Today is the official on-sale date for our new Ruka Press book, The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb by Samuel Avery. We’ve been shipping website orders of the paperback for the last couple of weeks, but as of today the ebook editions are available […]

The official release of The Pipeline and the Paradigm is still two weeks away, but if you order now from our website it will ship immediately—and at a 25% discount, too! Ebook versions will go on sale on the official publication date, April 23. As attention to the Keystone XL increases this spring and summer, […]

Samuel Avery will be starting to promote his book with some events in the San Francisco Bay area, while Ruka Press authors Katie Fallon and Joan Maloof happen to be speaking at the same Audubon Society chapter in consecutive months. Please join them for one or more of the events below. Samuel Avery, author of […]

We have a winner in the contest to help us pick a cover for our forthcoming book, The Pipeline and the Paradigm. Although Option 2 had its strong partisans (especially among graphic designers), and some people claimed to like both equally, there was overall a nearly two-to-one preference for Option 1. And because that choice […]

Author Samuel Avery has signed a contract with Ruka Press to publish his fifth book, tentatively titled The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL and the Rise of Global Consciousness. Bill McKibben, president and co-founder of 350.org and the author of The End of Nature, is slated to write a foreword. Publication is planned for […]