the African wild. www.sherryknowlton.com

Join suspense author Sherry Knowlton for the second episode in a limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. Today’s show focuses on Knowlton’s experiences on safari and doing research for the book on Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Knowlton will introduce listeners to Botswana and the Okavango Delta and the wildlife she’s seen there. She’ll also discuss a typical day on safari, why she’s drawn to the Okavango, and her month spent in Botswana doing research for DEAD on the DELTA.Stay Tuned: If you want to hear more about how to take your own safari, a later episode of the podcast will return to the topic of safari when Knowlton and a guest from AAA Central Penn Travel offer tips for taking a safari.Sherry Knowlton is the author of the Alexa Williams series of suspense novels including Dead of Autumn, Dead of Summer, Dead of Spring, Dead of Winter and Dead on the Delta.  Passionate about books at an early age, she was that kid who would sneak a flashlight to bed at night so she could read beneath the covers. All the local librarians knew her by name. When not writing the next Alexa Williams thriller, Knowlton works with her health care consulting business or travels around the world. She and her husband live in the mountains of South Central Pennsylvania.Knowlton is embarking on this series of podcasts to celebrate the release of her latest Alexa Williams novel, DEAD on the DELTA, and to talk about its setting, the African Wild. www.sherryknowlton.com

Join suspense author Sherry Knowlton for the first episode in a  limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA, An African Adventure. She is embarking on this series of podcasts to celebrate the release of her latest Alexa Williams novel, DEAD on the DELTA, and to talk about its setting, the African Wild. The six-segment podcast will air weekly and focus on topics like Knowlton’s own adventures on safari in East and Southern Africa, lion and other wildlife research, poaching and its impact on shrinking wildlife populations, and tips on taking your own safari. On some episodes, Knowlton will invite guests to help her address the topics and add their expertise to the discussion.This initial episode will focus on the book, DEAD on the DELTA, with publicist Kim Lehman interviewing Knowlton about the novel, its themes, and its relationship to earlier books in the Alexa Williams suspense series. Lehman is the president of K.A.L. Public Relations.  For the past five years, she has been an integral part of Knowlton’s  PR | marketing team, helping promote the Alexa Williams suspense series and now the latest novel, DEAD on the DELTA.Sherry Knowlton is the author of the Alexa Williams series of suspense novels including Dead of Autumn, Dead of Summer, Dead of Spring, Dead of Winter and Dead on the Delta.  Passionate about books at an early age, she was that kid who would sneak a flashlight to bed at night so she could read beneath the covers. All the local librarians knew her by name. When not writing the next Alexa Williams thriller, Knowlton works with her health care consulting business or travels around the world. She and her husband live in the mountains of South Central Pennsylvania www.sherryknowlton.com