The Wild Trees
A Story of Passion and Daring
Written by Richard Preston

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $16.00

Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of... Read more >

Bush Versus the Environment

Written by Robert S. Devine

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99

Since becoming president, George W. Bush has walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, pushed for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undermined protections for endangered species and wilderness, and retreated from his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide. But the president’s agenda reaches deeper than these well-known policies. In... Read more >

Cool Green Stuff
A Guide to Finding Great Recycled, Sustainable, Renewable Objects You Will Love
Written by Dave Evans

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $14.95

As fun to look at as it is to use, Cool Green Stuff features a gallery of environmentally friendly fashions, jewelry, bags, gadgets, home decor, and other one-of-a-kind products that were designed and produced to make the world a cooler and greener place. Inspired by the latest reports of “cool hunters”—a... Read more >

Unbowed
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $16.00

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through... Read more >

The Green Book
The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Written by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $13.95

Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.

Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:

- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If... Read more >

The Green Book
The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Written by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $11.99

Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.

Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:

- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If... Read more >

True Green
100 Everyday Ways you Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet
Written by Kim Mckay and Jenny Bonnin

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $19.95

Global warming, climate change, toxic waste, and more: it sometimes seems the environmental challenges we face are just too huge for individual actions to matter, but they're not–and here's the proof. True Green is based on the practical experience of Clean Up the World, a grassroots environmental movement that has inspired... Read more >

The Wild Trees
A Story of Passion and Daring
Written by Richard Preston

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.99

Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of... Read more >

The End of Nature

Written by Bill McKibben

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.95

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.

This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in... Read more >

The Future of Ice
A Journey Into Cold
Written by Gretel Ehrlich

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $13.95

This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate.

Over the course of a year, Ehrlich... Read more >

Archipelago
Portraits of Life in the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary
Written by David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton

Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $65.00

For this project, Middleton and Liittschwager gained unprecedented access to photograph on and around these protected islands that are otherwise completely off-limits to people. Home to nearly seventy percent of our nation's coral reefs, known as the "rainforests of the sea," the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is a remarkable ecosystem that supports... Read more >

Mycelium Running
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Written by Paul Stamets

Format: Trade Paperback, 356 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $35.00

Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.
 
The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called... Read more >

The Prophet of Dry Hill
Lessons From a Life in Nature
Written by David Gessner

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2005
Price: $19.95

David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature writing legend, Hay was a hero to the younger writer. But it wasn't until Gessner returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that he befriended the older man. At first, Gessner thought he might write Hay's biography. But that idea... Read more >

Dam!
Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
Written by John W. Simpson

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $28.50

A vivid account of America’s first environmental cause célèbre, which illuminates our attitudes toward fundamental questions of growth, development, and our place in nature.

The building of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Park–despite the availability of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically... Read more >

Big Open
On Foot Across Tibert's Chang Tang
Written by Rick Ridgeway
Photographed by Galen Rowell
Foreword by Conrad Anker

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2005
Price: $14.00

On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek through one of the most beautiful—and most remote—regions of the world. Read more >

Why I Wake Early
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2005
Price: $15.00

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world... Read more >

Traplines
Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley
Written by John Rember

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00

In 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, where he had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: the same forty acres that had sustained his family’s horses had sustained a vision of a place where he belonged in the world, a life where he could get... Read more >

Whose Water Is It?
The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World
Written by Douglas Jehl
Edited by Bernadette McDonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2004
Price: $14.95

Read more >

Bush Versus the Environment

Written by Robert S. Devine

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00

Since becoming president, George W. Bush has walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, pushed for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undermined protections for endangered species and wilderness, and retreated from his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide. But the president’s agenda reaches deeper than these well-known policies. In... Read more >

Big Open
On Foot Across Tibet's Chang Tang
Written by Rick Ridgeway
Photographed by Galen Rowell
Foreword by Conrad Anker

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $26.00

On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek through one of the most beautiful—and most remote—regions of the world. Read more >

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Written by Thom Hartmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $16.00

While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s... Read more >

Why I Wake Early
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Hardcover, 88 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2004
Price: $25.00

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become... Read more >

Why I Wake Early
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 15, 2004
Price: $15.00

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world... Read more >

One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish
The Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook
Written by Carole C. Baldwin and Julie Mounts

Format: Hardcover, 300 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2003
Price: $35.00

Earth's oceans were once thought to be inexhaustible sources of food, but we now know that they cannot sustain the demands we are placing on them. Overfishing has led to the depletion of once abundant fish and shellfish species. Yet seafood is a healthy and desirable choice in our diets. So... Read more >

Whose Water Is It?
The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World
Written by Douglas Jehl
Edited by Bernadette McDonald

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $25.00

Read more >