Natural Resources category: 648 books
Power Shift
From Fossil Energy to Dynamic Solar Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Power Shift presents a detailed blueprint for a clean sustainable energy future based on photovoltaics, using the most compelling arguments for solar energy that have ever been assembled. Power Shift explains to a general audience how energy works and why it determines the future of humankind. It ...
Lost Mountain
A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing...
Water Is...
The Meaning of Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
In this fascinating meditation on water, internationally published limnologist, Nina Munteanu, draws inspiration from some of the world’s greatest thinkers, artists and scientists, and a lifetime dedicated to water, into a spectacular gift for hydrophilics.
Part history, part science and...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there...
The Snail Darter and the Dam
How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme...
Never Out of Season
How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A Fast Food Nation for the foods we grow and depend on
The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible...
When the Rivers Run Dry
Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.
The Future of Fossil Fuels
From Hubbert's Peak
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing. This selection from Hubbert's Peak, the leading book on the limits of our oil supply, forecasts...
This Cider Still Tastes Funny!
Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
John Ford Sr. returns to the outdoors of Maine with "This Cider Still Tastes Funny! Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine," his follow-up to the highly popular and critically acclaimed "Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good." Ford is a retired Maine game warden, sheriff...
Fishes of the Last Frontier
Life Histories, Biology, Ecology, and Management of Alaska's Fishes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Fishes of the Last Frontier answers many of your fish questions and others you haven't even thought of yet in a nontechnical, plain talk voice. Learn about the fishes that are of value or special interest to Alaskans: how fish are able to survive and grow, how they get along with each other--or not--and...
Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants
Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
“An incredibly thorough guide for identifying, harvesting, and utilizing medicinal plants.” —Dr. Deborah Frances RN, ND Naturopathic physician, herbalist, author, and lecturer
In Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants, Scott Kloos is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting,...
California Foraging
120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Evergreen Huckleberries to Wild Ginger
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
“This book is an excellent deep dive into California’s wild edibles, revealing a real affection for and intimate familiarity with our state’s flora.” —Iso Rabins, founder of ForageSF
California offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Judith Larner Lowry as your trusted guide...
Gaviotas
A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if...
Rubbish!
Dirt On Our Hands And Crisis Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
We can no longer cope with our waste. Every hour in the UK we throw away enough rubbish to fill the Albert hall - a statistic quoted so often that perhaps we've stopped imagining what it means. And every year the flow accelerates.
This is the story of our rubbish - from the first human bowel movement...