Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions
by Bob Schildgen

When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen's popular "Hey Mr. Green" column has tackled real-world questions from real people. Readers trust his answers, which are backed by Sierra Club's research, but they also enjoy his realism and irreverent humor. This book distills the best of the column into one enormously useful and entertaining resource. (read more)
 
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In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage (Nature and Culture in America)
by Robert B. Campbell

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous...and the long forgotten...returned with fascinating accounts of their Alaskan journeys, becoming advance men and women for an expanding United States.

In Darkest Alaska explores the popular images conjured by these travelers' tales, as well as their influence on the broader society. (read more)
 
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey D. Sachs

From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it. (read more)
 
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Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip To Your Tank
by Lisa Margonelli

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.

Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli's desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth... (read more)
 
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Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do To Save Them
by Bridget Stutchbury

Wood thrush, Kentucky warbler, the Eastern kingbird: migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. By some estimates, we may already have lost almost half of the songbirds that filled the skies only forty years ago. Renowned biologist Bridget Stutchbury convincingly argues that songbirds truly are the "canaries in the coal mine", except the coal mine looks a lot like Earth and we are the hapless excavators. (read more)
 
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The Grandest of Lives: Eye To Eye With Whales
by Douglas H. Chadwick

In The Grandest of Lives wildlife biologist Douglas H. Chadwick takes readers inside the world of modern-day scientific whale observation, from gathering data to weathering storms to spirited scientific debate. Chadwick, who has followed and reported on whales for more than a decade, paints detailed portraits of five species: the humpback, northern bottlenose, blue whale, minke whale, and orca, that represent a cross-section of the forms and behaviors of cetaceans worldwide. All move seamlessly between natural history and more personal observations, vividly expressing Chadwick’s fondness and admiration for these amazing creature. (read more)
 
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Into Thick Air: Biking To the Bellybutton of Six Continents
by Jim Malusa

With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of "anti-expeditions" to the "anti-summits." With a scientist's eye, he vividly observes local landscapes and creatures. A large-hearted narrative of what happens when a friendly, perceptive American puts himself at the mercy of strange landscapes and their denizens, Into Thick Air presents one of the most talented new voices in contemporary travel writing. (read more)
 
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