Book Review: Shade

Bloch, Sam. Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource. Penguin Random House, 2025, xviii + 309 pp. (3/30/2026) Decades ago, when I was still in my insouciant youth, I went on a canoe trip somewhere in the Midwest. When we came to the end of the trip, I reached up to scratch my head, and it (my head) was hot to the touch from being in the sun so long. If my dermatologist is reading this,…