Natural Resources category: 648 books
The Winning of the Carbon War
Power and Politics on the Front Lines of Climate and Clean Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
“A brilliant page turner, alternately daringly funny, coldly sobering, starkly terrifying – poetic, personal, beautiful and intensely urgent." Josh Fox, Emmy-winning film director
“Great fun to read; kind, tough, and often very funny.” Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
“We...
by John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A fascinating collection of writings on many naturalist and conservationist themes by American essayist John Burroughs.
by E.j.banfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
One of Australia’s most significant (and successful) early nature writers was Edmund James Banfield (1852-1923). Born in England, Banfield followed in his father’s footsteps and became a journalist, initially in Melbourne and Sydney but then in Townsville, where he became sub-editor of the Townsville...
Unquenchable
America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. Robert Glennon captures the irony—and...
Upstream Law and Regulation
A Global Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The golden age of abundant, easy-to-access oil is over and, as a result, international oil and gas companies must search for new and more complex oil and gas provinces. Moreover, independent companies are adopting an even broader approach as they analyse unconventional plays. The 21st-century oil...
It's the Crude, Dude
Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
George W. Bush says he invaded Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East. Some people believe that. But if you have nagging doubts, you'll be intrigued by the story unraveled in It's the Crude, Dude.
With all the drama of a thriller, Canadian bestselling author Linda McQuaig probes the mystery...
Blue Future
Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Water is a human right: “A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Booklist
The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right—but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental...
Blue Gold
The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
“Probably the most eloquent call to arms we’re likely to hear about the politics of water” (The Globe and Mail**, Toronto).**
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis,” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization...
Blue Revolution
Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our...
The Ogallala Road
A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains
Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair...
by Gene Woodwick, Brian Woodwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Grays Harbor reigned supreme as the �Logging Capital of the World� for 150 years. Homesteaders became loggers and hired local Indians, who had logged the area�s massive trees since ancient times. Sailors, too, were hired to rig spar trees. They fearlessly plied lumber schooners across destructive...
by Sally Carrighar
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This is the real Alaska, the Alaska few outsiders know. It is the human scene, described in intimate and authentic detail. No one except a gift naturalist could have written this book, for Sally Carrighar has eyes that see, trained eyes that see what others pass by.
Icebound Summer was the first...
The Forgotten Founders
Rethinking The History Of The Old West
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In The Forgotten Founders, Stewart Udall draws on his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlemwere the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an...
This Common Ground
Seasons on an Organic Farm
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Rural Life, This Common Ground is an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the country's first community-supported farms. By reflecting on four seasons of activity...