Environment category: 6530 books
Outsmart Waste
The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Ever-expanding landfills, ocean gyres filled with floating plastic mush, endangered wildlife. Our garbage has become a massive and exponentially growing problem in modern society. Eco-entrepreneur Tom Szaky explores why this crisis exists and explains how can we solve it by eliminating the very idea...
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, in the most inspiring business book of our time, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share...
Water 4.0
The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot...
Windfall
The Booming Business of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world
McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is...
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Steadily—by redefining green—Jones is making sure that our planet and our people will not just survive but also thrive in a clean-energy economy.”
—Leonardo DiCaprio
A New York Times bestseller, *The Green Collar Economy by award-winning human rights activist and environmental leader...
by Thomas Berry, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1991
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
We presently face a radical transition in Earth's history. "[W]e have already terminated the Cenozoic period of the geo-biological systems...
Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide
A Step By Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This full colour book explains the design process and is based on course worksheets which have been designed, refined and tested on students over time. If you already have a basic knowledge of permaculture, from either reading another book or attending a course, then this guide is probably just what...
Your Water Footprint
The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A "water footprint" is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
Principles for Building Resilience
Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
As both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active and important research area. Reflecting the very latest research, this book provides a critical review of the ways in which resilience of social-ecological...
by James Gustave Speth, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The task of aligning the interests of liberals and environmentalists is not an easy one. There is a fundamental split between them on the question...
Tools for Grassroots Activists
Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign...
by Michael G. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
The first park ranger in the world was appointed in California in 1866. Galen Clark was chosen as �Guardian of Yosemite,� at what was then Yosemite State Park, and the concept of rangers to protect and administer America�s great nature parks was born. The tradition continued in 1872 with the establishment...
The Lure of the North Woods
Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s...
All the Boats on the Ocean
How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already struggling with warmer, more acidic oceans. How have...