What Is Sustainable

 As a young lad in Germany, Peter Wohlleben loved nature.   He went to forestry school, and became a wood ranger.   At this job, he w...

 I’ve long been interested in the megafauna extinctions of Pleistocene North America.   A number of books endorse Paul Martin’s “Ple...

 Primatologist Frans de Waal has made a career out of pounding his head against the rugged wall of human exceptionalism — the beli...

My ancestors include tribal people who inhabited the ancient forests of Norway, Wales, and Germany.   Bits and pieces of their myths and...

    Colin Tudge wrote Neanderthals, Bandits, & Farmers , a book that presents his theories on the dawn of progress and perpetu...

 A New Green History of the World (2007) is the new and improved version of A Green History of the World (1991), which was trans...

 Albert Marrin is a history professor who has written dozens books for young readers.   In Black Gold , he discussed the geology of ...