Clothing repair is elevated from a humdrum chore to a fashionable, eco-friendly, and artistic outlet in "Creative Mending". Replete with over 300 illustrations and color photographs, Hikaru Noguchi’s book outlines tools, techniques,... Read More

"Literature for a Changing Planet" articulates a new framework for reading classic and contemporary literature to better understand humanity’s damaging planetary impacts. This cogent, passionate text argues for a comprehensive... Read More

In 1921, then-forest ranger Aldo Leopold proposed that the remote lands around New Mexico’s Gila River be protected against roads, structures, and resource extraction. They were thus designated as the US’s first wilderness area.... Read More

Anthropocentrism and the untrammeled exploitation of Earth’s resources leads to climate and environmental crises, but "Becoming Rooted" charts an alternate path, prescribing a more sustainable, Indigenous American worldview of the... Read More

Systems science can help when it comes to understanding complex global crises and their synergistic social, environmental, and economic interconnections, as shown in Wayne Visser’s positive, approachable "Thriving". The book introduces... Read More

Anneliese Abbott’s "Malabar Farm" chronicles the significant history of what was once a small private farm, and is now a state park, recreation area, working farm, and living history site. In the uncertain period before World War II,... Read More

William Blake’s poetic directive to “see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower” encapsulates the message of Kimberly Ridley’s "Wild Design". Here, the natural structures of mineral crystals, bird nests,... Read More

"Jazz Age Cocktails" is a vivacious, accessible history of drinking and popular culture during Prohibition era America. Cecelia Tichi writes with enthusiasm and authority about this heady time, and her work is as easy to savor as a... Read More