Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Driving the Future
Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A distinguished expert offers a dazzling preview of the cars of the future, while exploring the science and politics behind climate change.
As the director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, engineer Margo Oge was the chief architect behind the Obama administration’s...
More Good News
Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2001
More inspiring stories in this revised and updated edition of the bestselling Good News for a Change.
David Suzuki and Holly Dressel update their bestseller Good News for a Change, published in 2003 with over 35,000 copies sold, with the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and...
Uncertain Peril
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining...
One Makes the Difference
Inspiring Actions that Change our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
After her record-breaking two year tree sit, Julia Butterfly Hill has ceaslessly continued her efforts to promote sustainability and ecologically-minded ways to save the old-growth redwoods she acted so valiantly to protect. Here she provides her many young fans with what they yearn for most -- her...
Ready, Set, Green
Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The time to save the planet is now.
Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesn’t necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your life–just some simple adjustments,...
Big Green Purse
Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Read Diane McEachern's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming-even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purse, the best way to fight the industries that...
The Soil Will Save Us
How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about the animals themselves,...
Mountains on the Market
Industry, the Environment, and the South
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in other parts of the country. Nonetheless, in contrast...
Nature in Fragments
The Legacy of Sprawl
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. Leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals examine how sprawl affects species and alters natural communities, ecosystems, and natural...
Wind Energy for the Rest of Us
A Comprehensive Guide to Wind Power and How to Use It
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Wind Energy for the Rest of Us straddles two―or more―worlds.
The book is about wind energy. It’s not just about small wind turbines. It’s not just about large wind turbines. It’s about the depth and breadth of wind energy, encompassing more than either type of wind turbine. It includes...
by Paul A. Keddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2008
Louisiana is one of the most beautiful parts of North America. It offers much more than Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. With 25 maps and 60 illustrations, this is the first book to introduce the full range of wild places in Louisiana. Certainly the states magnificent swamps are described, but Louisiana...
Climate Church, Climate World
How People of Faith Must Work for Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war—climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling...
Soil and Soul
People versus Corporate Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
It is easy to feel helpless in the face of the torrent of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world.
In this powerful and provocative book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possible for individuals and communities to take on...