Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Good News For a Change
How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The litany of environmental bad news -- rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources -- can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at whatís happening behind the grim headlines, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel show that thousands of individuals, groups,...
Wisdom for a Livable Planet
The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Forn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The author profiles the work of eight visionaries who have dedicated their lives to various environmental issues. Each story provides a portrait of an individual's valiant and inspiring campaign to improve the conditions for life on our planet. Taken together, the work of these people points the way...
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about...
by Jason Drew
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The Protein Crunch Civilisation on the brink is a capitalist’s tour of the environment. The authors reveal the hard facts of how environmental degradation is already affecting all of us from food price riots to the collapse of countries like Somalia. Water, land and sea combine to produce the food...
Earth Calling
A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today's environmental activists, this book offers an invitation...
Ethical Eating
A Complete Guide to Sustainable Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Global food is not a nice business. Farming is no longer the gentle vocation of previous generations, food production is not the artisan craft of past centuries, retailing is not the friendly personal service of our grandparents' generation - these concepts are gone, swept away by the Big Food corporations...
Road Ecology
Science and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficiservices with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered. Awareness of the environmental impacts of roads is increasing, yet information remains scarce for those interested...
Discovering Westcave
The Natural and Human History of a Hill Country Nature Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In the heart of the Texas Hill Country lies an astonishing place called Westcave Preserve, a 76-acre nature preserve and environmental education facility in western Travis County, near Austin, that provides a sanctuary for the flora and fauna of surprisingly diverse ecosystems.
Westcave has...
Toby Toucan's Jungle Jeopardy
Jeff's Environmental series
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
We first see Toby sitting on a vine deep in the heart of the rainforest looking quite sad and deep in thought. Toby tells the reader of how his father’s friend Tanno had told him of how his parents became lost in a forest fire the other side of the Purple Mountain. Tanno tells us that it had been...
Witness Tree
Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals.
In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping...
Hap Wilson's Wilderness 3-Book Bundle
The Cabin / Grey Owl and Me / Trails and Tribulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from...
State of the World 2014
Governing for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.'s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments' progress has been lackluster. That's not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design,...
Climate Ethics
Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve...