Environment category: 6530 books
War in the Country
How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
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An award-winning writer's provocative look at rural communities and a passionate call to arms to save them.
Rural life in North America has changed dramatically over the past fifty years. The few remaining family farms now struggle to survive. They have been replaced by corporate-backed...
The Climate Nexus
Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Secure supplies of water, food and energy are essential to human dignity and well-being around the globe. In turn, the vitality of these three depends on a thriving biodiversity supported by healthy ecosystems. The complex interdependence among these four factors is known as the Nexus.
Global...
A Climate of Crisis
America in the Age of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the facts
Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis,...
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
Planetwalker
22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand-he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."—Entertainment Weekly
In Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him...
Tree Spiker
From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Lauded by some, despised by others, Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the environment. Mike has succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days...
Encounters with the Archdruid
Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1977
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails,...
Siberia and the Soviet Far East
Unmasking the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2000
Today there remain relatively few areas of the planet Earth where man rarely takes a step, casts an eye, or disturbs the natural environment, but most of Siberia is like that. For the time being, but not for long.
Siberia, according to some accounts, originally meant "sleeping land"....
Arctic Voices
Resistance at the Tipping Point
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
**"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where 'voices of resistance are gathering, are getting...
The Whale and the Supercomputer
On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
In The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest
A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea--as ice that should...
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth
An early years biography of a pioneering environmentalist
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.
Born in East...
by William B. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Perhaps nothing is more frightening than seeing a forest fire rage out of control. Sometimes, however, fires are set intentionally to benefit the environment. Readers will learn what fire is, how it burns, and how fires can both help and harm the areas they affect.
by Jack Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Comprised of two national parks, three national wildlife refuges, parts of six national forests, and eleven wilderness areas, Greater Yellowstone is a vast...