In hundreds of watersheds and communities across the United States, conservation is being reinvented and invigorated by collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments working with nongovernmental organizations and private landowners, and fueled by economic incentives, to promote both healthy natural communities and healthy human communities.
Conservation for a New Generation captures those efforts with chapters that explain the new landscape of conservation along with case studies that illustrate these new approaches. The book brings together leading voices in the...

Seemingly random words joined together for a purpose. That's what it's all about. Words, without aim, finding their rightful place and they tell of the joy and pain of our lives. FreedomInk Presents Poetic Meter & Random Prose is a collection of those words that have found their place. You will read of happiness, sadness, laughter, and pain. The words aren't to make you feel sad. They are to uplift and inspire. They are to transcend our thinking and take us each to a place of peace and triumph. Listen as these Poets express what's on their mind and share what has been inside waiting to be...

Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon - soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas - at an unsustainable rate. We've burned up half the planet's known reserves of oil - one trillion barrels - in less than a century. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow.

Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment the Age of Consequences--a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions- or inaction -...