Type of content: Books
Book Category: Energy & Climate
In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy.
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds.
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Book Category: Sustainable Development
Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet.
Type of content: Video
The Food Systems Leadership Network, part of The Wallace Center at Winrock International, held their inaugural "Author Talk" with Mark Winne discussing his book, Food Town, USA....
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In this recording, Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, who authored The Power of Existing Buildings, of AUROS Group will...
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From David Miller, Island Press President Friends I hope you are doing as well as possible in these troubled times. I wanted to give you a brief overview of how Island Press is responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. First of all, please know that we are...
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Much of the economic and population growth in the U.S. is happening within 12 urban megaregions. Investment in these megaregions can add stress to the environment, increase gridlock and air traffic delays, and make inequality worse, or it can help...
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Healthy, sustainable fare is changing communities across this country, revitalizing towns that have been ravaged by disappearing industries and decades of inequity. What sparked this revolution? How are communities making their ideas a reality?