Julia Scheeres

Julia Scheeres is the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Land, a memoir; A Thousand Lives, a narrative history of the Jonestown tragedy; and Listen, World!, a biography of intrepid Hearst columnist Elsie Robinson.

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Your Next Home Could Be an Earthship

Michael Reynolds’s 50-year quest to bring sustainable living to the masses.

Dec 19, 2025

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Better Homes and Gardens

For 50 years, Village Homes in Davis has been a utopian model of sustainability and neighborliness. It could be an answer to housing shortages and the climate crisis. If only someone was willing to replicate it.

Jun 24, 2024

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Back to Nature

Jessica Carew Kraft’s Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems is a spiritual field guide.

Dec 11, 2023