Ecologist and mother Amy Seidl examines climate change at a personal level through her own family’s walks in the woods, work in their garden, and observations of local wildlife in the quintessential America of small-town New England, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont. She explores this changing landscape, and her family’s relationship to it, in her new book Early Spring (Beacon Press).
Amy’s testimony, grounded in the science of ecology and evolutionary biology but written with beauty and emotion, helps us realize that a natural upheaval from climate change has already begun – and how climate change has altered her local experience, and the traditions and lifestyles of her neighbors, from syrup producers to apple farmers. Ultimately, Amy makes thoughtful decisions on how to share this changing landscape with her young family.
Seidl’s poignant writing and scientific observations will challenge us to look at their local climate anew, and consider how we have adjusted to the reality of global warming.
About Amy Seidl
As a practiced ecologist, activist and mother of two girls, Amy Seidl writes with a lucid and passionate eye about the state of life itself in the age of global warming. By drawing on her 20 year career studying ecology, evolution, and butterflies across the North American continent, she illuminates the historical significance and the everyday local impacts of global warming upon the 21st century landscape.
A passionate speaker on contemporary environmental issues, Seidl frequently keynotes and lectures on climate change, renewable energy, local food systems, and the emerging field of sustainability science. Her research in ecological systems and alternative energy makes her a sought-after lecturer on global warming and green design and she emphasizes the need to innovate and build new physical infrastructures that do not rely on fossil fuels.
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