Awards

2013

• New York Book Show design award: The Shape of Green

2012

• Nautilus Book Awards, Silver Winner: Marc Kuchner, Marketing for Scientists

2011

• EDRA Great Places Book Award: Jan Gehl, Cities for People

• National Association of Real Estate Editors Bruss Silver Book Award: Galina Tachieva, Sprawl Repair Manual

• Benjamin Franklin Awards finalist in science: Cristina Eisenberg, The Wolf’s Tooth

2010

• Heinz Awards: Daniel Sperling and Gretchen Daily
•  The Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Book Award, Second Place: Robert Glennon, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It

2008

• The Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award: Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea
• IPPY Awards (Independent Publishers Book Awards) Gold medal for Best Regional Non-Fiction, Mountain West Region: William R. Travis, New Geographies of the American West
• IPPY Awards Gold medal for Best Non-Fiction on Environment/Ecology/Nature: Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea 

2007 

• Planetizen’s Top 10 Books of 2007: Included were Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities by Patrick M. Condon and The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher B. Leinberger 

2004

• Independent Publisher’s Award, Health/Medicine/Nutrition category, First Place: Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters
• Benjamin Franklin Award, Science/Environment, Finalist: Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters 
• Benjamin Franklin Award, Science/Environment, Finalist: From Conquest to Conservation by Mike Dombeck, Chris Wood, and Jack Williams 
• Best Book Award, International Association of Conflict Management:Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts, by Roy Lewicki 

2003

• ForeWord Book Award, health category, GOLD First Place: Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters 

2002

• National Outdoor Book Award, First Place in the category of “history/biography”: Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism by Char Miller 
• Connecticut Book Award, Biography: Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism by Char Miller 
• Independent Publisher Book Awards, Winner Biography Category:Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism by Char Miller 

2001 

• Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, Gold Award 2001: Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism by Char Miller (Biography) 
• Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, Gold Award 2001:The Regional City by Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton (Architecture) 
• Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, Gold Award 2001: The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm: A Story of Hope for the American Wild by Dean Bennett (Environment) 
• Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, Silver Award 2001: The New Agrarianiam: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life by Eric Freyfogle (Environment)
• Independent Publisher Book Awards Finalist: Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul R. Ehrlich (Science) 

2000

• Independent Publisher Book Awards: The Heart of America: Our Landscape, Our Future by Tim Palmer (Travel Essay)

1999

• American Society for Environmental History: Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands by Ann Vileisis, co-winner of the 1999 George Perkins Marsh Prize 

1997

• Benjamin Franklin Award: The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen Buchmann and Gary Nabhan (Science/Environment) 
• Small Press Book Awards Finalist: Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future by Paul and Anne Ehrlich (Science/Ecology/Nature) 

1995

• Benjamin Franklin Award, Finalist in Autobiography/Biography/Memoirs: Naturalist by E.O. Wilson