Environment category: 6530 books
Slick Water
Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
From the award-winning author of Tar Sands comes the shocking, inspiring story of an oil and gas industry insider’s determined stand to hold government and industry legally accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake.
When Jessica Ernst’s well water turned into a flammable broth...
The Infinite Resource
The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Climate change. Finite fossil fuels. Fresh water depletion. Rising commodity prices. Ocean acidification. Overpopulation. Deforestation. Feeding the world’s billions. We’re beset by an array of natural resource and environmental challenges. They pose a tremendous risk to human prosperity, to world...
Food and Fuel
Solutions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
The twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy.
Combining the best of the critically acclaimed Fuelling the Future...
The Hard Work of Hope
Climate Change in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Climate Nexus (RMB, 2015) analyzed and explored the economic and social realities facing water, food, energy and biodiversity. The Hard Work of Hope continues this narrative and seeks to develop effective solutions to the growing urgency for global action on climate change.
The Hard Work...
State of the World 2006
Special Focus: China and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems. The report explains the critical need for both countries to "leapfrog" the technologies, policies, and even the cultures that...
Animate Planet
Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral...
The Big Book of Nature Activities
A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The average child can identify over one thousand corporate logos, but only ten native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high rates of ADHD, feelings of stress and social awkwardness, and "Nature Deficit Disorder" are further...
The Roads from Rio
Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the...
Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water
The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader...
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease...
In Defence of Life
Essays on a Radical Reworking of Green Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Julian Rose presents a penetrating series of essays calling for urgent action to overcome the perilous state of our planet, at the local as well as global level. He both guides and challenges his readers to share with him a journey through the matrix-maze, and to come out at the other end a...
Living in the Anthropocene
Earth in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.
Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems....
The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet
A Climate Crisis Solution for the 44th President
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
When the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing threat to the world environment caused by climate change.
This short, powerful book shows the way forward: a clear...
by Satish Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A new trinity for our time. We are members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated! This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally-respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years. In Soil,...