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An anthology of American environmental writing produced since the nineteenth century, featuring works that have contributed to the advancement of the environmental movement, including the essays of Henry David Thoreau, selections from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land.

Calls for a movement toward the local production of food, energy, and culture in order to strengthen community, move away from consumerism, and help the environment.

Explains how to take effective action to stop climate change, discussing how to organize in one's community, church, or college and covering such topics as online grassroots campaigns, high-profile events, and political pressure.

Describes years of damage from climate change that has altered the earth as we know it--and that will cost billions to repair.

Explains the frightening implications of the destruction man has caused to earth's environment and offers possible solutions to the problems by altering human behavior.

Examines what vital information is missing about ourselves that humans have always possessed before.

Bill McKibben recounts the experiences he had during a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks.

"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.

Journalist and author Bill McKibben recounts the year during which he, in his late thirties, decided to test his body's limits in strenuous training and a series of long-distance cross-country skiing races, and during which his father's physical limits were tested by a life-threatening illness.

"As the host of Radio Free Vermont--'underground, underpowered, and underfoot'--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.

[Looks at how] new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience"--Amazon.

Discusses the history of the American Chestnut tree, and focuses on the role of scientists and plant pathologists played during the plant blight that nearly eliminated the trees from the eastern United States forests.

"From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth"--Provided by publisher.