Groundbreaking Environmental Book from White Cloud Press Wins Prestigious Nautilus Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 26, 2011
Ashland, ORE — Author/artist Osprey Orielle Lake’s impassioned call for a new relationship with the natural world has won a 2011 Nautilus Book Silver Medal in the Ecology/Environment/Green Values category for Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature.
Publisher White Cloud Press proudly announces Uprisings for the Earth was also recognized with a Nautilus Small Press–Honorary Award.
In her award-winning work, Osprey Orielle Lake shows that we must infuse our cultural discourse with the language, importance, and wisdom of nature—that lasting changes in our way of life will arise from and find broad support only when nature in all its transformative beauty and power is once again front and center in our everyday vocabulary and life.
Lake is a lifelong advocate of social and environmental justice issues. She is the Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus and on the governing Board of Praxis Peace Institute. Lake is a keynote speaker at international conferences and universities. She is also the Founder/Artist of the International Cheemah Monument Project, creating 18 foot bronze sculpture monuments for locations around the world, where people can ponder a better future for the earth and humanity.
Riane Eisler, author The Chalice and The Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations, says of Osprey Orielle Lake, “Her book presents a philosophy that is both rich in nature poetics and filled with good sense. Within compelling and dynamic verse, Lake makes a call to discover and uphold what she has named an ‘Earth etiquette.’ This is a call we need to answer, and Lake makes us thrilled to do it.”
Nautilus Award judges “look for distinguished literary and heartfelt contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership, and positive social change.”
The 2011 Nautilus Silver Winners will be officially announced May 15. The Nautilus Awards has a unique three-tier system of judging books that offers a deliberate course of examination and scrutiny designed to sort and separate books as they are measured against a carefully prepared list of notable characteristics. This process is long and labor-intensive. It is carried out by three teams of highly qualified, experienced reviewers located across the U.S. whose successful careers as editors, writers, librarians, schoolteachers and bookstore owners.
