Ecology category: 3266 books
by Bob Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
"Sunshine, Blue Skies...At Home with Wind and Solar Energy" brings organization and perspective to the fragmented and rapidly evolving landscape of conventional and alternative energy sources. It looks at the range of energy technologies - fossil fuels, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar...
China and the Environment
The Green Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change....
by Ellen LaConte
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels and devastating resource wars-if Earth were a patient,...
Dreaming the Future
Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes the opportunity for breakthrough-the opportunity to reimagine our future.
In Dreaming the...
Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems
Theory, Practice, Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy in...
by Various, Katharine Berry Judson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
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THE RAVEN MYTH
Eskimo (Bering Straits)
It was in the time when there were no people on the earth plain. The first man for four days lay coiled up in the pod of the beach pea. On the fifth day he stretched out his feet and burst the pod....
The Economics of Sustainable Development
The Case of India
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of methodologies...
by Jussi Parikka
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental...
Culture and Horticulture
The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Various studies have shown time and again that small organic farms and home gardens are capable of producing more food per acre with less fossil energy than large-scale commercial agricultural installations dependent on machines and toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This classic book by Wolf...
The Columbia River Treaty
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North America, with additional emphasis on flood protection for...
Animate Planet
Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral...
The Big Book of Nature Activities
A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The average child can identify over one thousand corporate logos, but only ten native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high rates of ADHD, feelings of stress and social awkwardness, and "Nature Deficit Disorder" are further...
Ecotopia 2121
A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" Winner
A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**
Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published...
The Holy Earth
The Birth of a New Land Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The agrarian tradition runs as an undercurrent through the entire history of literature, carrying the age-old wisdom that the necessary access of independent farmers to their own land both requires the responsibility of good stewardship and provides the foundation for a thriving civilization. At the...