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by Rebecca Macfie
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The grief sits like hot magma, held down by a crust of action…
Rebecca Macfies first-hand accounts of the Christchurch earthquakes in the New Zealand Listener provided an often searing account of the disaster. They were powerful and immediate because Macfie herself lived there, personally...
Let There Be Water
Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller!
As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.
The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will...
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Tar Sands [Revised and Updated]
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The book that put the tar sands -- and their devastating environmental impact -- on the map, for better or worse.
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the world's largest energy project -- the Alberta oil sands -- that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders...
Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye
Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. Yet when it comes to action on climate change, division and paralysis rule the land.
In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits the frontlines of Australia’s...
Too Much Luck
The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck – too much luck, more than we know what to do with. In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows how the resource boom, which seems a blessing, could well become a curse. We have never seen a boom quite like this one. Under-taxed and...
Blowout in the Gulf
The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo...
The Winning of the Carbon War
Power and Politics on the Front Lines of Climate and Clean Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
“A brilliant page turner, alternately daringly funny, coldly sobering, starkly terrifying – poetic, personal, beautiful and intensely urgent." Josh Fox, Emmy-winning film director
“Great fun to read; kind, tough, and often very funny.” Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
“We...
How the World Breaks
Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
We’ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren’t what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth’s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire...
Disasters Across Canada
Bravery in the Face of Danger and Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The unpredictable forces of nature have long been the cause of terrible disasters on sea and land, and in the air. Other disasters have been the result of human error. But all disasters have one thing in common - the tragic loss of life, bravery in the face of danger, and heroic rescue attempts. This...
Playing for Time
Making Art as if the World Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This groundbreaking handbook is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to reach beyond the facts and figures of science and technology to harness their creativity to make change in the world.
Playing for Time explores the pivotal role artists play in rethinking the future;...
The Thousand-Year Flood
The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused...
Reckoning at Eagle Creek
The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods...
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating...