Book Release for Local Book on Lake Champlain

Ahoy fellow citizens of the Lake Champlain Basin!

Please feel invited to a book release tomorrow night (Tuesday) for a book I helped create on the plight of Lake Champlain entitled "Our Basin of Relations: The Art and Science of Living with Water" at 7 PM, on Zoom, though Phoenix Books.

https://www.phoenixbooks.biz/event/our-basin-relations-m-e-sipe-trevien-stanger

I will now include the text from the cover and the list of contributors. Hope to see you there!

-Trevien

Water does not lie. Here in the Champlain Basin--a flowing landscape of mountains and rivers, forests and farms, towns and cities--it is the water that whispers difficult truths. From erosion, pollution, and habitat loss, to the toxic algae blooms that close Champlain's beaches every summer, this once vital ecosystem is coming undone. And while there is no shortage of proposed technical and legislative solutions, it is clear that we also need distinct cultural responses to the problem--ways to see, hear, feel, and understand what the water is telling us. That is where this book comes in. Featuring the fine art photography of M.E. Sipe, the curating vision of Trevien Stanger, and over a dozen essays written by thinkers, academics, poets, farmers, and activists who call this region home, Our Basin of Relations presents new ways of thinking and old ways to remember, helping us chart a more honest path forward toward preservation and renewal. With open hearts, wild minds, and attentive bodies, these essayists deepen our insights and advance our sense of the possible for all of the beings, and for all of our relations, that constitute our home: this beautiful place, the Champlain Basin.

Contributors to this anthology include:

Mary Abele – Pastor Emerita, All Souls Interfaith Gathering

Chief Donald Stevens – Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation

Michael Colby – Regeneration Vermont

Doug Facey – Professor of Biology, Saint Michael's College

Rich Holschuh – Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs

Mark Krawcyzk – Keyline Vermont

Declan McCabe – Professor of Environmental Science, Saint Michael's College

Rich Redman – The Sun Community News

Meg Reynolds – Burlington Poet, Writing Inside Vermont

Kris Stepenuck – Professor of Natural Resources, Rubenstein School, UVM

Corrina Parnapy – Clean Water Specialist