The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants- including autonomy, agency, and consciousness-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetable beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.
In Pollution Solution, the friendly turtle, Professor Poppy, comes in the nick of time to show Jack and his mates how to handle a rubbishy deluge of storm water.
Applying Ecological Understanding to Our Lives and Our Planet
Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. It provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interrelationships between the personal, social, environmental and 'spiritual'. It helps us to understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable futures, caring ......
What The Bee Crisis Teaches Us About Building a Sustainable World
In a world all too familiar with environmental disasters, Horst Kornberger argues that the bee crisis is a more significant problem than deforestation, pollution and global warming put together, as it points to the causes behind all these.
Global Hive is a rallying cry for a new understanding of world ecology. More ......
For most, "conservation" conjures the notion of minimizing human presence on wildlands to avoid harmful impacts. But too often, this defensive approach has pitted local communities against conservationists, wasting opportunities for collaboration and setting the stage for ongoing conflict. One conservation approach turns that paradigm on its head, ......
In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie ......
At a community fire day in a northern California town several years ago, author Faith Kearns gave a talk on building fire-safe houses able to withstand increasingly common wildfires. Much to her surprise, Kearns was confronted by an audience member whose house had recently burned. What she thought was straightforward, helpful scientific ......
What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature
Wolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life. For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale National Park, an island in the northwest corner of Lake Superior. During this time, he has ......
