Environment category: 6530 books
Plastic-Free
How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” -Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania
Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The essays in this inaugural volume were commissioned from a number of outstanding writers (many of them national prize winners). Some are professional naturalists, others are poets, filmmakers, dancers, philosophers, activists. All write with passion, originality and humour about the natural world,...
Facing the Change
Personal Encounters with Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
"Steven Pavlos Holmes offers a rich, refreshing, and much-needed collection of personal responses to climate change. Though the volume is slender, its selections of poetry and prose-written over the past ten years by a variety of mostly lesserknown authors-provide a tonal and emotional diversity that...
Losing It All to Sprawl
How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Losing It All to Sprawl is the poignant chronicle of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and how he came to understand and love his historic Cracker farmhouse and "relic" neighborhood in central Florida, even as it was all wiped out from under him. Belleville's narrative is eloquent,...
Undermining
A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
“A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world.” —Rebecca Solnit
In Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers “another trademark work” that...
Heal the World
David Icke's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Human & Planetary Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
The Earth is in crisis. Clearly, humanity has lost touch with Nature. We are, every second, committing appalling damage to the environment, to ourselves, to other species and to the home we share.
The answers to environmental decline will not come by trying to persuade politicians and industrialists...
Wilderness and the American Mind
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point. He believes that we need to move beyond the concept of...
Passion for This Earth, A
"Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment"
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Twenty influential writers and scientists contribute personal, practical, and political essays celebrating our planet.
In this powerful collection of original essays, twenty of the world's most influential journalists, writers, scientists, and environmentalists lend their voices to inform and...
Being Salmon, Being Human
Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
*Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment *
In search of a new story for our place on earth
Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture’s tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon—weaving together key narratives...
A Green Reef
The Impact of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
In spite of its disturbing implications, the impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey through an abundant yet fragile natural world to the daunting scientific evidence that climate change will lead to the...
Arctic Autumn
A Journey to Season's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The Arctic doesn't spring to mind when most people think about autumn. Yet in his continuing effort to invite readers' curiosity through unpredictability, Pete Dunne pairs the transitional season of autumn with this fragile environment in flux. The book begins on Bylot Island in Nunavut, Canada, at...
Little Black Lies
Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines...
On a Farther Shore
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement
She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it...