Karl Coplan’s "Live Sustainably Now" suggests ways to reduce one’s carbon footprint with a “carbon budget” that may seem like a severe challenge, but whose strategies set a realistic example. For the past decade, Coplan has... Read More

"Vegan Everything" may be a lofty title, but Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer’s compilation of plant-based recipes comes remarkably close. Going around the world in one hundred recipes, with neither an animal by-product nor ounce of... Read More

"The Sustainable Endowment" is a helpful and inspirational financial how-to guide for nonprofit leaders. James E. Demmert’s useful book "The Sustainable Endowment" is directed at nonprofits with advice to take charge of their financial... Read More

Thomas Jefferson thought of farmers as the nation’s MVPs. He called them “the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous” of our citizens. But Jefferson didn’t live in this time, when 95% of the food and commodities... Read More

This collection of practical advice will appeal to the widening circle of readers who want to be more active in raising, foraging, and hunting their own foods. "Living the Locavore Lifestyle", by Bruce and Elaine Ingram, provides a good... Read More

Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, the authors of Sustainable Materials, have engineering backgrounds, and that allows them to discuss an area that doesn’t receive enough attention—making buildings and goods more efficient by... Read More

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet takes a clever approach to environmental problems. Rather than look at overarching solutions, Courtney White compiles fifty examples of effective, relatively small-scale success stories from around... Read More

With "The Heart of Sustainability", Andres R. Edwards offers a philosophical approach to how people should think about sustainability issues. The book often tilts toward the new-age realm, with a focus on theoretical ideas rather than... Read More