Environmental category: 9736 books
by Ralph Maughan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
In the fall of 1979, millions of some of the most beautiful acres in the world were under threat. The political heat surrounding the environmental controversy prompted then Senator Frank Church to wear a bullet proof vest to public hearings. This is Ralph Maughan's personal story of the courageous creation...
by Robert S. Devine
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Since becoming president, George W. Bush has walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, pushed for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undermined protections for endangered species and wilderness, and retreated from his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide. But the president’s agenda...
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the...
Written in Water
Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
*Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource *comprises a collection of essays authored by heroes and leaders in the field of water solutions and innovations—a broad range of people from varied disciplines who have contributed their hearts and minds to bringing awareness...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the...
The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous...
Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and...
Stand Up That Mountain
The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In the tradition of A Civil Ac tion—the true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian “mountain people” neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed
Living alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old,...
David Brower
The Making of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.
Frequently compared to John Muir, David...
by David W. Orr, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
"For the most part . . . we are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency." Yet, continues David Orr, the...
Under the Surface
Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling...
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences...
EarthTalk
Expert Answers to Everyday Questions About the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
From the authors of the leading environmental handbook Green Living, the best of E's nationally syndicated Q&A column, EarthTalk
Knowledge of environmental issues and sustainability is increasingly important as industrialization and climate change continue to wreak havoc on our ecosystems...
Environmental Restoration
Science And Strategies For Restoring The Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Environmental Restoration is the product of a ground-breaking conference on ecological restoration, held in January 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers an overview from the nation's leading experts of the mcurrtechniques of restoration, including examples of the complex and subtle...