Burn Fuel Better by Don Owens points out an often overlooked culprit of climate change: Black Carbon, a type of particulate matter and a byproduct of burning fossil fuels. It is more dangerous than carbon dioxide, causes illnesses when inhaled, and coats our ice shelves,...

Shelter Stories by Mark Eaton is a collection of 14 stories from his time in the United States, where he lived for 30 years after losing his passport and becoming homeless. To survive, he lived on the streets and entered the world of homeless shelters...

Bringing Butterflies Home: Gardening with Native Plants to Heal Our Yards and Ourselves is a wonderful environmental book by Elizabeth White Olsen. Elizabeth's passion is butterflies and how to cultivate her garden and living space to bring more of nature into her life. She teaches...

E. Hughes’s A Clockwork Universe presents Unified Rotating Universe Theory as a cosmological model built around rotation as the organizing principle of physical reality. Hughes begins by rejecting space as an independent container, defining it instead as distance created after matter gives location meaning. From...

How Many Is Enough? The Defining Issue of the 21st Century presents Valorie M. Allen’s case that population growth is behind the environmental pressures now shaping daily life. The book explains why cleaner technology cannot solve the problem on its own, since every additional person...

J.P. Taylor’s The Story Behind the Eyes: Exploring the Interdependence of All Living Things tells readers that life on Earth survives through dependence, not independence. Taylor believes people have trained themselves to see all other life as separate pieces of existence when they actually function...

Dr. Rick Bein’s Eat or Be Eaten follows a continuing argument about the future of human life on a damaged planet. Drawing from decades spent beside farming communities, he examines the belief that nature survives best when people are connected to the land that feeds...

Rachel and Sammy’s Prairie Partner, with photographs and text by Jannifer Powelson, is a book to treasure. This field guide to the plants of the Midwestern prairie complements the author’s earlier Rachel Raccoon and Sammy Skunk picture book series for young children. It is intended...

David Elkins brings readers a varied collection of illustrations in his art book, Tamaren. These illustrations cover various themes and topics related to different aspects of individual and societal phenomena. Elkins touches on the prevalence of geometry in society through illustrations that show how individuals...

Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change by Dr. Mark Van Rijmenam aims to prepare us for the technological advancements that we will face in the future. It introduces the WAVE framework (Watch, Adapt, Verify, Empower) that will help ensure that the new...