Environment category: 6530 books
Nature's Fortune
How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What is nature worth? The answer to this question-which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms-is revolutionizing the way we do business.
In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that...
Time's Up!
An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment, nor is it a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, Time's Up! is a book about survival and about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself...
Mid-Course Correction Revisited
The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment....
Animal Factory
The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination.
Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived...
Worlds Apart
Globalization And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2003
Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering a thoughtful overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization in a clear, reasoned style. Framed by Gus Speth’s introduction and conclusion, essays range from Jane Lubchenco’s...
Hold Your Water
68 Things You Need to Know to Keep Our Planet Blue
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Hold Your Water offers insight into the water and world around us. Taking a conversational approach to conservation, it dives into simple ways that even little old you can make a difference--all with a witty, and at times whimsical, slant on the world in which we live.
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by Brian Dawson, Matt Spannagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource. Taking you through the A to Z of the key scientific, geographical and socio-political issues involved in the study of the environment and the implications of mankind’s effect...
by Peter J Cook
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. It covers the changing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide through time and its causes, before considering the promise and the limitations of a wide range of...
The Housing Bomb
Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai...
by Frederic C. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.”—U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.
The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that...
Sharing Nature's Interest
Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints...
Sustainability A Call to Action Part I
Individual Scale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sustainability: A Call to Action Part I (2nd Edition) provides the perfect antidote to environmental despair. The author blends solid science with a recognition that even small individual actions are available and beneficial. Our current path isn’t necessarily our fate. Ample tested tools and methods...
Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...
Dreaming the Future
Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes the opportunity for breakthrough-the opportunity to reimagine our future.
In Dreaming the...