The newest edition of The Cabbage Leaf is out, and they have a great idea for recycling - the magazine is designed to be turned into bookmarks!
In this edition, they choose nine books, which they found in Hay, on environmental issues.
"The books give an overall picture of the crucial issues our world is facing and alert the reader to the harmful effects of our way of life."
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf, sub-titled The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science is among the titles chosen. He was an extraordinary man, an explorer, geographer, naturalist and writer in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and one of the first to explain how forests influence the climate.
Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell is a book that a friend of mine used to re-read every year - it describes the communities of Blaenavon and Nantyglo in South Wales during the height of the Industrial Revolution.
There's also a French graphic novel (it has also been translated into English) called Climate Changed/Saison Brune by Phillipe Squarzoni, and a collection of the writings of Rachel Carson called Lost Woods (she was the author of the famous Silent Spring).
There are also absolutely beautiful botanical drawings by Françoise Verger, one of the creators of The Cabbage Leaf.
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