Day is superb at weaving together political and business conflicts pertaining to oil spills and personal stories of those who live in areas in danger of spills. Angela Day’s Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster,... Read More

Jim Lichatowich’s "Salmon, People, and Place" is written with such a steady, knowledgeable hand that readers may get the false impression that salmon prospects in the Pacific Northwest must be improving if someone as qualified as... Read More

To understand Julian Hoffman’s goals in "The Small Heart of Things", you must consider two ideas from his preface: 1) “Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be,” in the words of Sigurd... Read More

In-depth and well-documented research bolsters this emotive account of wildlife mismanagement. T. J. Elsbury’s "The Cost of Being Green before Green Was Cool" affirms that state wildlife agency mismanagement of the mule deer population... Read More

This manifesto about the economic value of nature’s services to humans and the Earth is sure to provoke much thought and discussion. Tony Juniper likes to ask provocative questions about the world we inhabit. A prominent... Read More

This intelligent, well-sourced critique focuses on the economics of the meat industrial complex. This top-to-bottom critique details how the government works with the meat industry to nearly force Americans to eat excessive amounts of... Read More

When author and desert farmer Gary Paul Nabhan realized several years ago that climate change “would bear down on us for the rest of our lives,” he grew despondent. He was dismayed by the knowledge that our current food-producing... Read More

Author offers straightforward advice on how farmers and homesteaders can use the resources around them to their, and the environment’s, advantage. Permaculture can seem like a too-large umbrella term attempting to bring together a... Read More