Peter Plastrik and John Cleveland’s "Life after Carbon" is a highly engaging, forward-looking study of how modern cities are innovating to survive. This superb book looks at... Read More

Unlike many easy-fix food books touting local food as the answer, "No One Eats Alone" tackles both food and health from a systemic perspective. Its conclusions are likely to... Read More

Featuring short but detailed biographies, Nature’s Allies elevates past and present icons of the environmentalist movement. From John Muir to Wangari Muta Maati, this book... Read More

Promoting a libertarian take on the regulation of organic food, this engaging book presents a fresh perspective on a popular topic. According to Biting the Hands that Feed Us,... Read More

Mark gives an invitation to flee modernity and embrace mysterious nature as he shares the poetic insights he found in the wild. Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the... Read More

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