Recycling & Green Living – Cannonball Read 17

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Don't Be Trashy: A Practical Guide to Living with Less Waste and More Joy: A Minimalism Book by Tara McKenna

September 24, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Buy for your real life: Remember those high-heeled boots I bought that were perfect for life in New York City? I didn’t buy those for my real life, unfortunately. Figure out what you tend to buy for your fantasy life, and face the reality that perhaps those things aren’t for you. ― Tara McKenna, Don’t Be Trashy: A Practical Guide to Living with Less Waste and More Joy CBR16 Bingo: Cult I have anxiety. Every time I unwrap something packaged in plastic, or when I […]

Produce the produce

Grandma’s Roof Garden by Tang Wei

July 31, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have been reading several intense books lately. Therefore I decided that I needed to cleanse the palette. And what better way to do that but with food and books. Then I found Grandma’s Roof Garden. As I munched my Hemingwing (a chicken sandwich with goat cheese, some funky herbal mayo, and onion jam) I read this book by Tang Wei and translated by Kelly Zhang. Though it is currently available, I read it via an online reader copy. I might find a few physical […]

I like Trash… recycled sustainably

Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability by Kate Wheeler

November 17, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I was reading Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability I took a lot of notes, as there were A LOT of details. Things from literally Pompeii to 2021-2022 and how they all relate to sustainability, environmentalism, and the good, the bad, and the really smelly. Kate Wheeler’s story is more than just an environmental story. It shows friendships and how we can work together, get the job done, and learn how the good, the bad and the ugly, or The Pig, the […]

Celebrating environmentally

Ganesha Goes Green by Lakshmi Thamizhmani

July 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In a recent box of books sent to me by a publisher, Ganesha Goes Green by Lakshmi Thamizhmani was included. At first, it was a bit awkward. The pronunciation of some words did not come naturally to me, therefore, it took a minute or two to get into it. But once I did this story about conservation, while keeping true to the culture and holiday, was worth it. Not only do you learn about Indian culture, and the holiday Ganesha Chaturthi, you learn about how Prema and her […]

Be Like Sam

Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day by Shaunna and John Stith

February 14, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was in college (early to mid-1990’s) when I first heard of Earth Day. Yet, it was started in the 1970’s. How did I miss this event all those years? I mean around 20 or more years this event had been celebrated. In the end, maybe it is not important when I learned about it, but that I did and I partake in the events. But if you are interested in a little background in why it started, this picture book (by Shaunna and John […]

No, really I liked this book

Hawai’i Sea Turtle Rescue by Fabien Cousteau

July 12, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If Mark Trail met Jeff Corwin met Steve Irwin met Fabien Cousteau, you would have Hawai’i Sea Turtle Rescue. Fabien Cousteau is the grandson to the famous Jacques Cousteau, and he seems to have an equal passion for wildlife and the ocean. He also seems to have a high opinion of himself, and the first few pages of this fiction formatted non-fiction graphic novel talks about the wonderful things he has accomplished (working with sharks, finding new species of piranha). With that humble bragging aside, […]

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