Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

• Milkweed Editions
• ISBN – 9781571313560
• Publish Date 08/11/2015
• Pages 408

This is a gorgeous book that will make you see nature in a totally different (and much needed) way. Full of love and admiration for our plant, fungi and animal kin, Kimmerer expertly weaves both her scientific and indigenous knowledge of the world around us. This book doesn’t skirt around the hard topics of colonization and domination, but still manages to be a beautiful antidote to so much of the techno-optimism we see in the ‘environmental’ movement these days. Perhaps, as this book suggests, the way forward is falling back in love with nature?

This is a powerful 20 minute talk by Robin Wall Kimmerer hosted by Bioneers, if you’d like to get a feel for her work before diving into the book.

Note – there is also a Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults, Published by Zest Books, 1st June 2023
ISBN: 9781728458991

About the Author, Robin Wall Kimmerer:

“Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.”

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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