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A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Type of content: Video

Microplastics are everywhere. They’re in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. They’re small enough to enter our cells, and they can mimic our hormones. Scientists are only beginning to understand the long-term impacts these...

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Thomas Campanella | An Island Press author

Thomas Campanella

Type of content: Author

Thomas J. Campanella is Professor of City Planning and Director of the Urban and Regional Studies Program at Cornell. He is also the New York City Parks Department's first Historian-in-Residence. Campanella has held Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships...

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Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth by Alan Mallach | An Island Press book

Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World

Type of content: Books

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.

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Hazardous Seas: A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning  Edited by Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu | An Island Press book

Hazardous Seas

Type of content: Books

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.

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A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention by Kristina Marusic | An Island Press book

A New War on Cancer

Type of content: Books

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We’re better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US.

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What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees by Stephen Buchmann | An Island Press book

What a Bee Knows

Type of content: Books

For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools.

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The Freedom of the City by Charles Downing Lay, with introduction and essay by Thomas J. Campanella | An Island Press book

The Freedom of the City

Type of content: Books

“Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for”, wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early 1920s.

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Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities by Veronica Davis | An Island Press book

Inclusive Transportation

Type of content: Books

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...

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Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for Urban Trails and Walking Routes by Robert M. Searns | An Island Press book

Beyond Greenways

Type of content: Books

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city?

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A Northern Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla | An Island Press book

A Northern Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators

Type of content: Books

Few sights are as charming as a hummingbird hovering over cardinal flowers in your backyard or a butterfly lighting on the black-eyed Susans potted on your balcony. Yet pollinators do more than beguile us: they are key to a healthy environment.

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