Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter

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William Powers

Ripple

An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter

William Powers

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English

Green Writers Press
28 October 2025

Limnology (freshwater); Physical geography & topography; Applied ecology; The Earth: natural history general

Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter is a narrative of letters written by an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of-age. Drawing upon his personal history, family anecdotes, and shared memories, Powers envisions a path for humanity'

s reintegration with nature, and a chance to save the life force that runs through all of us.

A story of separation has long gripped the human race: that people are separate-

with more advanced habitats, technologies, and values-

from our natural surroundings and fellow creatures. We have been told this story for generations. But as Powers watches his daughter approach adulthood, with all of society'

s expectations, he knows that the story we pass down has to change. In Ripple, he tells a different tale, one of community and family, inner wisdom, and shared existence within a living planet.

By: William Powers
Imprint: Green Writers Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798991413459
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Powers is an author, activist, and leading expert in deep ecology. He is a Senior Fellow at World Policy Institute, and he founded the Living Well Collaborative, supporting a new paradigm for healing the planet and nourishing community and economy at the local level. Powers has published five nonfiction books within the sustainability space, including DISPATCHES FROM THE SWEET LIFE (New World Library, 2018) and TWELVE BY TWELVE (New World Library, 2010), and his essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, and ""Fresh Air.""

Reviews for Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter

""In an era of great cynicism and ecological calamity, Bill Powers offers a different, more positive future, based on a turn away from our dominating view of nature as separate from ourselves. In a series of letters to his eldest daughter as she turns fifteen . . . Powers shows how separation from nature, especially in the era of ubiquitous smart phones and social media, leaves youth all over the world confused, depressed, deeply anxious and even suicidal. His empathy shines through in every page. Young people need this book. We all do."" --John de Graaf, filmmaker, activist, co-author of AFFLUENZA and What's the Economy for Anyway, and editor of Take Back Your Time