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<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/saleemali_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />In the pleasing quietness of his house &#8212; a place where Pakistani prayer rugs lie in maroon rectangles on top of clean, white, wall-to-wall Berber carpet &#8212; Saleem Ali tends his treasure. There is the soft laughter of his two sons upstairs, "needful treasures in my life," he calls them in the dedication to his new book, <em>Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future</em>.<span id="caption">"I'm an environmental pragmatist," says Saleem Ali, associate professor of environmental planning, whose new book explores why global trade and resource extraction are vital tools for environmental justice. (Photo: Joshua Brown)</span>