Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Harness the Sun
America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Going from the inner city to the open desert, a seasoned environmental advocate looks at solar energy’s remarkable ascent and its promise for America’s future
Solar power was once the domain of futurists and environmentally minded suburbanites. Today it is part of mainstream America. Scan...
Future Drive
Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes currinitiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric...
Maybe One
A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers.
Bill McKibben's books and essays on our environment -- physical and spiritual -- have shaped and spurred debate since...
by Bill Sharpsteen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the...
Letter To A Vegetarian Nation
We Need Livestock For Sustainable Food Production And Environmental Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
The debate about animal agriculture will never be the same again. Sorting out whether livestock and meat are good or bad, among the thousands of contradictory opinions, can be an overwhelming task. This book makes it easy.
“Letter To A Vegetarian Nation” is a meticulously...
Beyond the UN Global Compact
Institutions and regulations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
This book offers African, Asian, Latin American, European, and North American perspectives on institutions and regulations promoting sustainable economic growth in the post-2015 development agenda in areas such as environment, labour, risk management, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance,...
Rooted in the Earth
Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out...
by Richard Alley
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
On November 2, 2011, Richard Alley participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate...
Hope Beneath Our Feet
Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and direction on how to approach the future are now...
The Longest Race
A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
“It soon becomes clear that this book isn’t just about an athletic race. It’s also about the human race” (Bloomberg Businessweek).
Having run in more than six hundred races over the span of fifty-five years, Ed Ayres is a legendary distance runner—and this book is his urgent exploration...
My Green Manifesto
Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Inspired by a rough-and-tumble journey across country and down river, David Gessner makes the case for a new environmentalism. In a frank, funny, and incisive call to arms that spans from the Cape Wind Project to the Monkey Wrench Gang, he considers why we do or do not fight to protect and restore wilderness,...
by John Felstiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he demonstrates their force...
Film and the Natural Environment
Elements and Atmospheres
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. This volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance...
Hope Is an Imperative
The Essential David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future...