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A Bluedot Favorite Watch: You Are What You Eat

Bluedot Living — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:39:45 +0000

The four-part Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat follows four sets of twins as they endure an eight-week experiment designed to measure the effects of healthy eating and exercise. The twist is that one of the twins in each group eats a plant-based (vegan) diet, and the other a healthy omnivore diet. The footage […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Read: Grow Now

Laura McLean — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:03:38 +0000

During a recent interview with Kaitlin Mitchell about her new line of eco-friendly garden tools, she enthusiastically told me about a must-read for home gardeners: author Emily Murphy’s Grow Now: How We Can Save Our Health, Communities, and Planet — One Garden at a Time, published in 2022. I quickly ordered it and dove in, […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Listen: Plantasia

Bluedot Living — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:21:17 +0000

This is my new favorite listen, says Bluedot’s most prolific sharer of Favorite Things, Julia Cooper. “My partner just picked up a record of “Plantasia” — a 1976 album of synthesizer music for plants!” Julia says, and reports that “The record included a card with a download link, which is printed on plantable seed paper. […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Read: Fragile Earth from New Yorker

Bluedot Living — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:46:09 +0000

The Fragile Earth from The New Yorker offers an immense collection of climate writing that's been published in The New Yorker over the years. So fascinating to see how climate reporting has evolved, and the writing in the collection is incredibly engaging with pieces from Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and other great journalists. —Julia Cooper

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A Bluedot Favorite Read: Eating to Extinction

Bluedot Living — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:31:03 +0000

Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino offers a huge amount of in-depth information, research, and interviews broken up into approachable snippets. “Saladino is a BBC food journalist who travels the world to learn about and document foods at risk for extinction, making the case for their preservation/conservation. A fascinating approach to the many issues our […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Listen: How to Do Nothing

Bluedot Living — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:21:49 +0000

The book, How to Do Nothing, was on Bluedot’s Good Libations columnist Julia Cooper’s list for a while, she says. “But I didn't expect it to have much of a climate/environmental angle.” So Cooper was surprised to discover that author Jenny Odell emphasizes the importance of connecting with the natural spaces around us as a […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Read: ‘Flavor Girls’

Bluedot Living — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:29:38 +0000

“Flavor Girls is an action-packed comic adventure where four young heroines use their sacred fruit powers to protect the Mother Tree,” Bluedot’s Good Libations (and enthusiastic sharer of Favorite Things) Julia Cooper tells us. “An alien race seeks to exploit the Mother Tree's energy sources, but as her energy depletes the natural world she holds […]

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A Bluedot Favorite App: Merlin Bird ID

Bluedot Living — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:38:08 +0000

“My new favorite thing is an app where you can track birds you see and hear,” enthused Julia Cooper, Bluedot’s Digital Production Coordinator and Good Libations columnist, about Cornell University’s popular Merlin app. “When the app is open, it will identify the birdsongs it picks up. A friend described it saying ‘you can collect the […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Read: ‘In Praise of Paths’

Bluedot Living — Thu, 18 May 2023 16:25:00 +0000

“I picked this up at Bunch of Grapes on Martha’s Vineyard on Indie Bookstore Day,” Cooper tells us. “The author was diagnosed with epilepsy so lost his driver's license and started walking everywhere. The book is a philosophical/sociological exploration of how humans interact with nature on foot.” From the back of the book: ‘As he […]

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A Bluedot Favorite Listen: ‘Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains’

Bluedot Living — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:43:28 +0000

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire is “a great listen,” says Julia Cooper, Bluedot’s Digital Projects Manager (and Good Libations columnist) who got the audiobook from her library. It offers a deep dive into how and why different animals are celebrated v. demonized, Cooper says. “It’s definitely recalibrated how I think about […]

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