![]() ![]() ![]() In 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.Īs a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. ![]() ![]() Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. In 2022, Braiding Sweetgrass was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. …is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. ![]()
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