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Or click here to order: Elemental<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews and writing about the book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Scientist recently published my essay Sustainability Simplified<\/a>, which is a riff on the themes in Elemental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science Friday<\/a> interviewed me about Elemental – NPR royalty Ira Flatow asked big questions about Snowball Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “Not old, better<\/a>” podcast, in collaboration with Smithsonian Associates, hosted Stephen for a conversation about Elemental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen gave talk based on the book at the Lifelong Learning Collaborative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen discussed Elemental with Krys Boyd on the THINK podcast <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Voss Show’s YouTube Channel<\/a> dove into a conversation with Stephen about life’s essential elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conversation<\/a> about Elemental with Sam Hankin at Wellington Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conversation<\/a> about Elemental with Andrew Keen on his podcast KeenOn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praise for Elemental:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Brown University ecologist Porder debuts with a probing exploration of how carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorous have shaped life on Earth. . . . It\u2019s an illuminating account of how these elements and the organisms that rely on them have influenced the course of life.”\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[Porder] takes the time to explain considerable data to skeptics. . . . And this scientific information is made even more accessible because of Porder\u2019s engaging storytelling and views of different milieus like farms to illustrate what more sustainable alternatives could look like.”\u2014Joseph S. Pete, Foreword Reviews<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Porder writes with precision, style, clarity and logic. . . . [He] offers a way forward, filled with optimism and driven by consumers of energy, by regular folks, by you and me.”\u2014David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEntertaining and enlightening, Elemental<\/em> reframes the history of life and today\u2019s environmental challenges through the basic building blocks of life\u2019s formula\u2014a mind-expanding treat.\u201d\u2014David R. Montgomery, coauthor of The Hidden Half of Nature<\/em> and What Your Food Ate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cElemental<\/em> is both a history of life and a glimpse into the future. Stephen Porder offers a fascinating new perspective on why the planet\u2019s in trouble and what we can do about it.\u201d\u2014Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPorder\u2019s accessible prose guides us through our planet\u2019s intricate, elegant cycling of five life-sustaining elements. Through the lens of geologic time, humans\u2019 capacity to alter these cycles is not unique, but our ability to shape the future is in our hands. Porder provides a critical, can-do perspective amidst the angst about the current climate emergency.\u201d\u2014Ruth DeFries, author of What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Elemental<\/em>, Stephen Porder explains why humans are both part and parcel of an Earth system that has endured for billions of years and a rare departure from the norm. His engaging, accessible, and ultimately optimistic account illuminates the remarkable innovations of modern humans, their consequences for the Earth as a whole, and what we can do to safeguard our environmental future.\u201d\u2014Andrew H. Knoll, author of A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStephen Porder has written an accessible primer on the deep origins of Earth\u2019s carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorous cycles\u2014the remarkable but under-appreciated system of checks and balances that makes the world habitable. Elemental<\/em> is essential reading for anyone who eats, breathes, or requires water, and a civics lesson on how we can all become better biogeochemical citizens.\u201d\u2014Marcia Bjornerud, author of Timefulness: How Thinking like a Geologist Can Help Save the World<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat makes life on Earth possible? A simple question, but as Stephen Porder shows us, the answer is fascinating, complex, and absolutely vital. Part engaging tour through science at the intersection of biology and chemistry, part deep history that gives us tools for the future, Elemental<\/em> gives us a lively look at the stuff of life itself.\u201d\u2014Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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