If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building? North Americans are inside buildings for more than 90% of the day. Meanwhile, the indoors are stifling us, sometimes even...
Books
376 pages
6 x 9
50 photos and illustrations
How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water
In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty...
248 pages
6 x 9
20 photos and illustrations
Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by...
264 pages
6 x 9
4 photos, 3 illustrations
Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a...
236 pages
6 x 9
20 black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps
The Chef's Guide to Advocacy
When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the...
242 pages
5 x 8
1 au photo
The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction—walk to a restaurant in an area you’ve never explored, begin to savor your daily walk to work, or set...
246 pages
6 x 9
44 photos and illustrations
A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning
Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialize with little warning, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Recent mega-tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia...
360 pages
6 x 9
89 figures
A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the...
176 pages
6 x 9
20 photos
Learning to Thrive Without Growth
Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been “more, more, more” in terms of growth – of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods. This was the reality as...
336 pages
6 x 9
55 photos and illustrations