"The Courage of Birds" is Pete Dunne’s enthusiastic, informative book about avian survival strategies. Loosely organized into three sections, the book summarizes Dunne’s observations of avian behaviors across decades of bird watching... Read More

In his intriguing book "Fountain Creek", Jim O’Donnell follows a neglected Colorado waterway, discussing the complex challenges involved in restoring it. Fountain Creek begins near Pike’s Peak and winds south through Colorado Springs... Read More

Meditative and sumptuous, "Latitudes" is Jean McNeil’s brooding memoir covering travels to remote landscapes; it ruminates on the unsettling impacts of climate change. McNeil is an inquisitive, restless traveler who crafts beautiful... Read More

Using humor as an educational tool, Duncan Watson’s charming memoir Everyone’s Trash reveals recycling secrets and stories about detritus. After earning a master’s degree in resource management in the early 1990s, Watson started a... Read More

"Into the Thaw" is Jon Waterman’s gripping firsthand account of the impact of development and climate change on North America’s Arctic landscape. In his powerful memoir, Waterman documents “extraordinary changes” in the Arctic... Read More

"Water Bodies", edited by reporter Laura Paskus, is a mixed-genre anthology that serves as a paean to bodies of water. “In this climate-changed world,” the introduction intones, “we live in an ever-tightening present.” It’s a... Read More

Eve Driver and Tom Osborn’s spirited, conversational book What We Can’t Burn concerns how activism and entrepreneurship might interact in the struggle to mitigate the climate crisis. Driver and Osborn met as Harvard classmates. They... Read More