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Brian Czech
from September 10, 2025
Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution
Supply Shock by Brian Czech leaves no doubt that the biggest idea of the 20th century – economic growth – has become the biggest problem of the 21st. Required reading for anyone concerned about the world our children and grandchildren will inherit, this landmark work lays a solid foundation for a new economic model, perhaps in time for preventing global catastrophes; certainly in time for lessening the damages.
Johnathan Meiburg
from August 16, 2025
A Most Remarkable Creature
In 2021 Knopf published his first book, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey, a journey through landscapes and wildlife of South America with the crow-like falcons called caracaras, their human companions, and the 19th-century naturalist William Henry Hudson. It was acclaimed as a thrilling hybrid of travel writing, natural history, and literary biography; “to call [it] a bird book,” wrote one reviewer, “is like calling Moby-Dick a whaling manual.” Meiburg is now at work on a sequel, The Secret Land, which will illuminate Antarctica's pervasive and surprising influence on our planet's past, present, and future.
Katie Surma
from May 17, 2025
“Reporting on the Rights of Nature, Human Rights,
and the Environment”
Katie Surma is a reporter at Inside Climate News focusing on human rights and the environment, and the rights of nature movement. Before joining ICN, she practiced law, specializing in commercial litigation. She also wrote for a number of publications and her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times and The Associated Press, among others.
Katie has a master’s degree in investigative journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, an LLM in international rule of law and security from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a J.D. from Duquesne University, and was a History of Art and Architecture major at the University of Pittsburgh.
Adam Hanieh
from April 12, 2025
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
A groundbreaking history of oil and its importance to US politics, finance, militarism and consumerism from an award-winning author and scholar
This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism; and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption.
Kevin Andersen
from March 1, 2025
“Climate Uncensored”
Kevin Andersen, in 2022, with a previous Tyndall Centre colleague Dr Dan Calverley, he established a new project Climate Uncensored, providing “robust, unflinching commentary and assessment of the scale of the climate challenge and our responses to it.” Acknowledging “the inspiring and often courageous work of the climate science community .. when it comes to cutting emissions, there is a widespread failure to accept the true scale and urgency of the challenge. Such ‘mitigation denial’ is rife, even within the expert community.”
Climate Uncensored focuses on cutting emissions, taking its lead from the Paris commitment to hold the global temperature rise to ‘well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C’. it is guided by the IPCC’s carbon budgets and strives to remain cognisant of issues of equity and fairness.
Oday Salim
from February 18, 2025
Environmental Justice and the Law
Professor Oday Salim. As an adjunct professor, he has taught Energy Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Wayne State University Law School, and Oil and Gas Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. For the last six years, Salim has authored the competition problem for the Robert R. Merhige Jr. National Environmental Negotiation Competition, which is hosted by the University of Richmond School of Law.
Featured Scholarship: "Armor or Withdraw? Likely Litigation and Potential Adjudication of Shoreland Conflicts Along Michigan’s Shifting Great Lakes Coasts" Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law "Leadership for the Next Generation of Great Lakes Stewardship" "Environmental Justice and the Law" Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More.