Type of content: Books
Book Category: Green Building
"I can't recommend John Cary's book, Design for Good, highly enough.
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Book Category: Water
"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: General
Earth education is traditionally confined to specific topics: ecoliteracy, outdoor education, environmental science. But in the coming century, on track to be the warmest in human history, every aspect of human life will be affected by our changing...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of bike commuters increase, this future is still far away; at times, urban cycling seems to be fighting for...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilized or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles.
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
"This is nature writing at its best." —E.O.
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Book Category: Food & Agriculture
In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car.
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Book Category: Oceans
Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee are hopeful. Rather than lamenting the persistent conflicts in global marine ecosystems, they instead sought out examples where managers were doing things differently and making progress against great odds.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Biography & Autobiography
It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges—but we need inspiration more than ever.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth. The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathe come from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take for...