What Is Sustainable

 [Note: The following is a significant expansion of the Soil Destruction section of Sample 44 .] SOIL DESTRUCTION Spencer Wells lament...

 These days, we are constantly assured that our leaders and experts will do what’s necessary to promptly eliminate climate change, and open ...

  In 2015, I posted my review of Too Hot to Touch , a 2013 book by William and Rosemarie Alley.   William worked for the U.S. Geological Sur...

  Walter Youngquist (1921-2018) was a petroleum geologist, a University of Oregon professor, and my friend.  His life’s masterpiece is a 600...

  Once upon a time, North America was home to an estimated five to eight billion passenger pigeons.  They may have been the most numerous bi...

  Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Award winning The Sixth Extinction , has written a potent new book, Under a White Sky .  She sum...