Environment category: 6530 books
What the Robin Knows
How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A guide to listening to songbirds—the key to observing nature in a whole new way. Includes audio of bird vocalizations!
A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important...
All Natural*
*A Skeptic's Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In this age of climate change, killer germs, and obesity, it's easy to feel as if we've fallen out of synch with the global ecosystem. This ecological anxiety has polarized a new generation of Americans: many are drawn to natural solutions and organic lifestyles, while others rally around high-tech...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained.
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by Michael Frome
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist and the premier environmental muckraker who knows a lot about integrity and dedication. He spent years as a media writer defending the environment, while many of his peers played it safe. Frome named names and pointed fingers, often forcing politicians...
Make Your Own Magic Soil
Life’S Lessons on Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Make your own magic soil tells of a tale of two 6th graders, Adrien and Chantia, who, on their quest to learn about composting and making soil, use the trash collected after their lunch period. With the help of their science teacher, they learn about biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste and without...
Where the Rivers Meet
Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in the assessment of project impacts. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes? Or is the very...
Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat
An Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformations in the plants and animals of this region over time and how they came about. Using data gleaned...
Poison Spring
The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.
These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic...
Medicine for the Earth
How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the natural world. The ancient healing art of transmutation,...
Lines in the Water
Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters,...
Crunchy Cons
The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
When a National Review colleague teased writer Rod Dreher one day about his visit to the local food co-op to pick up a week’s supply of organic vegetables (“Ewww, that’s so lefty”), he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of...
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s...
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about...
Contaminant Geochemistry
Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In this updated and expanded second edition, new literature has been added on contaminant fate in the soil-subsurface environment. In particular, more data on the behavior of inorganic contaminants and on engineered nanomaterials were included, the latter comprising a group of “emerging contaminants”...