Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Timothy J. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Ecosystem effects from air pollution in the Adirondacks, Catskills, and elsewhere in New York have been substantial. Efforts to characterize and quantify these impacts, and to examine more recent recovery, have focused largely on surface waters, soils, and forests. Lakes, streams, and soils have acidified....
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species...
by John Muir
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the glorification and preservation of this magnificent...
Enlightenment's Frontier
The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Enlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that...
Savage Dreams
A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting...
Unbowed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread...
Satellites in the High Country
Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In Satellites in the High Country, journalist and adventurer Jason Mark travels beyond the bright lights and certainties of our cities to seek wildness wherever it survives. In California's Point Reyes National Seashore, a battle over oyster farming and designated wilderness pits former allies against...
Trash Animals
How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the trout they hope to catch are often equally non-native....
by Kaleeg Hainsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
Father Kaleeg Hainsworth, an Eastern Orthodox priest with a lifetime of experience in the Canadian wilderness, grounds this manifesto in the literary, philosophical,...
Ecological Intelligence
Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas,...
by Emily Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Peter Hammarstedt and Benjamin Potts of Sea Shepherd fame and co-stars of televisions Whale Wars . Enei Begaye a Navajo/Dine activist bringing green jobs to the reservation. Rob Stewart award-winning filmmaker of Sharkwater . Jamie Henn co-founder of 350.org. Wen Bo founder of Chinas Greenpeace. Tanya...
John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92)
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded...
Metaphor Island
Patterns for Survival from the Nilgiri Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
The Ecological and social crises that engulf the planet are intensifying. As we deny the consequences of the disruptions we cause, and promote inadequate solutions, we lose grip on the extent of change needed globally. Perhaps we will only listen if a voice from nature speaks out explicitly.
Based...
The Green Boat
Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
"Mary Pipher takes on our planet's greatest problems with the skills of a truly gifted therapist. She knows why we avoid and deny the truth and she knows how we can heal ourselves and our communities even as we try to heal the earth. This book is a deep and true gift."—Bill McKibben, author...