Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
Completely New and Updated for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Together, We Can Make a Difference
Today's environmental problems may seem too overwhelming for one person to tackle . . . but you don't have to do it alone. Now you have partners--50 of them.
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is back in...
Earth Odyssey
Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning nineteen countries....
Clean Politics, Clean Streams
A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican in the House and an entrenched patronage organization. The only Democrat elected from his district to serve in the...
The Fate of the Forest
Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how...
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?
How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural...
Time's Up!
An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment, nor is it a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, Time's Up! is a book about survival and about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself...
Recycling and Incineration
Evaluating The Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Recycling and Incineration presents information on the technology, economics, environmental concerns, and legal intricacies behind recycling and incineration programs.
by Jim Bowyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise, Dr. Jim L. Bowyer clearly documents an ethically bankrupt position that underlies much of our environmental policy. High consumption in wealthy countries usually goes hand-in-hand with resistance to domestic raw materials extraction and half-hearted interest...
Sustainability A Call to Action Part I
Individual Scale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sustainability: A Call to Action Part I (2nd Edition) provides the perfect antidote to environmental despair. The author blends solid science with a recognition that even small individual actions are available and beneficial. Our current path isn’t necessarily our fate. Ample tested tools and methods...
Mindfully Green
A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
With all the attention on living sustainably, the one thing missing from the conversation is how to find a personal connection with green living that will sustain us on our green path. While practical approaches to an eco-responsible lifestyle offer important first steps, it is critical that we ground...
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry...
Unveiling the Whale
Discourses on Whales and Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book,...
State of the World 2008
Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Environmental issues were once regarded as irrelevant to economic activity, but today they are dramatically rewriting the rules for business, investors, and consumers. Around the world, innovative responses to climate change and other environmental problems are affecting more than $100 billion in...
Sustainability
A Way to Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The book describes mechanisms whereby the Earth naturally thrives towards energy and resources abundance and how unsustainable industrial practices alter this trend.
Introduces the concept of earth energy and associates this to the conditions of the biosphere and emphasizes the possibilities...