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#ForewordFriday: Not a Drop to Drink Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On June 20th, 2014
Water shapes every aspect of our lives, but how many of us know where our water comes from or who decides how it's distributed? In his new book, Chasing Water, Brian Richter argues that our water shortages can best be addressed by teaching people how water supply works and giving them a seat at the table in deciding how it is allocated. Richter shows why, just like our bank accounts, the water accounts of individual rivers and aquifers are shaped by deposits and withdrawals.
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#ForewordFriday: Red Pill/Blue Pill Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On May 9th, 2014
If you've flipped through the latest issue of the New Yorker, you may have spotted "Green is Good" (subscription required), which profiles The Nature Conservancy's president and CEO, Mark Tercek, and a few of the projects they've worked on since he joined the organization. The article mentions Keeping the Wild, a compilation of essays confronting the principles of the "new conservation" that Tercek supports, in
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#ForewordFriday: State of the World Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On May 2nd, 2014
If you're the kind of person who eagerly awaits the annual State of the Union speech, we have just what you need to tide you over until next January. State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability marks the 40th anniversary of Worldwatch Institute, one of the leading environmental think tanks. This year's book analyzes government structures on every scale, how they are—or aren't—addressing sustainability issues, and how they can be improved.
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Wolves in a Tangled Bank

By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
Elk browsing aspens in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Cristina Eisenberg.
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#ForewordFriday: Chico Vive Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On April 4th, 2014
Island Press is pleased to be co-sponsoring the 2104 Chico Vive conference at American University in DC this weekend. The conference brings together grassroots activists, NGOs, students, engaged scholars, applied scientists, policymakers, journalists, and others to discuss the development of the global grassroots environmental movement in the 25 years since environmental martyr Chico Mendes' death.
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Why Forests Need to Be Enlisted in Climate Change Actions

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On September 26th, 2013
"Forests have a vital role to play in overcoming this challenge.  Rainforests store vast amounts of carbon. That's true across the planet, and in America, too. Our Tongass National Forest, a temperate Alaskan rainforest comprises only 2% of America's forest land base, but may hold as much as 8% of all the carbon contained in the forests of the United States."—Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack Forests and Carbon Cycles

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