Environment category: 6530 books
Hurricane Katrina
The Mississippi Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye...
Local Sustainable Homes
How to Make Them Happen in Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
While politicians talk about sustainable housing, thousands of individuals, groups, and organizations are busy putting ideas into practice, now pushing the boundaries to cut carbon emissions far beyond government targets. Where are the examples we can all learn from, and how are they bringing sustainable...
by Leigh Benin, Rob Linné, Adrienne Sosin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
On March 25, 1911, flames rapidly consumed everything within the Triangle Waist Company factory, killing 146 workers. The victims, mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, died needlessly due to unsafe working conditions, such as locked or blocked doors, narrow stairways, faulty fire escapes,...
Almaguin Chronicles
Memories of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
The Almaguin Highlands is a region that was once coveted for its game, silver birch and majestic white pine. For centuries this area stretched up to the shores of Lake Nipissing and embraced an unbroken forest that remained largely intact save where lakes, streams and beaver meadows punctuated the...
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after...
Badluck Way
A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
“Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossed” (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys).
In this...
Little Farm in the Foothills
A Boomer Couple's Search for the Slow Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
When two Boomers flee the city for a slower, simpler, and more serene lifestyle, they discover that simplicity can get awfully complicated… and life becomes anything but serene.
In this feel-good tale for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages, Little Farm in the Foothills follows...
by Kerim Ozkan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
1) This is My Planet: Our planet is the most important thing in our lives, as we wouldn’t exist without it. The stories in this book explain to children that we as human beings not only have to protect our planet, but also need to be kinder to our animal friends...
Chance Particulars
A Writer's Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists, Memoirists, Novelists, Journalists, Adventurers, Naturalists, Sketchers, and Other Note-Takers and Recorders of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by peculiar surrounds and then to evoke them so brightly on the page that the reader, too, experiences the foreigner’s frisson. A time-honored way this...
Dark Water
Flood and Redemption in Florence--The City of Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and...
by John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A fascinating collection of writings on many naturalist and conservationist themes by American essayist John Burroughs.
by E.j.banfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
One of Australia’s most significant (and successful) early nature writers was Edmund James Banfield (1852-1923). Born in England, Banfield followed in his father’s footsteps and became a journalist, initially in Melbourne and Sydney but then in Townsville, where he became sub-editor of the Townsville...
1 Dead in Attic
After Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary,...
Heart Like Water
Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Try it. Right now. Picture the lights going off in the room you're sitting in. The computer, the air conditioning, phones, everything. Then the people, every last person in your building, on the street outside, the entire neighborhood, vanished. With them go all noises: chitchat, coughs, cars, and...