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Books, Featured, Post

Silent Seasons the Audiobook is Here!

Laura

I am so happy and excited to share that Silent Seasons: Chasing Sustainability through the Law (narrated by me!) is now available as an audiobook on Audible/Amazon and iTunes! It’s taken a lot of time, work, and patience to get to this point. I am so proud of myself and the Silent Seasons Author Community for supporting me through this journey.

It was a fun and somewhat daunting challenge to narrate the book! I’ve had a lot of practice speaking with the podcast and my jobs, but narrating an audiobook was more of a “performance” where I had to include as much emotion as possible. I learned how our voice uses our entire body as an instrument. While recording, I stayed hydrated, did many voice exercises, and warmed up with a special meditation from Rainbow Spirit Healing before each session.

Here is an audiobook review from Ashley Lorinsky, Owner of Horse Chit Chat LLC, Horse Behaviorist, and Environmental Consultant:

Laura’s voice gives depth and heart as she tells her story of navigating the environmental realm through law. As she gently paces her story, she expertly brings to life complicated environmental law issues while breaking them up with personal stories. Her story perfectly shows how many of our sustainability practices and laws have not done what they were intended to do and she uses her voice to express ways in which we can do better and heal the earth and ourselves. Laura is not silent, but a powerful and courageous person to share her personal ups and downs in trying to help heal our earth.  

Have you listened to Silent Seasons the audiobook yet? If you have, I would love to hear from you! Please let me know what you think via the Contact Form, or email me at [email protected].

 

Books

Silent Seasons is now at Burning Books!

Laura

Now that Silent Seasons is published and available for purchase as an ebook and paperback, I’ve shifted into a new phase of the book process: sharing it with the world! This is a steep learning curve for me and comes with strong feelings of inadequacy and fear, but the more I face it all, the easier (and more fun) it gets.

I am so grateful to Burning Books out of Buffalo, NY for being the first brick-and-mortar bookstore to carry Silent Seasons! You can buy your copy at the store, or order directly from their website HERE.

If you’re reading this before November 3rd, you’re invited to come out to Burning Books at 7pm for a Silent Seasons book talk! Check out the above flyer. And please support the Burning Books expansion project via their online fundraiser HERE.

 

Podcast, Post

New Podcast Episodes!

Laura

Welcome to Season 7 of the Keeping Things Alive Podcast! Listen to episodes wherever you listen to podcasts (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, PocketCast, etc.). It is also streaming on SoundCloud.

This season, Homes Guarantee Organizer, Political Educator, and Afro-futurist John Washington is co-creating many of the podcast episodes with me. John has been on the podcast many times in the past, including the annual ballot reviews like this episode, which we have been publishing during election season since 2018. John has a deep knowledge and understanding of Buffalo, economics, history, systemic racism, housing, environmental justice, comics, music, and more.

Here is a link to the Welcome Episode. Learn about our intentions for the season and more information about my book, Silent Seasons: Chasing Sustainability through the Law, which is now available as an ebook on Amazon and Kobo! This season will be a little different because instead of conducting new interviews, we will be re-releasing many episodes from past seasons and tying them to current issues and events.

I posted the first “regular” episode of Season 7 this week, too! Here is a link to Episode 87, which is my September 2021 interview with Margaret Wooster, a watershed planner and author of Meander: Making Room for Rivers. Margaret’s work aligns with the sustainability lessons of Silent Seasons, especially the lesson that “working with the Earth fosters sustainability, while working against her makes things more difficult and unsustainable.”

 

It feels good to have another season of the Keeping Things Podcast open again! I’m glad that you’re here.

 

 

Books, Climate Change, Sustainability

Silent Seasons the E-Book is Here!

Laura

Silent Seasons

Chasing Sustainability through the Law

by: Laura Evans

e-book available for purchase on Amazon HERE for 99¢ until September 28th (then $4.99)!

e-book also available for purchase on Kobo HERE for $4.99!

Paperback arrives the first week of October 2022.

Publisher: New Degree Press

 

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Silent Seasons: Chasing Sustainability through the Law is a thought leadership book about sustainability and US environmental law based on what author Laura Evans has experienced and learned as an environmental lawyer, consultant, and nonprofit staffer living in both Western New York and Austin, Texas.

Silent Seasons combines personal stories and legal information to teach the reader:

  • How specific environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act work.
  • How the current U.S. environmental law system is organized and failing us all.
  • How you can benefit from personal sustainability lessons I learned along the way.
  • How to create a broader framework for addressing current problems like climate change, water pollution, air pollution, species extinction, and more.
  • How to make chicken noodle soup.

The stories and lessons in this book will give the reader broader perspectives and new ways of thinking about sustainability, which will empower us all to move toward a more healthy and sustainable future together.