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Kelby Ouchley
For almost seventeen years I have written a weekly conservation-natural history program for public radio. My advertisement for that program states the goal is "to enhance your awareness, appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world." I hope that all of my writings meet those objectives plus one more: to stimulate folks to take action on behalf of the environment.
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Susan Cerulean
ROBERTA: Authors sometimes dream that a current event will dovetail with their book's launch and bring it to prominence. This is not the case for Susan Cerulean, the co-editor of Unspoiled: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast, a collection of thirty-six essays and poems contributed by writers including Connie May Fowler, Janisse Ray and many others. For Cerulean and her co-authors, the BP oil disaster on April 20 occurred just as...
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David Gessner and Bruce Henderson Win 2012 Reed Awards
SELC is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. In the Book category, author and naturalist David Gessner won for The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill, from Milkweed Editions. In the Journalism category, veteran environmental journalist Bruce Henderson won for “Climate of Change: The Reshaping of North Carolina,” published in The Charlotte Observer. Gessner and Henderson will each receive a $1,000 prize and an award.
In The Tarball Chronicles, Gessner journeys to ground zero of the BP oil disaster—the local diners, coastal marshes, fish camps, wildlife rehab centers and many other places along the Gulf of Mexico directly impacted by one of the worst environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Through his travels and interviews with oceanographers, subsistence fishermen and others, two questions emerge for Gessner: How long will we mortgage our future for a present of convenience and speed? And how terrible would life really be if we never took such a...
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To be fully human is to be engaged with our natural surroundings. The Southern Nature Project is founded on the conviction that writing, like the kinds gathered here, can help us lead more human, profound, and courageous lives, thereby conserving our southern environment for generations yet to come.
