Ecology category: 3266 books
by Finith Jernigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Makers of the Environment shows how people in a small, depressed rural county can pull together to take advantage of the opportunities to become world leaders in the management of information to change our world. With systems and processes such as Makers describes, we for the first time in history...
Garden Revolution
How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
“Shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners.” —Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home
Larry Weaner is an icon in the world of ecological landscape design, and now his revolutionary approach...
To Life!
Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm’s anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow’s 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked...
The Wood for the Trees
One Man's Long View of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence
A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the...
by Mary Austin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A stirring tribute to the unique beauty of the****American Southwest
In the region stretching from the High Sierras south of Yosemite to the Mojave Desert, water is scarce and empty riverbeds hint at a lush landscape that has long since vanished. But the desert is far from lifeless. For those who...
by Brian Capon
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
“An outstanding and enjoyable introduction to botany, whether the reader is a gardener, or just a garden visitor.” —Bloomsbury Review
What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants structured? How do plants reproduce? The answers to these and other questions about complex...
Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animals in the suburban garden.” —The New York Times
As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas...
Green This! Volume 1
Greening Your Cleaning
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Change the way you clean and keep your family's home wholesome and healthy with the help of expert and activist Deirdre Imus.
We all grew up thinking chemical smells like bleach and ammonia signaled "clean." But as Deirdre Imus reveals, some of the chemicals we use to maintain our homes are...
by Vladimir Megre
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Our civilization will be the first in the entire history of the planet to unite the opposites: the technocratic world and the achievements of the divine creations. This is not a fantasy, it is the great future. We can sense it already, today. Tens of thousands of Russian citizens have already...
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.
Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices...
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Essays on the spiritual power of an uncluttered life from Henri Nouwen, Richard J. Foster, Juliet Schor, and others, with an foreword by Bill McKibben.
Every day we are bombarded with messages that imply we need more: more money, more clothes, more food, more cars, more everything. But despite...
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have...
by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in...
Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
"A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review.
Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the...