Power to Save the World
The Truth About Nuclear Energy
Written by Gwyneth Cravens
Introduction by Richard Rhodes

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26656-9 (0-307-26656-7)

With the constant threat of oil shortages facing us and wanting to educate herself about possible alternatives, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find for herself the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: It is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming.

She enlists the help of Rip Anderson... Read more >

The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0541-5 (1-4262-0541-4)

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >

On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Written by Richard Ellis

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27059-7 (0-307-27059-9)

Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come... Read more >

Cool It
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Written by Bjorn Lomborg

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38652-6 (0-307-38652-X)

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little... Read more >

Wild Design
Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
Written by Alan Marshall

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-790-8 (1-55643-790-0)

In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of... Read more >

Green Town USA
The Official Story of Greensburg, Kansas and the Lessons Learned for a Sustainable America
Written by Daniel Wallach

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-57826-312-7 (1-57826-312-3)

Green Town USA is the authorized account of destruction and rebirth of Greensburg, Kansas as America's first sustainable community. Devastated by an EF-Scale level five tornado--the most destructive kind--in May 2007, Greensburg lost ninety-five percent of its infrastructure. Tragedy did not stop the people of Greensburg, however, and they rebuilt their... Read more >

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Written by Terry Tempest Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72519-7 (0-375-72519-9)

"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of... Read more >