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Book swap day in the office! This is what I got which I have never heard of but am excited to try!

GV packs a lot into this one! It's a well-written, very human tour of the world we live in, & the conditions/difficulties people are facing, along with their amazing, innovative responses to change whether at the individual, city or country level.

I read this for my nf #technology book for #readharder & can now tell you (broadly) how to hack glacier formation, about types of solar power, what nuclear fission is, where lithium comes from & 👇

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I've finished the #readharder challenge! Thanks #11thHourReadathon for the final push.

Now, I wonder if I can finish #LitsyAtoZ as well...

I will actually get reviews up for these last few books over the weekend, but in brief: this is fantastic, fascinating but an explosion of ideas & information- would definitely benefit from not rushing through it for the end of the year!

It's actually a serious question about how to reduce the acidification of the oceans. The answer is 'You'd need a lot of cucumbers!'

Enjoying this, tho it's surprisingly challenging in places. It's divided into environments- mountains, rivers, farmlands, oceans, etc looking at how people are adapting to the current climate/environmental issues in each. She covers traditional technologies (reintroducing village rainwater tanks; tree-planting etc) & modern options -gm crops, cloud-seeding, dam-building etc; + some more eccentric options - painting mountains white to reflect heat.

Still, the villagers have erected it on the roof of the school where it sits like a totem to the useless. Nobody in this village has a television set, let alone the electricity to power one.

What the village does have are ingenious determined people, adapting to a changing climate. From telecomms to clean cookers, man-made glaciers to fog nets, Gaia Vince explores the technologies being used by individuals & communities in this new environment.

Thanks @Itchyfeetreader I really love what you have picked for me. I've not read any of these, and they all sound really interesting! Looking forward to reading them. I love the magnetic sci fi poetry kit - I'm going to have much fun with that! #summersantagoespostal Thanks @BookishMarginalia for organising

Long #shadows and salt flats. I will read this, this year... #feistyfeb

Stories of the amazing ways people are coping with life on our changing planet. This won the Royal Society prize for science writing last year. #booktober #awardwinning

I'm craving nonfiction, and all of these lovelies are near the top of the tbr. Any suggestions what I should read next? Grateful for any recommendations.