Green readings: 9 titles for Earth Day

9 green readings to approach Earth Day 2023 with the clearest ideas regarding sustainability, the future of the planet, and what we can do to protect its beauty.

Ptalk about ecology, sustainable choices, climate crisis, relationship with the environment. They are dedicated to adults and children. Because only if we understand what is at stake, and if we are moved by the beauty and complexity of our planet, will we be able to act to save it. Here are the green readings that can make us fully experience Earth Day

Green readings/1 The classic

The life of bees by Maurice Maeterlinck

The first volume is over 120 years old of a trilogy of texts that this surprising poet, playwright and essayist, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1911 he dedicated to the iSocial insects, continuing with termites and ants. The work of a in love with bees and not of a scholar, who manages to merging wonder and scientific accuracy

To read to approach poetry to fascinating animals Today threatened with disappearance from the use of pesticides and pollution

Green Readings/ 2 VIP Activists

Stories for girls and boys who want to save the world by Carola Benedetto and Luciana Cilento

Dedicated to those over 9 years old, not necessarily children, a roundup of people who have made the history of modern environmentalism. Movie stars, from Emma Watson to Leonardo Di Caprio, from the photographer Sebastiano Salgado to the American vice president Al Gore, from the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, to the singer Bjork, to the designer Tiziano Guardini. And many others. All with their own style and resources of authority and visibility they act and are committed to saving the planet

To read to convince ourselves that each of us can do our part

Green readings/3 Adventures in the ice

Eightieth parallel by Paola Catapano

How much the desire to exceed one’s limits, turns out to be one positive force for the future of humanity and the planet who hosts it? The story told by this book can give an answer. Umberto Nobile’s feat of exploration and scientific value, with the airship Italia, ended tragically with the crash on the pack ice of the North Pole on May 25, 1928. Ninety years later Paola Catapano journalist explorer disseminator for Cern, organize an expedition to those places. He wants to find the remains of the airship, blown away by the wind with six crew members. But he also wants contribute to climate change research. And for this he puts himself to sea, plowing the waters made navigable by the melting of the northern ice. Part with Nanuq, a very special sailboat, designed according to criteria of environmental sustainability . The target? Detect the presence of cosmic rays and microplastics at those latitudes. A fascinating journey, which like all true journeys, it goes out of the planned and veers towards the adventure

To readto leave captivated by the author’s energy and charm of the adventure

Green readings/4 Ecocitizenship

If I plant a tree can I eat a steak? by Giacomo Moro Mauretto

The more one gets involved in environmental issues, pThe more we become aware that our every gesture counts. And our daily life is crowded with questions. Do I emit more CO2 if I eat organic beef, intensively farmed chickens, seafood or a slice of swordfish? Is it really useful to adopt hives of bees? Financing those who plant trees around the world? Often unable to find a priority criterion, we end up feeling helpless. And throw away the butt (no, the sponge!). Giacomo Moro Mauretto, biologist and popularizer, on social Entropy for Life, with this book helps to overcome just that feeling of helplessness. Use a scientific approach devoid of any ideology and based on facts. Aware that our resources and time are limited and must be put to good use.

To read to feel effective part of the change.

Green readings /5 and 6 Wild animals

The golden dog by Sara Segantin

From one of the founders of Fridays For Future in Italythe international peaceful protest movement led by Greta Thunberg a new novel about science relationship wild animals and friendship. The meeting in the childhood of Camilla, the protagonist with the golden dog it remains forever imprinted in the soul of the little girl And when at the university she will find a defend a litter of dora jackals from poachersyou, on the Carso, will not back down. A story of friendship, Camilla will act together with her three inseparable friends Tom Elisa and Max. And of environmental commitment. In the center the increasingly difficult relationship between humans and the wild world, which he has ignored for too long

The summer of the big dipper by Giuseppe Festa

It’s time to get back to talking about bears. And this book does it, which tells of Morena, an orphaned and struggling four-month-old puppy rescued by the rangers of the Abruzzo National Park. She is saved but her fate seems to be that of a life in captivity. And yet… the author retraces in this novel the feat attempted by the Park staff to bring Morena back to her life in the woods. A book that tells the relationship between men and the Marsican bears in the fascinating scenery of the Abruzzo park through twists and turns and testimonies of those who have experienced these challenges firsthand

To read both for rethink our relationship with the wildest part of the ecosystem

Green readings /7 Climatic migrations

The nomadic century. How to survive the climate disaster by Gaia Vince (releases May 2)

From a great science journalist, scientist by training, a powerful fresco of upheavals that could come to reshape our world 50 years from now. High temperatures, humidity, large areas of the planet made uninhabitable. For 3.5 billion people fleeing from tropical countries, from coastal areas, from lands that are no longer arable, what future awaits? How will we respond to their needs? From Central Europe to Bangladesh to Sudan, Western USA to Oceania, Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the author outlines the new human geography. Driven by climate change. And opens at opportunities that the crisis brings with it. Indeed, Gaia Vince’s bet is that migrations won’t be the problem. But the solution. PWhy is migration that made us who we are. Rich in data, informed, detailed and punctual, The nomadic century is starting to be one of the key books of the debate in recent years

To read to learn how to manage crises e think resiliently.

Readings green/8 educational

I explore nature 30 adventures for all seasons by Manuela Ruaben

Pages 96 €13.50 Erickson

A guide to making nature walks with children are real adventures. The author is a trainer and has a long experience of outdoor education. In this book teaches to observe, grasp the details, immerse yourself in the natural world. offers exciting activities: read animal tracks, recognize plants, collect leaves, make infusions with flowers. But also games and recipes. Proposals for the four seasons. The starting point to become little explorers

To read to raise children who they love nature and respect it.

Green readings /9 Vegetal identity

The gentle strength of trees by Peter Wohlleben

pages 236 euro 18 Garzanti.

Forest ranger for twenty years Peter Wohlleben is now responsible for a three thousand acre forest on the border between Germany and Belgium. And it’s one of the most listened to green voices, the interpreter of the secret world of plants. He has helped to make known the complexity of their way of life. In this book tells of the resilience of woods and forests, in the face of atmospheric agents, whether they are storms or drought events, the destruction caused by fires and by men. The extraordinary adaptability of the plant world it must not make humanity forget its responsibilities. Because the suffering of the woods caused by human choices without criterion casts a shadow on the future. The invitation to the reader? Fall in love with the green planet for learn better protect him.

To read to know how political and economic choices have an immediate impact on the green ecosystem

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