The following is an excerpt from a new book by James G. Speth, America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy (Yale University Press, 2012). Speth envisions a future America in which citizens have created a sustainable and desirable society, and lived up to our present challenges. The vision is...
Apr
29
By Nicola Markus
Re-published with permission ECOSMagazine
Australia is fêted globally for its unique plants and animals and its ecological communities are testament to the wondrous processes of evolution. But, as the human population continues to grow and compete for land and resources, much of...
Nov
30
Review by Altaire Cambata
Previously published on Izilwane
E.O. Wilson’s highly influential work, The Future of Life begins where one would imagine: the present. He sets the stage by telling us that somewhere between 1.5 and 1.8 million species have been discovered and issued an official...
Oct
22
Recipes for Every Monday of the Year
Photo credit: Mary McCartney
Sir Paul McCartney, one of the Meatless Monday movement’s most famous supporters, has launched The Meat Free Monday Cookbook (Kyle Books 2012), featuring meatless menu ideas for every Monday of the year. Assembled in...
Mar
30
Detectives and the environment appear to be a potent combination for a mystery novel. In fact, there’s a fast evolving mini-genre among eco-readers who like their crime investigations splattered with consciousness-raising motives and clues. Here, Ecology Campus’ Senior Editor, Deborah Harter...
Feb
10
Wade Graham is a Los Angeles, California -based garden designer, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism and the arts has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and other publications. This year, he authored two distinct works about gardens – American Eden, a...
Jan
09
Explore the World of Books
ecoLit explores a world of books – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, anthology – all offering insight into our complex relationship with our earthly habitat. Some are wholly dedicated to this theme, while others interweave it into the fabric of their stories.
The...
Nov
04
Shelton Johnson has held many jobs, including his current one — serving as a National Park Service ranger in Yosemite. But in this, his first novel, Johnson proves himself to be a writer whose keen, affectionate observations of the natural world take you back to the poetry of Whitman,...
Oct
07
