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Earth 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

Book Review: The Universe in Verse

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science and Poetry By Maria Popova Illustrations by Ofra Amit Storey Publishing, 2024 If books are medicine, The Universe in Verse …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Birds, Book Reviews, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, Hachette Book Group, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Poetry, Trees

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

The Language of Trees, A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

February 8, 2025January 7, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

Tin House, 2023 Hermann Hesse once wrote that the key to existential joy was in learning how to listen to the trees. There is also great pleasure to be had …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Trees

Book Review: Skylab: The Nature of Building

December 6, 2023 by John Yunker

What does it mean to be an architect in the Anthropocene? This is the question that attracts me to books about building reuse and earth architecture as well as writings …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Nonfiction, PNW, Sustainability, 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

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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