Ecology & Green Politics

Change the story and change the future merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests.

"Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California

The story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back.

In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author ofSalt andCod,The Big Oyster, 1968,andMilk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing ye

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have and how much nature we use

Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a limited time, followed by a crash.