You're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but in this case, I think it's appropriate. Beautiful cover, beautiful writing!

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social is hiring an Agriculture/Environmental Reporter to produce coverage of agricultural and environmental issues affecting central Illinois with audio-rich stories accompanied by digital content.

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National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.

DUE NEXT WEEK: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19.

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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

I love to see best-of book lists that reach outside the Big 4: lithub.com/100-notable-...

Barn Gothic

For $6.99, you might get 2-3 items at the grocery store. For the same amount, you can learn why our food system is the way it is and how it can be better. Check out @islandpress.bsky.social ebooks like Barn Gothic, Bet the Farm, Healing Grounds, and many others!
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In an Upset, Democrats Oust Two Republicans on Georgia’s Utility Board

The Georgia public utility commissioner election may be a bell weather, but it's also important in its own right. These candidates made the connection between renewable energy and lower bills, and Georgia voters responded. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

The biggest victory against animal cruelty of the 21st century, explained in one chart Global fur production has collapsed. Here’s how it happened.

Thanks to @kennytorrella.bsky.social for a positive news story: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I can't look at these faces without thinking about my sweet pup and the horror of her living in a cage like this.

There is still time to read the great selections on the summer reading list from @sightline.org including Arbitrary Lines by @mnolangray.bsky.social and Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman @islandpress.bsky.social @emilyturner2000.bsky.social

A related question: Do you ever respond to the "People Who Think They Know Better and Write Aggrieved Emails to Publishing Houses”?

Two beautiful and challenging (in the best sense of the word) lines by poet Andrea Gibson (8/13/1975 - 7/14/2025):
"Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for."
"Why did I go so long believing I owed the world
my disappointment?"

I don't know why I was shocked to receive this email, but I was. Propaganda directly from a government agency felt like a new low.

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine.

It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.

The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

The Impossible Plight of the Pro-Tariff Liberals They finally got the Democratic Party to listen to them. Then came Trump’s second term.

I just had this conversation at my book club last week:
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Rachel Frazin — Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America - with Miranda Willson — at The Wharf

Join me in one week at @politicsprose.bsky.social at The Wharf for a discussion about my book and forever chemicals

#BookSky #GreenSky #PFAS

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Book cover to "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, two reporters for The Hill.

The #DOD used firefighting foam with toxic #PFAS for decades, knowing it contaminated water and was linked to serious health issues.

New book by @rachelfrazin.bsky.social and @sharonudasin.bsky.social -- #PoisoningTheWell: How #ForeverChemicals Contaminated America.
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Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America

Great book out Tuesday that was my pleasure to participate in. Poisoning the Well, an exposé of #PFAS coverup & firsthand look at the communities suffering. Superman’s not coming: see how people are fighting back. By journalists @sharonudasin & @RachelFrazin
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Environment and Resources The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate ViolencePeter Schwartzstein. Washington DC: Island Press, 2024. $32.00. 328 pp.Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming WorldR. Jisung Park. Prin...

A wonderful review for @schwartzstein.bsky.social
“The Heat and the Fury is an extraordinary work that advances the scholarship on climate security in a text that is as accessible to newcomers as it is enriching for academic specialists.”

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The Center for a Livable Future (CLF) is pleased to announce its request for applications for the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. More details: clf.jhsph.edu/education/fo...

Thank you, Sen. Ossoff!

Thank you, Sen. Warnock!

Capitulation is not leadership. When will Democrats learn that bowing down to the right wing is not the answer?

With Climate, an Undercurrent of Violence In his ambitious first book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence,” journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores how climate change explains conflict, even war. BookShelf editor To...

Tom Henry @sejorg.bsky.social calls The Heat and Fury by @schwartzstein.bsky.social "bold, ambitious, incredibly researched and deftly written."

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Best Selling ebooks Just $4.99! Grab this deal, ebooks are $4.99!

I know I just said I prefer paper books, but if a book I want is $4.99, I will definitely read on screen! That's the case for books from Island Press until 3/2, so charge up your tablet and learn how to protect our threatened world: www.islandpress.org/bestseller-499

Well-deserved praise!

After fighting with my tablet all week, I realize another reason that, for me, paper will always be the better technology: it never runs out of power.

@jmingle.bsky.social is on a roll with the awards - as he should be!
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Congrats, @jmingle.bsky.social!

I get a strange satisfaction denying AI bots entry to my meetings!

Barons by Austin Frerick: Author Talk [Livable Future LIVE] · Food & Water Watch Join Food & Water Watch for a virtual conversation with Austin Frerick, author of *Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry* from 7:00-8:00 pm ET (4:00-5:00 pm PT). Austin...

I'm honored to be @foodandwater.bsky.social 's Book of the Year 🥳

Join if yah can tomorrow night. I'll be talking with their Founder & Executive Director Wenonah Hauter about it as well as taking questions.

Forever chemicals: How to avoid them | NewsNation Prime Rachel Frazin, energy and environment reporter at NewsNation’s partner The Hill, joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the impact of forever chemicals. Read and watch the full special: https://www.newsnationnow.com/prime/pfas-forever-chemicals-sludge-farmers/ "NewsNation Prime" is America’s source fo

WATCH: Rachel Frazin, energy and environment reporter at The Hill and co-author of the upcoming book POISONING THE WELL, joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the impact of forever chemicals. www.youtube.com/watc...