T. D. Motley’s novel The Art of Farming celebrates a symbiosis of plants, humans, dogs and livestock, with wildlife cousins on the fringes. Retired art teacher, Sam Bartlett, works thirty acres outside the town of Elysia. Texas. Aided by his lovely “sidekick,” Annie, and a handful of local after-school teens, Sam markets herbs and produce, and face off with his most formidable antagonist, a miniature donkey named Sol who schemes daily to outwit him.

Rediscover the Magic of the Night Sky with Cassandra and the Night Sky

Brought to life by the mother-daughter duo Amy Jackson (Starry Sky Austin founder) and Donna Paredes, this beautifully re-released classic from Stoney Creek Publishing is a must-have for young dreamers, stargazers, and lovers of magical adventures.

Book One of the Night Sky series.

Little Sky Bear and the Dragon is the second book in Amy Jackson and Donna Paredes’s Night Sky series, a picture book that tells a story of friendship through four constellations. Jackson founded Starry Sky Austin, an astronomy education program, and works on the books with her daughter.

Why We Struggle to Go Green is Thomas Manuel Ortiz’s assessment of the clean energy transition, written by a mechanical engineer with thirty years across conventional and renewable energy. His argument is that no technological fix solves human-induced climate change on its own, and that a credible path requires giving up the hope of building our way out.  The rhetoric and politics around climate change obscures a troubling truth: Clean energy technologies alone cannot solve the problem of human-induced climate change.

Why We Struggle to Go Green offers a clear-eyed assessment of our efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change from a mechanical engineer who’s spent 30 years looking for solutions.