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Architecture

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2025)

March 23, 2025 by John Yunker

I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Please check them out… Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology Edited by Ian …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Anthropocene, Architecture, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

New and forthcoming environmental books (February 2025)

June 13, 2025February 20, 2025 by John Yunker

So many amazing books. So little time to review them all… Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture By Albert Narath How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Architecture, Book Reviews, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Oceans, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

Building Reuse: Why your old house may be more environmental than you think

October 14, 2020October 7, 2020 by John Yunker

I live in an old house. So old that it tilts off to one side and you can feel a winter breeze coming up through the floorboards. When we had …

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Categories Architecture, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Nonfiction, Sustainability, University of Washington Press, What we're reading

Review: In The Art of Earth Architecture everything old is new again

October 17, 2023May 5, 2020 by John Yunker

As an architectural enthusiast, I have long admired Louis Khan. When I first visited San Diego years ago, I made sure to visit The Salk Institute. To see how concrete …

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Categories Architecture, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Princeton Architectural Press, What we're reading

Review: Building a Better World in Your Backyard

October 17, 2023February 26, 2020 by John Yunker

When it comes to nonfiction environmental books these days, I feel that we’re reaching “peek dystopia.” Or, at least I hope we are. Because it seems that between books about …

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Categories Architecture, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Gardening, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, Pollution, Trees

Ecovillages Around the World: 20 Regenerative Designs for Sustainable Communities edited by Frederica Miller

October 17, 2023August 10, 2018 by Heather Taft

As a conservation biologist I see ecovillages as an example for all of us. We need to reduce our impact on the Earth, and these communities are doing that well. …

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Categories Anthropocene, Architecture, Book Reviews, Earth Architecture, Nonfiction

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