Tag Archives: Environmentalism

Environmental Novelist Harriet Martineau

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2024

Victorian novelist Harriet Martineau, though largely forgotten, foresaw ecology, environmentalism, and realist fiction.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2024

For Earth Day, an Oliver poem that lays out the first principle of environmental activism: love the earth.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2024

How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 24, 2024

17th century poet Traherne as an early version of Green Gospel, a recent book by John Gatta.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2021

Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2021

The new Secretary of the Interior comes from the same tribe as novelist Leslie Marmon Silko and appears to hold the same view of the earth.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2015

The denial of the citizens of Moscow as Napoleon approaches the city, described by Tolstoy in “War in Peace,” resembles climate change denialism.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 6, 2014

Scott Bates invokes “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in this Nativity poem.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 3, 2013

Biologist-poet David Haskell taught my students to see the world with playful eyes.