When everything seems to be falling apart in the world, the most useful thing you can do is focus on your own community and making it a better place.

This book full of small space design ideas is a handy tool for those wanting to get their own tiny house built.

A modern life without plastic may seem an impossibility, but this Canadian duo shows it's achievable.

Becker's latest work is not only a how-to guide, but an invitation to reevaluate all aspects of your life.

Tanja Hester, who retired at 38, can help you create a financial roadmap that makes your life your own.

Sarah Archer shows how the kitchen became the colorful nerve center of the modern house.

This handbook to sustainable living will help you practice what you preach.

You'll be shocked to learn what goes on behind the scenes at grocery stores – and relieved to know there's a much better alternative.

An ambitious couple set out to travel from Washington to the Alaskan Arctic, off the beaten track and under their own power.

Author Cal Newport argues that it's time to make hard decisions about our digital lives and embrace a 'philosophy of technology use.'

This book explains how "one of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare."

Jonathan Safran Foer argues convincingly that changing our diets is the most effective way to fight the climate crisis.

Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain explains how going offline for a full day each week can change your brain, body, and soul.

Lisa Gansky sees a new emerging business model emerging. One she has dubbed, The Mesh. "... one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide those choices." A model

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

Canadian writer Kate Harris describes an epic 10-month bicycle tour across Asia.

This unique travel guide is the perfect book for the eco-conscious non-tourist. It features 111 projects you can visit around Europe, that make our cities better.

We are ancient animals entering the Anthropocene era. How can the lessons of our past help us find health and meaning in our future?

Vichhoda moves through the bylanes of Kashmir and reaches corruption-ridden small towns of Pakistan to seek humanity in the most unexpected places.

An editor's not-so-occult revelations.

Sometimes your bright ideas don't pan out.

In Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures, Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin elaborate on why Instagram is more than just a social media platform: instead, it has become an icon that has altered understandings of visual social media cultures. By doing so, they focus on different aspects of Instagram, such as its aesthetics, cultures, ecologies and economics, supported with real-life examples and cases.

Instagram has tried to keep itself distinct from Facebook and other social platforms.