Tackling the complex issue of climate change, Ani Dasgupta’s "The New Global Possible" offers hopeful solutions. The book’s optimistic introduction sets the stage for six fact-packed chapters documenting the climate crisis.... Read More
Thomas Ortiz’s "Why We Struggle to Go Green" is a pressing exposé on the state of the world’s carbon economy. Examining what can be done to curb the rate of carbon emissions, including relying less on fossil fuels and more on wind,... Read More
Featuring long horizons, unearthly colors, scrubby vegetation, and striking geology, Chris Carlson’s stunning photography collection honors the spectacular, otherworldly beauty of Great Salt Lake, showing the impact of human water... Read More
In his excellent travel memoir "Riverine Dreams", George Frazier visits eight grassland rivers “where fifty million people go about their lives in the ruins of North America’s once vast interior grassland.” Before European... Read More
Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Equal... Read More
Gillen D’Arcy Wood’s environmental history "The Wake of HMS Challenger" explores the state of the oceans through the lens of a groundbreaking Victorian voyage. In 1872, the British government funded a marine research expedition... Read More
Part manifesto, part guidebook, Rob Hopkins’s "How to Fall in Love with the Future" argues that in order to change the world, people must begin with their imaginations. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, and narrative storytelling,... Read More
"Little Red Barns" blends investigative journalism with memoir to unveil the cruelty and corruption of American factory farms. The book aims to dismantle the myth of the idyllic American family farm and confront the grim realities of... Read More