What Is Sustainable

When I was young, I discovered pictures from China, where the streets were filled with people riding bicycles.   I was overwhelmed by th...

Long, long ago, before the 1970s, thousands of people would make a springtime pilgrimage to the Catoctin woods of Maryland to enjoy the ...

In the family of life, humankind’s two closest living relatives are bonobos and chimpanzees, two apes with strikingly different approach...

Paul Shepard was an animal with a PhD who made the astonishing discovery that he really was an animal, and so was everyone else.   This ...

Paul Shepard was a pioneer in human ecology, a young field that studies the relationship between humans and their habitats.   The decade...

Following the publication of The Population Bomb in 1968, the new predicament of overpopulation was inducted into our gruesome mob of pre...

Where We Belong is a collection of Paul Shepard essays that discuss how we perceive the natural world, and how this influences the way ...