Environment category: 6530 books
The Upcycle
Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what's next: The Upcycle
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living lessons gained from 10 years of putting the Cradle to Cradle...
by Mike Toms
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Gardens make a significant contribution to the amount of urban green space and are the main contributors to urban biodiversity. Birds are one of the most visible components of this urban biodiversity, and many of us enjoy attracting wild birds into our gardens. This timely addition to the New Naturalist...
The Storm of the Century
Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history—a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today’s new age of extreme weather.
On...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition
A Year of Food Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007,...
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
As forest fires continue to ravage communities, this bestselling author and firefighter explores what causes them, and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them
In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote wildernesses,...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time...
The Story of Stuff
How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique...
by Sharyn Munro
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
The truly remarkable story of a unique woman living on a remote mountain wildlife refuge nearing sixty, solitary, solar-powered and almost self-sufficient and the ups and downs of life that led her there. Full of energy, humour, and love for her own and the wider environment, this candid book inspires,...
No Impact Man
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing,...
Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage...
Goodbye to a River
A Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged...
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.†? -The Wall Street Journal
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have...
Hyperobjects
Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...
Climate Cover-Up
The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
An insider's view of how the energy industry has fuelled a bogus controversy about climate change.
This book rips the lid off the campaign to discredit scientists, confuse journalists, and deny climate change. The tactics have been slick, but PR expert James Hoggan and investigative journalist...