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What Milly Did
The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating sweeping change to help the environment.
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by Gino Acevedo
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The Magic Seeds is the adventure of a couple of kids and their friends: Andes the condor, Pumpkin the armadillo, Speedy-the-Hare the jackrabbit, and Zorro the fox.
Floods and natural disasters are devastating the planet so the Animals' Council entrusts this group with the task of solving the...
by Anne Wanjie
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Studying ecology today is more valuable than it has ever been because of pollution and other environmental factors continuing to be a mainstream issue of concern across the globe. This volume engages the reader with bright images of animals and other life in their natural settings and informs on what...
Melting Away
A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
For ten years Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions. As an expedition photographer aboard small ships in the Arctic and Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating effects of global warming on the jagged face of nearly fifty thousand icebergs. Seaman's...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
The purpose of this book is to assess the potential effects of biotechnological approaches particularly genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment. All aspects of biodiversity such as ecological diversity, species diversity and genetic diversity are considered. Higher organisms contain...
by Marcia Penner Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
To live in the foothills on the periphery of the Sierra National Forest is to live with the certainty of summer wildfires. Each year, from April forward, Californians watch the sky and sniff the air for telltale signs of smoke. While fire remains a constant threat, the strategy for combating it has...
Bird Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of bird experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild birds. For each intervention, the book...
Ecosocialism
A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. This vision combines...
A New Environmental Ethics
The Next Millennium for Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it.
A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear,...
Eating Aliens
One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
North America is under attack by a wide range of invasive animals, pushing native breeds to the brink of extinction. Combining thrilling hunting adventures, a keen culinary imagination, and a passionate defense of the natural environment, Eating Aliens chronicles Landers’ quest to hunt 12 invasive...
Superstorm Sandy
The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Sandy was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history after Katrina, but the waters had barely receded from the Jersey coast when massive efforts began to “Restore the Shore.” Why do people build in areas open to repeated natural disasters? And why do they return to these areas in the wake of...
Eco-Sex
Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Join the Eco-Sexual Revolution
Leaving a smaller carbon footprint in the bedroom is easy with Eco-Sex, a green sex guide that will inspire both sexual and ecological excitement. Renew your passion for the environment while you recharge your love life—with green sex toys, low-impact lingerie,...
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by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Even after seeing 6 medical doctors including two specialists, they never diagnosed me with any condition, but a nurse who saw me in a store looked at me and especially my fingernails and told me I had “heavy metal poisoning.” Eventually I found out that my symptoms were more than just heavy metals...
Integral Ecology
Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists, ethicists, activists, philosophers, and others often taking completely different stances on...