What Is Sustainable

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) was an eco-wordsmith whose work is often compared to the classics of Aldo Leopold and Henry Thoreau.   His book D...

The emergence of domestication and agriculture allowed humankind to produce more food per area of land, but this innovation also resulte...

Henry David Thoreau had a mind that was intelligent, complex, and rigidly righteous.   He was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817, in...

Aldo Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac , is near the top of many lists of environmental classics.   It was published in 1949, and ha...

McKenzie Funk’s book, Windfall , explores the question, “What are we doing about climate change?”   Readers are introduced to ambitious ...

Al Gore’s book, The Future , is fascinating and perplexing.   The world is being pummeled by enormous waves of change, and most are dest...

I didn’t rush to read Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, The Sixth Extinction , because I imagined it would be a gloomy expose on the unfortunate c...