#ForewordFriday: Food Town, USA

By Erica Sánchez Vázquez / On October 4th, 2019
Explore the food movement in Sitka, Alaska in this excerpt from Food Town, USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat.

#ForewordFriday: Evolutionary Treasures

By Erica Sánchez Vázquez / On September 27th, 2019
Read this excerpt from Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines to find out what makes rainforests so valuable for our planet.

4 Reads on Driving Environmental Change

By Erica Sánchez Vázquez, Jason Leppig / On September 27th, 2019
Excerpts from four Island Press books highlight activists, organizations, and strategies from environmental movements in the past.

How Terrorists Leverage Climate Change

By Scott Somers / On September 26th, 2019
As climate and weather patterns shift, the resulting environmental crisis is being leveraged as a tool for terror and political violence.

A Personal Report from the Climate Strike

By Jen Hawse / On September 24th, 2019
Protesting may seem like an ineffective method for taking action on such a substantial issue, but raising the profile about our climate crisis is an important strategy that’s still needed in the US.

Investors Need to Know About Climate Risks

By Daniel Reich / On September 18th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission is charged with making sure that investors have the information they need to understand the climate-related risks associated with their investments. What’s lacking is the will to enforce those regulations.

Carbon, Climate Policy, and the New Alchemy

By Lee Epstein / On September 16th, 2019
A look at the excess carbon problem and the high-tech and low-tech solutions that are using chemistry to turn greenhouse gas waste into useful products.

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