Peter Neill is a novelist, a maritime nonfiction writer, and the founder/director of the World Ocean Observatory, and he has seen local ocean problems firsthand. His goal with "The Once and Future Ocean", though, is to get the word out... Read More

In 1947, naturalist Edwin Way Teale and his wife traveled the East Coast from Florida to the Canadian border. Their journey, the subject of North with the Spring, had a dual purpose: scientific—to track the coming of spring and assess... Read More

San Diego journalist Tershia d’Elgin became keenly aware of her family’s water footprint on her father Bill’s Colorado farm. William Eaton Phelps had to grow up quickly: his parents left him in Denver while his father was stationed... Read More

Forget for a moment the several thousand oil rigs and the legacy of environmental disasters that mar your mental image of this 600,000-square mile sea. Instead, take heart in the realization of 15,000 species of sea life inhabiting... Read More

This title uses a creative lens to make the topic of clean energy both enlightening and entertaining. Gary Schwendiman’s "The Future of Clean Energy" is a creatively written, cleverly constructed, and well-reasoned argument supporting... Read More

No matter the starting place, the intentional practices described here can evolve a new mind-set. For humans, in their domestic state, perhaps no experience could be as potent as regaining a true and meaningful relationship with the... Read More

Mother Nature can’t be happy that men have co-opted the outdoorsy, wilderness-loving role to the point that many women don’t feel welcome in the natural world. To right this egregious wrong, all girls must be given hiking boots and... Read More

In September of 2005, Gudrun Pflüger, an original cast member of the Rainforest Wolf Project, lay flat in the grass of a meadow on an isolated northwest Canadian island. Six adult wolves came out of the forest to sniff, nudge, provoke,... Read More