Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
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Tar Sands [Revised and Updated]
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The book that put the tar sands -- and their devastating environmental impact -- on the map, for better or worse.
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the world's largest energy project -- the Alberta oil sands -- that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Too Many People?
Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Taps interest in environmental issues following wide spread disappointment stemming from the recent string of Global Climate Change summits
Written in accessible language by experts on the science and social content of the topic
Interest in the subject has been spurred by Al Gore's An...
by James Gustave Speth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment...
by Prasad Modak
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet. It presents the critical state of our resources and threats to resource security due to overconsumption, pollution and poor and uneven governance. Role of key stakeholders such as the...
Mid-Course Correction Revisited
The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment....