Environment category: 6530 books
by VT
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Worried About Global Warming? Don't Know What to do to Help? Then You Need...
"How to be Environmentally Friendly!"
Dear Friend‚
Global warming has become a very real threat and one that we need to address now or we risk causing even more damage to our planet.
Living...
The Size of the Risk
Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple...
The Shocking
The Message
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
If you have an open mind and are seeking a much higher level of understanding the environment this book is for you. This book is for those who are environmentally conscience. As a resident living in the Victory Heights West Pullman Community under the name Abbas Hassain aka Charles Fletcher, I lived...
Invasive Plant Medicine
The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
The first book to demonstrate how plants originally considered harmful to the environment actually restore Earth’s ecosystems and possess powerful healing properties
• Explains how invasive plants enhance biodiversity, purify ecosystems, and revitalize the land
• Provides a detailed...
by Andrew Flach, Sean Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Finally a hopeful book which empowers us to make the choices we need to make...not out of fear but out of love for ourselves, our Earth, and each other.
Includes inspirational quotes from influential environmentalists and thought leaders including Al Gore, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Martin Luther...
Frackopoly
The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“The definitive story on how big oil and gas corporations captured our political system . . . and the growing grassroots movement to retake our democracy” (Mark Ruffalo).
Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred...
Environmental Technology
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Environmental Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22–26, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Five billion people, at present the world population, inevitably affect the quality of the environment. The general public in an increasing number of countries is getting more and more concerned about this deterioration in quality. As a result many people cast doubts upon the desirability of the increase...
Buying Time
Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
WE KNOW, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008, that complex adaptive systems, such as those found in nature or in economies, are actually very hard to predict, much less influence. Today, we face...
How Much is Enough?
Buddhism, Consumerism, and the Human Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The massive outpouring of consumer products available today might alone lead one to ask "How much is enough?" But at the same time, if we allow ourselves to see the social, political, economic and environmental consequences of the system that produces such a mass of "goods," then the question is not...
by Dieter Helm
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature. News about Britain’s wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist and Natural Capital Committee chair Dieter Helm...
by Barry D. Keim, Robert A. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
"The storm has entered the Gulf." For those who live or travel near the Gulf of Mexico, this ominous announcement commands attention, especially given the frequency and force of hurricane strikes in recent years. Since 2004, the shores around the Gulf of Mexico have been in the crosshairs for an increasing...
by Rose
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This compilation of papers provides useful insights on the differing approaches to water quality and the diversity of strategies in water quality management worldwide. Considering the current situation and looking to the future, the aim of this publication is to provide a sensible addition to the literature by concentrating on several important aspects of water and the environment.
Tainted Earth
Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals.
The problem of public health harm from...
In Search of Sanctuary
Wildlife, My Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A native of Dublin, Brendan Price is the founder of the Irish Seal Sanctuary, a marine biologist and lifelong wildlife activist. He now lives in a quiet country village outside Dublin called Garristown from where he continues his life's work in wildlife advocacy and the defence of Ireland's marine...