Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The Greenpeace to Amchitka
An Environmental Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism.This...
Carbon Play
The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and climate mitigation.
Carbon Play follows Robert Falls’s unique and extraordinary journey in...
Finite Media
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and...
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural...
Green Aviation
Reduction of Environmental Impact Through Aircraft Technology and Alternative Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Aircraft emissions currently account for ~3.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions. The number of passenger miles has increased by 5% annually despite 9/11, two wars and gloomy economic conditions. Since aircraft have no viable alternative to the internal combustion engine, improvements in aircraft efficiency...
Environmentalism Gone Mad
How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career as a manager and senior analyst at the U.S....
by Loukas Bellonias
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Technical University of Munich, course: Sustainable Consumption, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this article we first define and describe the concept and main points of environmental friendly marketing....
Tangled Roots
The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian�and thru-hiker�Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a...
The Global Casino
An Introduction to Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental...
The Environmental Moment
1968-1972
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government...
First Along the River
A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights important people and events, places critical...
State of the World 2015
Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value by environmental damage, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal originare among the underreported consequences...
A City on a Lake
Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The...