Type of content: Books
Book Category: Green Building
US cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contributes significantly to the changing climate, with residential buildings accounting for 20 percent of...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
After a decades-long economic slump, the city of Flint, Michigan, struggled to address chronic issues of toxic water supply, malnutrition, and food security gaps among its residents.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices...
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The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona.
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.
Type of content: Books
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.
Type of content: Books
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...