Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past & Our Food Future
Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future is an authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
Imaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves will embolden you to envision another way.
After the Map
The shift from paper maps to GPS radically changed our experience of geographic knowledge, from a God’s-eye view to embedded subjectivity.
Atlas of Vanishing Places
Imagine what the world once looked like as you discover places that have disappeared from modern atlases in Atlas of Vanishing Places: The lost worlds as they were and as they are today. Have you ever wondered about cities that lie forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the […]
Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change
Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change maps a promising new direction in the ongoing struggle to protect the planet from climate chaos.
On Freon, Global Warming, & The Cost of Comfort
After Cooling interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.
Atlas of a Changing Climate
Brian Buma’s Atlas of a Changing Climate helps us envision the history, present & possible futures of imperiled ecosystems affecting us.
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
In Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien.
New World Coming: On Pandemics, Uprisings & Climate
New World Coming documents the distinct moment through personal narratives and intergenerational imaginings of a just, healthy, & equitable future.
Embracing Digital Minimalism In A Noisy World
In his new book Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport applies the art of knowing how much is just enough to our use of personal technology.