Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Planetwalker
22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand-he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."—Entertainment Weekly
In Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him...
Sustainable Compromises
A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Living simply isn’t always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years...
Tree Spiker
From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Lauded by some, despised by others, Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the environment. Mike has succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days...
Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. **
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions...
Plastic-Free
How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” -Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania
Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have...
Facing the Change
Personal Encounters with Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
"Steven Pavlos Holmes offers a rich, refreshing, and much-needed collection of personal responses to climate change. Though the volume is slender, its selections of poetry and prose-written over the past ten years by a variety of mostly lesserknown authors-provide a tonal and emotional diversity that...
Banning DDT
How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
On a December day in 1968, DDT went on trial in Madison, Wisconsin. In Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way, Bill Berry details how the citizens, scientists, reporters, and traditional conservationists drew attention to the harmful effects of “the miracle pesticide” DDT,...
The Burning Season
The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Chico Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. "It became clear," writes Revkin,...
Recovering a Lost River
Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense—and requires our urgent attention
The Snake River, flowing through the Northwest, was once one of the world's greatest salmon rivers. As recently as a hundred years ago, it retained some of its...
Operation Bite Back
Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Dean Kuipers takes us behind the scenes of the Animal Liberation Front and its punk-anarchist sibling the Earth Liberation Front, two of the most notorious and violent environmental groups and one of the FBI's biggest domestic terrorist priorities--even in the wake of 9/11. Kuipers tells us the story...
Opportunity, Montana
Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination...
Left in the Dust
How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An intensely personal story crossed with a political potboiler, Left in the Dust is a unique and passionate account of the city of Los Angeles's creation, cover-up and inadequate attempts to repair a major environmental catastrophe. Owens River, which once fed Owens Lake, was diverted away from the...
by Friends of the Earth, C40 Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Big cities don’t have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability – if we empower women.
This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key voices in the...