Environment category: 6530 books
Nature as Measure
The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.
Wes Jackson, “a well-known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his...
The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Provides a manifesto for activists in education and conservation—as Wilson and Hass explain how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can rouse the conservationist in all of us, the conversation becomes a powerful treatise on the necessity of achieving consilience...
Infinite Earth
Organisms working together cooperatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Infinite Earth; An early theory piece By C.K. madden, Not one of her finest works but a great illustration on how she plots out her thoughts. Infinite Earth is quick paced theory on 3 things, Organisms, Animals, Humans, and Most willing to Adapt Evolution.
by Rhonda S. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
A bald eagle couple leaves their historic nesting site of Middleton Place to cross the Ashley River to share their new home with elementary students. With their nest adjacent to the school playground, the bald eagle adults can be seen coming and going from the nest as they feed their eaglets...
So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
"Not since Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm has a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown." -The Maritime Executive Through masterful research and elegant prose, Curt Brown traces the devastating intersection of nature's fury and corporate greed. It was Thanksgiving...
November's Fury
The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication...
My River Chronicles
Rediscovering the Work that Built America; A Personal and Historical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
After journalist Jessica DuLong was laid off from her dot-com job, her life took an unexpected turn. A volunteer day aboard an antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, led to a job in the engine room, where she found a taste of home she hadn’t realized she was missing. Working with the boat’s finely...
by Kendra Leah Fuller, Shannon Sullivan, Jackson Hole Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The majestic beauty of Grand Teton National Park has moved people throughout time. Native Americans believed in the spiritual power of the towering mountain peaks and journeyed there to gain special powers. Early fur traders, who had just crossed less ominous mountain ranges, viewed with trepidation...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Great tips on buying, designing and building an eco-friendly home! Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Living Green!
Is the fact that you would like to live greener but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable?
First, you are NOT...
by Ocean County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This fascinating visual history features more than two hundred carefully selected photographs that together document the people, places, and events that have defined the city of Toms River and the surrounding area. Located on the banks of the river of the same name, Toms River was first settled in...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives...
by Chellis Glendinning, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
"I come to you from a place where the earth is pink”—thus Chellis Glendinning begins her warm evocation of place, the place in New...
The Final Call
Investigating Who Really Pays For Our Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
No industry in the world employs more people or is the world's largest foreign currency earner than tourism. Long billed as the cleanest industry for developing countries to invest in, tourism seems to offer everyone involved a positive experience.
This is the official line, anyway. In truth, the...
Poisoned
How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida’s newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he’d been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell’s rapidly declining health forced him to flee...