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Island Press Staff Picks

By Admin, Jason Leppig / On June 25th, 2012
This week's pick is from Senior Editor, Heather Boyer. From Heather: Design with Microclimate is one of my favorite recent Island Press books because it shows the power of the natural world and the critical need to understand it to successfully design and plan spaces for human use.
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#ForewordFriday Climate and Conservation

By Jason Leppig / On June 15th, 2012
This week's #forewordFriday pick is from the newly released book, Climate and Conservation. Craig Groves, Director, Conservation Methods Team at The Nature Conservancy calls this book: “... a global tour de force that clarifies where we stand today on important landscape conservation efforts and where we need to go to accommodate climate change.
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Trophic Cascades Not Included in Climate Dialogue

By Admin / On August 4th, 2010
This post was written by Todd Baldwin, vice president and associate publisher at Island Press. The theme of this year’s Ecological Society of America’s 95th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is “Global Warming:  The Legacy of our Past, the Challenge of Our Future,” a far cry from my last visit to ESA some years ago, when climate change was barely a blip on the radar and confined to a few specialized sessions.
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Obama Needs Churchill 101

By Jonathan Isham / On February 25th, 2009
In times of great trial, the best politicians strive for Churchillian rhetoric – or better yet, simply quote Churchill.  And in tough times, no quote resounds more than Churchill’s memorable assessment, in late 1942, of the Battle of El Alamein, the first major British victory in WW II: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.

On Celebrating Climate

By Timothy Beatley / On January 22nd, 2009
When I lived in Oregon many years ago there was a humorous expression: "Oregonians Don't Tan, they Rust!" There was much truth to that as much of late fall and winter in the Northwest is damp and rainy. Yet, this weather system is one of the aspects of place I remember most fondly; I can still recall the look and feel and smell of that rain. There was certainly not the sense that the rainy season was to be dreaded, rather it was one of the aspects of place that contributed positively to the special sense of place there.
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More on brains

By [node:field_contributor] / On August 6th, 2008
Our brains evolved over hundreds of millions of years to react to rapid changes in our environment. One apparently built-in feature is the tendency to keep the environmental backdrop against which our lives play out relatively constant. That makes it easier to detect rapid changes to which an organisms must react. One of our fish ancestors in a Devonian lake 400 million years ago was not paying attention to .01 degree Celsius temperature changes in the water occurring as clouds passed the sun - it was looking out for dangerous predators in that water that could end its life in a second.

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