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Fall/Winter 2020

Naturalist 1 Fixation 2 Right of Way 3 Diversifying Power 4 Affordable City 5 Leadership for Sustainability 6 The Bird-Friendly City 7 Revolutionary Power 8 Gray to Green Communities 9

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New Edward O. Wilson Adapted by Jim Ottaviani, Illustrated by C.M.Butzer

Naturalist A Graphic Adaptation E.O. Wilson’s bestselling memoir comes to life in a beautifully illustrated graphic adaptation.

Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to become his lifelong specialty. His memoir Naturalist, called “one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written” by the Los Angeles Times, is an inspiring account of Wilson’s growth as a scientist and the evolution of the fields he helped define. This graphic edition, adapted by New York Times bestselling comics writer Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by C.M.Butzer, brings Wilson’s childhood and celebrated career to life through full-color illustrations and Wilson’s own lyric writing. On every page, striking illustrations add immediacy to Wilson’s work and highlight the warmth and sense of humor that set his writing apart.

Naturalist was written as an invitation—a reminder that curiosity is vital and scientific exploration is open to all of us. Each dynamic frame of this graphic adaptation deepens Wilson’s message, renewing his call to discover and celebrate the little things of the world.

Edward O. Wilson is the author of more than twenty books, including The Ants and On Human Nature, both of which were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently Faculty Emeritus in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University.

Jim Ottaviani has written a dozen graphic novels about scientists. His most recent books are Hawking, The Imitation Game (a biography of Alan Turing), Primates (about Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas) and Feynman, a book about the Nobelprize winning physicist, bongo-playing artist, and raconteur Richard Feynman.

His books are New York Times bestsellers, have been translated into over a dozen languages, and have received praise from publications ranging from Nature and Physics World to Entertainment Weekly and Variety. Jim lives in Michigan and comes to comics via careers in nuclear engineering and librarianship.

C.M.Butzer is an illustrator, printmaker, and cartoonist. His work has appeared in numerous books, publications, and textiles. In 2009, he wrote and drew Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel for HarperCollins. Butzer is also a storyboard and concept artist whose clients have included Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. After 13 years of residing in Brooklyn, he and his wife moved to Hilo, Hawaii, where he does not miss winter.

Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection November 2020 Hardcover: $28.00 978-1-61091-958-6 Ebook: $27.99 978-1-61091-959-3 240 pages. 7 x 9 | Full color throughout.

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Naturalist 25th Anniversary Edition Edward O. Wilson

The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein

Authors’ residences: Lexington, Massachusetts; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Hilo, Hawaii Island Press www.islandpress.org 800•621•2736

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New Sandra Goldmark

Fixation How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet The disposable nature of “stuff” is the next frontier for the sustainability movement, Fixation explains, while offering a sustainable, simple path forward Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems. Since founding Fixup, a pop-up repair shop that brought her coverage in The New York Times, Salon, WNYC, and more, Sandra Goldmark has become a leader in the movement to demand better “stuff” and to bring companies on board. Her solution is surprisingly simple and involves all of us: have good stuff, not too much, mostly reclaimed, care for it, and pass it on.

House & Home/Sustainable Living September 2020 Hardcover: $27.00 978-1-64283-045-3 Ebook: $26.99 978-1-64283-046-0 232 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Trade

Fixation charts the path to the next frontier in the health, wellness, and environmental movements—learning how to value stewardship over waste. Passionate, wise, and practical, Fixation offers us a new understanding of stuff by building a value chain where good design, reuse, and repair are the status quo.

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Plastic Soup Michiel Roscam Abbing Entrepreneur Sandra Goldmark is the founder of Fixup (formerly Pop Up Repair), an innovative social enterprise in New York City. She is also a theater set/costume designer, a leader in the field of sustainable theatrical design, and director of the Sustainability and Environment Program and associate professor of professional practice at Barnard College. She has an AB in American literature from Harvard College and an MFA in theatrical design from Yale University.

High Tech Trash Elizabeth Grossman

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Author’s residence: New York, New York

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New Angie Schmitt, foreword by Charles T. Brown

Right of Way Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America Right of Way exposes the crisis of traffic violence that is plaguing our cities, inspiring regular citizens to action.

