This is a book of balance—delivered with appreciated measures of integrity and clarity. Brian Richter finds the right balance of urgency and optimism in dealing with the... Read More

In its treatment of the aesthetics of ecological design, Lance Hosey’s latest book, The Shape of Green, approaches sustainability as a comprehensive ideal that manifests in... Read More

What would a modern city look like if it was designed around people instead of traffic, around public spaces instead of roads? Why are some European cities so full of people... Read More

“Every second of every day in the United States a thousand people buy and open up a plastic bottle of commercially produced water,” Peter H. Gleick writes, “and every... Read More

Tens of millions of passenger pigeons would block the sun for days during their southward migrations in the early 1800s. By 1900 not one single passenger pigeon was left in the... Read More

Between hybrid cars, organic cotton t-shirts, and energy efficient light bulbs, it’s clear the environment is increasingly on people’s minds—not least for those who design... Read More

There is a special class of book, the Book That Changes Lives. Published in 1948, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, bible of conservationists, ecologists, and nature... Read More

“A source of bad conscience” says the author, “is the knowledge that my way of life, austere though it may appear to the richer folk, is still ruinously exploitive of... Read More