Dr. Laura Smith

The best #bookpost arrived today! 🤩📚

Glass Garden is live on Kickstarter! A solo game of growing succulents and minding critters. Designed by Roshni Patel with art by @kwanchaimoriya . Only $12! kickstarter.com/projects/23930…

Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in 'Walden,' a new Off Broadway play that’s a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera. nyti.ms/4eogM4W

Joni Mitchell review – a triumphant star-studded Hollywood show theguardian.com/music/2024/oct…

15 years ago! And just as obsessed with #Thoreau and #Walden now.

J.D. Souther, the singer and songwriter who co-wrote twangy yet debonair hits for artists like the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt that helped define the Southern California country-rock sound of the mid-1970s has died. He was 78. latimes.com/entertainment-…

📢 Join us for our "Teaching with Zines" online workshop, Friday 9/13 at 9am Pacific! 📢 We'll be joined by 4 geographers who will share how they use zines in their classrooms & share some resources. Curious about zines & GEOZONe? Register here: bit.ly/4e3mk5q. 📓

We are excited to announce our 2024 Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize.✏️🌿 Congratulations to all our talented shortlisted authors and illustrators! #WainwrightPrize #ChildrensWriting #WainwrightPrize24

We are thrilled to announce our 2024 Conservation Writing Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize. ✏️🌱 Congratulations to @helenczerski, @JohnVaillant, @CSLyons, @toritsui, @some_yeo and @olifranklin. #WainwrightPrize #ConservationWriting #WainwrightPrize24

We are delighted to announce our 2024 Nature Writing Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize.✏️🍃 Congratulations to @Katricianh, @jessicajlee, @Al_Humphreys, @beckorio, Michael Malay, Olivia Laing and @afroliage! #WainwrightPrize #NatureWriting #WainwrightPrize24

Utah’s famed ‘Double Arch’ geographical feature collapses #Echobox=1723296763" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

@waldengeogs, et al. include everyone in the climate emergency conversation by advocating for zines, self-published magazines. Zines provide activists, artists, and other creatives with an outlet for environmental storytelling and discourse. Learn more: bit.ly/3y7VDNB

Oh. 💘 Feels incredibly precious to be accepted and rated by this lot. My forthcoming @VersoBooks title is anarchist-approved! ✔️ A decade ago games were seen as having zero to do with organising. So glad that view is changing now. Thank you @Reddebrek for the thorough review.

South of the Hoover Dam, the Colorado River supports 400 bird species, 40 million people, sacred Tribal lands, and a $1.4 trillion economy. Explore this critical environment to better understand its value for birds & people with this interactive StoryMap. bit.ly/3W9nSn2

🥾 Have you seen the news! 🥾 Our newest, diciest game in the Parks family is right around the corner! Meet Parks: Roll & Hike - the Parks experience you can throw in your backpack and head out on the trails with - will be available at Gen Con & hitting trails in September!

Beautiful photos of the largest restoration project in Yosemite's history, at a meadow near Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. It was previously private rangeland; now it's "a vibrant hub of wildflowers, songbirds and water-loving grasses," @kurtisalexander writes: sfchronicle.com/california/art…

Our last day in Concord featured visits to Old North Bridge, the Robbins House, and Concord Museum, and a stroll around downtown.

Happy 102nd birthday to @waldenpondstate!

Today’s highlights include a browse through @ConcordLibrary’s annual book sale, walking the Emerson-Thoreau Amble trail to Brister’s Hill (via Fairyland Pond), and a great few hours back at the Succession and Reflection Circle segments of Thoreau’s Path on Brister’s Hill…

Walden Pond wanderings