Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (UC Press), and Ecotopia Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings) Introduction Air Algae Bacteria Biodiversity Bioregion Biosphere/Ecosphere Biotechnology Carbon Carrying Capacity Community Conservation Cycles Decomposition Deforestation/Desertification Ecology Ecosystem Energy Environment Environmental Justice Evolution Extinction Fire Food Webs Fungi Gaia Global Warming Growth Habitat Impacts Interdependence Kingdoms Land Use Microbes Migration Niche Nitrogen Organic Phosphorus Photosynthesis Pollution Population Predation Protists Quarantine Restoration Sex Smell Soil Species Succession Sulfur Sustainability Symbiosis Taxonomy Time Tourism Toxics Urban Ecology Values Viruses Water Wilderness/Wildness Xeriscape Yield Zoos A Postscript: The Power of Words Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Index

"An environmental science program would do well to put this volume into the hands of each student and teacher." Nsta Recommends "Each entry is a small gem... Callenbach's short essays are enjoyable and thought-provoking reading." Science Scope "Enjoyable and thought-provoking." -- Cary Seidman Science Teacher "Lively compact book... A dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through." -- Claire Yezbak Fadden Life After 50

Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (UC Press), and Ecotopia Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings) Introduction Air Algae Bacteria Biodiversity Bioregion Biosphere/Ecosphere Biotechnology Carbon Carrying Capacity Community Conservation Cycles Decomposition Deforestation/Desertification Ecology Ecosystem Energy Environment Environmental Justice Evolution Extinction Fire Food Webs Fungi Gaia Global Warming Growth Habitat Impacts Interdependence Kingdoms Land Use Microbes Migration Niche Nitrogen Organic Phosphorus Photosynthesis Pollution Population Predation Protists Quarantine Restoration Sex Smell Soil Species Succession Sulfur Sustainability Symbiosis Taxonomy Time Tourism Toxics Urban Ecology Values Viruses Water Wilderness/Wildness Xeriscape Yield Zoos A Postscript: The Power of Words Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Index

"An environmental science program would do well to put this volume into the hands of each student and teacher." Nsta Recommends "Each entry is a small gem... Callenbach's short essays are enjoyable and thought-provoking reading." Science Scope "Enjoyable and thought-provoking." -- Cary Seidman Science Teacher "Lively compact book... A dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through." -- Claire Yezbak Fadden Life After 50

Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (UC Press), and Ecotopia Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings) Introduction Air Algae Bacteria Biodiversity Bioregion Biosphere/Ecosphere Biotechnology Carbon Carrying Capacity Community Conservation Cycles Decomposition Deforestation/Desertification Ecology Ecosystem Energy Environment Environmental Justice Evolution Extinction Fire Food Webs Fungi Gaia Global Warming Growth Habitat Impacts Interdependence Kingdoms Land Use Microbes Migration Niche Nitrogen Organic Phosphorus Photosynthesis Pollution Population Predation Protists Quarantine Restoration Sex Smell Soil Species Succession Sulfur Sustainability Symbiosis Taxonomy Time Tourism Toxics Urban Ecology Values Viruses Water Wilderness/Wildness Xeriscape Yield Zoos A Postscript: The Power of Words Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Index

"An environmental science program would do well to put this volume into the hands of each student and teacher." Nsta Recommends "Each entry is a small gem... Callenbach's short essays are enjoyable and thought-provoking reading." Science Scope "Enjoyable and thought-provoking." -- Cary Seidman Science Teacher "Lively compact book... A dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through." -- Claire Yezbak Fadden Life After 50