Warming temperatures may benefit a few animals and plants, but human-driven climate shifts threaten most of the species that humans depend on for food. "Our Changing Menu" is a detailed, lively overview of how the world’s most popular... Read More

Clever prose and gifted storytelling enliven Eli J. Knapp’s "Dead Serious", a weighty book about how species are being steamrolled toward extinction that nonetheless argues that a better future is possible. Knapp, a self-branded... Read More

"Diary of a Young Naturalist" covers a transformative year in Dara McAnulty’s life, following his move to a new home, school, and wilderness haunts in Eastern Ireland. McAnulty is a perceptive, introspective narrator whose descriptions... Read More

While some may dream of homesteading, most seek less dramatic, more sustainable, ways of living. "The Humane Home" suggests many ways to green things up, whether one lives in an urban apartment or on sizeable rural acreage. Sarah... Read More

Forty years of living and boating around New England’s largest stretch of salt marsh gave Patricia Hanlon good familiarity with her local environment. However, it wasn’t until she was immersed in the habitat as a swimmer that she... Read More

Design is ubiquitous: urging us to buy, suggesting how we should behave, and saying how we should think and feel. However, aside from designers, marketers, and psychologists, few are aware of this constructed messaging in human-built... Read More

Ellen Zachos is out to convert audiences with Forager’s Pantry, an inviting, easy-to-follow guide to tasty, wild plant ingredients that grow all around us, waiting to be harvested and eaten. Glowing photographs and simple yet alluring... Read More

Catherine Coleman Flowers returned to Alabama’s Cotton Belt, a place she loves “despite its tortured history,” to continue her career in community and economic development; "Waste" is her motivational memoir of that homecoming. In... Read More