Boom. This is a biggie. Yowzah! If you want a clear view of our specie's impact on our world there is no better place to start than here.

Bill McKibben saw thing pretty clearly twenty years ago. Would that Exxon-Mobil and the other disinformers and political hacks had listened.

In easily grasped chunks the author considers most of the genetic, behavioral and social changes in our history, and drawing on extensive scholarship he offers many surprising (and doubtless, controversial) insights into those processes.

The author makes a comparison of information received from watching everything aired over a 24 hour period on 500 channels on a cable tv network, and 24 hours spent alone on a mountain. Guess which won?

The best available popular work on the saturation of our food chain with hormone mimetic and endocrine disrupter chemicals. Scary stuff.

Diamond's understanding of the forces that have shaped our world is immense. He offers the kind of insight that may yet save our bacon.

Safina shares intimate knowledge about over-fishing, the destruction of reefs and the dead zones which are growing at the outflow of major rivers. Frightening but not unhopeful.

This slim book speaks volumes about the state of the world as we enter the ecologic luge of the 21st century. An excellent read.

An exhilarating tale, deeply spiritual and exuberant at once, told by one who loves the wind even as she fears the tempest. If you savor the melding of intellect and awe, this one will (forgive me) blow you away.

In the history of life on earth there have been five great extinction spasms. Based on the latest discoveries in evolutionary biology and ecology, paleontologist Leakey believes we humans are creating a sixth such catastrophe in which fully half of the earth's species may die out during the next century.

Diane Ackerman is a gifted poet-naturalist and brings both strengths to her reportage of the wild world. This volume examines a few of the world's endangered species and ecosystems, and the people who are struggling to save them.

With no tillage, no fertilizer, no weeding and no pesticides Fukuoka consistently produced rice, barley, fruit and vegetable crops that equal or exceed the yield per acre of neighboring farmers who embrace modern scientific agriculture. We need to pay attention.

This exploration followed McKibben's THE END OF NATURE (Random House, 1989) by five years, and represents an effort by the author to find reasons for optimism after having so thoroughly examined our termination of the wilderness.