Environment category: 6530 books
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The North Eastern Trees are the star of this educational book. Here, such trees are featured in order to help a child better understand biodiversity and environment. Hopefully, the book will ignite a strong passion to save the trees because of their importance to life on the planet. Grab a copy today!
by Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In Comfortably Unaware Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of global depletion as it relates to food choice. Do you know the true cost of the food you eat every day? What resources were used and what was destroyed in order to get that food to your plate? What does the word sustainable really...
Organic Manifesto
How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now, with Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of 21st century farming. She examines the unholy...
Earth Calling
A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today's environmental activists, this book offers an invitation...
Game Changers
Unravelling Nature's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
What connects elephants and geckos, tortoises and larks, or cordgrass and mussels?
This book recounts the interactions bringing these unlikely pairs and several others together. As animals and plants go about their lives, they sometimes alter the environment in ways beneficial for other species....
Ocean Country
One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the Seas
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Ocean Countryis an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident...
Muskrat for Supper
Exploring the Natural World with the Last River Rat
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Muskrat for Supper inspires young people to explore nature's life cycles and understand the concept of the circle of life, as told through the tale of a family that embarks on a hunting and trapping adventure. It is an endearing story that weaves together such themes as sustainable living, our natural...
Big Green Purse
Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Read Diane McEachern's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming-even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purse, the best way to fight the industries that...
Green, Greener, Greenest
A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
How green can you be?
Green: Drive the speed limit
Greener: Drive a fuel-efficient car
Greenest: Bike or walk
The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, Green, Greener, Greenest offers flexible tips for everyday living,...
Earth Repair
A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States alone. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used...
by Margo Branch
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The critically acclaimed Exploring Fynbos, now newly updated and with a fresh design, is a dynamic introduction to the richest floral kingdom in the world. Both interactive and informative, the book encourages children and adults to explore this unique ecosystem – for some, right on their doorstep...
The Price of Permanence
Nature and Business in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that...
by Dr. Reese Halter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
In our ever-warming world, trillions of indigenous bark beetles are killing billions of mature conifers throughout the forests of western North America and...
Discovering Westcave
The Natural and Human History of a Hill Country Nature Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In the heart of the Texas Hill Country lies an astonishing place called Westcave Preserve, a 76-acre nature preserve and environmental education facility in western Travis County, near Austin, that provides a sanctuary for the flora and fauna of surprisingly diverse ecosystems.
Westcave has...