Environmental Studies & Ecojustice
Our authors offer their advice for cultivating and nurturing one’s environment, advocating for human health simultaneous to the Earth.
(In order of publication)
ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia
Barbara Benish tells her story as a female artist who found a way to build a life in a rural, post-totalitarian, foreign country, it is a testament to the resilience of the people of that small nation that was sacrificed in the tumultuous chess game of colonial superpowers dividing up Europe after the devastation of WWII.
I Opened the Gate Laughing: An Inner Journey — 20th Anniversary Edition
By Mayumi Oda
A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance I Opened the Gate Laughing is the story of one woman’s journey to creative freedom through gardening and the teachings of Zen. I Opened the Gate Laughing is a resource for anyone seeking a slower pace, a sacred space, and a garden path.
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind
They lived the dream of Manifest Destiny; their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer.
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
By Robert Shetterly
This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series, is a collection of environmental and climate activists whose stunning color portraits Robert Shetterly painted with the intention of honoring their work and bringing them to a wider audience.
Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea
By Aviva Rahmani, Foreword by Lucy Lippard
Divining Chaos provides a personal memoir of eco-artist Aviva Rahmani, offering her Trigger-Point theory thesis and unparalleled exclusivity to the moments in her life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Rahmani shares intimate decisions that shaped her life’s work.
Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities
Edited by Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fermantle, and Aviva Rahmani
Compiled of 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, EcoArt in Action stands as a field guide for practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts.
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California
By Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters
In the Struggle tells the stories of eight notable public scholars of California’s San Joaquin Valley, and describes their persistent engagement spanning generations of sustained endeavor, a dogged war in which workers and scholars together repeatedly took on the powerful agricultural industry, the political machines, and even the universities.
Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities
By Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer
An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and teens in the process of urban design.
Growing A Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy
By Illéne Pevec, PhD
A testament to the influential nature of educational and community gardening programs for teens.
Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation
Case Studies from North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and Great Britain demonstrate natural outdoor teaching environments that support hand-on learning in science, math, language, and art in ways that nurture healthy imagination and socialization.
Building Commons and Community
By Karl Linn
Building Commons and Community documents 45 years of the late Karl Linn’s legacy creating neighborhood spaces for communities and by communities. In this richly-illustrated landscape-format hardcover book, Linn presents his philosophies and practical wisdom.
Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture
By James Jiler
Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker’s Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism—the Green House and GreenTeam run by James Jiler for the Horticultural Society of New York.