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#ForewordFriday: Bike Lane Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On March 28th, 2014

How do we create safe spaces for bikers and encourage cycling as an alternative to driving? That's the question the National Association of City Transportation Officials tackled with the Urban Bikeway Design Guide. Originally released as a binder, the guide has now been redesigned as a hardcover book for greater accessibility without sacrificing the detailed four-color graphics.

On Interning at Island Press: The 7:30 Alarm

By Meghan Bartels / On March 26th, 2014

Photo by Brett VA on Flickr.

How Forests Can Mitigate Climate Change

By Meghan Bartels / On March 25th, 2014

Dominick DellaSala has written here before about the importance of considering forests when planning mitigation strategies for climate change. He recently participated in a Safeguarding Wildlife Webinar with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on the same topic with Thomas Lovejoy, Mark Harmon, and Beverly Law.

ForewordFriday: Welcome to Bo01 Edition

By Jason Leppig / On March 21st, 2014

View of promenade seating and edge buildings in Bo01. (Photograph by Joakim Lloyd Raboff.)

#ForewordFriday: Wolves Edition

By Jason Leppig / On March 14th, 2014

This past weekend, there was an op-ed in the NY Times that questioned the oft-lauded impacts of wolves re-introduced to Yellowstone. In The

Changing the World Gene by Gene

By Emily Monosson / On March 12th, 2014

Here’s the skinny: evolution is happening all the time, all around us. Living things are like one roiling mass of DNA. OK, so that’s a little over the top.

#ForewordFriday: Roof of the World Edition

By Jason Leppig / On March 7th, 2014

This week, journey to the "roof of the world" with legendary field biologist George Schaller.

#Foreword Friday: Incomplete Streets Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On February 28th, 2014

This Friday, we're giving you a peek at Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks by Barbara McCann. McCann is one of the founders of the Complete Streets movement, which looks to make streets friendly to everyone no matter their mode of transportation. It's this month's $3.99 special e-book, so if this teaser piques your interest, act fast!

#ForewordFriday: Plagues! Edition

By Jason Leppig / On February 21st, 2014

This Friday, check out this selection from Mark Jerome Walters' Seven Modern Plagues. Since Walters first drew attention to these “ecodemics” in 2003 with the publication of Six Modern Plagues, much has been learned about how they developed.

#Foreword Friday: What's That Forest Around Sochi? Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On February 14th, 2014

If you've been following Olympics news, you know it's not just quad throws, Yolo flips, and medal counts.

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