Where the Grass Still Sings
eBook - ePub

Where the Grass Still Sings

Stories of Insects and Interconnection

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Where the Grass Still Sings

Stories of Insects and Interconnection

About this book

Through narrative, verse, and art, Where the Grass Still Sings celebrates the many tiny creatures that play crucial roles in our ecosystems—as well as the people on the front lines of the fight to save them.

Weaving art and science with inspiring stories of people doing their part to protect insects and the environment, author Heather Swan takes readers around the globe to highlight practical solutions to safeguard our fragile planet. Visit a sustainable coffee farm in Ecuador and a frog expert combating animal trafficking in Colombia. Explore a butterfly sanctuary in an Andean cloud forest and learn about a family of orchid farmers who are replanting a mountainside to attract native pollinators. Meet a bumblebee expert helping Wisconsin cranberry growers, a bark beetle specialist in a new-growth forest in Georgia, an entomologist collecting for the Essig Museum in California, and more. Against a backdrop of climate change, ecological injustice, and impending mass extinction, this book rekindles wonder and hope.

Featuring works by artists deeply invested in preserving the smallest beings among us, Where the Grass Still Sings is a paean to the natural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Invisible Extinctions: Thinking About Insects at the Essig Collection
  9. 2. Chocolate and Coffee: Saving What Is Being Lost
  10. 3. The Forest of Orchids: Sowing Seeds of Resilience in Colombia
  11. 4. For the Love of Frogs
  12. 5. Transformers: Beetles Changing History
  13. 6. Midewin: Arsenal Afterlife
  14. 7. The Bumblebee and the Cranberry
  15. 8. Can Agriculture Save Pollinators?
  16. Afterword: Courage
  17. Notes
  18. Resources and Inspiration
  19. Credits