Drone Footage from Oregon's Stunning Coast

From filmmaker Taylor Gray, Clearly Coastal is a drone journey along the coast of Oregon. Gray kept hearing locals refer to it as "the coast" rather than "the beach" and upon exploring it for himself, he found out why. He found no laid-back sandy beaches like the ones in California, where he once called home. Instead, the sea stacks rose toward the sky, the fog loomed omnipresently, and the rugged terrain masked secluded hideaways.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2200396/drone-footage-oregons-coast?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Destinations-02282018&utm_content=Destinations-02282018+Version+A+CID_579b69b61159ca5b78d786cc1730d28c&utm_source=campaignmonitor outsidemagazine

Ego-tourism and Mt. Everest: The hidden costs of the highest climb

Anyone can try to climb Mt. Everest. That’s the beauty of the goal — and one of the problems

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/25/ego-tourism-and-mt-everest-the-hidden-costs-of-the-highest-climb/

I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison

How a group of five activists called the Valve Turners decided to fight global warming by doing whatever it takes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/magazine/afraid-climate-change-prison-valve-turners-global-warming.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_sc_20180220&nl=science-times&nl_art=8&nlid=62019526&ref=headline&te=1

Next Book Discussion - Tuesday, March 13

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman review – a celebration of avian intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/25/genius-of-birds-jennifer-ackerman-review

This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change.

A chat with Paul Hawken about his ambitious effort to “map, measure, and model” global warming solutions.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/10/15589038/top-100-solutions-climate-change-ranked

David Gessner - All the Wild that Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hjsB77DWQ&t=1325s

Tuesday, February 13 - All the Wild That Remains

All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
by David Gessner

This engaging book provides an intimate look at Edward Abbey (1927–89) and Wallace Stegner (1909–93), two of America's finest authors, both of whom chafed at being pigeonholed as regional writers. Certainly their fond, passionate focus was the American West, but there is much universality in their concerns. Gessner (Return of the Osprey) traveled to places they haunted, read all he could of their writings, and spoke with people who knew them well. His smooth, literate text is enhanced by photographs of Stegner and Abbey as well as chapter notes that read well. Stegner authored 46 works, including 13 novels, and won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Abbey wrote 28 books, was a Fulbright Scholar at Edinburgh University, and may be best known for his book Desert Solitaire, which is often said to be as worthy as Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Stegner, clean cut, traditional, with a PhD, and Abbey, an uncompromising anarchist and atheist with a 1960s-ish appearance and lifestyle, provide rich grist for Gessner's mill, which he fully exploits for the benefit of any reader. Gessner himself has penned nine books. All three authors qualify as important environmentalists and writers. VERDICT Highly recommended for everyone interested in literature, environmentalism, and the American West.—Library Journal Henry T. Armistead