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This story of an unlikely organic farmer shows the future of healthy American agriculture.

The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

This beautifully illustrated short e-book explores the idea that to create vibrant, sustainable urban areas for the long term, we must first understand what happens naturally when people congregate in cities-innate, unprompted interactions of urban dwellers with each other and their surrounding urban and physical environment. Wolfe elaborates on the perspective that the underlying rationales for urban policy, planning and regulation are best understood from a historical perspective and in a better understanding of the everyday uses of urban space. To make his case, Wolfe draws on his years of writing about urbanism as well as his professional experiences as a land use and environmental lawyer and offers compelling case study vignettes from everyday urban life.Successful community, Wolfe argues, is among the first principles of what makes humans feel happy, and therefore city dwellers invariably celebrate environments where and when they can coexist safely, in a mutually supportive way. Wolfe believes such celebration is most interesting when it occurs spontaneously-seemingly without effort. He contends it is critical to first isolate these spontaneous and latent examples of successful urban land use, before applying any prescriptive government policies or initiatives. Wolfe provides something rare in contemporary urbanist writing-rich illustrations and examples from real life-both historical and current. His writing about the past and the future of urban form offers readers inspiration, historical context, and a better understanding of how a sustainable, inviting urban environment is created.

The most comprehensive book available about planning for climate change on the local level.

An accessibly-written guide to the current tools and strategies for designing a low-carbon future.

An essential resource for practitioners and academics of corridor ecology, updated with new science.

A well-known expert on cities brings an inside perspective to the future of American downtowns.

Reveals the true costs of our seemingly cheap and convenient food system.

A journalist concerned with the risks of hair dye learns to embrace grey hair and better health.

Shares the science behind pollinators and why they're threatened, along with real stories of the efforts to save them.

A book of practical insight and lessons for using small vacant lots to create public green space.

Global stories show urban innovations that are responding to climate change.

An easy-to-read guide to the current Farm Bill and its implications for food and agriculture.

The riveting and heart-rending narrative of the race to save the last remaining vaquita from extinction.

The father of the local food movement shares how collaboration across the political divide can fix our broken food system.

Using profiles of 47 transit systems in the US, this is appealing resource with the tools for building good transit andavoiding bad transit.

A hopeful look at the ways the sharing economy can transform our food system and challenge corporate agriculture.

A timely revision to the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable energy.

Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used.

A fresh approach to greening existing buildings that will give readers an actionable guide.

The collected writings of Hank Dittmar, an internationally renowned planner, pay tribute to his legacy.

The world's leading natural capital experts share practical strategies for investing in nature in a way that both improves human well-being and protects biodiversity.

A gripping narrative about the new reality of wildfire in North America.

An urgent and timely update on a classic book for scientists, giving them the tools to communicate and defend science.

By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population, water, land, climate change, technology, food systems, trade, food waste and loss, health, social buy-in, communication, and, lastly, the ultimate challenge of achieving equal access to food, the book reveals a complex web of factors that must be addressed in order to reach global food security.How to Feed the World unites contributors from different perspectives and academic disciplines, ranging from agronomyand hydrology to agricultural economy and communication. Hailing from Germany, the Philippines, the U.S., Ecuador, and beyond, the contributors weave their own life experiences into their chapters, connecting global issues to our tangible, day-to-day existence. Across every chapter, a similar theme emerges: these are not simple problems, yet we canovercome them. Doing so will require cooperation between farmers, scientists, policy makers, consumers, andmany others.The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system. Readers will not only get asolid grounding in key issues, but be challenged to investigate further and contribute to the paramount effort to feed theworld.

This contributed volume demonstrates the ways that suburbs can create new urban places and thrive.

The world's leading krill scientist takes readers on a journey to discover the biology and unexpected beauty of krill.

This contributed volume offers techniques for bringing justice and democracy into community design.

This urgent book features cutting edge, diverse thinkers in the energy democracy movement.