In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows that pedestrian traffic deaths are not unavoidable “accidents,” They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality.

These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve.

Schmitt examines the increase in pedestrian deaths in the US as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic.

Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety.

Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.

Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning August 2020 Paperback: $28.00 978-1-64283-083-5 Ebook: $27.99 978-1-64283-084-2 200 pages. 6 x 9 | 5 photos, 5 illustrations Island Press Trade

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Angie Schmitt is one of the country’s best known writers and experts on the topic of sustainable transportation. She was the long-time national editor at Streetsblog and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Bicycling, GOOD, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and a number of other publications. She lives in Cleveland with her husband and two children.

Author’s residence: Cleveland, Ohio

Designing Streets for Kids Global Designing Cities Initiative/National Association of City Transportation Officials

Walkable City Rules Jeff Speck

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New Jennie C. Stephens, foreword by Ted Landsmark

Diversifying Power Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy A timely treatise on the importance of diversifying climate leadership, offering a fresh perspective on climate change solutions In Diversifying Power, energy expert Jennie Stephens argues that the key to effectively addressing the climate crisis is diversifying leadership so that antiracist, feminist priorities are central.

Stephens examines climate and energy leadership related to job creation and economic justice, health and nutrition, and housing and transportation. She explains why we need to reclaim and restructure climate and energy systems so policies are explicitly linked to social, economic, and racial justices.

Political Science/Public Policy/Energy Policy September 2020 Paperback: $35.00 978-1-64283-131-3 Ebook: $34.99 978-1-64283-132-0 200 pages. 6 x 9 | 6 photos Island Press Short

Diversifying Power shows that anyone working on issues related to energy or climate (directly or indirectly) can leverage the power of collective action. The work to shift away from an extractive, oppressive energy system has already begun. By highlighting the creative individuals and organizations making change happen, Diversifying Power provides inspiration and encourages action on climate and energy justice.

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Energy Democracy Edited by Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub

Designing Climate Solutions Hal Harvey with Robbie Orvis and Jeffrey Rissman

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Jennie C. Stephens is the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, where she is also the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, Director of Strategic Research Collaborations at the Global Resilience Institute, and a member of the Executive Committee of Northeastern’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

Author’s residence: Boston, Massachusetts

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New Shane Phillips

The Affordable City Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There) An accessible approach to housing policy that strives to bring opposing sides together to make cities more affordable In The Affordable City, housing expert Shane Phillips argues that to effectively address the housing crisis, cities must support both tenant protections and housing abundance.

Phillips offers 55 policy recommendations addressing what he refers to as the “Three S’s” of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. He makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. He ends with a policy blueprint and concise implementation plan for each policy, including whether it should be pursued as an immediate, medium-term, or long-term priority.

The Affordable City is an essential tool for professional city planners, policymakers, public officials, and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Political Science/Public Policy/City Planning & Urban Development September 2020 Paperback: $32.00 978-1-64283-133-7 Ebook: $31.99 978-1-64283-134-4 248 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short

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Shane Phillips is an urban planner and policy expert based in Los Angeles. He is currently managing the UCLA Lewis Center Housing Initiative and teaching public policy as an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California. Phillips previously worked as the Director of Public Policy for Central City Association, a Downtown LA business advocacy organization, and has held roles with the Los Angeles Streetcar project and in City Hall. He has kept a blog on housing and transportation issues, Better Institutions, for many years (betterinstitutions.com).

Author’s residence: Los Angeles, California

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition Walker Wells and Kimberly Vermeer

Missing Middle Housing Daniel Parolek

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New R. Bruce Hull, David P. Robertson, and Michael Mortimer

Leadership for Sustainability Strategies for Tackling Wicked Problems Offers tools and ideas for professionals at all levels to bring leadership skills to the challenges of sustainability Solving today’s environmental and sustainability challenges requires more than expertise and technology. Effective solutions will require that we engage with other people, wrestle with difficult questions, and learn how to adapt and make confident decisions despite uncertainty. We need new approaches to leadership that empower professionals at all levels to tackle wicked problems and work towards sustainability.

Leadership for Sustainability gives readers perspective and skills for promoting creative and collaborative solutions. Blending systems thinking approaches with leadership techniques, it offers dozens of strategies and specific practices, illustrated by inspiring case studies.

