The Wild Edge of Planning
A memoir of five decades on the frontlines of community planning, told through vivid, often dramatic stories of battles over housing, roads, wetlands, and civic courage, from a lifetime of experiment, resistance, and innovation.
Hold Fast: Navigating Personal and Climate Grief with a Reconciled Heart
This new book (2026) explores how the practices that helped me live with traumatic bereavement can also support other grieving people and guide us as we face climate collapse.
Opening to Climate Grief: A Workbook Companion to Hold Fast
Opening to Climate Grief is a gentle, practical workbook for people whose hearts ache over the state of the Earth and who want something more than information—something they can do with their hands, breath, attention, and imagination.
Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues
Recounts a woman’s initiatory journey in wild Nature, confronting climate breakdown and her role in it, while tracing her deep attachment to place and emerging ecological consciousness.
Creeksong Audiobook
Community Planning Books
Creative Community Planning: Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge
Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability
SpeakOut: The Step-by-Step Guide to SpeakOuts and Community Workshops
Housing as if People Mattered
A practical, research-based guide to designing medium-density family housing so everyday life feels safe, sociable, and supported, co-authored with Clare Cooper Marcus and still in print after 40 years.