The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs are expanding to meet the suburbs of neighboring cities, creating continuous urban megaregions...
Books
A Guide to Meaningful Engagement
Industries that drive economic growth and support our comfortable modern lifestyles have exploited natural resources to do so. But now there’s growing understanding that business can benefit from a better relationship with the environment....
280 pages
6 x 9
20 photos
Save Money, Improve Health, and Reduce Environmental Impacts
Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition of the significant contribution of buildings to...
232 pages
6 x 9
15 photos, 15 illustrations
How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
"Better Buses, Better Cities is likely the best book ever written on improving bus service in the United States." — Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron "The ultimate roadmap for how to make the bus great...
184 pages
6 x 9
20 photos
Seven Unlikely Cities That are Changing the Way We Eat
Look at any list of America’s top foodie cities and you probably won’t find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food movement. Healthy, sustainable fare is changing communities across this country,...
208 pages
6 x 9
no art
Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity—but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture...
456 pages
6 x 9
Two 8-page color inserts, 97 photographs
What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty
Like 75% of American women, Ronnie Citron-Fink dyed her hair, visiting the salon every few weeks to hide gray roots in her signature dark brown mane. She wanted to look attractive, professional, young. Yet as a journalist covering health and the...
200 pages
5 x 8
Creating Successful Green Infrastructure Networks
Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization. As manufacturing cities reinvent themselves after decades of lost jobs and population, abundant vacant land resources and...
200 pages
7 x 10
63 photos and figures
How to Save the Creatures that Feed Our World
We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing,...
232 pages
6 x 9
15 photos