Readers will come away with a holistic understanding of how to lead from where they are by applying leadership principles and practices to a wide range of wicked situations.

Business & Economics/Leadership November 2020 Paperback: $32.00 978-1-64283-167-2 Ebook: $31.99 978-1-64283-168-9 272 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short

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Resilient by Design Joseph Fiksel

The Intergalactic Design Guide Cheryl Heller

R. Bruce Hull is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech, which provides graduate education and professional development opportunities for sustainability professionals working at the intersection of business, government, and civil society. He has authored and edited numerous publications, including two books, Infinite Nature (University of Chicago Press) and Restoring Nature (Island Press).

Michael Mortimer is Founding Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech. Dr. Mortimer works with professionals and students on sustainable development questions in locations around the world, and his most active research and writing is centered on the role that global cities can play in leading and solving sustainable development challenges.

David Robertson is Founding Director of the Executive Master of Natural Resources graduate degree program and Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Tech. Dr. Robertson is also a founder and principal of Educene, a travel education, upskilling, consulting firm.

Authors’ residences: Blacksburg, Virginia and Lynchburg, Virginia

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New Timothy Beatley

The Bird-Friendly City Creating Safe Urban Habitats A global tour of cities that are implementing creative and functional ideas to protect urban birds How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, drawing from inspiring examples that show it’s possible to make our urban environments more welcoming for many bird species.

Architecture/Sustainability & Green Design November 2020 Paperback: $35.00 978-1-64283-047-7 Ebook: $34.99 978-1-64283-048-4 232 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short

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Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with a special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. His books that explore these issues include Biophilic Cities, Resilient Cities, and Blue Urbanism (Island Press).

Author’s residence: Charlottesville, Virginia

Urban Raptors Edited by Clint W. Boal and Cheryl R. Dykstra

Bird Migration and Global Change George W. Cox

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New Shalanda H. Baker

Revolutionary Power An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition An activist’s playbook that shows how we can remake our unjust energy system and transform our society In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the energy grid in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new system in order to upend unequal power dynamics.

Baker provides a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. She tells the stories of those who are working to be architects of a more just system and draws from her own experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color.

Political Science/Public Policy/Energy Policy January 2021 Paperback: $32.00 978-1-64283-067-5 Ebook: $31.99 978-1-64283-068-2 264 pages. 6 x 9 | 5 photos, 5 illustrations Island Press Short

Revolutionary Power is the guide to a just energy transformation.

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Our Renewable Future Richard Heinberg and David Fridley

The Community Resilience Reader Edited by Daniel Lerch

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Shalanda Baker is a professor at the Northeastern School of Law. Before joining Northeastern’s faculty, Professor Baker spent three years as an associate professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i, where she was the founding director of the Energy Justice Program. Prior to that, she served on the faculty at the University of San Francisco School of Law. In 2016, she won a Fulbright award and spent a year in Mexico exploring energy reform, climate change and indigenous rights.

Author’s residence: Boston, Massachusetts

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New Dana Bourland

Gray to Green Communities A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises Shows a hopeful path to addressing the affordable housing crisis while reducing carbon emissions.

In Gray to Green Communities, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a traditional gray housing model, to a green housing model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet.

Bourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, which resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing.

The book opens with the potential of green affordable housing, followed by the problems that it is helping to solve, challenges in the approach that need to be overcome, and recommendations for the future of green affordable housing. Gray to Green Communities brings together stories from the people and projects of the Green Communities’ program.

Gray to Green Communities will empower and inspire anyone interested in the future of housing and our planet.

Architecture/Sustainability & Green Design January 2021 Paperback: $30.00 978-1-64283-128-3 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-64283-129-0 144 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short

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Dana Bourland is Vice President of the Environment Program at The JPB Foundation.

Formerly Bourland was Vice President of Green Initiatives for Enterprise Community Partners where she led environmental strategy for the national organization. She developed and oversaw all aspects of Enterprise’s award-winning Green Communities program including the creation of the Green Communities Criteria, the Green Communities Offset Fund and Enterprise’s Multifamily Retrofit Program.

Author’s residence: New York, New York

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition Walker Wells and Kimberly Vermeer

Climate Action Planning Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale

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